Katía Truijen is a media researcher, curator and musician. Her work is concerned with bringing people together around practices of listening, archiving, and rehearsing alternative urban, technological and ecological futures. Katía is part of Loom, practice for cultural transformation, and co-founder of interdisciplinary platform // hoekhuis. She curates the context programme for Rewire festival, and is research tutor at the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut. Between 2014 and 2021, Katía developed research projects and public programmes at Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Art & Spatial Praxis – On November 28, Müge Yılmaz gave her end of residency lecture and launched the first edition of the booklet series "Future Guide for the Salty Forager". Besides, we experienced a performative salt-resistant bite by the Brackish Collective. Katía Truijen and Radna Rumping from Loom, practice for cultural transformation, gave their start of residency lecture and introduced their research project "Rhine River Rehearsal – Reimagining a River." Take a look at the video and photos here.
Art & Spatial Praxis – On November 28, Müge Yılmaz will give her end of residency lecture and launch the first edition of the booklet series "Future Guide for the Salty Forager". Besides, you can experience a performative salt-resistant bite by the Brackish Collective. Katía Truijen and Radna Rumping from LOOM, practice for cultural transformation, will give their start of residency lecture and introduce their research project "Rhine River Rehearsal – Reimagining a River." The event is free but please register here.
Art & Spatial Praxis – This is a video recording of the open studio day programme Studio Encounters on Water #2 of the Climate Imaginaries at Sea festival, at Perdu on 23 April 2024. With talks by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Mikki Stedler, Joy Brandsma, Janine Armin, Carlo De Gaetano, Femke Dekker (Loma Doom), Müge Yilmaz, Kim Spierenburg, Claudine Arendt, Katía Truijen & René Boer (Loom Collective) and Marialena Marouda.
Art & Spatial Praxis – The research group Art & Spatial Praxis (LASP) starts a new Plot(ting) research group consisting of 11 new members. They meet on a monthly basis to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that speak to Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. They had their first fruitful session on May 30th 2023.