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Searching for the New Luxury?

Fashion and Activism

an interview with Orsola de Castro & Otto von Busch

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What about Pockets as a Safe Space?

Abstract: In the impermanent scenario we live in nowadays, finding a safe space might be very urgent but also delicate and problematic. ‘What about Pockets as a Safe Space?’ is an on-going project questioning safety and intimacy in living environments for international students. It is developed using a garment as a metaphor for shelter, where the […]

23-Sep-2021 / belonging / fashion / living space / safe space
Home ≠ Third Space

Abstract: Using five poems originally written for the performance Blank Whispers, this text reflects on a situation in which we cannot immerse ourselves in dance and theatre. We are locked up in our homes, and even the privileged can no longer see the world as their home. Our actual homes are more multifunctional than ever, but […]

16-Sep-2021 / belonging / dance / feedback / poetry / the Not-Yet / Third Space
Redefining Oikos. Where Do We Feel at Home?

APRIA’s Open Call for 2020 ‘Redefining Oikos. Where Do We Feel at Home?’ accepted submissions from the ArtEZ University of the Arts community and beyond and was directly influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic. As we were urged again and again to ‘stay safe and stay home,’ it soon became clear that home is a very […]

09-Sep-2021 / belonging
What We Do in the Shadows

Abstract: In times of forced isolation through physical distancing, the state reifies heteronormative nuclear families through demands to shelter at home. Such decrees simultaneously deny the potential violence of the home and more fluid notions of relationships. How can we consider more expansive possibilities of tranxxeno nestings for both this moment and future crises? This […]

09-Sep-2021 / belonging / biopolitics / heteronormativity / queer / tranxxeno / xenology
Thingly Things

Abstract: This concluding article recaps the preceding essays in the series. It starts from the idea that works of art—material or not—are things: they can occupy space, can have a presence, be it in thought or history, and/or can be pointed at. In considering these ‘things,’ we have the tendency to reduce them solely to things […]

08-Sep-2021 / Engaged arts
Read the complete Towards Engaged Arts series now!

In 2021 we’ve been publishing the Towards Engaged Arts series by researcher Eef Veldkamp. In this series of 15 essays, Veldkamp investigates the set of axioms upon which the engaged artistic practice of today is built. In doing so, he discusses new propositions that would better fit the premises of engaged arts as we know […]

09-Sep-2021 / Engaged arts
We’re listening! Take part in our survey and be in to win a book from ArtEZ Press!

We are working on APRIA’s reach and engagement. As a reader, we want to hear your thoughts on how we can make our digital content more accessible and relevant. Take part in our 2021 audience survey and be in the draw to win ‘The Entanglement of Theory and Practice in the Arts’ by Peter Sonderen, et al., […]

06-Jul-2021 / Engaged arts
Time Matters

Time Matters (an introduction) There is no time, right?, left. Time issues; time and again. We all live in corona time now, or perhaps already in post-corona time. Don’t we? How come? What time is it? Is time up? Are we passing time to become past time? Are we losing or already lost in time? […]

04-Mar-2021 / Time Matters/ Engaged arts