Rietveld Mulch #4 Pedro's collective Mulch
In Rietveld Mulch the Podcast we focus on life after graduation and ask artists, curators, collectives and others in the cultural field to share their Mulch with us.
In the 4th episode Nina van Hartskamp talks with artist and researcher Pedro Matias about about collectives, collaboration, and community as means of supporting and growing an art practice.
In this conversation Pedro draws from their 12 years experience of being part of the Diewieler Collectief and the newly formed collaborative research project 'Iridescent Institute of Desire', which they co-founded with Angelo Custodio and Arthur Guilleminot.
Why does Pedro ‘sell’ collaborative practices as a good option for supporting an art practice? What role plays desire in collaboration? How to make a collaboration work? And what are the benefits and struggles of working together?
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Pedro Matias (Lisbon, 1984 - He/His, They/Them) is an artist and researcher based in Amsterdam, exploring new flows of alternative knowledge, in the intersectional space of audio-visuals, performance and critical thinking. Pedro holds a MFA from Sandberg Institute (Fine Arts Department) and a MA (Philosophy - Aesthetics) from the New University of Lisbon.
Pedro is one of the co-founders of Driewieler Collectief (2010-2020), and currently developing a collaborative research project - Iridescent Institute of Desire - an artist-run research network, focused on de/composing the notion of stable structures and (re)imagine collaboration from the perspective of eternal event of desiring.
www.instagram.com/iridescentinstituteofdesire