Articles by: Els Cornelis and Catelijne de Muijnck

Els Cornelis is a teacher/researcher/visual artist who trained as an experimental psychologist (PhD) and visual artist (B.A.) The common thread in her teaching, research and visual work can best be described as questioning social and psychological constructs. Currently, she is interested in how artistic interventions and strategies can contribute to actual social change and strengthen critical thinking, as well as critical acting within art education and (art) institutes. At HKU, Cornelis mainly teaches at Fine Art and Design in Education and at Master of Education in Arts. In addition, she is one of the founders of the working group Roadmap to Equality in the Arts. In association with ArtEZ studium generale, she is investigating the Future of the Art School/PLURIVERSITY OF THE ARTS. As part of this project, artists, art educators, thinkers and students are invited to radically dream in order to think through alternatives. The subsequent question to all of us is how to take specific steps according to new values towards a future in which everyone feels at home.

16-Mar-2023

Interview with Jack Bardwell

Interview with Jack Bardwell

‘The School within The School’ asks what tools are required to imagine a future that has an alternative set of values. Using a series of programmed interventions, such as a student-run bar, radio station, performance platform and alternative entrance, it instils the everyday mechanisms of the school with renewed possibility. The project is an example of how architecture can be speculative while still having its feet firmly on the ground. The position of the architect is to be both actor and participant, manipulating their direct environment alongside the community in order to imagine beyond what their space currently affords.

19-Jan-2023

Interview met Jeanne van Heeswijk

Interview met Jeanne van Heeswijk

Jeanne van Heeswijk is beeldend kunstenaar. Ze is oorspronkelijk opgeleid als eerstegraadsdocent handvaardigheid en studeerde twee jaar aan de Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Na haar academietijd merkte Van Heeswijk dat ze niet aan zichzelf kon uitleggen hoe haar werk een bijdrage leverde aan het leven. ‘Ik dacht, hoe zou ik het dan aan iemand anders moeten uitleggen?’ Toen besloot ze al haar werk weg te gooien en opnieuw te beginnen: ‘Ik ben letterlijk naar de stort gereden.’