Romy Day Winkel
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] bracket
] bracket is an installation that deals with the fear of being followed, informed by the experience of being stalked over the past couple of years. The paranoid perspective that comes with that feels like a continuous and involuntary trace of someone else, as if there is always a sound shadowing my own. By erasing the possibility of hearing someone else's footsteps, it tip-toes towards consensual imaginal possibilities, drawing parallels with Anne Carson's usage of brackets in her Sappho translations.
] bracket is part of Romance Utopia : a research project that has gotten out of hand. Thus far, it has spilled over into a digital archive, a radioshow, a video installation and a publication. It questions how to ‘save’ romance from being instrumentalized for boring or harmful purposes and instead aims to steer it into a radical direction.
Romy Day Winkel (1994) is a writer, researcher and musician based in Amsterdam. She hosts Perdu's podcast series De Verloren Tijd and Time Lost, in which she interviews contemporary poets and writers. More recently she started working as a book buyer and seller at Athenaeum, with a focus on Dutch literature.
BSc in Cultural Anthropology at University of Amsterdam, 2012 - 2016
Research MSc in Social Anthropology at Stockholm University, 2017 - 2019
MFA in Critical Studies at Sandberg Institute, 2019 - 2021
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