Being A Creator

Being a Creator explores the feminine image from the 1980s to today — its representations, transformations, and resistances across four decades of shifting media landscapes. The project moves through broad thematic territories: reproductive labour, discrimination, stereotyping, feminine anger and resistance, structural violence.

At its heart is a living archive built collectively with participants, partner organisations, and communities. It holds a wide range of audiovisual registers — from historical macro perspectives on feminist movements to the most intimate micro testimonies — tracing how feminine bodies have been imagined, represented, and reclaimed. Through the collective act of selecting, analysing, and archiving, the power of creation is awakened to visualise a more inclusive society.

How the archive is built

Every month, our group comes together with a shared task: each participant pre-selects five videos representing a decade of feminine image-making. During these intimate sessions, the videos are collectively viewed, discussed, and labelled. Different bodies react to the same images and open new layers of reading and meaning — letting these videos expand and grow in existence. This embodied process of collective viewing, naming, and creating gives the images the feeling of living entities.

Looking for partners

Being a Creator began as a small-scale, practice-based research project hosted in Brussels with the support of Amazone vzw. After years of quiet, sustained work, we are ready to scale up — broadening our networks, themes, and contributions.

We are actively seeking partners who share our commitment to participatory research, feminist cultural practice, and the long-term preservation of audiovisual memory. We welcome conversations about collaboration in any form:

Archive contributions — audiovisual material, home footage, or digitised media from the 1980s–present documenting feminine experience
Co-research & methodology — collaborating on research design, workshops, and participatory processes
Hosting & presentation — presenting the project, screenings, or events in your space or network
Academic collaboration — joint publications, symposia, or research programmes
Funding & production support — co-applications or resources to support the archive infrastructure
Network & community access — connecting us with relevant communities, practitioners, and experts

Get in touch at info@tripot.org