Reading Residency
Period: 2019 - 2021
We have noticed a huge need among artists (and others) for a quiet
place for regeneration, reflection, contemplation, and open-minded
learning. This is why, in the period 2019-2021, we invite a number of artists each year to join a one-month Reading Residency in the
Stroom library. The work of these international artists has an affinity
with our collection of books and publications. We are furthermore
looking forward to get an outsider's perspective, in order to gain new
insights about the value of the library as a knowledge center for
contemporary art and society.
OUR READING RESIDENCY GUESTS
Meenakshi Thirukode
12 October - 12 November 2021
12 October - 12 November 2021
Meenakshi Thirukode from India is our current Reading Resident in the
Stroom library. She is the founder of a platform for radical study - School of Instituting Otherwise, an initiative that seeks to build more equitable spaces and a non-conventional art system.
Private Workshop
On 9 November 2021 she organized the private workshop Restorative Circle for a Brave Space, as part of an initiative to bring together and organize a 'complaint collective' (to quote Sara Ahmed). What the participants share is from their own experience, taking turns to speak and listen. If you'd like to learn more and/or participate in future circles please write to Meenakshi at: institutingotherwise@gmail.com. Anonymity is valued and prioritized.
Personal Reading list
On 9 November 2021 she organized the private workshop Restorative Circle for a Brave Space, as part of an initiative to bring together and organize a 'complaint collective' (to quote Sara Ahmed). What the participants share is from their own experience, taking turns to speak and listen. If you'd like to learn more and/or participate in future circles please write to Meenakshi at: institutingotherwise@gmail.com. Anonymity is valued and prioritized.
Personal Reading list
Meenakshi
Thirukode made a personal selection of the books in the Stroom library
for a special window display. She added a number of books by Panther's
Paw Publication which she brought along from India. >> see the full list
Meenakshi
Thirukode is a writer, researcher, educator and feminist killjoy based
in Delhi. Her areas of research include the role of micro-politics,
culture and collectivity from the POV of a queer femme subjectivity,
that's located within the realm of a trans-nomadic, transient network of
individuals and institutions. She runs ‘School of IO (Instituting Otherwise)', which is a space
of unlearning, dedicated to navigating ‘study', as a radical feminist
tool of political agency. Her recent projects include 'Disorganizing
Metabolisms' in collaboration with 'FAR (Food, Art, Research) Network'
and Marrickville School of Economics, the ‘Here, There and Everywhere'
conference at MAC Birmingham, UK as part of the India-UK 70 years
celebration (March 2018) and ‘Out of Turn, Being Together Otherwise',
exploring performance art histories in collaboration with Asia Art
Archive (AAA) at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India (December
15th-22nd 2018) . Her chapter ‘Towards a Public of the Otherwise', has
been published in the Routledge Companion Series for Art in the Public
Realm in 2020. She was one of the contributors to US: Shaping Time on 20 March 2021 at Stroom Den Haag. She has actively participated in the #metoo movement
within the art world and has been working towards creating
conversations, workshops and gatherings in a 'post-metoo' landscape in
order to work towards manifesting systems of accountability, in
collaboration with other allies. She is looking forward to meeting
people working on similar issues during her stay in The Hague.
Meenakshi will be bringing a number of books from Panther's Paw Publishing, an Indian publishing organisation founded by Yogesh Maitreya, to read during her stay at Stroom's library.
Meenakshi will be bringing a number of books from Panther's Paw Publishing, an Indian publishing organisation founded by Yogesh Maitreya, to read during her stay at Stroom's library.
Mladen Miljanovic
February-March 2021
Mladen Miljanovic is an artist, researcher and professor who lives
and works in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Because of covid
travel restrictions his Reading Residency will be partly online.
Born in Zenica (Yugoslavia) in 1981, Mladen Miljanovic completed the
secondary school in Doboj. He next attended the Reserve Officer Military
School where he earned the rank of sergeant and trained 30 privates.
After the ompletion of his military term he worked in stonemason
workshop on producing tombstones. After few years he enrolled at the
Academy of Arts in Banja Luka. Currently he teaches New media art at the
Academy of Arts, University of Banja Luka.
At the early stage of his practice he was included in the international selection of artists under 33 Younger Than Jesus - Artist directory by New Museum curators Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni; he participated in the 55th Venice Biennale,
15th Busan Video biennale and recently 13th Cairo Biennale among other
group shows. His solo shows and projects were at MUMOK - Vienna, Gallery
MC - New York, ACB Gallery - Budapest, A+A Gallery - Venice, Neue
Galerie Graz and many others."I base my art practice upon a conceptual and provocative approach which is questioning my own social, political, cultural surrounding and living conditions: on the one hand my work is influenced by the experience of growing up during the war and its aftermath in the destroyed, impoverished, ethnically and territorially divided, and externally isolated country. On the other hand, it is my formal education (Reserve Officer Military School, and later work at a tombstones workshop)."
www.mladenmiljanovic.com
Jules Rochielle Sievert
4 November - 30 November 2019
4 November - 30 November 2019
Jules Rochielle Sievert works at the intersection of art and
activism. From 2017-2019, Jules was a Creative Placemaking Policy Fellow
at Arizona State University through the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. They are also the Creative Director at NuLawLab at Northeastern University School of Law, where they are currently working on a project known as Stable Ground. Stable Ground,
is focused on addressing the complex relationship among chronic housing
insecurity, its psychologically traumatic impact, and municipal housing
policy through participatory community-based art and culture
programming. Jules also works In New York as an Artistic Coordinator
with More Art's Engaging Artists Fellowship and Residency program. They are also providing coaching to the 2020 Art Fellows at Now and
There in Boston and teaching a course of Socially Engaged Art at Tufts
University in Boston.
Their most recent artist residencies have been with the Center for Artistic Activism at Art Action Academy at the Queens Museum, with the Mayor's Office of Veterans' Affairs and Department of Cultural Affairs in New York, Women With Wings Artists Residency in Boulder, Colorado, and with California State Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. Jules's scholarship has been published in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and in Engaging Publics/Public Engagements published by Auckland Art Gallery & Auckland University of Technology.
They have earned awards for their teamwork and collaboration with Nulawlab from the Kresge Foundation, awards from Northeastern University, awards from the Legal Services Corporation Technology Innovation Grant Program, and a Hiil Innovative Idea Award from Innovating Justice at the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law. Their work has been in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times.
Their most recent artist residencies have been with the Center for Artistic Activism at Art Action Academy at the Queens Museum, with the Mayor's Office of Veterans' Affairs and Department of Cultural Affairs in New York, Women With Wings Artists Residency in Boulder, Colorado, and with California State Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. Jules's scholarship has been published in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and in Engaging Publics/Public Engagements published by Auckland Art Gallery & Auckland University of Technology.
They have earned awards for their teamwork and collaboration with Nulawlab from the Kresge Foundation, awards from Northeastern University, awards from the Legal Services Corporation Technology Innovation Grant Program, and a Hiil Innovative Idea Award from Innovating Justice at the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law. Their work has been in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times.
During my research residency I will be conducting research, meeting and interviewing with various artists connected to Stroom Den Haag. I am interested in artists and artist collectives at work at the intersection of arts, policy making and activism.
I will be using some of my time at Stroom to focus on writing an arts curriculum for More Art's Engaging Fellowship Program. This program will support and mentor 8-10 emerging artists that have an interest in Socially Engaged Art. My hope is to explore the archives and library at Stroom, I will be looking for texts and materials that can assist me as I develop the Engaging Artists Curriculum and Fellowship Program.
I will also use some of my time here to research and organize for a Boston based project called Stable Ground. Stable Ground is a collaboration among three organizations: Northeastern University School of Law's NuLawLab, which leads the project and has engaged arts-based disciplines since 2013 to imagine and realize new models of legal empowerment; the City of Boston's Office of Housing Stability, which works to prevent displacement and promote housing preservation and stabilization; and Violence Transformed, which fosters creative action to overcome violence and extends trauma-informed training to community-based groups. Collaborations with local artists are central to Stable Ground.
This coming year, through Stable Ground the NuLawLab is engaged with three Artists in Residence (AIR), a Community Storytelling Curator, and expanding its work with local artist, organizer, and educator Anthony Romero. The Stable Ground Artist in Residency program creates an opportunity for visual and performing artists to develop their social-based artistic practice to become engaged in a thoughtful, facilitated dialogue with community members about the personal impact that housing insecurity has on Boston's residents.
At the end of my fellowship my goal is create a Dinner Gathering and Salon that will be focused on learning and celebration through creating a platform for local artists.
Renée Mboya
23 September - 19 October 2019
A Glossary of Words My Mother Never Taught Me
Renée Mboya will give an informal talk about her work and about her current research project. You are all welcome to attend.
Curator, writer and filmmaker Renée Mboya
(from Nairobi, Kenya) is our current Reading Resident. Her work is
concerned with memory and specifically the use of autobiography in
contemporary narratives to rehabilitate misrepresentations in the
historical. Her current project - A Glossary of Words My Mother Never Taught Me - is one that looks at a single source, the documentary Africa Addio
(1966). The film is regarded here as a violent and ahistorical source,
but curiously one that in the last few decades has been taken at face
value as a way to learn and speak about ‘Africa'.
Renée Mboya was part of De Appel Curatorial Program in the 2015/2016 edition and was one of the visiting curators of the Stroom Invest Week 2018.
>> Read more about her in the Stroom Invest Interview on Jegens & Tevens (June 2018).
>> Read more about her in the Stroom Invest Interview on Jegens & Tevens (June 2018).
17 to 28 June + 8 to 20 July 2019
Follow her Reading Residency activities online
>> Katarina's Reading log>> Instagram @stroom_den_haag
Katarina Petrovic (RS/NL) is an interdisciplinary artist and a
researcher working at the intersections of art and science. Interested
in the issues of translation and interpretation, she investigates the
structures and modes of information organization within different
symbolical structures like language, mathematics, and code. Focusing on
their universality and fluidity, she constructs narratives ambiguous
documents in which the facts and poetics stand side by side. Katarina was part of My Practice, My Politics at Stroom Den Haag in 2018.
Text accompanying image on the right:
my Lady
What day will you have mercy
how long will I cry a moaning prayer
I am yours
why do you slay me
[Betty De Shong Meador, Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000), p.134. Quoted from: Amaranth Borsuk, The Book (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2018), p.9.]
What day will you have mercy
how long will I cry a moaning prayer
I am yours
why do you slay me
[Betty De Shong Meador, Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000), p.134. Quoted from: Amaranth Borsuk, The Book (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2018), p.9.]
- 01 Jan '19 - 31 Dec '21
- Stroom Den Haag, library
Meenakshi Thirukode
Screenshot Instagram @herdsceneand
Meenakshi Thirukode during 'US: Shaping Time' at Stroom Den Haag (March 2021)
photo: Naomi Moonlion, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
photo: Naomi Moonlion, courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Mladen Miljanovic
photo: Wolfgang Lehrner
photo: Wolfgang Lehrner
Jules Rochielle Sievert
photo: courtesy the artist
photo: courtesy the artist
Renée Mboya
photo: © Camille Blake
photo: © Camille Blake
Katarina Petrovic
photo: courtesy the artist
photo: courtesy the artist