Ruth Benschop

Netherlands (residence) °1969
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Ruth Benschop is head of the Research centre Autonomy and the Public Sphere in the Arts / Zuyd University in Maastricht. She finished her PhD (with honors) at the University of Groningen in 2001. Her thesis analyzes the role of technology in visual psychological experiments. Later, at Maastricht University, she did postdoctoral research into the role of genetics in the workplace, and the role of recording technology in sound art. In her current work at the Research centre of the Arts she has been involved in a variety of research and educational projects practicing and reflecting on artistic practices of research and documentation. She is also interested in ethography and art overlaps and in research of and in community art projects.


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  • I'll be Gone Again: Documenting the Virtual Body (2012) author(s): Ruth Benschop published in: Research Catalogue
    I’ll be gone was a project in which two groups of students from different backgrounds and theatre traditions worked together with artist Peter Missotten to create a performance at the Maastricht Theatre School. In the project they explored virtual technologies as part of a larger project called The Virtual Body. In order to research the way in which virtuality was at stake in the project, a documentation of the working process was made. The documentation aims to discuss as well as embody issues that are also at stake in performance and virtuality – such as the relationship between real/non-real and live/non-live. Moreover, the documentation tries to take seriously questions about why, how and for whom one would want to maintain what to all intents and purposes has gone: I’ll be gone.
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