What, exactly, do we think of when we hear the term ‘experimental’ in relation to music? This Meet the Makers Conversation features Jessica Sligter, an experimental musician and composer who works at the interface of different genres and disciplines via the materials of voice, electronics, space, text and concept. Sligter is originally from Utrecht but has spent much of her

by Agata Kok As Secretary General of Culture Action Europe, Lars Ebert advocates for strong cultural policies in Europe through cultural democracy. During the lecture moderated by Toine Minnaert, Lars introduced Culture Action Europe, which is an organisation that brings together over 300 members from 39 counties, including various cultural networks, organisations, artists, activists and…

How can we be many? A seemingly simple question, yet it became the red thread of the latest Transmission in Motion seminar “Culture for Democracy, Democracy for Culture”. Lars Ebert returned to it insistently, using it as an opening within the increasingly narrow space the cultural sector seems to occupy. How can the cultural sector…

During the seminar led by Lars Ebert, Secretary General of Culture Action Europe, I found myself reflecting on the temporality of value. The conversation moved through policy, inclusion, advocacy, and institutional structures, but the underlying tension of how quickly something is expected to prove its worth to justify public investment resonated with me. Culture seems…

In Living a Feminist Life, feminist scholar Sara Ahmed (2017) states: “When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away,” noting that the act of naming injustice is often treated as the…

What stayed with me most from the session with Anne Breure was her way of thinking institutions as something that can be rehearsed. Breure described her graduation project as a proposal for a new institution. A reflection on what the world might look like in fifteen years and how a theatre could be organized differently…

One of the questions that stayed with me after the Transmission in Motion seminar On Institutionalizing Differently was not whether institutions can be changed from within, but what it means when such attempts seem to work. In the conversation between Anne Breure, Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, and Maaike Bleeker, institutions appeared less as fixed structures and…

by Thorn Austin It is not a question of being against the institution. We are the institution. It’s a question of what kind of institution we are,  what kind of values we institutionalize, what forms of practice we reward, and what kind of rewards we aspire to. – Andrea Fraser 2005   Attendees of this…

Anne Breure is interested in the new. On the page of Theater Utrecht, where Breure has served as an artistic director since 2022, one finds her statement that “The power of theatre is that we constantly imagine a new world. Now we have a home where we continuously create worlds and ideas side by side….

Institutions are often understood as fixed and abstract entities. They appear as stable structures shaped by policy and established procedures, leaving little room for imagination or creative intervention. From this perspective, institutions seem distant from artistic practice and resistant to change. During the Transmission in Motion seminar “On Institutionalizing Differently,” Anne Breure unsettled this view…