As the first Transmission in Motion event of the 2024/25 academic year will be a special seminar Double-Bill with Anika Marschall and Jaswina Elahi who will each present their rescheduled sessions from the previous series ‘Matters of Concern.’  “Researching performance in the wake: Commitment to a healing labour” – Anika Marschall (UU) Anika Marschall’s seminar offers…

  Meet the Makers: Daniela Tenenbaum and In Touch The final Meet the Makers event before the summer break takes place at IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture], where curator Daniela Tenenbaum will give a guided tour of the exhibition In Touch – How to Connect in the Age of Digital Humanity? Daniela Tenenbaum is an…

For this Meet the Makers event, we will be joined by freelance dramaturg Maarten Bos. Bos collaborates with a variety of companies such as Werkplaats van de Woestijne, De Jonge Honden and Troupe Courage en Tryater. He teaches dramaturgy at Amsterdam Theater and Kleinkunst Academy and is also a writer of short stories which have…

“Commissioning responds to a need and hinges on the presumption that the commissioned artwork can satisfy this need.” (Sørensen, TiM Lecture 21 Feb 2024) Trine Friis Sørensen’s lecture “Inquiring & Caring with the Act of Commissioning” centered around how commissioning can be debunked as a caring and inquiring process. Thus, the result of creation should…

  In a thought-provoking seminar led by Trine Friis Sørensen, the nuanced role of the curator within contemporary art and archival practices was explored, shedding light on the evolving responsibilities that extend far beyond traditional collection management. Sørensen’s insights, drawn from her own rich experience, position the curator not just as a guardian of art…

by Jhor van der Horst   Trine Friis Sørensen presented a lecture on her PhD research, “We Can (Not) Work It Out: A Curatorial Inquiry into the Danish Radio Archive” (2015). While Sørensen intended to use this TiM lecture as an excuse for new research, a lack of time prevented her from doing so. Her…

  On December 13, 2023, I attended the workshop “How to Know Things with Works: On Practical Enquiry” as part of Transmission in Motion’s seminar series “Matters of Concern” at Utrecht University. The event featured Mick Wilson, a distinguished professor of art and director of doctoral studies at HDK – Valand Academy of Art and…

  “It can walk, yes, but that’s not what it does best. Because a puppet can fly.” Ulrike Quade, theatre-maker, researcher and artistic leader of puppet theatre group Ulrike Quade Company, needs but a single sentence to enthral a room full of theatre students and scholars with her fascination for puppetry. On 29 November 2023,…

  In this Meet the Makers session, artist Phyllis Akinyi will join us in conversation with Dr Anika Marschall (UU)! Phyllis Akinyi (1987, Copenhagen) is a Danish-Kenyan dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and dance researcher. She works within the realm of flamenco and has spent many years researching and highlighting its African and diasporic expressions. Her…

  “To build is to destroy,” Charlotte Malterre-Barthes remarked at the beginning of her lecture. This echoes Marxist analyses of capitalist creative destruction. Yet, what non-capitalist potential exists for architects? What do architects do if not build? Malterre-Barthes, along with the research and design laboratory RIOT (Research and Innovation On architecture, urban design and Territory)…