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The Weird Kid website hosts my ongoing research, and is a collection of keywords that are important to me and my research.
Each keywords hosts a selection of found images, prints and works I made or images made specially for my PhD publication by designer Lotte Lara Schröder (@speculativepress) who also designed this website.
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(stencil designed for workshops)
The Weird Kid website hosts my ongoing research, and is a collection of keywords that are important to me and my research.
Each keywords hosts a selection of found images, prints and works I made or images made specially for my PhD publication by designer Lotte Lara Schröder (@speculativepress) who also designed this website.
(stencil designed for workshops)
about
Emily van Olden
Working in public and mobilising the public for social and political change to offer the possibility of an alternate future is at the heart of her work. Van Olden utilises the Japanese Knotweed’s cultural, natural and scientific history to explain a system of human and non-human relations that has brought us to the Anthropocene. Her PhD research generated materialistic considerations of a plants’s non-human agency by combining critical making and participatory design in zine-making workshops. Via cooperation with Japanese Knotweed through botanical inks and Japanese Knotweed paper Van Olden demonstrates how interactions embody and embed plants, and individuals with whom they engage in more excellent socio-economic planes. Catherine’s work has been presented in group and solo exhibitions in Belgium, France, the UK and the Netherlands. Educated at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Académie Royale in Brussels (hon.) and GSA Mlitt program (hon.) in Glasgow, she is the initiator of The Save the Loom Foundation. Save The Loom is an international interdisciplinary art project set up to conduct research into the influence of sensory experiences in production processes and the significance of handicrafts in terms of cultural history.
Emily van Olden
Working in public and mobilising the public for social and political change to offer the possibility of an alternate future is at the heart of her work. Van Olden utilises the Japanese Knotweed’s cultural, natural and scientific history to explain a system of human and non-human relations that has brought us to the Anthropocene. Her PhD research generated materialistic considerations of a plants’s non-human agency by combining critical making and participatory design in zine-making workshops. Via cooperation with Japanese Knotweed through botanical inks and Japanese Knotweed paper Van Olden demonstrates how interactions embody and embed plants, and individuals with whom they engage in more excellent socio-economic planes. Catherine’s work has been presented in group and solo exhibitions in Belgium, France, the UK and the Netherlands. Educated at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Académie Royale in Brussels (hon.) and GSA Mlitt program (hon.) in Glasgow, she is the initiator of The Save the Loom Foundation. Save The Loom is an international interdisciplinary art project set up to conduct research into the influence of sensory experiences in production processes and the significance of handicrafts in terms of cultural history.