The Gravity of World-Making

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37522/sc27sz05

Keywords:

field-research, speculative fiction, open-endedness, landscapes, lived experience

Abstract

In this essay I am exploring how growing into the process of writing a speculative fiction novel has shifted and enriched my artistic practice. While unpacking my recent experience of a residency on the boat of the Atlas Initiatief, I unearth the ways in which the different elements within my practice come together in the evolving speculative world. I am hinting at parallels of my process with the different stages of artistic processes, which Witte Rook and I have identified in a shared research. Finally, I find that abstract conceptualisations need to be approached in their situatedness in a world and with an open-endedness. 

Author Biography

  • Nele Brökelmann, Royal Academy of Art: The Hague

    Nele Brökelmann is an artist deeply intrigued by the human need for structures of meaning. The perpetual search for and fabrication of meaning are recurring themes in her practice. She approaches human-made structures and mental as well as worldly concepts that create (physical) borders through walking in landscapes paired with conceptual and fictional explorations. To challenge either/or thinking, she plays with the experiences and concepts of distance, repetition, and parallelity. This finds its form in diverse media such as video, writing, explorative walks, and installations. She exercises creating space for ambiguity, wandering in thought, and approaching the beings in and of our environments otherwise.  In addition to her artistic practice, Brökelmann writes for the Dutch contemporary art magazine Metropolis M, curates and moderates the film screening series Matters of Being for the artist initiative iii (Instrument inventors initiative) in the Hague, and has developed a research into artistic processes De Octopus together with the writing platform and artist residency Witte Rook (Breda, NL).

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Published

2026-09-29

Issue

No. 3 (2026): Parodyk virtuvę / Show Me the Kitchen

Section

Articles