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Fellowship

Fellow 2020

Photo: Tom Janssen

Grace Lostia

Grace Lostia is an activist involved in community building through food and music. Lostia has a background in political and inter-cultural anthropology; researches fermentation as a culinary and social phenomenon; and is involved in intercontinental squatting and do-it-yourself (DIY) communities. Currently working as a freelance vegan caterer at La Cucina Nomade and a kitchen experimentalist, Lostia is also Music Programmer at Black Earth Events, Utrecht, as well as Venue Manager, Event Organizer, and Chairwoman of the Cultureel Centrum Moira Foundation, Utrecht. Since moving to Utrecht 11 years ago, Lostia has been involved and interested in a frame of vegan food and veganism, free-spaces, underground music scenes, alternative urbanities, and struggles to survive in a fast paced, gentrification-oriented society. The kitchen, as much as independent cultural spaces, are to Lostia places for collective action, opportunities to do politics, exercises in consciousness, and platforms to make, share, and preserve culture. Lostia is a part of the Basic Activist Kitchen (2019–ongoing), launched at BAK in the context of Trainings for the Not-Yet (2019–2020). Lostia lives and works in Utrecht.

Grace Lostia

Grace Lostia is an activist involved in community building through food and music. Lostia has a background in political and inter-cultural anthropology; researches fermentation as a culinary and social phenomenon; and is involved in intercontinental squatting and do-it-yourself (DIY) communities. Currently working as a freelance vegan caterer at La Cucina Nomade and a kitchen experimentalist, Lostia is also Music Programmer at Black Earth Events, Utrecht, as well as Venue Manager, Event Organizer, and Chairwoman of the Cultureel Centrum Moira Foundation, Utrecht. Since moving to Utrecht 11 years ago, Lostia has been involved and interested in a frame of vegan food and veganism, free-spaces, underground music scenes, alternative urbanities, and struggles to survive in a fast paced, gentrification-oriented society. The kitchen, as much as independent cultural spaces, are to Lostia places for collective action, opportunities to do politics, exercises in consciousness, and platforms to make, share, and preserve culture. Lostia is a part of the Basic Activist Kitchen (2019–ongoing), launched at BAK in the context of Trainings for the Not-Yet (2019–2020). Lostia lives and works in Utrecht.

Fellowship Research Trajectory

For the 2020 BAK Fellowship, nine Fellowships are awarded to practitioners engaged with local communities and struggles for developing a focus on long lasting, mutual support with and through BAK as a public art institution. Former BAK Fellow and artist Jeanne van Heeswijk joins this strand as BAK Associate to conceptually guide the research and work on forms of proximity and building connections.

Next to these nine selected Fellows, six members of the collective freethought have been invited to participate in the 2020 edition of the Fellowship.

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