ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts

ArtEZ Platform
for Research
Interventions
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APRIA: ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts is an online platform that curates a peer-reviewed journal (APRIA journal) and publishes high-impact essays, image and sound contributions that examine art and interventions of the arts in relation to science and society, and that encourage dialogue around themes that are critical and urgent to the futures that we will live in.

Issue #01

Questioning Food:

FOOD – RESEARCH – ART – DESIGN

#01
October 2020
Peter Sonderen

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Questioning Food. FOOD - RESEARCH - ART - DESIGN inquires about the relationship between (research in) the arts and food. Following the Food Friction conference, organised by ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, in November 2018, ArtEZ professorships continue to investigate their curiosity about food matters here. This issue addresses the question fo how art and design research can open up other foodscapes by offering alternative roads towards food, laying bare how food takes (its) place in the arts, and questioning our material, spatial and digital relationships with food.

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Issue #00

Searching for the New Luxury?

Fashion Colloquium 2018 revisited

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March 2019
Daniëlle Bruggeman

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The Fashion Colloquium: Searching for the New Luxury, organized by ArtEZ University of the Arts in collaboration with State of Fashion, took place on 31 May and 1 June, 2018 in Musis Sacrum in Arnhem, the Netherlands. During the two-day Fashion Colloquium, a seamstress constructed several garments on the stage…

Results Open Call #01

Staying with the Trouble

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Medium-centrism and Transmedial Thinking

An Investigation into the Point of Departure and Productive Goal of Artistic Practice

Abstract Much of the arts has become used to pre-given forms and mediums as the starting point of any practice. The first part of this article delves into how this is problematic for engaged practices and proposes ways of postponing the form of an artistic endeavour in order to subordinate…

01-21-2021 Eef Veldkamp

Reflective and Transgressive Engaged Practices

Beyond Sterility, Distance and Reproduction

Artist Renzo Martens notes that much of the engaged practices merely produce ‘sterile’ criticism. These practices do not consider their own background, nor do they attempt to really resolve the things that they regard. This article dissects what this so-called ‘sterility’ consists of, what alternatives are cognisable, and concludes with a distinction between ‘reflective’ and ‘transgressive’ engaged practices.

01-07-2021 Eef Veldkamp

Living Matters online exhibition

A story-telling of AKI Bio Matters research in the precarity that has always been now

During the classes on how to work with living images within AKI Biomatters artistic research program, students have been exploring ecological and alchemistic questions as: how can we create in the time of ecological disasters? What is the role of art and design when we challenge the anthropocentrism? This online exhibition includes contributions by Celile Demir, Dawoon Kim, Eric Bari, Garrett Szmyd, Talitha Fruneaux, Anivia Beylard, Suzan Stemerdink, and Rojin Tavassoli

01-07-2021 Dr. Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko

The Location of Art

A Topographical Earthquake

We claim to localise ‘Art’ with a capital by means of ‘pointing and naming’ certain objects that we consequently call ‘works of art.’ In this article, Veldkamp investigates the location of art: what ‘place’ do we point to when we claim something is Art? He contrasts the object of a traditional artist’s practice with that of another type of artist: the engaged artist.

12-17-2020 Eef Veldkamp

A Bird’s-Eye View of Engaged Practices

A Handful of Approaches to Art that Mingles with Politics

In this glossary-like document, Veldkamp glances at some (by no means all) of the landscape engaged practices exist within, ranging from ideas on ‘interactivity,’ ‘relationality,’ ‘participation,’ ‘politics,’ and so on. He attempts to formulate some preliminary definitions, which will be explored further throughout the rest of this series of articles.

12-03-2020 Eef Veldkamp

Towards Engaged Arts

an introduction

The engaged artistic practice as we know it today is built upon a set of axioms that this series of articles attempts to investigate. By thinking through these concepts that are so cherished by the arts, new propositions are put forward that would fit better with the premises of engaged arts as we know them. An attempt for a hermeneutics called ‘dematerialised aesthetics’ or ‘system aesthetics’ can be read between the lines.

12-03-2020 Eef Veldkamp

Hoe is het eigenlijk om mens te zijn?

Wat heeft de kunsteducator van de toekomst nodig om zowel binnen- als buitenschools sociaal geëngageerd te werken? Ons eigen perspectief blijkt een werkelijke verbinding met de ander vaak in de weg te zitten. In dit artikel wordt verslag gedaan van de zoektocht die kunstvakdocentopleidingen in 2019 gezamenlijk ondernamen om te ontdekken wat we in dit opzicht van de kunsteducator mogen verwachten en wat het instituut en de opleidingen daarvoor nodig hebben in hun houding, kennis en vaardigheden.

12-03-2020 Emiel Copini

What is it actually like to be human?

What does art education need to enable future educators to work in a socially engaged practice, both in and outside school? Our own perspective often appears to hinder a real connection with the other. This article reports on the quest that art teacher training programmes embarked on jointly in 2019 to discover what we can expect from the artist educator in this respect and what the institute and the programmes need in terms of attitude, knowledge and skills.

12-03-2020 Emiel Copini

Response-ability in Times of Precarity

Surface Design as Embedded Critique

This paper considers a hybrid approach to making fashion by looking at the creation of Reu Jacket, ‘a zero-waste responsive garment’ that drew inspiration from lichen as a model for adaptive resilience. The approach to designing the garment established an experimental, practice-based space to explore the undecided and emergent. In prototyping this approach, the work speculated on the value of growth through reconfiguration.

12-03-2020 Lucie Ketelsen

The Power of Moroccan Roots Music

Radio ArtEZ Podcast

In this episode, musician and writer Samira Dainan takes us on a personal and lyrical journey through Morocco and parts of the Sahara. It’s a biting and poetic exploration of what it means to find your own sound and voice.

12-01-2020 Studium Generale

Er woont iemand in het moeras

Lietje Bauwens schrijft in haar essay over het moeras. Het moeras wordt vaak geromantiseerd als uitgestorven natuurfenomeen. In het licht van historische droogleggingpraktijken in Amerika, plaatst Lietje Bauwens hier kritische vraagtekens bij. Ze grijpt daarentegen (de metafoor van) het moeras aan voor een kritische blik op onderdrukkingsmechanismen in steden als Brussel en Amsterdam, die tenslotte gebouwd zijn op moeras. Aan de hand van verschillende artistieke projecten over het moeras, analyseert Lietje hoe drassige bodemgronden nog altijd doorleven in onze sociale realiteit.

11-30-2020 Lietje Bauwens

Onpeilbaar

Over natuur, land en eigendom

Een essay van schrijver Fiep van Bodegom over het begrip eigenaarschap in relatie tot land.

11-30-2020 Fiep van Bodegom

Limits of the Self

‘Limits of the Self’ is a poetic exploration of our senses, written from the personal point-of-view of a scenographer. The text is part of Into Territories Unknown, a cahier exploring artistic research, written by Gaia’s Machine, a performance collective the author is part of. The cahier compiles their practices of interdependency and staging ecological spectatorship—a performative way of being-with the world, and a worldly way of being-with an artwork.

11-19-2020 Rhian Morris

FLUID SYNTAXIS

How to make visible the imperceptible? In particular, how to make visible the imperceptible language of the non-human within different environments? ‘Fluid Syntaxis’ is an exploration of a language beyond words, following the interaction between thought, physical investigation, artistic intuition, and dynamic reflection. It is shaped not only in text but in print, paper studies, and film.

11-05-2020 Melle Foortjes

Tales from the Abyss

How do we make sense of climate breakdown? What are the effects of imagining and naming how we live amid the uncertainties, upheavals, and pain caused by climate breakdown? How is it defined, and by whom? This year ArtEZ studium generale published two literary explorations in response to the film…

11-03-2020 Ama Josephine Budge

Trips Across the Abyss

How do we make sense of climate breakdown? What are the effects of imagining and naming how we live amid the uncertainties, upheavals, and pain caused by climate breakdown? How is it defined, and by whom? This year ArtEZ studium generale published two literary explorations in response to the film…

11-03-2020 Harriet Bergman

Tigress Kali Score

Using oral storytelling and sound, a narrative sets the coordinates of a game-world, navigating the contradictions in the interrelations of ‘nature’ and ‘technology.’ It employs the ultrasonic spectrum used in wildlife telemetry as a mythopoeic time and space, wherein the human hearing range and a shapeshifting being are the centre of the work.

10-22-2020 Gayatri Kodikal

00:21:16:32

00:21:16:32 is a personal intervention on the means of deceit that employ the human to accept a self-manageable and accountable relationship with their privacy. Signing away our rights to our ‘self’ on a daily basis has become a small price to pay to exist in modern society.

10-08-2020 Rebecca Stringer

Blood Processing

‘Blood Processing' focuses on the industrial slaughterhouse as a case study for the bigger phenomenon of anthropocentrism. Systems and constructions such as an extreme focus on hygiene regulations inside the slaughterhouse are used to keep the animal as Other as possible. To challenge this, ‘Blood Processing' reimagines the industrial slaughterhouse from the perspective of the blood present in this space. Through this blood, a new narrative is created that challenges binary thinking.

09-24-2020 Anna de Vriend

Co-Authoring the Future

Participatory Performance and the Climate Crisis

Framed by the metaphor of a road trip, ‘Co-authoring the Future’ explores the use of participatory performance in building cultural discourse about decision-making during the climate crisis. An audio narration accompanies the written work, attempting to explore the theories discussed in the form of a correspondence between the author and her elusive self-awareness.

09-10-2020 Jessica Renfro

Staying with the Trouble: How to Tell Stories in the Time of Ecological Crisis?

In November 2019, the editorial advisory board of the APRIA platform at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, sent an open call entitled ‘Staying with the Trouble: How to Tell Stories in the Time of Ecological Crisis?’to the ArtEZ community and beyond. ´Staying with the Trouble´ refers to a Donna…

09-10-2020 APRIA Platform Advisory Board

No School Station

a Radio ArtEZ miniseries

This four-part miniseries of Radio ArtEZ is on education outside of the educational institutions. The current state of art education and the way it is organized is quite traditional. Thoughts about change often start from existing concepts. But what happens when we think in a radically different way?

07-02-2020 Studium Generale

The Roadmap to Equality in the Arts: Conference Report

In january 2020, ArtEZ Studium Generale organized the conference The Roadmap to Equality In The Arts that dealt with the undeniable under- and misrepresentation of women artists, WOC, non-binary and genderqueer artists in the Dutch art world. Read the written report or watch the conference here.

06-02-2020 Studium Generale

The Roadmap to Equality in the Arts: Radio ArtEZ podcast series

This six part miniseries is based on the conference The Roadmap to Equality In The Arts that took place 18 January 2020 and dealt with the undeniable under- and misrepresentation of women artists, Women of Colour, non-binary and genderqueer artists in the Dutch art world. With performances, keynotes, presentations and panels the conference attempted to establish stepping-stones on the path to gender equality in the arts by raising awareness, gathering data and mobilising existing networks and collective knowledge.

06-02-2020 Studium Generale

Harriet Bergman on climate breakdown

Radio ArtEZ podcast

Radio ArtEZ is a podcast about agile thinking and the power of the arts. Each episode will delve into relevant questions of today and will broadcast diverse voices from multiple identities, perspectives and experiences. The podcast will feature personal stories and urgent research by ArtEZ students and staff, and recordings of ArtEZ studium generale events.

03-17-2020 Studium Generale

Kunst als ‘waarheidsprocedure’

Basiskamp Entre Nous 2017 was een kunstproject dat in de maand september bij Frederiksoord in Drenthe werd gerealiseerd. In een militair basiskamp woonden hier twaalf kunstenaars, die in ruil voor een salaris aan maatschappelijke vraagstukken werkten. Denk dan aan onderwerpen als ouderenzorg, bijvoorbeeld in de gemeente Westerveld waar mensen relatief ver uit elkaar wonen, of aan de effecten van een krimpregio op het onderwijs.

03-10-2020 Edwin Stolk

Epiloog / These things take time

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Epiloog / These things take time is het twaalfde en laatste deel in deze serie.

02-06-2020 Sanne de Vries

Daar waar de tijd stopt

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Daar waar de tijd stopt is het elfde deel in deze serie.

01-16-2020 Sanne de Vries

Oneindige eindigheid

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Oneindige eindigheid is het tiende deel in deze serie.

01-02-2020 Sanne de Vries

‘Remember that time is money’

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. 'Remember that time is money' is het negende deel in deze serie.

12-19-2019 Sanne de Vries

Jouw tijd is niet mijn tijd

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Jouw tijd is niet mijn tijd is het achtste deel in deze serie.

12-05-2019 Sanne de Vries

Haast u langzaam

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Haast u langzaam is het zevende deel in deze serie.

11-14-2019 Sanne de Vries

Na verloop van tijd

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Na verloop van tijd is het zesde deel in deze serie.

10-31-2019 Sanne de Vries

Shy Radicals by Hamja Ahsan – Reading and Interview

Empowerment series by ArtEZ studium generale

As an artist it is important to make your voice heard. How do artists with a less privileged position, or artist who are less represented, get their points across while taking account of diverse perspectives? In this ArtEZ studium generale series an interview with artist and activist Hamja Ahsan and a reading of his book ‘Shy Radicals’ which had a great impact in the fields of pedagogy, activism and art.

10-21-2019 Studium Generale

His-story

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. His-story is het vijfde deel in deze serie.

10-17-2019 Sanne de Vries

E=mc²

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. E=mc² is het vierde deel in deze serie.

10-03-2019 Sanne de Vries

Elizabeth Losh on the #Hashtag

Radio ArtEZ podcast

Radio ArtEZ is a podcast about agile thinking and the power of the arts. Each episode will delve into relevant questions of today and will broadcast diverse voices from multiple identities, perspectives and experiences. The podcast will feature personal stories and urgent research by ArtEZ students and staff, and recordings of ArtEZ studium generale events.

09-30-2019 Studium Generale

Daar waar we geen ogen hebben

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. Daar waar we geen ogen hebben is het derde deel in deze serie.

09-19-2019 Sanne de Vries

De kunst en de klok

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. De kunst en de klok is het tweede deel in deze serie

09-05-2019 Sanne de Vries

Proloog

C H R O N O T O P I A

Veel kunstenaars hebben zich op verschillende manieren - direct of indirect, als materiaal of als concept - bezig gehouden met het fenomeen tijd. In C H R O N O T O P I A, een serie essays door Sanne de Vries, wordt het idee van tijd onderzocht, door kunstwerken te beschouwen en te interpreteren. De proloog is het eerste deel in deze serie.

09-05-2019 Sanne de Vries

Three Interviews by The School of Missing Men

an Empowerment Initiative in the Making

Over the past year, ArtEZ Studium Generale has invited The School of Missing Men to perform interviews with guests on their programme who have a meaningful relation to the core questions underlying the initiative. The School of Missing Men takes as its starting point the fact that 75 percent of students at BEAR (Base for Experiment, Art and Research, the Bachelor of Fine Arts programme in Arnhem) are women, a standard ratio in fine art departments across the Netherlands and abroad. How is it, then, that women continue to be largely underrepresented in many registers in the broader field of art?

06-05-2019 Anik Fournier

Interview with Huang Jing Yuan: a Social Art Practitioner from China

An interview with Huang Jing Yuan within the framework of her lecture for ArtEZ Studium Generale, in which the Chinese artist highlighted several examples of feminist movements in China, offering a first-hand glimpse into the challenges and struggles women are facing in that country. During the interview, Huang also shared how she defines her artistic practice as a “social practice”, seeing this term as a way to navigate through difficult questions of intersectionality.

06-03-2019 Huang Jing Yuan Yuchen Li

Stepping out of the Clean Well-Lighted Space

Reflections on Emily Witt’s Lecture at Studium Generale

Emily Witt's book Future Sex, and her lecture at the ArtEZ Studium Generale event 'Sex and the Sexual Politics of the Gaze' on 12 February 2018 inspired Data Bosma and Rosan van Doeselaar to dig further into the gender-biased world of internet dating.

06-03-2019 Data Bosma Rosan van Doeselaar

Diversity Stories Podcast

Seizoen 1

Diversity Stories is een podcast over diversiteit in de breedste betekenis van het woord. Persoonlijke reflecties, verhalen en onderzoek van ArtEZ studenten. Verhalen over gender en identiteit, een pittige kritiek op het modesysteem, gesprekken over wat je naam over je verraadt, een heuse Menstruatieopera, übergeestige dialogen tussen twee expats die zich beklagen over de eetcultuur, taal en bureaucratie, en meer!

06-03-2019 Studium Generale

Diversity Stories Podcast

Season 2: Guess who's coming to dinner too? met Patricia Kaersenhout

Diversity Stories is een podcast over diversiteit in de breedste zin van het woord. De podcast is een verscheidenheid aan persoonlijke reflecties, verhalen en onderzoek door ArtEZ-studenten en -personeel en opgenomen evenementen van studium generale en wordt gehost door studenten Henrike Gootjes en Mel Kikkert. Seizoen 2, aflevering 3.

06-03-2019 Studium Generale

Diversity Stories Podcast

Season 2: Rajae El Mouhandiz & International Students Circle

ArtEZ studium generale’s Diversity Stories is a podcast about diversity in its broadest sense. The podcast is a variety of personal reflections, stories and research by ArtEZ students and staff, and recorded studium generale events. It is hosted by students Henrike Gootjes and Mel Kikkert. Season 2, episode 1.

06-03-2019 Studium Generale

Speaking With Others: an interview with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Christine Ayo recounts meeting Pussy Riot's Nadezda Tolokonnikova and the complex issue of speaking for, or on behalf of, others.

06-03-2019 Christine Ayo