The Annotated Garden & Compost weave creative non-fiction and digital dramaturgy to meditate on garden pedagogies and ecological precarity, technological acceleration, and the entanglement of environmental and machinic systems. The Annotated Garden gathers site-rooted stories from a small urban allotment in Rotterdam, a plot threatened by encroaching property development and the climate crisis. Activated through QR…
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Edited by Michelle Teran, Marc Herbst, Vivian Sky Rehberg, Renée Turner and The Promiscuous Care Study Group. (2024) How do we care for each other in our living, learning and working lives? The manual Promiscuous Infrastructures Practicing Care calls for an ethics of care and attentiveness to one another, re-imagines the making and the use of infrastructures,…
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Extract from my 2025 essay, In the Substrate: I find it revealing, if not moving, that Alan Turing’s 1950 seminal essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence was published in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy rather than in a science or mathematics journal. The learning machine, as he describes it, is not simply a servant but a pupil. As…
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A table can facilitate conviviality or become a dividing barrier. What are you staging: a dinner, debate, conversation, interrogation, or arm-wrestling competition? Notes on Cooking & Eating Together, Claire Binyon and Renée Turner (p.109), Avinus Academia, 2023. Together with Claire Binyon, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, ESMAE, Polytechnic of Porto, we…
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In his essay, The Archival Space of Herengracht H401: Artistic Research as Productive Archiving, Lars Ebert elaborates on the layered and complex history of the house of Gisele. He also explores the archival impulse through three artists, Amie Dicke, Ronit Porat and Renée Turner, whose artistic research at H401 unveils and generates other narrative and aesthetic…
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Tuning Transdisciplinary Education is a part of a larger Erasmus+ project that took place from 2019 to 2022. Initially, we, somewhat naively, planned to design a curriculum which would lay the grounds for transdisciplinary teaching. However, as we hosted different events, conducted interviews, gathered keywords, and reviewed related literature, projects and teaching practices, we realised transdisciplinary education is…
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Situationer Workbook/Situationer Cookbook, a transformative pedagogy reader initiated by Michelle Teran and published by Research Center WdKA and Publication Studio Rotterdam publishers. Bringing together experimental practices of learning otherwise, my contribution is a letter to Michelle about the pedagogies of my kitchen.
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As a part of the publication, RASL COMPOSITIONS: Collaboration, Commitment and Creativity in Education, Robin van den Akker and I discuss the potential of transdiciplinary education and approaches. Interviewed by Inge Janse, our conversation touches upon mapping the cultural moment, responding rather than reacting to the present and critically questioning the brief when it comes…
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‘To Sanne’ is a short text featured in Daisyworld Magazine, a seasonal art publication by Zazie Stevens. Originally, it was written on an assessment form and is an attempt to understand evaluation as an act of care rather than simply grading.
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While this publication by no means represents the sum of the conference, which included performances, keynote speakers and panels, it nonetheless offers an impression of the Thematic Mobile Sessions which took place at different venues across the city.
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You know, one of the things I like about writing in a digital environment is that there is no master narrative, only tentative propositions, networked connections that can be followed or ignored. Maybe as a form, it suits my own inability to prioritise and make decisions and my desire to circle around things without really landing on a single point or conclusion.
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Dieuwertje Hehewerth: This letter-writing, paired with the focus on clothes, makes the research focus on, and work through, ephemeral forms. They are objects that have a transitory quality – a quality of carrying and covering – of existing as an in between. I’m curious if you see these relations? And more directly in relation to…
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There are other stains too. Her sweat has turned brown with time and its acid has etched itself into her white cotton shirts and the lining of dresses.
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The Female Perspective was the annual program curated by Nina Folkersma for Castrum Peregrini from 2017-2018. The publication featuring highlights was designed by Roosje Klap and Pauline Le Pape – who collaborate under the name Atelier Roosje Klap.
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My question at this moment is, were these notes to herself, just simple reminders, or were they written for someone like me, an outsider who might decipher or interpret them later?”
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This issue explores the relationship of skin to language.
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A silent listener to our streaming confessions, the ambient social network envelops itself around our rituals, banalities and routines and traces the specificities of our dataset, or rather our shadowy data-double.
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Mappamundi assembled artists who, over the past 40 years, have worked on maps and who have questioned cartographical representation in ways to better move or provoke us.
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De Geuzen Publication: Through a public call for submissions, images were uploaded on Flickr in 2007 under the tag “Me_Like_Her” and eventually were collected in a print on demand book. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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The Novelty Is Gone, and That’s the Perfect Place to Begin. (2008) Biennials have lost their novelty. Does that mean Bergen shouldn’t host one? On the contrary, this is perhaps the perfect time to set a biennial in motion. As the 53rd Venice Biennale rolls into action, it has spawned a legion of other biennials.…
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