Showing is Sharing

Bart van Rosmalen, Anouk Saleming and Nirav Christophe, from HKU Utrecht University of the Arts, have each recently published research with an innovative view on interdisciplinarity focusing on what they call ‘performative research’.


In this research approach, performativity has two discriminating qualities: liveness, and co-creation: When the core of creating is liveness, can we think of an interdisciplinary working strategy that is “in the moment” as well: an attitude of “not knowing”, of suspending concepts of interdisciplinarity and artistic skills? When co-creation is crucial, could the interdisciplinary working strategy be co-creative too: could the creating methods enhance polyphony of multiple perspectives?

Showing is sharing; interdisciplinarity as dialogue will be a co-lecture performance, where the three authors will perform a theatrical conversation on their ideas and related topics, making a connection by showing and performing, mapping the field of interdisciplinarity by being skilled and being unskilled at the same time. They create and reflect in the moment, together. The presentation will offer new concepts and unfolds new working strategies on the cutting-edge of theory and practice, of research and art.

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