Framer Framed and Errant Journal are very happy to invite you to the launch of Errant’s first issue titled 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲? about the politics of time and the mechanisms of exclusion intrinsic to terms such as ‘contemporary’ and ‘modern’. After an introduction of Errant Journal by editor-in-chief Irene de Craen, Rolando Vazquez and Lara Khaldi will give presentations that build on their contributions to this first issue.
Errant Journal is an international publication for cultural theory and practice aimed at bringing together diverse local perspectives on a global scale. By embracing the limits of our situated knowledge and the meaninglessness of a singular vantage point, Errant questions the politics of knowledge and representation through language, art and other disciplines. With its decolonial and pluriversal approach to themed issues related to (a.o.) geo/body-politics, museology, ecocide, and activism, it aims to connect theory with practice in an expansive field of knowledge.
Errant Journal is a concept by Irene de Craen, realised in collaboration with Framer Framed. For more info on Errant Journal, see: www.errantjournal.org
Due to limited seating, please make a reservation by sending an email to: reserveren@framerframed.nl
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Irene de Craen is the editor-in-chief and founding director of Errant Journal. Previously, she founded the research platform Undercurrents, which aims to question the relation between historic and present-day instances of movement such as colonialism, trade and migration, as well as the infrastructure and significance of mobility within the cultural field. Between 2014 and 2018 De Craen was the artistic director of Hotel Maria Kapel, an artist-in-residence, exhibition space and cinema for contemporary visual art in Hoorn, and in 2011 and 2012 she was co-organizer and curator at FATFORM, an interdisciplinary and experimental art platform in the Southeast of Amsterdam. As researcher and board member, De Craen was part of Platform BK (Platform for Visual Arts) between 2013 and 2019, which helped establish the guideline for artists’ fees in the Netherlands in 2017. Additionally, she has contributed to many national and international publications and magazines, among others Metropolis M, and Frieze.
Rolando Vázquez is Associate Professor of Sociology and Diversity Fellow at University College Roosevelt. Since 2009, he coordinates the annual Middelburg Decolonial Summer School together with Walter Mignolo. He co-authored the report of the Diversity Commission of the University of Amsterdam in 2016 under the direction of Gloria Wekker. He founded the initiative CRIDE (Critical Decoloniality) for sharing of decolonial practices among academic and cultural institutions. Through his work he seeks to develop practices of thinking and learning that transgress the dominant frameworks of Western epistemology and aesthesis. His forthcoming (2020) book with the Mondriaan Fund Vistas of Modernity focuses on decolonial aesthesis and functions as an archeology of the white gaze.
Lara Khaldi is an independent curator and critic based in Jerusalem. Khaldi lectures in media studies at Al-Quds Bard College in Jerusalem and previously taught art history and theory at Palestine’s Birzeit University. A former assistant programme director at the Sharjah Art Foundation and director of the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah, Khaldi went on to complete the Curatorial Programme at De Appel, Amsterdam in 2014. Her recent projects include Shifting Ground, an off-site project for the Sharjah Biennial (2017) in Ramallah, a solo exhibition by Noor Abuarafeh at the Al Ma’mal Art Foundation in Jerusalem, Unweaving Narratives (2018) at the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, and Overtones (2019) at the Goethe Institute, Ramallah. Khaldi has also contributed to a number of publications such as Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine (Mousse Publishing, 2019) and Of(f) Our Times: Curatorial Anachronics (Sternberg Press, 2019), as well as edited a number of publications, most recently In aching agony and longing I wait for you at the Spring of Thieves: Jumana Emil Abboud (Black Dog Press, 2018).