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…
English below Presentatie Artful Participation Datum 20 oktober 15:00 – 17:00 De eindpresentatie van het project Kunstzinnige Participatie vindt plaats op 20 oktober 2021 van 15:00 tot 17:00 uur. Tijdens deze onlinebijeenkomst presenteren we resultaten van dit onderzoeksproject rondom participatie in klassieke muziekpraktijken. Tijdens de bijeenkomst zullen de onderzoekers een overzicht geven van hun werk….
The research centre started the academic year with giving a three-day introduction to artistic research, to some 27 students and teachers from the Design academy at the Maastricht Institute of Arts. Both students and teachers practiced artistic research in workshops from Ruth Benschop, Ulrike Scholtes, Marlies Vermeulen, and Ties van de Werff. From body awareness…
Maastricht Center for the Innovation of Classical Music Pandhof Sint-Servaas Basilica Maastricht September 3, 2021, 14:00-17:00 The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga gives a wonderful description of the soundscape of medieval towns and villages in Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (Autum of the Middle Ages). The sound of bells and carillons was omnipresent therein as a means…