Keynote presentation
Music of a sensitive society: what practice-based research can mean for musicians
| Karolien Dons
[location: Academietheater]
Musicians increasingly work in co-creation, seeking to tailor their practices in dialogue with specific places and people involved. Increasingly are co-creative music practices not only rooted in an artistic field, but do they emerge on the cutting edge with other domains. When such cross-disciplinary practices are embedded in contexts that involve vulnerable, tense or contested subjects, musicians or other artists alike, may be tempted to expand their traditional professional boundaries. This calls for ethical reflection.
In this session, Karolien Dons will invite us to reflect on the interpersonal and emotional work involved in developing music practices ‘in context’. By showcasing examples of her own work into social-artistic practices in healthcare, heritage and community contexts, the session will highlight the needed as well as complex sensitivities of professionals involved in cross-disciplinary artistic practices.
Dr. Karolien Dons is professor (lector) Music in Context at the Research Centre Art & Society of the Hanze. With a background in musicology and music psychology, her expertise comprises of innovative music practices in societal contexts and the role of professionals within.
Workshop
Session for Tired artists, educators and art-educators | David Limaverde
[location: Academietheater]
How can Community Care be practiced, performed and taught? The Session for Tired Artists, Educators and Art-educators is a workshop/intervention/installation; an attempt to create a temporary space of rest, decompression, care amidst a social system of acceleration. The workshop follows a non-structure during which micropolitical strategies of giving and/or receiving care are shared by participants.