Clem Edwards ~ Keywords: material, kinship, climate, colonialism, extraction, craft, queer, nuclear family, settler, property, miniatures, storytelling, genre fiction, sexual violence, gender violence, trauma.

Clem Edwards is a Rotterdam-based artist working between sculpture and writing. They're the artist and editor of The Material Kinship Reader, co-edited with Kris Dittel, which thinks material beyond extraction and kinship beyond the nuclear family. 

Clem’s practice engages with craft, climate crisis, gender and how lived experience, including trauma, narrates meaning-making. It asks, How to honour and remember the worlds that we are immersed in, and the contexts that shape us, nourish us and resist us?  

In 2022 Clem was a Gerrit Rietveld Academy fellow in Amsterdam and a LiveWorks fellow at Centrale Fies in Dro. Among other places they’ve exhibited and performed at Tent Rotterdam, Temporary Gallery, Koln, Framer Framed, Amsterdam and Stavanger Museum. 

Clem Edwards returned to DAI as part of the tutorial team of the 2020-2021 COOP study group ~ Reframing Climate Colonialism: Pleasuring the Radical Imagination

Watch Clem's 20 minute presentation Take a pug apart and put it back together a pomeranian for CONSTANT CRAVING ~ PERFORMING UNDER CONDITIONS - DAI's 3 day grad acts marathon at State of Concept in Athens, June 2018. 

Learn more about Clem Edwards’ written MA thesis (DAI, 2018): Proposition: To Complicate the Experience of Sexual Trauma

Follow Clem's "Life after DAI" through website and instagram