ABOUT
In her practise of social architcture Barnet Kansil explores how to build new social infrastructure where existing systems fall short, enabling people who are excluded from society to build their own creative practises and exercise self-determination. Through building spaces, networks and organisations new social connections and forms of collective practise are born. Throughout her practise Kansil examines how to navigate systems and laws that conflict with our senses of justice and human dignity. What choices do we make when legal frameworks stand at odd with our ethical principles and how can we create alternative ways of working and living togehter? Her practise is built on principles of mutuality, sharing and co-creation. Latest projects: The DOOR Project ”, The BAM Collective and Reclaim Your Space.
In these most recent projects Barnet Kansil explores how she can use art to make this social change. She works with refugees and migrants with and without residence permit. Together they work on finding new paths for the future, paths that make it possible to participate in our (their) society like all other people: “We create, co-create, we do research, we listen to what is really needed and have developments arise. Exploring, open to the unexpected, we take direction, we listen, explore again and adjust our ways. So we can come to real needed social change. A change that gives people the possibility to become self-sufficient, getting back control over their lives, moving out of the zones where they are left to their own devices and become included in our society, in their society.”
In her photography-work Barnet Kansil creates transient installations of places, locations and spaces which she photographs. Co-creating she lets other people intervene in her art pieces, in a way that her photo’s become stages for new stories. In doing so, she repeatedly creates a new reality: in the installation, in the picture, in the interventions and possibly in the imagination of the beholder.
Nowadays Kansil works on exploring and building new social infrastructures, networks, collectives and organizations. She works together with those who face exclusion in society, and sees them as equal partners in a process of mutual exchange, in which they bring and develop their own knowledge, experiences, skills and and agency.
Her work is influenced by her studies in cultural anthropology, her personal interest in cultures and myths and by the history of her Indonesian family who in the forties had to escape from Indonesia because of war and violence.
In her practise of social architcture Barnet Kansil explores how to build new social infrastructure where existing systems fall short, enabling people who are excluded from society to build their own creative practises and exercise self-determination. Through building spaces, networks and organisations new social connections and forms of collective practise are born. Throughout her practise Kansil examines how to navigate systems and laws that conflict with our senses of justice and human dignity. What choices do we make when legal frameworks stand at odd with our ethical principles and how can we create alternative ways of working and living togehter? Her practise is built on principles of mutuality, sharing and co-creation. Latest projects: The DOOR Project ”, The BAM Collective and Reclaim Your Space.
In these most recent projects Barnet Kansil explores how she can use art to make this social change. She works with refugees and migrants with and without residence permit. Together they work on finding new paths for the future, paths that make it possible to participate in our (their) society like all other people: “We create, co-create, we do research, we listen to what is really needed and have developments arise. Exploring, open to the unexpected, we take direction, we listen, explore again and adjust our ways. So we can come to real needed social change. A change that gives people the possibility to become self-sufficient, getting back control over their lives, moving out of the zones where they are left to their own devices and become included in our society, in their society.”
In her photography-work Barnet Kansil creates transient installations of places, locations and spaces which she photographs. Co-creating she lets other people intervene in her art pieces, in a way that her photo’s become stages for new stories. In doing so, she repeatedly creates a new reality: in the installation, in the picture, in the interventions and possibly in the imagination of the beholder.
Nowadays Kansil works on exploring and building new social infrastructures, networks, collectives and organizations. She works together with those who face exclusion in society, and sees them as equal partners in a process of mutual exchange, in which they bring and develop their own knowledge, experiences, skills and and agency.
Her work is influenced by her studies in cultural anthropology, her personal interest in cultures and myths and by the history of her Indonesian family who in the forties had to escape from Indonesia because of war and violence.