In the Making
Thursday night sessions on research in art

21.11.2024 — 10.04.2025 free 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 second season of the public series In the Making. This series, dedicated to the practice of research in the arts, will consist of seven public sessions taking place on a monthly basis.

The articulation of art and research has a long and rich tradition that has grown in scope and relevance in the past few decades. ACPA has played a significant role in this process, as it is an internationally pioneering institution that enables artists to conduct research through their own practice in a University context. In the Making is meant to both present to the public the research carried out within ACPA as well as to foster a dialogue with a number of international actors from a variety of disciplines.

Artistic research makes the relationship between art and society permeable. Rather than bracketed in the private realm of the lone artist or the sometimes-isolated circuits of the art market, artistic research opens up its practice to the public domain. Its methods become part of collective process of exploration and re-imagining. 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 #7:
{ Dis, A } - Pearing
Quantum & Arts Research Group, Patrick Emonts, Anke Haarmann, Christine Rafflenbeul, Eloïc Vallée, Luiz Zanotello, Alexander Cromer
Free ticket + information: https://ITM7.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #8:
Musical Networks and Algorithmic Emergence in the Times of Artificial Intelligence
Adam Lukawski, with Guest Martin Zeilinger and Sonia de Jager
Free ticket + information: https://ITM8.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #9:
Eloquence of the Ineffable — The aftermath of the 2018 opera La Tragedia di Claudio M
Johannes Boer, with guest Israel Castillo
Free ticket + information: https://ITM9.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #10:
Sensing Otherwise; in the absence of land(scape)
Ilaria Biotti, Alexander Cromer and Donald Weber, with guest Alice Lagaay
Free ticket + information: https://ITM-10.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #11:
Whose creativity? Explorations of interspecies being and making
Laura Lauta van Aysma and Rachel Beckles Willson, with guest Federica Nardella
Free ticket + information:https://ITM-11.eventbrite.nl