Fontys Academy of the Arts
Master Performing Public Space
This is a collection of selected expositions created by students of Master Performing Public Space at Fontys Academy of the Arts. The expositions represent an extraction of the artistic research projects that have been conducted throughout the one-year program.
Trešnjevka Under Construction: Resisting Gentrification Through Performative Protests
(2025)
Una Štalcar-Furač
This publication derives from the artistic research project “Resisting Gentrification: In-situ Performance Protests in Trešnjevka Neighborhood”, critically examining the ongoing gentrification processes in Zagreb’s Trešnjevka district. It proposes in-situ performative protests as a direct counter-tool to confront spatial commodification and capital-driven urban development narratives.
On Facilitating (In)visible Queerness
(2025)
Nori Tsouloucha
This paper offers insight into ways of facilitating performative work with the queer community while respecting its particular needs. The approaches outlined here were formed as a result of an artistic research work taking place in Athens, Greece which examines the interaction between the performance of the queer body and the public spaces of the city.
POLY(IS)TOPOGRAPHY
(2025)
Carlo Sella
Artistic tactics to write collective biographies through reading urban public space
From social connectedness to functioning democracy? A discussion of relation qualities effectuated by relational art [Copy finished article - 2025-06-09 16:13]
(2025)
Felix Erdmann
Building on the artistic research project "Bridging Social Distances", this article explores the question which kind of relations triggered by relational art are beneficial for the well-being of democratic societies. Positioned in the discourse revolving around relational and agonistic aesthetics as well the discourse around social capital (Putnam) and resonance theory (Rosa), it presents artistic strategies responding to the respective schools of thought.