The Evening of The Alex Adriaansens Residency

The Evening of The Alex Adriaansens Residency features the presentation of the book 'Off-Grid', and a round table discussion on the uses of Open Source Intelligence.

The Evening of the Alex Adriaansens Residency features the research of the two 2025 recipients of the Alex Adriaansens Residency: Agustina Andreoletti and Katažyna Jankovska.

First up is the presentation of Katažyna Jankovska's book Off-Grid, which is the outcome of her residency, accompanied by a short reflection by Marie Verdeil on the workshop Comp-Host-ing our Phones – taking place in the afternoon.

After this the focus is on Agustina Andreoletti's research into Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), and a round table discussion between Asawari Luthra, Laura Osorio Sunnucks, and Tobechukwu Onwukeme.

Time Schedule

19:00 – doors open
19:30 sharp – start programme
– welcome & introduction
– reflection on the workshop Comp-Hosting Our Phones by Marie Verdeil & Katažyna Jankovska
– book presentation Off-Grid by Katažyna Jankovska
– round table Other Paths Inside: On Tracing Colonial Heritage Without Institutional Support
21:30/22:00 – end programme

Book Presentation Off-Grid

Off-Grid, edited by Katažyna Jankovska, collects stories of protest infrastructures assembled in neighborhood yards and encrypted Telegram chats, internet cables stretched between apartment blocks, DIY practices, attempts to build a toaster from scratch, and a self-sustaining research capsule designed to operate for up to 120 days in isolation. This book moves across rural art institutions, repurposed power plants, exhibitions curated within forests and farmlands, and the early digital networks of the 1990s to explore what autonomy can mean in a world built on fragile, interconnected systems—and how much room for maneuver remains within them.

With contributions from: Andreas Broeckmann, Lizaveta German, Garnet Hertz, Adelina Luft, Mari-Liis Rebane, Antonina Stebur, Timo Toots, Helen Turner, and Raluca Voinea.

+ Reflection on Comp-Host-ing our Phones by Marie Verdeil

Katažyna Jankovska
Katažyna is a curator, writer, and researcher currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She holds a bachelor's degree in art history and theory from Vilnius Art Academy and a master's in Arts, Culture, and Society from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her scholarly and curatorial interests focus on ever-evolving relationships between humans, machines, and natural systems. She is interested in experimental art forms exploring sensory perception, digital culture, and the influence of technology on contemporary society. She uses a range of methods, including writing, programs, exhibitions, and publishing.

Marie Verdeil
Marie Verdeil (she/her) is a French designer and artist based in Brussels. Her transdisciplinary projects—websites, installations, publications, workshops, tools—advocate for an autonomous, transparent, environmentally aware and critical approach to technology. Since graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven (2022), she uses design to imagine desirable futures that are aligned with planetary limits.

Other Paths Inside: On Tracing Colonial Heritage Without Institutional Support

When official channels are closed, when interoperability fails, when institutions refuse to act, communities have found that publicly available information, systematically collected and strategically deployed, can shift the ground. One answer, increasingly explored by artists, human rights investigators, and researchers, is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT); not casual internet searching, but a methodology that includes rigorous verification, documented chains of evidence, geolocation, metadata analysis, and cross-referencing of sources that community members can use without official institutional permission. The same techniques deployed to track corruption or document human rights violations can be turned toward tracing a looted sculpture, reconstructing a destroyed site, or aggregating dispersed heritage into a community-controlled archive.

This round table brings together Asawari Luthra, Laura Osorio Sunnucks, and Tobechukwu Onwukeme, practitioners and researchers working at the intersection of heritage, investigation, and community agency. In conversation with moderator Agustina Andreoletti, they will draw on their different fields and experiences to explore the methodological possibilities of working outside institutional channels, the question of who controls the archive, and the ethical stakes of making dispersed or suppressed histories visible.

Asawari Luthra
Independent Researcher. Tutor Contextual Studies, Design Academy Eindhoven.
Asawari is an anthropologist whose research focuses on how to 'decolonize' access to digitized colonial archives. Her work engages with the ethical and practical challenges of responsibly making archival collections of colonial origin accessible. Teaching Design Anthropology at Design Academy Eindhoven, she guides students in exploring how design shapes society through anthropological and experimental methods.

Laura Osorio Sunnucks
Head of Research and Collections, Wereldmuseum Amsterdam.
Laura joined the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam in October 2025 as Head of Research and Collections, a department that puts special focus on provenance research and the role of global art and material culture in amplifying diverse voices. She has worked extensively with Indigenous Peoples and grassroots initiatives in Latin America throughout her career, maintaining an independent research practice alongside positions at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, the British Museum, and the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver.

Tobechukwu Onwukeme
Researcher, Forensic Architecture.
Tobechukwu Onwukeme is a computational designer and member of the multidisciplinary research group Forensic Architecture. His practice focuses on utilizing geospatial technologies and algorithms to map the inherent violence of neo-colonial systems and infrastructures. Prior to joining Forensic Architecture, he worked at various labs and agencies as a design technologist, where he designed and developed applications for computer vision, sensors, ML, data sonification, and material fabrication.

Agustina Andreoletti
Research Associate, Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Agustina Andreoletti is an art historian and cultural worker from Argentina, currently a research associate at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Agustina's projects address concepts of techno-colonialism, collaboration, power infrastructures, and distributed agency. From 2020 to 2023, she worked at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, where she curated the public program and led the LEAKY ARCHIVE project. In 2024, she served as an Assistant Professor for Networks at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.