In the Making
Afternoon sessions on research in the arts

26.11.2023 — 26.05.2024 5 euro, regular (0 euro, students & teaching staff) West in the former American embassy, Lange Voorhout 102, The Hague



The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and Art Institute West Den Haag are pleased to announce their close collaboration in the new public series ‘In the Making’. These six public sessions will present to the public different practices of research in the arts.

Artistic production has always expressed the forms in which we know, explore, and sense the world we live in. The current practice of research in the arts consciously assumes this exploration. In the past decades the focus on research in the domain of the arts has grown – as well as its role in universities and other research contexts – expressing its engagement with the realities of the world at large.

‘In The Making’ will address how artists conduct their research. Guest artist researchers and artist researchers from Leiden University will present their projects, approaches, methods and results. Each session will address questions inherent to these projects. ‘In The Making’ aims to deepen a perspective which conceives of artistic practice not as the sole product of individual visionaries but as a collective endeavor embedded in society. It addresses the role of art in the construction of the present and the creation of possible futures.



In the Making #1:
Rabih Mroué, Sand in the Eyes
Information + RSVP: https://InTheMaking-1.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #2:
Etienne Kallos, Searching for a Diasporic Time Image
Information + RSVP: https://InTheMaking-2.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #3:
Kristoffer Gansing and Francesco Ragazzi (ReCNTR) - Artistic Research and the Techno-aesthetics of Infrastructure
Information + RSVP: https://InTheMaking-3.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #4:
Marcel Cobussen, MinJi Kim, Kevin Fairbairn, Ecology and (Sounding) Art
Information + RSVP: https://InTheMaking-4.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #5:
Barbro Scholz and Li Lorian, Experiencing Text and Textile
Information + RSVP: https://InTheMaking-5.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #6:
Anna Scott, Jed Wentz, Laila Neumann, Emma Williams Art Without Soul? Embodiment and Historical Performance
Information + RSVP: https://InTheMaking-6.eventbrite.nl