Julia Wilhelm

artistic research - publication - collaboration - writing - social

Julia Wilhelm is a cultural worker based in Rotterdam. She is interested in building otherwise infrastructures for coming together, critical pedagogy, and experimental forms of writing and making public. In her ongoing research project Autoarachnology, she draws from ecofeminist frameworks to investigate how to navigate neoliberal art world infrastructures in search for strategies of resistance.

Her affiliations and stewardships include climate justice collective SPIN; embodied research group Cooking Something Up; Nightly Manifesto, a show on WORM Radio; and Reading Rhythms Club, an alternative reading group. She co-edited the publication Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene (Onomatopee, 2022) and the magazine MagaSPIN No.1: Water.


Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think

Exhibition / presentation

  • 12-10-2023 t/m 14-01-2024
  • In collaboration with: Lea Novi
  • Location: The Gray Space in the Middle, The Hague
  • Somewhere Else is Closer than You Think is a collaboration with artist and photographer Lea Novi. It emerges as a non-linear, photographic and sonic narrative that explores the mountain Zugspitze as an ecosystem through the lens of five different characters, each of whom have a specific relationship to the mountain. It was exhibited in The Gray Space in the Middle as part of the show In Times of Trouble We Dream with Open Eyes.

Dissemblage. Making Multiplicity, Not Identities.

Reading

  • 06-12-2023 t/m 06-12-2023
  • In collaboration with: Erasmus School of Philosophy, Promiscuous Care Study Group, Gerald Raunig
  • Location: Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
  • Dissemblage and the practice of dissembling concern the making of relationships rather than an undoing. They require care and build on struggles in the interstices of existence. Care and subsistence rely on and shape specific relational bonds and collective formations before and around the fortress of identity. Throughout the evening we discussed ecologies and economies of care through readings, short sound pieces, and explorations of collective study and practice.

Mustarinda Residency

Residencies / exchange

  • 01-11-2023 t/m 30-11-2023
  • Location: Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi
  • The Mustarinda Association is a group of artists and researchers, whose goal is to promote the ecological rebuilding of society, the diversity of culture and nature, and the connection between art and science. The residency allowed me to expand on my project Autoarachnology and to develop a work together with other residents to present during the Open Day.

RRRadiossage

Task

  • 01-04-2023 t/m 01-04-2023
  • Location: BAK, basis for contemporary art, Utrecht
  • RRRadiossage was organized and hosted by the Reading Rhythms Club at the opening of the public program Ultradependent Public School (UPS). RRRadiossage was an eight-hour hybrid radio broad-cast consisting of sonic tours through of the exhibition, featuring voices of UPS collaborators in thought and practice. Experimental forms of reading and discussion and collective annotations took place throughout the schoolhouse.

Palpating Memories with Words—Writing Diary as a Form of Research

Workshop

  • 28-09-2022
  • Location: Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
  • During this workshop we experimented with different forms of documentary writing as a reflective, narrative, and creative practice. In short exercises, conversations, and readings, we playfully explored the strange divergences and conjunctions between words, experience, and memory.

Cooking Something Up

Workshop

  • 03-08-2022
  • Location: ook_visitorZentrum, documenta 15, Kassel
  • During this workshop, Cooking Something Up invited participants to explore their relationship to the words sustenance and nourishment through zine-making and the preparation a collective alphabet soup.

PANT Public #6 Influence Now

Exhibition / presentation

  • 27-03-2022
  • In collaboration with: Heidi Vogels, Reinaart Vanhoe, Emily Shin-Jie Lee
  • Location: Instrument Inventors, The Hague
  • What is your idea of ​​a collective? Do you know your neighborhood well? How is our society changing during the pandemic and how can we think about collectives and neighborhoods from a virtual perspective? This time PANT Public #6 invites four artists and cultural practitioners; Reinaart Vanhoe, Emily Shin-Jie Lee, Julia Wilhelm and Heidi Vogels to present their work followed by a panel discussion moderated by Yun Lee.

Acknowledgments

    Publication
  • Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene: A Look at Art Primarily Active in the Context of Daily Practices

  • 2022
  • Onomatopoeia & Framer Framed - Emily Shin-Jie Lee, Iris Ferrer, Julia Wilhelm, reinaart vanhoe
    Publication
  • MagaSPIN No.1: Water

  • 2022
  • Shops
  • SPIN collective (self-published) - Carla Arcos, Juliette Douet, Julia Wilhelm