Here (not anywhere) initiated from Leonie Persyn’s invitation to unfold Rita Hoofwijk’s artistic practice and start a dialogue towards the future. The resulting collaboration is an encounter of two different perspectives from where essences and resonances reveal.

Here (not anywhere) is a search towards an artistic recipe, averse to ingredients, that allows us to question what exactly makes Hoofwijk’s practice her own. It is a field guide that is inspired by the idea of a cookbook. It focuses on the experience of creating, starting from the place where one cooks to the digestion of the meal.

Here (not anywhere) is oriented towards recurring principles at the basis of Hoofwijk’s practice. It reveals how the works resulting from her practice originated in a specific ‘here’ that wasn’t anywhere and neither could be everywhere.

Here (not anywhere) questions how little one needs to do in order to create something. It combines the perspectives of the one looking and the one listening. It shows the richness and intimacy embedded in the encounter between a place, an artist and an audience member.

Here (not anywhere) is an invitation by Leonie Persyn and Rita Hoofwijk to be engulfed by each other’s horizon, to sit down and stay a while.

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A Series of Suggestions explores how suggestions can function as a possible research output. It reveals a collaborative thinking practice between the academic and the artistic realm. It shows how the dramaturgical practice of an academic researcher stimulates a re-evaluation of the research process. Suggestions are never clear-cut answers or solutions for a problem; they hover between a recap of what has already been done and a forecast of undiscovered paths. They affirm and question at the same time. Suggestions highlight the strength of (past) fragilities and uncertainties and feed future dialogues and explorations.

Each edition of A Series of Suggestions exhibits a constant dialogue between practice and discourse; between researcher and artist. It gives an insight to a particular collaboration at the base of the research project The Sound of a Shared Intimacy (S:PAM-Studies in Performing Art & Media, Ghent University). One edition contains five small and thematic folders. Each folder can be folded open into an artwork.

In short, A Series of Suggestions is an attempt to bring the constant dialogue between academia and artistic practices forward and aims to bridge the gap between working process and end result. It is a look behind-the-scenes for academic and artistic audiences, which celebrates collaboration and shows how an artist and an academic doubt and search together.

Limited and numbered edition (/50)

Here (not anywhere) initiated from Leonie Persyn’s invitation to unfold Rita Hoofwijk’s artistic practice and start a dialogue towards the future. The resulting collaboration is an encounter of two different perspectives from where essences and resonances reveal.

Here (not anywhere) is a search towards an artistic recipe, averse to ingredients, that allows us to question what exactly makes Hoofwijk’s practice her own. It is a field guide that is inspired by the idea of a cookbook. It focuses on the experience of creating, starting from the place where one cooks to the digestion of the meal.

Here (not anywhere) is oriented towards recurring principles at the basis of Hoofwijk’s practice. It reveals how the works resulting from her practice originated in a specific ‘here’ that wasn’t anywhere and neither could be everywhere.

Here (not anywhere) questions how little one needs to do in order to create something. It combines the perspectives of the one looking and the one listening. It shows the richness and intimacy embedded in the encounter between a place, an artist and an audience member.

Here (not anywhere) is an invitation by Leonie Persyn and Rita Hoofwijk to be engulfed by each other’s horizon, to sit down and stay a while.