RESEARCH - ART - COLLECTIVE
Significant Otherness Co-/lab (SO) is an interdisciplinary research-collaboration between Saskia Burggraaf and Anne Mul. Together they are composting culture. They are taking the shit we’ve been given and transforming it with intersectional activism, queerness, and reevaluating what it is to be a significant other. Their shared research practices evolve around the (re)production of care, culture and knowledge.
Their collaboration aims to seek out and interrupt ways in which hegemonic practices emerge and are (re)produced in different spaces. For Mul and Burggraaf, interrupting is not only identifying oppression but generating and (re)building practices of resistance, refusal and transformation. By intentionally reshuffling normative priorities, they attune to (different) practices for (different) bodies in (different) surroundings. To do this, Burggraaf and Mul draw from an interdisciplinary conceptual toolbox to gather, remix and compost research methods and analysis from art, feminist science and technology studies (STS), and social scientific research. This can bloom into workshops, collaborative work practices, publications in various forms including writing, sound, image, text and performance. We’ve taken the cues that we need to create brave spaces to learn and grow in public; to dare to connect, take responsibility for change and put transformative justice politics into daily practice.
Their collaboration aims to seek out and interrupt ways in which hegemonic practices emerge and are (re)produced in different spaces. For Mul and Burggraaf, interrupting is not only identifying oppression but generating and (re)building practices of resistance, refusal and transformation. By intentionally reshuffling normative priorities, they attune to (different) practices for (different) bodies in (different) surroundings. To do this, Burggraaf and Mul draw from an interdisciplinary conceptual toolbox to gather, remix and compost research methods and analysis from art, feminist science and technology studies (STS), and social scientific research. This can bloom into workshops, collaborative work practices, publications in various forms including writing, sound, image, text and performance. We’ve taken the cues that we need to create brave spaces to learn and grow in public; to dare to connect, take responsibility for change and put transformative justice politics into daily practice.