Politieke kunstenaars zoeken de spanning tussen de wereld van de kunst en die daarbuiten. Ze willen met hun werk echt effect sorteren en ontwikkelen daarvoor verschillende strategieën. Hoe werken die?

Invited lecture for Symposium CityProms, Leeuwarden, 26/6/2015

This article focuses on the role of the artistic process in connecting to the natural environment. In my research I have explored what participants experience and learn when they engage in different types of arts-based environmental education (AEE) practices that I have facilitated. The premise of AEE …

“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” Evert Bisschop Boele challenges this idea and thinks about new audiences for music in changing times. Evert is Professor (‘lector’) of New Audiences at the Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen in …

When an institution wishes to develop a Masters programme that combines relevance to the profession with preparation for possible 3rd cycle study, there are many things to consider: curriculum design and content, facilities, stakeholder opinion, assessment, likely student intake, etc. But at least as …

This paper argues that a first step in finding a sustainable solution for the pressing global issue of ‘waste’, is to consider waste a value attribution rather than a material condition. Doing so means a shift in focus from finding more efficient ways to ‘clean up the mess’ to changing the way in which …

Academy of the People is a project which ran from December 2012 to June 2013, in which students from Minerva Art Academy in Groningen developed critical site-specific artworks in the social environments of their research interests: in primary schools,religious centres and even police stations. In each …

African photography has emerged as a significant focus of research and scholarship over the last twenty years, the result of a growing interest in postcolonial societies and cultures and a turn towards visual evidence across the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, many rich and fascinating …

This booklet is a short reflection on the workshop activities by the research group, Popular culture Sustainability and Innovation (PSI), of the Hanze University in Groningen for the CCC Reloaded: CREALAB project over the last one and half years. Based on a series of explorative workshops this booklet …

In het project 'Ik zie, ik zie..' is de dementerende medemens een verre ander voor de kunstenaarstudenten. Om deze verre ander te ontmoeten is het nodig in jezelf te graven; vanzelfsprekendheden te ondervragen en de ander diep in de ogen te kijken. Waar ben je? Hoe kan ik je kennen en hoe kan jij mij …