Siwar Krai(y)tem

Description

Siwar Krai(y)tem is a multilingual designer, researcher, writer, and artist based between Beirut and Amsterdam. Her research and artistic practice focuses on multilingualism and language in times of transformation, as well as the construction of society through language. Since May 2021, she has co-curated the platform Latlateh (which translates from Arabic to mean “unmeaningful chatter”), an encounter-based platform which focuses on language and the power plays embedded in language, semantics, translation, and daily conversation. She is currently a participant in Mophradat’s New Agents Program, a collective online residency. She is also assistant coordinator at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam’s Design Department. In December 2022, she began a writing commission with publisher Unformed Informed, where she writes a diary-like series on her evolving relationship with Arabic, her mother tongue, after three years of being in the Netherlands. She is also part of the BAK Cell, Utrecht, in the Fellowship for Situated Practice.