Artistic connective practices

About the professorship

The professorship explores how artists and specifically artistic researchers can make a contribution, right in the midst of society. Our strength is to ask questions from an artistic attitude towards what an environment, a situation or context offers to explore. We do so with a commitment to participate in the 'larger conversation' that goes beyond our own work or discipline: with citizens and the various communities, or other sectors such as healthcare or the creative economy.

Artistic Connective Practices aim to provide a perspective on complex issues through a number of core values, such as connecting through spending time together, rooted in agreed common ground, mutual respect and endless curiosity; affinity, integrity and kinship. With non-hierarchical and emergent forms of collaboration in an inclusive and diverse context as point of departure, these core values will be developed into research questions and concrete artistic research projects in the future of the professorship.

The professorship works in various places and contexts, at the intersection of artistic, cultural, social, educational and philosophical dimensions of communities (such as FHK), organisations and larger contexts - and thus aims to give artistic research a more prominent and defined place in society. Next to, but especially as a counterbalance to economic-monetary and political perspectives, the artistic perspective offers alternative opportunities to explore, deepen and concretize connectivity.

Besides the focus on Artistic Connective Practices, the professorship is committed to strengthening the overall research environment and community at FHK: by collaborating with the bachelor and master programmes, supporting teacher researchers and facilitating students in innovative non-disciplinary working groups. After all, connection is not only the theme of the professorship, it is its approach and fundamental attitude.

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Professor

Falk Hübner has a background as composer, theatre maker, researcher and educator. He is active in a huge diversity of collaborations within and outside of the arts. His research focuses on the social-societal potential of artistic research, research methodologies, and the relation of the arts and art education in relation to society.

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