Researching across intersections of visual language, critical publishing, and digital media environments. Continuously learning – currently as a PhD fellow at the London School of Film, Media and Design, UWL (UK). Actively contributing to stanza – project space & studio for critical publishing (DK). Creatively co-directing fanfare – artistic research collective for broken channels of interlinked communications (NL).
- Sister display System (姐妹系统)fanfare, abC team, Open M Art Fair in Chengdu (CN)Display system and publication manual for the Open M Artfair
- Misplaced, disrupted, dysfunctionaltransmediale (DE), Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University (DK), Centre for the Study of the Networked Image, London South Bank University (UK)Research presentation and writing contribution
- Unlearn, Display, ConnectTokyo Art Bookfair (JP)Curatiorial concept and artistic direction for country section
- Glitchy, Caring, TacticalA Relational Study Between Artistic Tactics and Minor TechPaper for APRJA
- Between Dog & WolfAmsterdam (NL), Copenhagen (DK), Milano (IT)Film and research of online conspirational climate imaginaries
- Making it workfanfare (NL)Conversation series on drives and struggles across creative collective practices
- Broken ChannelThree-day research programme on dependence of efficient navigation and communication technologiesfanfare (NL)
- Overgaden identityOvergaden (DK)Visual identity and concept for contemporary art institution
- Wat nu, Koetsier?Museum of Communication (NL)Curatorial concept, creative direction and research of misused advertisement spaces
- Landscape with Bearde Appel Amsterdam (NL)Creative direction and visual identity for group exhibition
- Playground of the In-BetweenGraphic Days (IT)Concept, creative direction and visual identity for exhibition audioguide
- Parasite Dinerfanfare, When Site Lost the Plot (NL)Curatorial concept and artistic direction for dine-in duo shows
- fanfare inc. TransportationGraphic Design Biennial (FR)Research series on creative working conditions
- fanfare inc. ToolsManifesta 12 (IT), Its a Book (DE), Libros Mutantes (ES) , fanfare (NL)Research series on creative working conditions
- awɪ sɔː ðə saʊndGerrit Rietveld Academie (NL)Workshop on relations between space, sound, and design
- GlossyKrabbesholm (DK)Workshop on collective typography
- Designing DetourEindhoven Design Academy (NL)Workshop on mapping and neighbourhood encounters
- Nomadic B(oo)ksIED (ES)Workshop on space, books, and displays
- The Live ArchiveALT_CPH (DK)Sound experiement for instant archiving at art fair
- Art of Documenting Artfanfare (NL)Art direction and curation for research series on documentation
- From Elite to the StreetVan Gogh Museum (NL)Concept, curation, creative direction for exhibition intervention
- fanfare displayTallinn (EE), Chaumont (FR), Leipzig (DE), Amsterdam (NL)Concept and construction of modular display system
- Flag dialogueCouncil of the European Union , Amsterdam (NL)Creative direction and writing for conversational flags
- Lunch BytesAmsterdam (NL), Zürich (CH), Washington, D. C. (US)Creative direction and visual identity
Why do we engage in cultural production? And what are the conditions, drives, and struggles of creative scenes across different locations and cultural practices of art and design?
Making it Work, is a series of informal talks initiated and developed together with journalist Charlie Clemoes. The series explores the obstacles and drives that sustain creative practices in different surroundings. While this investigation is rooted in observations from the immediate surroundings of the design studio fanfare, the conversations extend to different cities and countries to discuss the understanding that the struggle to sustain a creative practice is universal – as is the tendency to forget that creative work is still work. Bridging their backgrounds in architectural criticism, graphic design, and new media, the collaboration between Freja Kir (fanfare) and Charlie Clemoes (Failed Architecture) forms the thematic basis for the series as it develops.
Making it work covers topics of unsexy administration, marginal stories, strategies on not being strategic, self-taught tools, disciplinary boundaries, organic platform understandings, organizations as alliances, local groundedness, consistent badness, hybrid business plans, Concorde syndromes, thoughts on ownership, intellectual property, distribution of profits, scalability of models and merits of hierarchical and non-hierarchical organisations
Making it work #5 Resolve
Making it work #4 Assemble
Making it work #3 Slavs and Tatars
Making it work #2 Manifold, Esen Karol
Making it work #1 Oreri
Colophon:
Concept and conversation: Charlie Clemoes, Freja Kir
Design: Freja Kir
Jingle: Fabian Reichle