April 2015 Sudanese photographer Elsadig Mohamed and I tried to relate the photographs that Paul Julien made when traveling through the country in 1933 and 1948 to stories and realities alive in present day Sudan. This initial research was pretty successful and we thought a first presentation of the …

Paper presented at the 43rd World Conference van de International Council for Traditional Music ICTM, Astana, Kazakhstan,

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?

Lecture for Symposium CityProms, 26 June 2015, Leeuwarden

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

“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 …

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 …