Material Histories and Social Imaginations

Material Histories and Social Imaginations

Liza Prins is an artist, researcher and writer based in Amsterdam. Her work focuses on feminized and pre-industrial labor, as well as the material and immaterial conditions and tools for social organization that emerge from it. Using collaborative performative methods touching on re-enactment techniques and improvisation, she seeks to re-establish a connection with with material histories and social imaginations.

Prins studied Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and she has a master's degree in artistic research from the University of Amsterdam, where her thesis investigated the intersections of feminist, new materialist methodology, and performative practices.

Her work has been shown at Nieuw Dakota in Amsterdam, Hotel Maria kapel in Hoorn, Kunsthuis SYB in Beetsterzwaag, and The Roger Brown house in Chicago among other places. Her writings have been published in academic and less-academic journals, books and zines, like Metropolis M, Snaky Zine, ANTENNAE and Platform Taak. Together with Marta Pagliuca Pelacani she is hosting the Artistic Research Knitting Club at the University of Amsterdam. She is supported by Mondriaan Fund.

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The Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network examines the varied ways in which archaeology, heritage and art converge across a broad range of concepts and practices, from artistic interventions in the museum space to archaeological interpretations which deploy and take inspiration from contemporary art.

The AHA 2022 PROGRAMME: INTERDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGIES is supported with a grant from the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies.