The Research center for Arts, Autonomy and the Public Sphere organized its annual writing retreat from the 15-17th March 2022. Students, teachers, artists, artistic researchers participated in writing as research. The Research center invited artist Rita Hoofwijk to write with us. As a documentation and reflection of the retreat, she wrote to the participants, the…
Unfolding 3D-Rendered Neuroimaginaries — A Trans*Feminist Artistic Investigation by Antye Guenther. On the 22nd of March 2022, from 15:00 – 17:00, MERIAN PhD candidate Antye Guenther will welcome us in her studio at the Jan van Eyck Academie. She would like to work with us on the preparation of a performance she is planning to…
Marlies Vermeulen (promovendus bij het lectoraat Autonomie en Openbaarheid in de Kunsten en docent-onderzoeker van het Maastricht Institute of the Arts) ontving samen met Universiteit Maastricht hoogleraar filosofie van de gezondheidszorg Klasien Horstman het Mingler Scholarship 2020 voor hun project Bacteria & Borders. Nu, 2 jaar later, wordt de uitkomst van het project op 10…
Marlies Vermeulen is a member of AOK and a MERIAN PhD Candidate. She writes: Even though artistic research argues that borders between research, practice and other fields are less rigid than is often thought, I often find myself defining them: “This is part of my PhD project, this is not. This is a ‘real’ project…
What does it mean to write? How is writing research? What can writing give you, as an art student, an artistic researcher or teacher? The writing retreat offers you three days of writing alone together. Time to develop a writing style that fits your practice. To learn from and with others. To work on your…
Thursday 24 February 2022 16:00 – 18:00 (CET) Jan van Eyck Academie on site event with the possibility to join virtually (link) To join, send an email to info@merianmaastricht.nl and receive the texts. During this public reading group we welcome participants to discuss two texts from recent books on the politics of imaging,…
Ocean Blue Livestream event: 17 January, 18:30 de Appel’s 2022 Keynote on January 17th will be presented by poet, writer and translator Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro (Bogotá, Colombia), in which she will consider passage as a visionary interval. “If the continent was the ground, and grund in modern philosophy, then the vastness of the ocean…
This spring, the research centre for Arts, Autonomy and the Public Sphere (AOK) offers an open-office hour every two weeks. Students can use the open-office hours to get additional input for their thesis, lecture-performance, and/ or graduation research. So tune in! Both bachelor- and master students can get input of one of the various…
The Maastricht Experimental Research in and through the Arts Network (MERIAN) has launched her website: www.merianmaastricht.nl MERIAN is an environment in which selected PhD candidates from all artistic and academic disciplines can pursue Maastricht-style artistic research. They engage in innovative styles of research, utilizing the powers and fragilities of artistic and scientific practices….
We would like to announce the winner and the encouragement awards of Scriptiekunst.org; the thesis prize which is awarded annually by the Research Centre for Arts, Autonomy and the Public Sphere and the Research Centre Technology Driven Art. We look back on this year’s edition with great pleasure. We enjoyed the submitted theses, which were mostly of…
Save the Date: AOK three day writing retreat – 2022 March 15 to 17 2022 During last year’s successful edition, we were happy to welcome students from architecture and iArts, as well as teachers, artistic researchers and professional artists from within as well as external from Zuyd. The retreat provided a safe and stimulating context…
The Research Centre for Arts, Autonomy and Public Sphere presents a gathering around the subject: Flesh and wood together: Cellists and their cellos by Denise Petzold. As an amateur cellist, I have a special relationship to my cello. Unfortunately, most of the academic research into music making does not take this into account: physical as…
Orchestras in a Changing Climate Digital Roundtable Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music Date: 11 November 2021 11:00-12:30 The Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music arose from the need to reflect on and actively shape the future of classical music. This November, world leaders will gather in Glasgow for the UN…
How to become Generous Researchers? – Ruth Benschop 16 November 15:00 – 17:00, Herdenkingsplein 12 If you want to attend, please send a message to ghislaine.boere[at]zuyd.nl. To open the two suggested articles press the links below. Buchanan et al 2015 On asking the right questions Despret_Responding[4] Responding Bodies and Partial Affinities in Human–Animal Worlds Vinciane…
During a final event on Wednesday October 20, MCICM launched the website artfulparticipation.nl. The website showcases the findings of the 4-year project Artful Participation. In the Artful Participation project, funded by the NWO/SIA Smart Culture programme, research has been done into artistically relevant forms of audience participation in symphonic music. Academic research into innovative approaches…