Fontys Academy of the Arts

About this portal
Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg, The Netherlands, provides higher professional education on Bachelor and Master degree level in the field of art education, performing arts and science. This portal is a platform for publishing artistic research generated by students, teachers and alumni. It is also used as a tool for documentation, exploration and teaching.
Websitecontact person(s):
Maarten Jansen 
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Ulla Havenga 
url:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2633255/2633256
Recent Issues
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3. Master Art Education
This is a collection of selected expositions published by students of Master Art Education at Fontys Academy of the Arts.
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2. 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.
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1. Artistic Connective Practices - Professorship
In this issue Fontys Academy of the Arts publishes expositions that highlight particular research trajectories initiated by the current professorship, lead by Falk Hübner.
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0. Fontys Internal Information
This issue includes limited access expositions and information for Fontys RC portal users and contributors only.
Recent Activities
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Artistic Connectivity Unfolding
(2025)
author(s): Falk Hubner, walmeri ribeiro, Elisavet Kalpaxi, Marike Hoekstra, Eleni Kolliopoulou, Jessica Renfro, Isil Egrikavuk, Reyhaneh Mirjahani, Katy Beinart, Lizzie Lloyd, Chrystalleni Loizidou, Xenia Tsompanidou, Juriaan Achthoven
published in: Fontys Academy of the Arts
This publication presents the outcomes of the Connective Symposium, which took place at Fontys Academy of the Arts in Tilburg, in November 2022. The symposium was the first time that the professorship and research group Artistic Connective Practices, initiated in 2021, opened its work to the international field: We invited practitioners from all over the world to share their work and exchange about the concept of "artistic connectivity".
"Artistic Connectivity Unfolding" is an attempt to share the experiences during the symposium with the broader artistic research audience, and to contribute to the body of artistic research work that is socially engaged. The exposition is potentially many things: In part, it is a piece of documentation of the symposium, in part reflections on and proceedings of it. It is also an explorative contribution to our emerging and unfolding discourse of artistic connectivity, — unfinished, fluid and moving — and thus a springboard for our future work on artistic connectivity.
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In Good Company. Think We Must.
(2025)
author(s): Falk Hubner
published in: Fontys Academy of the Arts
This publication/exposition is the extended version of Falk Hübner's inaugural lecture as professor of Artistic Connective Practices at Fontys Academy of the Arts. The text offers an introduction to the work of the professorship, to the ideas and concepts underpinning it and to its projects and research lines. Rather than presenting finished research, the text seeks to open ideas, insights and imagination and offer a sense of where the journey is heading. With an explicit emphasis on collectively working and thinking together, the core of the publication introduces and elaborates on the concept of artistic connective practices through the notion of three "conceptual clouds": practices, the artistic, and connectivity.
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Public Positions
(2025)
author(s): Master Performing Public Space - David Limaverde
published in: Fontys Academy of the Arts
Public Positions - looking into the works of MA PPS artists and their Public Spaces.
With this new collective online publication, MA PPS curates past and current alumni artistic research processes and practices that encapsulate references and positions of public space discourse. The publication serves as documentation of artists who developed (part of) their research together with the programme, and that shares their valuable contribution to the field of Performing Public Space.
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Trešnjevka Under Construction: Resisting Gentrification Through Performative Protests
(2025)
author(s): Una Štalcar-Furač
Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : Fontys Academy of the Arts
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.
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POLY(IS)TOPOGRAPHY
(2025)
author(s): Carlo Sella
Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : Fontys Academy of the Arts
Artistic tactics to write collective biographies through reading urban public space
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On Facilitating (In)visible Queerness
(2025)
author(s): Nori Tsouloucha
Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : Fontys Academy of the Arts
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.