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Performances of Artistic Research | Dramaturgical Operations

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Join us for the first-years Performances:
Date: 27 | 28 | 29 May 2026
Location: ArtEZ University of Arts, Arnhemto invite you to the Expositions o
fistic Research, featuring the presentations of our first-ear students at the HOME OF PERFORMACE PRACTICES.

Over the past year, these artists have started to engage in a journey—conceptualising, challenging and forming their artistic research questions. The resulting works are a starting point to idiosyncratic approaches and a fearless commitment to adding timely, critical dimensions to the field of performance.

These performances showcase the ideas of diverse researches our students can engage in, through their practices of performance. Drawing from dance, theatre, fine arts, music, and choreography, these presentations reflect a multitude of urgent topics and media.


We look forward to seeing you here.



Wednesday, May 27th

 

When Thresholds Liquify… 

How to foster awareness and encourage equitable modes to engage with each other and inhabit the world? How can the act of creating tension and risk-taking invite new perceptions of physical and social conditions to reshape practices of collectivity? 

 

Crossing body-, participation-, and installation-based modes of performance research, the four practices included in When Thresholds Liquify… are informed by feminist theories and intersectional approaches across social, disability and queer studies, eco- and hydrofeminism. Following their individual research trajectories, the artists negotiate and engage with relational practices within space, people and materialities. 


 Each work is creating a temporal space that explicitly challenges dominant modes of control and how they operate in manipulating bodies and environments. The artists offer invitations to witness and potentially engage with acts of vulnerability, playfulness, or exhaustion. Thereby, they oppose Western societal norms, where the lack of control is perceived as a risk. By proposing relational practices, the performances aim to deconstruct habits, navigate agency and responsibility, inhabit spaces of inter-dependency and care. The performance spaces thus serve as catalysts for rethinking, reframing and reclaiming embodied, sensorial, emotional, spatial and social hierarchies. 

 

Risks are embraced. Control is destabilized. The invisible becomes exposed.  

  

Lida Draganigou, Romana Klementis, Maja Karolina Franke, Noemi Ferrari 

 


Thursday, May 28th

 

R(e(c(o(l(l)e)c)t)i)o)N 

Artists: Daniel Reshef-Delman, Derya Günaydın, Melika Shahhosseini, Michail Pan Tsakiris, Sunay Baykal 

 

This program of performance research presentations uses the lens of remembrance to engage with ideas of “the invisible” and “presence”. These two concepts might come across as contradictory: what is present would seem to be visible to the gaze as well. Remembrance alters this gaze, foregrounding, instead,  the relations between presence and invisibility. Remembrance is a connection to hidden sources. It is both the recall of preserved memory and an active process shaped by one’s position. Through narration and embodiment, fragmentation and cracks, listening and collectivity, mapping and masking, it attempts to transmit what cannot be fully seen, creating new hybrid forms of understanding. What is invisible does not vanish. It exists as memory, sensation, an imagined future, a subtle relation, or a body. These unseen forms still shape how presence is felt and understood. 

 

A variety of such forms are proposed across the presentations, intersecting the imagined, the spiritual, the malfunctional, the liminal, and the dead. The questions then become: how to negotiate invisible presences? How can a space that is unable to be held in full presence, be remembered, created, or performed? 

 

 


Friday, May 29th


(DE)CODING_BODIES

 




 
 
 

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