On 14 November 2024, Femke Herregraven has defended the outcomes of her CrD research at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She presented the results to an assessment committee, which evaluated her research project 'The Evacuated' positively. Femke Herregraven is the second artist to be granted the title of Creator Doctus. Herregraven’s research was supervised by Flavia Dzodan (research professor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie) on behalf of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and supported by Chris Julien (researcher, philosopher and activist) on behalf of the Waag. The CrD trajectory of Femke Herregraven is co-funded by the Creative Industries Fund NL with the Waag as the social partner.

The title of the event is synonymous with Femke’s final work, 'Dialect', currently on display at Radius, Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology. For more than a decade, Femke Herregraven has been investigating the material base, geographies, and value systems carved out by financial technologies and infrastructures. Femke Herregraven will recount the journey of her research leading up to this point, exploring the ideas, elements, methodologies, and works that she has assembled throughout the trajectory and their connections to her artistic practice as well as other disciplines, from finance studies, through weather forecasting to media theory.

The CrD trajectory ‘The Evacuated’ investigates, in Herregraven's words, “how the ‘catastrophe’ can be overcome as anxious monetized eventuality in the current ‘discourse of doom’, and instead be reactivated as a plot device to create a sudden turn in the dominant narratives of techno-capitalism and knowledge.”

Herregraven's exhibition, 'Dialect', is currently on show at Radius, Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft.

Register here for the event on 3 December

Creator Doctus (CrD) is a project developed at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie that seeks to realise a new European third cycle award for higher arts education. The award runs parallel to the existing Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), valorising the output of artists as high-quality research that results in the creation of new insight at the forefront of art practice. The three-year research trajectory does not lead to a written dissertation, but to a collection of artistic works or projects. These provide answers to research questions formulated by the artist on the basis of a research area marked by a social partner. On 28 Setpember 2020, Yael Davids was the first artist to be granted the title of Creator Doctus with her research 'A Daily Practice'. On 14 November 2024, Femke Herregraven became the second artist to receive the title of Creator Doctus.