Tuesday, October 1, 4-6 PM | ART SCIENCE dialogue with Ton Kruse

Tuesday, October 1

4-6 PM

ART SCIENCE dialogue with Ton Kruse, Jet Vink and Nathanja van den Heuv

As part of the public programme for Let’s Work! the VU ART SCIENCE gallery invites artists and researchers to explore the concept of work. A series of ART SCIENCE dialogues aims to distil the reasons and driving forces behind work, how societal changes impact our experience of work and how the workforce could be changed to serve a better society.

The second ART SCIENCE dialogue of this series, ‘Power, status and joyful creativity’, examines the position of artists and creatives in the current socio-economic and political context in an effort to understand the complexities of this position and the nature of work, labour and the artistic or academic profession.

Artist Ton Kruse and researcher Juliet Vink discuss how the work of artists, creatives and academics is organized in todays society and how this is related to commercialism and government structures. Pressure, whether financial, performance related or otherwise, has become a mainstay of everyday work. Can we still find time and means for play, creativity and passion? The talk will be moderated by Nathanja van den Heuvel.

The event will take place at the VU ART SCIENCE gallery on Tuesday, October 1 from 4-6 PM . The talk is open to the public and free of charge.

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Artist Ton Kruse approaches art as a practice rather than as a product. His work was exhibited in the Netherlands and abroad. He is founder and ‘dean’ of The Faculty of In-humanities, a collective of artist, scholars and researchers – and of R.S.O.L. (Room for the Study of Loneliness), space for contemporary art in Deventer.

Juliet Vink is a PhD candidate at the department of Management and Organization of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her dissertation research examines the power dynamics of collaborating organisations in the creative sector, specifically the rave community as decentralised business ecosystems.

Dr. Nathanja van den Heuvel is PhD Dean at the Faculty of Humanities. Nathanja received her PhD degree from Leiden University. Her research interests include the philosophy of work and play, aesthetics, feminist theory and eco-philosophy.

Host or Publisher VU ART SCIENCE gallery