Ren Loren Britton

Wie kann die Designausbildung zu einem Raum der Orientierung und der kritischen Reflexion werden? Am 12.Mai konnte ich an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig das großartige Symposium SPACES FOR ORIENTATION besuchen: Marion Kliesch etwa entwickelte aus den Fragen nach Zugang, Kanon und Macht ein Plädoyer für eine Designhochschule frei von Bedingungen; Krishan Rajapakshe stellte uns die Küche als Modell gemeinsamer Sorgearbeit vor, wie sie auch die gestalterische Praxis auszeichnen sollte; Ren Loren Britton zeigte im Sinne der „disability justice“, was wirklich barrierefreies Design erfordern würde; Nina Paim kritisierte das gängige Schreiben über Design, das nur für Spezialist:innen produziert wird, und machte sich stark für eine Schreibweise, die „emotionally engaging“ ist… Das alles und noch viel mehr kuratierten die Grafikdesignerin Claudia Doms und die Multimedia-Künstlerin Anna-Luise Lorenz (beide HBK). Es war ein sehr inspirierender Tag mit tollen Vorträgen und wunderbaren Gesprächen! DANKE @marion.kliesch @brittonstudio @krishan_rajapakshe @paimnina @c_doms @annaluiselorenz

It is my immense pleasure to share that our collective work “Connecting through Seams” with @hackersanddesigners will be exhibited in the @stedelijkmuseum in the exhibition “Proposals for the Museum Collection 2026”. This edition is dedicated to collaborative artistic practices and is addressing practices that are shaped by collaborative writing, working, thinking and doing. The show opens on 28 November 2026 and will remain on view until 4 April 2027. We will be adding to this version of the work and hosting conversations within it during the exhibition run! Stay tuned for more & in the meantime we’re in a flow of excitement & gratitude! 🔗💗💚🔗

Dearests 💚🩷 I am immensely grateful to share that my first solo show in Berlin, Deixis & Needs — opens in one month from today and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 11.06.2026, 7pm, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin. I have been dreaming towards this for a long time. So happy to be working with @sylv_inski & I hope to meet you at the show! Till then, I’m in studio mode. 🪁

We are pleased to present the program of this year’s XR-History Award as part of A MAZE. Festival 2026, taking place from 13–16 May 2026 at Silent Green Berlin. 👾 Across performances, panels and conversations, the program brings together artists and researchers engaging with questions of XR, digital culture and media history from critical and experimental perspectives.   Alongside the XR-History Award program, AMAZE. Festival 2026 features many more exhibitions, projects, talks and interactive experiences throughout this days. You can find the full programme and opening hours on the A MAZE. Festival website. 🗓️ We are especially looking forward to celebrating this year’s nominees and to the award ceremony on Friday evening.   13.05.2026 – A MAZE. Opening 7:15 PM – Opening Ceremony   14.05.2026 7 PM – Performance by XR-History Award nominee Sickness International   15.05.2026 5–6 PM – XR-History Award Panel with Simon Strick and the nominees 7 PM – Performance by Sickness International 8 PM – XR-History Award Ceremony 9 PM – XR-History Award Laudation by Simon Strick and Margarete Jahrmann   16.05.2026 8 PM – Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley at HAU 2 We look forward to welcoming artists, guests and audiences for a week of exchange, experimentation and collective experience!

It is my total pleasure today to be in conversation with @aayyllen at @pact_zollverein with @core_rwth as part of their Hidden Futures: Prediction and Promise event. This afternoon I will share some artifacts from my ongoing project ‘Indexing for Disability Justice’ and think about how we can shape the terms and possibilities for who has agency in technoscocial reproduction when we start from a trans*crip perspective as central. Much gratitude for the invitation and I look forward a lot to this afternoon! 🔗⛏️⛓️‍💥🪓🔗🔪

Last night I was so grateful to share my new essay coming from my project ‘Indexing for Disability Justice’ — in this essay I traced formulations of agency through three sites of knowledge generation from my ongoing index. It was a total joy to be in dialogue with @__lieks & to be part of the Meet the Makers series which has included other artists I am giddy to be in resonance with. 💜 Thank you for all who shared with me so generously their energy & time. I’m happy to send the draft of the essay along if anyone feels like reading in an asynchronous way. Please write me ❣️

Students took part in the workshop “Infrastructure Acknowledgments” with Ren Loren Britton @brittonstudio , working with texts by Yvonne Wechuli and Robel Afeworki Abay, during Expand Practices Week. Across several days, we reflected on the infrastructures embedded in our art and design practices, both digital and physical, and what kinds of worlds these systems produce. The workshop invited participants to consider the implications of what we reproduce, and how we might instead imagine and build otherwise. Thank you Loren for visiting us. 🤍 Co-organised with Unsettling. Photographs: @soyounqp

What do weighted blankets, disability justice and pleasure have in common? 🌀⁠ ⁠ Come listen and join the discussion as Berlin-based artist-designer Ren Loren Britton opens up their ongoing artistic index on a presentation "Indexing for Disability Justice on Pleasure – Compensation, Compression & Weighted Blankets". ⁠ ⁠ 📍 Trans Library Helsinki, ⁠ Korppaanmäentie 21A AL4 ⁠ 🗓 Tue 19.5. at 17–19 ⁠ 🎙 In English⁠ ⁠ This presentation and discussion will follow Ren Loren Britton’s ongoing artistic index “Indexing for Disability Justice” – understanding Disability Justice as an orientation that makes space and place for all non-normative bodies and minds trans*crip agency will be centered throughout their presentation.⁠ ⁠ Ren Loren Britton (they/he, Berlin) is a trans-disciplinary artist-designer invested in Trans*Feminism, Technosciences, Radical Pedagogy and Disability Justice. Trans*ness in their practice is prismatic, considering what crossings and cuttings produce pleasure for all. ⁠ ⁠ The event is organised in collaboration with Trans Library Helsinki and it is part of M-Cult's Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations programme.⁠ ⁠ Free entry, warmly welcome. 💚 ⁠ Accessibility information via link in bio.⁠ ⁠ #everydaypriorities #mcult #translibraryhelsinki #mediaart #renlorenbritton⁠

This Thursday I have the total pleasure of being in conversation with @__lieks at @utrechtuniversity to share my ongoing artistic research project “Indexing for Disability Justice”. On Thursday between 17:00-19:00 I will be sharing a draft of an essay I’m working on that tells the stories behind the artifacts in the index, like this one from the Conceptual Bucket “A Plate to Contain With” — HOW TO: MAKE BREAST(S). Some examples in this entry include those from the community magazines: Art & Illusion: A Guide to Crossdressing: Third Edition Vol. 2 (2000); New Trenns Magazine - Vol. 1 Number 4 (1970) & Transgender Tapestry: Issue 84 (1998). Incase you were wondering about how to play with our bodies or about some other questions at the intersection of trans*crip worlding — I am here for you. 🥹🙃🍒 The event is supported by the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies, the location is wheelchair accessible, the presentation will be conversational & cozy & more information is to be found at: transmissioninmotion.sites.uu.nl/meet-the-makers-ren-loren-britton/ — in the meantime sending the energy of bodily autonomy into the world, with an ongoing urgent push. 📌

Symposium SPACES FOR ORIENTATION – Design Education in Precarious Times Braunschweig University of Arts (Aula) May 12, 2026 from 11:00 Johannes Selena-Platz 1 38118 Braunschweig Introducing the speakers: Ren Loren Britton Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer who reverberates with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Trans*feminist technoscience in their work follows the long wiggle of cyberfeminism; focusing on trans*, as in, transgender and trans*, as in, crossing contexts with feminist concerns. They are interested in the ways that socio technical systems & media makes lives accessible and pleasurable. Departing from the understanding that we live in an ableist white supremacist world, and therefore to be able to follow a justice oriented direction, their work begins from the assumption that we must rethink the terms of who fits where in all places, all scales, with what friction (or not) and why. This set of considerations brings them to their interest in disability justice which upholds and values all non-normative bodies and minds. In this way their artistic research is often collaborative, focuses on reaching their named community (trans*gender and disabled people) and focuses on the critical technologies, narratives and media practices that have connected us in our shared non-linear futures, pasts and presents. This conceptual framework enables their practice often engaging hir-her-historical storytelling looking into under-attended to narratives that tell other stories about technologies and community connection. / @brittonstudio --- Access information in the comments ---

These past days I’ve been dreaming & working with colleagues thinking about what kind of supports we might need to hold our bodies amidst gorgeous and simultaneously inaccessible landscapes like this one in Innsbruck. My project ‘sensory, sculptural, seats’ seeks to produce structures that can hold us. Together and individually in all sorts of queer, crip & trans* orientations. More soon, but in the meantime find me between the rocks, with the wind and in the rush of the water. 💨💧🪨

This Saturday, 25.04 between 12-17:00 — in Innsbruck Austria — there are still some spots available to join my workshop “Dip Your Finger in the Mountain”. This workshop is part of my grant with @kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol as part of the KÖR Art in Public Space program. This upcoming Saturday we will dip our fingertips into mud, smell the rush of the river and not get wet, look at the tops of the pines in a slight incline. Through a series of embodiment exercises and prototyping exercises we will find ways to take up space in the Alps towards making supports that support our bodyminds. Registration information is available at www.koer-tirol.at 🏔️ Hope to see, smell, feel you then!