Zuyd Hogeschool, Maastricht University and the Van Eyck are currently investigating the possibilities of establishing MERIAN: Maastricht Experimental Research In and through the Arts Network. MERIAN is a Maastricht-based environment for PhD candidates in Maastricht-style artistic research. It will invite established artists and academics to engage in collaborative research in between making and thinking. MERIAN…
In the spring of 2019, University College Maastricht (Maastricht University) will pilot a new undergraduate research project, which will be developed in collaboration with the Research Centre AOK (Faculty of the Arts of Zuyd Hogeschool). In this Artistic Research Project (supported by a Comenius grant) the focus is on art practice as research. The last…
It took a while, but here it is: a reflective report on our symposium on artistic research practices! We invited the panellists – Anke Courmans, Christian Ernsten, Flora Lysen, and Sissel Marie Tonn – to reflect on the presentations, the discussions, and the emerging picture of a Maastricht style artistic research. We thank all the…
Course Artistic Research AOK & TDA 2018/19 Practicing Artistic Research (November 12 & 13, 2018 + March 25 & 26, 2019) Ruth Benschop & Peter Missotten Next year, the two research centres of the Faculty of Arts Maastricht offer the course ‘Artistic Research’. The course introduces participants to the emerging field of artistic…
In het nieuwste zomernummer van FORUM+ staat de bijdrage “Research Exposed” van Ruth Benschop, Peter Sonderen en Sara Strandvad, met een introductie van Anke Coumans – in opdracht van het Platform Kunst ≈ onderzoek. In de vorm van een brief reflecteert Ruth op de betekenis van artistiek onderzoek, naar aanleiding van haar bezoek aan het…
On May 16th, Ties van de Werff, researcher at the Research Centre for Arts, Autonomy and the Public Sphere, successfully defended his PhD thesis at Maastricht University. In his dissertation, titled Practicing the Plastic Brain: popular neuroscience and the good life, Ties explores the uptake of neuroscience knowledge in different societal practices of self-fashioning. Ties argues…
<English below> Peter Peters benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Innovatie van Klassieke Muziek aan de Universiteit Maastricht Peter Peters is met ingang van 1 september 2018 benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Innovatie van Klassieke Muziek aan de Universiteit Maastricht. Peters zal leiding geven aan het nieuwe Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM). Het MCICM…
The Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM) is looking for a postdoc! See below for the advertisement. Vacancy: postdoctoral researcher, Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University Reference number: AT2018.122 1.00 fte, 4 years JOB DESCRIPTION Nowadays classical music institutions are…
Join our research team in the project Artful Participation! See below for more information. Zuyd University of Applied Sciences is an ambitious and open institute that works together with companies, institutions and governmental organizations, both within and outside the region. The over 1700 employees from Zuyd work on three core tasks: the support of more…
On March 20th, a symposium on artistic research took place at the Faculty of the Arts, Maastricht. Showcasing a variety of concrete projects, the symposium aimed to articulate some characteristics of a typical Maastricht style of doing artistic research. The symposium was organised by the Research Centre for Arts, Autonomy and the Public Sphere (Zuyd…