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. Gabriel Paiuk is the curator of the series.

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.

Sessions

Second Season:

Thursday 21.11.2024, 19:00
In the Making #7: 
{ Dis, A } - Pearing
by Quantum & Arts Research Group
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Thursday 05.12.2024, 19:00
In the Making #8: 
Musical Networks and Algorithmic Emergence in the Times of Artificial Intelligence
by Adam Lukawski, with guests Martin Zeilinger and Sonia de Jager
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Thursday 30.01.2025, 19:00
In the Making #9: 
Eloquence of the Ineffable — The aftermath of the 2018 opera La Tragedia di Claudio M
by Johannes Boer, with guest Israel Castillo
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Thursday 27.03.2025, 19:00
In the Making #10: 
Sensing Otherwise; in the absence of land(scape)
by Ilaria Biotti, Alexander Cromer and Donald Weber, with guest Alice Lagaay
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Thursday 10.04.2025, 19:00
In the Making #11: 
Whose creativity? Explorations of interspecies being and making
by Laura Lauta van Aysma and Rachel Beckles Willson, with guest Federica Nardella
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More to be confirmed

First Season: 

Sunday 26.11.2023, 14:00
In the Making #1:
Sand in the Eyes
by Rabih Mroué
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Sunday 28.01.2024, 14:00
In the Making #2:
Searching for a Diasporic Time Image
by Etienne Kallos and Patricia Pisters
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Sunday 25.02.2024, 14:00
In the Making #3:
Artistic Research and the Techno-aesthetics of Infrastructure
by Kristoffer Gansing and Francesco Ragazzi (ReCNTR)
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Sunday 24.03.2024, 14:00
In the Making #4:
Ecology and (Sounding) Art
by Marcel Cobussen, MinJi Kim, Kevin Fairbairn and Nele Möller
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Sunday 28.04.2024, 14:00
In the Making #5:
Experiencing Text and Textile
by Barbro Scholz and Li Lorian
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Sunday 26.05.2024, 14:00
In the Making #6:
Art Without Soul? Embodiment and Historical Performance
by Anna Scott, Jed Wentz, Laila Neumann, Emma Williams
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