In this Meet the Makers Conversation, Alysa Leung will discuss the essence of research in her artistic practice across various roles and cultural contexts. Since her graduation from MA Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Dramaturgy at UU in 2022, she has been working as an independent artist, dramaturg, and producer in theatre, contemporary dance, street dance, experimental

On Friday 5 September during NTF, the annual Dutch Theater Festival in Amsterdam, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink and Anne Karin ten Bosch (both co-founders of Platform-Scenography) will host a professionals meeting for scenographers and other performance-design oriented makers and thinkers. The session aims at  assembling the scenographic collective and explores the value of field-specific vocabulary in enhancing the

  Together with the NFF Digital Culture Fellowships programme, Meet the Makers invites UU students and staff to join an exciting programme of practice-based, interdisciplinary research presentations by NFF fellows Simone C Niquille, Victorine van Alphen, and the collective Radical Data consisting of Jo Kroese and Rayén Mitrovich. The event marks the culmination of a

Organisers: Evelyn Wan, Laura Karreman, Maaike Bleeker RSVP: p.y.wan@uu.nl (by June 10th) Credits: 1 ECT** On June 16th, we are thrilled to welcome Pichet Klunchun and Kornkarn Rungsawang from the renowned Pichet Klunchun Dance Company (Bangkok), who will join us after their European premiere of Cyber Subin at Holland Festival, alongside designer Pat Pataranutaporn from MIT Media Lab. Our…

In this Meet the Makers conversation Ewout Ganzevoort will share his practice working as a dramaturg in (music) theatre. Drawing upon his extensive experience working at various theatre and opera companies, he will talk about the collaborative processes of creating theatre productions that bring together different arts and artistic styles, and how academic curiosity can enrich creative and imaginative practices. We will focus specifically on how to…

On Julian Hetzel in Conversation with Maaike Bleeker by Ani Encheva   “No moral, individual and personal, standards of conduct will ever be able to excuse us from collective responsibility. This vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price…

  In the seminar, “Science as an adventure”, Simon Gusman explored how adventure serves as a powerful trope that frames various aspects of human experience. Adventure is everywhere—found in advertisements, games, recruitment materials, and even the way we narrate our personal lives. This idea intrigued me, particularly in relation to the metaphor of the cave…

  “Never work with kids and animals” A report from Theatre of Research by Sybille Peters When we asked 120 children to become programming directors of our theatre in 2016, what they mostly wanted to book, were animal acts. They said they missed animals. They said that, other than in the zoo, in the theatre…

  This interactive session takes inspiration from the Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary (CAPIm), the first Swedish Centre of Excellence in the field of Artistic Research that is based at two institutions of higher education in art: HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design (Gothenburg) and Royal Institute of Art (Stockholm). CAPIm is…

  Just think along: in (western) modernity, simply put, artistic production was characterized as innovative, creative, and original—thus clearly distinguished from non-creative, repetitive, industrial work. In so-called contemporary art, it could be said, this distinction has been eliminated; just take the example of “creative industries.” If artists have today lost the position that separated them…