FRICTIONS: Setting up shop
FRICTIONS - Blog post 1 03.03.25 Reflections on taking up a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (FRICTIONS) at the not-for-profit research organisation Brave New Alps. My research with FRICTIONS engages with the regulatory frictions encountered by small, sustainably-minded cultural organisations from the standpoint of emancipatory administrative practice. It's the kind of research that doesn't slip easily into a specific academic discipline – although the tensions and possibilities it investigates might be seismically sensed across many areas of academic life, in the ways that regulation and administration play out there too. As an artist and trader, admin has long been an area of fascination for me, despite or because of its lowly status, perceived lack of creativity and rarely celebrated knowledge . In FRICTIONS, I will work with small-scale cultural institutions around Europe, to reimagine admin as a kind of maker space where thoroughly differe