The Commoners' Society
Willem Schenk+
Year of birth: 1990
Place of birth: Hengelo, the Netherlands
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Willem Schenk is a cultural strategist based in Amsterdam. With a background in trend forecasting, he curated exhibitions, produced a new festival in New York for textile art and design and worked with international brands on product representation and brand positioning. Through imagery and interventions, his work examines alternative scenarios in which the arts and design penetrate a corporate arena.
Culture à la carte is a series of interventions designed to mitigate today’s cut-throat capitalist society. The events arise from collaborations with autonomous artists and designers who are working around socially engaged topics such as trust, labor and minorities. For one of the collaborations I was inspired by a rural tradition from the Dutch hinterlands. The work of designer and activist Rowena Buur is laid into a mosaic of flowers – discussing the lack of queer spaces amongst conservative communities.
Collaboration(s):
Simpson TseSpecial thanks: Rowena Buur, Comfort Ball, Simpson Tse and Lonneke van der Palen
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