Els Silvrants-Barclay

She coordinates Permanent, a practice-based research project that draws upon anti-speculative models from the commons- and cooperative economy and proposes spatial typologies of difference to develop an infrastructure for a multitude of uses and users to ‘be in it together without needing to be the same'. As a curator, she often works with artists on commissions in public space. Her practice is centered on the politics of spatial production, looking at space as affective, as choreography of bodies, as reflective and reproductive of worldviews, and assembles around the question on how to think and produce space otherwise.