Patricia de Vries is a research professor of Art & Spatial Praxis at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Art & Spatial Praxis is a research group focusing on art, activist, and academic practices that intervene in capitalist enclosures such as cities, urban developments, institutes, and infrastructures. Her ongoing research project, Plot(ting), is an expanding open archive and a research platform for publication.
Plot(ting) showcases the research and art practices of creators and thinkers whose work aligns with Jamaican theorist Sylvia Wynter’s concept of “the plot.” In her work, she explores the plot as a model for practice on a broad scale, exploring how artists, writers, and scholars can defy institutional and capitalist norms to cultivate different forms of understanding, existence, and social relations.