Project details

Researchers	Ailie Gieseler Alice Strete Anika van der Meulen Anna-Maria Psyllou Arvand Pourabbasi Carla Arcos carlota garcia Cristina Cochior Eugi Manenti Florian Cramer Francis Belte Julia Wilhelm Lara de Poorter Luna Bongers Natalia Sorzano Noami van Kleef reinaart vanhoe Sam Niehorster Santiago Pinyol Simon Kentgens Sten Heijster Weronika Zielińska-Klein Yunjoo Kwak
Partners	Het Nieuwe Instituut, Kunstinstituut Melly, Codarts Archival Consciousness, ArtEZ, Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (for the overcoupling research project ACKnowledge/Artists Community Knowledge)
Project Leader	Florian Cramer Simon Kentgens
Funding Program	NWO Nationale Wetenschapsagenda, Route Kunst
Action	research into new concepts of autonomy and ways of creating it
Duration	1 year, September 2021-August 2022
Affiliated activities	position paper Autonomous Practices The Autonomous Fabric of Rotterdam Uronto Artist Community (Bangladesh) Judith Westerveld – Autonomy Lab Workshop 11-5-23 Timoteus Anggawan Kusno – Autonomy Lab Workshop 25-5-2023 Maike Hemmers – Autonomy Lab Workshop – 26-5-23 Karl Moubarak – Autonomy Lab Workshop – 23-5-23 Reassemble Lab 5: Practising Permacomputing 13-10-23 – 02-12-23 Workshop: How to Counter-map Autonomy and Self-organization -Iconoclasistas & WdKA Autonomy – Lab 16-11-23 Book presentation: Lumbung, commons and Community Art – 25-11-2023 Counter-Mapping Autonomy workshop #2 – 29-02-2024 How to Continue Self-Organization – prep workshops

Autonomy Lab investigates new ways of understanding and creating autonomy, particularly in multidisciplinary artist collectives and self-organizations in diverse world regions.

Autonomy Lab included workshops with more than a dozen of artist collectives:

• Eat Art Collective (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• 展銷場 Display Distribute and Autonomous-8 (Hong Kong)
• Woodbine Collective (New York, USA)
• BananSkolen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• The Bureau of Care (Athens, Greece & Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• Amigas (Bogotá, Colombia)
• Arahmaiani (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
• CONSTANT (Brussels, Belgium)
• Take-A-Way collective (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
• Linksinhetnieuws (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Baan Noorg & OCAC (Nong Pho, Thailand & Taipei, Taiwan)
• Wok the Rock (Yogyakarta, Indoensia)
• Arts Collaboratory (international)
• Jatiwangi art Factory (Jatiwangi, Indonesia)
• Varia/Lumbung.space (international)
• Uronto Artist Community (Bangladesh)

Autonomy Lab also participated in documenta fifteen (Kassel, Germany, 2022) where it helped running the ‘Apamart’ of the Indonesian artist collective Jatiwangi art Factory.

Its research findings for the period 2020-2022 have been summarized here and in this mapping:

Autonomy Lab is part of the larger NWO research project ACKnowledge (Artists Community Knowledge) that also included the projects How to Read a Library by Archival Consciousness (Mariana Lanari & Remco van Bladel) and the project Crafted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.