Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Geographisches Institut

Vorträge

Ich präsentiere meine Arbeit im Rahmen öffentlicher Konferenzen, Präsentationen und Podiumsdiskussionen mit Interessenvertretern aus Künstlergemeinschaften, Kommunalpolitikern und Verwaltungsbeamten. Weitere Vorträge und Events auf meiner Website: friederikelandau.com!

Performance #milkiswater @ On Water, Berlin University Alliance

In the performance #milkiswater, I amalgamated theoretical insights about hydrofeminist theory (i.e., the notion of radical relation between humans, more-than-humans, places, things and matters as collective ‚bodies of water‘) with the embodied exploration of interconnections between milk and water. See the accompanying poetry in the section „#PoeticAcademic“.

More information about the event: ON WATER – WasserWissen in Berlin

Podcast-Beitrag im ARCHITEKTURFUNK „Die Nicht-Notwendigkeit von Allem“

Folge #185 – Dr. Friederike Landau-Donnelly, HU Berlin: Die Nicht-Notwendigkeit von Allem – ARCHITEKTURFUNK – Podcast

Institute for Urban Research Rooftop Talk (27.02.25 - Malmö)

Video verfügbar auf YouTube!

Artist-in-Residence at Institute for Urban Research (IUR), Malmö, Sweden

Description of Residency: Exploring the Poetics of Conflict at Folketspark, Malmö 
During my stay as an IUR artist-in-residence in February 2025, I will explore Malmö’s contested urban fabric of public and street art through a theoretical lens of agonistic conflict, and through my creative practice of poetry and performative readings. With an embodied approach, I want to sense, learn and engage with questions about the (im)permissibility and (in)visibility of public art: Which art is invited into public space by formal authorities such as city councils, art agencies, or private sponsorship? Respectively, which public art is actively discouraged, criminalized and/or erased? Which political and aesthetic rationales of regulation, order, propriety and cleanliness prevail, and ultimately decide which messages and walls populate the city, and which ones do not? Although, or precisely because public art is a ‘tricky beast’, combining complex terms such as  ‘art’ and ‘public’(ness), my body wants to probe crucial democratic questions about belonging, representation and diversity through public art in multicultural cities such as Malmö. Towards the end of my residency, I would like to fuse visual, auditory and poetic data I will collect over the course of three weeks into a multi-media poetic performance to be published, and performed publicly, at Folketspark.

Presentation at „Mind the Gap“, 1st DIVIA Conference

It was an honour to speak about Difference(s) within ‘the Gap’ at the 1st international DIVIA conference, organized by DIVIA e.V. – Diversity in Architecture on November 1, 2024 at AEDES Berlin. 

Video verfügbar auf Vimeo!

Publication of Artist Book AIA – Group Residency „Publishing as Artistic Practice“

This collective artist book is the result of the group residency PUBLISHING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE, facilitated by The Museum of Loss and Renewal in partnership with Amsterdam-based Studio The Future / The Future Publishing and Printing. It was offered for creative practitioners from a variety of geographic, cultural and artistic background to join in a 100-hour-long project to create a book that both hosts and challenges individual participants‘ ideas about books they would one day like to write.

Vortrag: Konflikte hören – Raumtheoretische Reflektionen zu Stille, Lärm und Abwesenheiten im Museum

Raum aneignen – Panel auf der Konferenz „Das Radikaldemokratische Museum (revisited)“, Dortmunder U, März 2024.

Video verfügbar auf YouTube!

Keynote 01.12.2023, MATRIARCHITEKTUR: Weibliche Perspektiven auf Planung

Video verfügbar auf YouTube!

Research Funding: Western Radboud Collaboration Fund (25,000 CAD)

“Hearing Conflicts (HEARCON): Unpacking Decolonization in Canadian and Dutch Museum Initiatives via a Research Podcast”
Project led by: Dr. Friederike Landau-Donnelly (Radboud), Dr. Kirsty Robertson (Western) & Dr. Sarah Smith (Western)
This research brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars (Cultural Geography, Information & Media Studies, and Museum & Curatorial Studies) employing creative methodologies to explore museological strategies for contending with colonial histories and “difficult knowledge.” Examining museum practice in Canada and the Netherlands, the team will explore curatorial approaches at a range of institutions and engage with museum practitioners, with research outputs including a podcast and scholarly publication.

Unveiling of Public Artwork Scales of Balance

As Chair of the Public Art Commission at our Faculty, the Nijmegen School of Management (NSM), we unveiled the public art piece „Scales of Balance“ by regional artist Bob Driessen on June 20, 2023. We had shortlisted the project, which pays homage to the name-giving inspiration of our building – Elinor Ostrom. With the below poetic introduction, I opened the ceremony:


public art
public heart
public fear
public fart
public eyes, ears, cries, smears

the notion of public, publics, publicness is just as tricky as the notion of what art is
there is not only public but internally contested, constructed and constantly changing forms of belonging within the public

the idea of the commons rocks back and forth between community orientations, public values, public goods on the one hand, and forms of oppression, exclusion and marginalization on the other

the commons is not neutral
commoning as a verb can only ever be a process of negotiating space, power and time towards more socially and spatially just futures

your balance is not mine
my scale is bigger than yours
let’s mesh again each other, let’s swing together, let’s smoothly dance with each other
to keep remembering that scales of inequality permeate our daily lives