Day 1 - 26 Sept: A Love Practice
For: Anyone interested in artistic research taking place within and around Minerva Art Academy
On the first day the focus is on artistic research as a "love practice", emphasizing openness, vulnerability, and trust, akin to love. This perspective will guide the encounters that will take place on this day on the key themes of art and care, art and technology, and art and rural areas. New insights on artistic research methods such as autoethnography, body-centered research, and material-based research will be shared.
Opening: Anke Coumans will discuss how love is an integral element in the artistic practices of PhD candidates Linde Ex and Luuk Schröder.
Films:
‘Not Knowing’ shows an event that took place in an abandoned swimming pool and was organized by the Artistic Research Community in the North. Participants explored what it means and takes to enter in a state of total openness and vulnerability in a swimming pool.
‘I See, I See’ is about how working with people with dementia has influenced the practices of artists that were involved.
Lectures:
Connecting Offline and Online Identities in Research, by Judith van der Elst.
Artistic Research in Urgent Times by Jan van Boeckel. Nigerian thinker Bayo Akomolafe has the following paradoxical advice: “The times are urgent, let’s slow down.” This talk will explore this suggestion in the context of doing artistic research in an age of ‘global weirding’ and biodiversity collapse.
Exhibitions and installations:
By students, curated by Augustin Martinez Caram as part of his Professional Doctorate trajectory and an presentation of artistic research by Noor Nuijten, Barbara Rink, Luuk Schröder and Margriet van Weenen.
Workshops:
The Role of Art in Care
The Role of AI in Education
Art, Philosophy and Community
Materiality and Embodiment in Studying Making
The Autoethnographic Turn
Installation: FMI (master) students Moojan Payami, Anna Musikhina, and Mona Schöller, present their final works on how AI influences their artistic practices. Curated by Agustín Martínez Caram.
Keynote: Norwegian lecturer and playwright Tale Næss will deliver a keynote lecture at Minerva Art Academy entitled ‘Artistic Research as an Event: The Feedback Loop as a Method’.
Performance: The program of this day will come to a close with the performance of The Kiribati Notes at the Prins Claus Conservatoire (PCC). This drama piece explores authorship and climate change issues, wich will be presented by an artistic collective consisting of alumni and students from Nordic Black Xpress, Minerva Art Academy, and PCC. The Kiribati Notes is in collaboration with lecturers Michiel Jansen and Jan Ruerd Oosterhaven.
