Listening, asking, sharing

Teaching is the most wonderful thing because it is an opportunity to share your knowledge and your skills, it is a way to connect with somebody who is wondering by asking the right questions and by listening, by being attentive to the needs and goals of the person or group you are teaching. The great side-effect is that through teaching, you also grow as an artist because you learn new things. I always considered teaching an integral part of my artistic practise.

As an artist and teacher, I am not so much specialised in one subject or discipline but I know a lot about many things. My personal focus has always been on site-specific creation and on learning about specific media and ways of working that seem to be needed for whatever I want to research and express in that moment in that location. I worked with photography, video, drawing, text, ceramics, sound, bio materials, performance, sewing/fabrics, I used gardening, cooking, walking, often leading to multi-media installations. I worked in public space, in theatre and music venues, in galleries and museums, in fields and barns, on the road and online.

I gave workshops and lectures about the one thing you could call something I specialise in: walking as an artistic medium, and I think my walking projects have always been a way of teaching in itself: sharing my thoughts about alternative ways of being in the world and manifesting yourself as an artist to anybody I encountered on the road.

For 5 years I was professor of Performance Art and Artistic Development at the University of the Arts Utrecht, at Musician 3.0, Conservatory where I formed the bridge between music and other art forms. I taught BA and Master students, gave group classes in performance art, coached individual students and organised thematic project weeks (2019-2024). Some of the subjects I worked on with my students: art as activism, art and ecology, artistic survival skills, synchronicity and chance, alternative/graphic scores, improvisation with different disciplines.

Before that, I taught 2 years at Estudio Nomada, a private art school in Barcelona where I gave group classes in conceptual art & thinking and coached students with backgrounds in a range of visual artforms, from painting and photography to food art and multimedia installation (2017-2019).

I gave lectures, masterclasses, workshops and project weeks in diverse subjects for/in collaboration with (a.o.) Artez Academy of Art and Design (NL/ES), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK), Future Architecture Platform (SL), Classroom Alive Bootcamp (ES), University of Oregon (USA), Dark Mountain Base Camp (UK), El Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison (ES), The Foundry (ES), Pottery Museum & Art Gallery Stoke-on-Trent (UK), Södra Teatern Kegelbanan Stockholm (SE), Pilgrim Centre Lund (SE), O Castro Art Village (ES).

I am always open to any kind of new teaching opportunities!

 
 
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