Poetics and Politics of Art outside the Institutional Space

Huib Haye van der Werf will present a sharing on the poetics and politics of art outside the institutional space. 

Huib, August resident at Current Plans, was the interim director at de appel arts center in Amsteram in 2022, and before that he initiated/led in Amsterdam the organization mistral together with Radna Rumping, a space dedicated to archives and abundance. From 2013 to 2020 he was head of the artistic program at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. from 2012 to 2014 huib worked as founder/curator for TAAK, an international organization for social-artistic commissioning, and from 2011 to 2012 as curator for the national Art in Public Space Foundation (SKOR) of The Netherlands having previously advised the national government on artistic commissions.  He also has a podcast series called The Listening Tide  - on how we listen and the meaning that comes from this - which he hosts in his living room in Amsterdam, where he lives/works.