On Monday 3 February 2025, Inte Gloerich will defend her PhD dissertation “Reimagining the Truth Machine: Blockchain Imaginaries Between the Rational and the More-than-Rational.” In her thesis, Gloerich explores the widespread idea of blockchain as a ‘truth machine.’ Blockchain and the post-truth era Blockchain is a technology that stores data in digital ‘blocks’, linked together in…

by Jenny Chan   In the seminar “Everyday Activism in Times of Collapse: Bridging the Personal and the Planetary”, Chris Julien explicated how theory and practice are interrelated under the current ecological conditions. Through theory and practice, Julien explored our implicated positioning and different ways of engaging with the world. Julien first drew from Markus…

As someone studying artistic research – what it is, how it operates, to what ends – I often find myself curious about the invisible line that seems to have been drawn between artistic research and activism. To what extent can a practice that is developed with the intention of disrupting ideas, processes or systems, one…

  “I am German, white, and catholic baptised; that’s a complex starter kit,” observes theatre maker Julian Hetzel in a press release for his creation Schuldfabrik (2017). Hetzel is well aware of his privileged position, and his observation is not a complaint. Rather, it addresses the complexity of being implicated and how this affects his…

  “The Architecture of Staged Realities” looks at Walt Disney’s legacy as a mirror of contemporary society and its cultural production, both in terms of identity construction, infrastructures of implicatedness and the architectures this generated. In her talk creative practitioner Saskia van Stein will merge topics of interest from the perspective of her role as…

  Understanding the social happenings as co-emergent, rather than embodying a linear causality, is crucial to form productive and generative practices in a world where epistemological foundations and material basis are constantly shifting. Chris Julien started his lecture by bringing in the way in which productive and potentially revolutionary practices can be situated in the…

by Ani Encheva “What is no longer archived in the same way is no longer lived in the same way.” – Jacques Derrida (1995, 18)   As colonial archives become digitized, what new sites of silence and forgetfulness emerge? How do contemporary visual art practices engage with Danish colonial history to trace and make sense…

  In this Meet the Makers session, curator and writer Mira Asriningtyas will present her nuanced approach to curatorial practice across institutional, nontraditional, and off-site settings. Through her practice, Mira emphasizes the significance of cultivating local knowledge and facilitating meaningful intersections between art, artists, and communities, thereby expanding the role of curatorial work as an…

  For this Meet the Makers session, freelance curator Ward Janssen will discuss how curators—as artworkers—are always striking a balance in creating possibilities to present exciting art to audiences. While working closely with artists, networks of other artworkers, and partners in the cultural field, curators must also be able to manoeuvre within institutional policies, financial…

  In this Meet the Makers session, we will meet with  Dutch screenwriters Susan Stam (screenwriter/assistant director) and Helen Dalessi (screenwriter/actress/assistant director). The session is organized in collaboration with the foundation Vrouwenin Beeld (English: Women in the Picture), which earlier this year commissioned a quantitative content analysis of the representation of female characters in Dutch fiction films and TV…