Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The Art & Spatial Praxis research group is proud to announce the publication of three new contributions on its Plot(ting) platform. Each of these articles explore language and its various registers; the colonial historicity of form, identity and structure; the affective, imaginative and reparative possibilities to be found in the midst of manufactured chaos.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The Art and Spatial research group is delighted to share a series of videos, presented as the culmination of the ‘Tactics of the Plot’ working group. You can watch the video series below and on the research group’s Plot(ting) platform, available here: plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl/?page_id=1056

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The Art & Spatial Praxis research group is proud to announce the publication of three new articles featuring queer and anti-colonial perspectives on its Plot(ting) platform.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) In 2019, Maia Gattás and Francisca Khamis Giacoman met in the West Bank. Their correspondence, rooted in shared memories and layered histories, explores how water shapes Palestinian landscapes, experiences, and diasporic connections. The first four letters have traced a path across Bariloche, Santiago, Amsterdam, and Palestine—interweaving memory, geography, and resistance. This week, we share the final two letters in their epistolary exchange.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) Between November 2024 and March 2025, the research group Plot(ting), part of the Lectoraat Art & Spatial Praxis, hosted Tactics of the Plot: Reimagining Tools and Methods for Resistance & Collective Futures. This project, a collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures, brought together a diverse group of makers, researchers, activists, and those working across disciplines whose practices can be examined through Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. Participants included Inte Gloerich, Elisa Guiliano, Wouter Stroet, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Mayis Rukel, and Lina Bravo Mora.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) In 2019, Maia Gattás and Francisca Khamis Giacoman met in the West Bank. Their correspondence, rooted in shared memories and layered histories, continues to explore how water shapes Palestinian landscapes, experiences, and diasporic connections. The first two letters were published last autumn. We now invite you to read letters 3 and 4.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The Art & Spatial Praxis research group gather monthly with the Plot(ting) research group to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that align with Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. In January, the reading group examined Demonic Grounds by Katherine McKittrick.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The Art & Spatial Praxis research group gather monthly with the Plot(ting) research group to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that align with Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot. Over the past month, they delved into three powerful texts that engage with the intersections of race, gender, memory, and the politics of silence.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The Art & Spatial Praxis research group continues with the Plot(ting) research group format and is pleased to announce the addition of four new members: Tabea Nixdorff, Philip Coyne, Moosje M Goosen and Harriet Morley. They gather monthly to discuss theoretical and material manifestations that align with Sylvia Wynter’s concept of the plot.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) Maia Gattás and Francisca Khamis Giacoman met in the West Bank in 2019. Francisca was conducting a residency in Birzeit, and Maia was traveling to film scenes for her documentary "Viento del Este" (2023). They have committed to exchanging letters to engage in a dialogue about various memories related to water in the occupied territory of Palestine.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024. Plot(ting) emerges as a publishing platform showcasing art, research, and spatial practices. Currently it harbors contributions by Flavia Pinheiro, Giulia Damiani, Francisca Khamis & Maia Gattás Vargas, Neeltje ten Westenend & Hanneke Stuit, Mariana Balvanera, Patricia de Vries, Amelia Groom, and Liza Prins. Here you can read in brief about the different contributions. Read more on the plotting website: plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th. Plot(ting) emerges as a publishing platform showcasing art, research, and spatial practices.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024. Hosted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie with performances and talks by: meLê yamomo, S*an D. Henry-Smith, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Derica Shields, Patricia de Vries, Liza Prins and Maisa Imamović and a communal dinner with Lina Bravo Mora and Mayıs Rukel of Radical Roots.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) Video of the launch of the publication of Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024, hosted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Performances and talks by: meLê yamomo, S*an D. Henry Smith, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, Derica Shields, Patricia de Vries, Liza Prins and Maisa Imamović.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the publication of Plot(ting) on April 17th from 14:30 to 19:00, hosted at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Fedlev Building, Room FL101.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) Patricia de Vries, lector of the research group Art & Spatial Praxis, gave a Plot(ting) workshop in collaboration with MediaLabMX in Mexico City last year. Take a look at the zine that offers an insight into the collective mind map that materialised during the workshop.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) You can now order a free print publication of the inaugural lecture of Research Professor (Lector) Patricia de Vries at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. In this lecture, she elaborated on the research area of her research group Art & Spatial Praxis. The research group Art & Spatial Praxis focuses on artistic practices that broaden our imaginations of alternative social orders and ways of living within capitalist city structures.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) 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.

Art & Spatial Praxis – Plot(ting) In her inaugural lecture Patrica de Vries outlined plot work as artistic practices that refuse the hegemonic logic of neoliberal production.