Sat 02 November
14:00–15:30
Artist Talk: Femke Herregraven with Rachael Rakes and Festive Public Reception
As part of her current solo exhibition DIALECT, Femke Herregraven will engage in conversation with curator and writer Rachael Rakes. They will converse about the research trajectory leading up to the exhibition, the topics, elements, and works that traverse it and their situatedness within Femke Herregraven’s artistic practice, as well as the site-specificity and experimentation of the project. After the talk, a festive public reception will follow at the RADIUS mezzanine bar until 18:00, with free entrance to the exhibition and bar service.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
FEMKE HERREGRAVEN is an artist who investigates which material base, geographies, and value systems are carved out by financial technologies and infrastructures. Her work focuses on the effects of abstract value systems on landscapes, ecosystems, historiography and individual lives. This research is the basis for the conception of new characters, stories, objects, sculptures, sound, and mixed-media installations. Her recent work focuses on the financialization of the future as a ‘catastrophe’ and uses sound, the respiratory system, landscapes, language and code to examine how these calculated and monetized eventualities affect our social, biological, and technological ecosystems. In 2016, she collaborated with Dutch investigative journalists on the Panama Papers. She is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2017–2018). She is part of On-Trade-Off: a transnational artist-led project on the lithium extraction in the DRC. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Prix de Rome, and was awarded the Evens Arts Prize 2023.
RACHAEL RAKES is a curator and writer from the U.S. and living in The Netherlands and Greece. She was recently the Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2023, THIS, TOO, IS A MAP; Curator of Public Practice at BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht; and Head Curator and Manager of the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. Currently she is a selection committee member for the New York Film Festival, Editor at Large for Verso Books, a Contributing Editor for INFRASONICA, and a Committee Member of the New York Film Festival. With artists Laura Huertas Millán and Onyeka Igwe, she organizes the research initiative on alternative ethnographies Counter-Encounters, which has been presented at Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Centre Pompidou, and elsewhere. Rakes has organized manifold exhibitions and programs internationally and teaches for Zine Eskola, Sandberg Institute, Leiden University, KASK, The New School, and Harvard University. Among other publications and journals, she is the editor of Toward the Not-Yet (2022, BAK/MIT Press) and Practice Space (2020, NAME/De Appel) and frequently publishes criticism and essays on art, media, and politics.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
⌀ Date: Saturday 2 November
⌀ Doors open: 13:30
⌀ Talk: 14:00 – 15:30 / Reception: 15:30 – 18:00
⌀ Language: English
⌀ Free of charge, R.S.V.P required
⌀ Location: RADIUS Water Tower, Kalverbos 22 and RADIUS, Kalverbos 20
⌀ Note that both locations are not wheelchair accessible. Please get in contact with us to discuss alternative ways to allow your participation.
