Nora Bieberstein (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Nora Bieberstein is a bachelor student of the English study Programme Arts and Culture at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. In her second year she specialized in Media Culture. Currently, she is writing her bachelor thesis on the topic ‘Destination Maastricht’. Her focus is on the role of research and its value for society.
Gideon Boie (BAVO, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Gideon Boie studied architecture and philosophy and is part of BAVO, an independent research office focused on the political dimension of art, architecture and planning, based in Brussels and Rotterdam. Recent publications by BAVO include: Cultural Activism Today. The Art of Over-identification (Episode Publishers, 2007) and Urban Politics Now. Re-imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City (NAi Publishers, 2007). Since 2006, BAVO has been organizing the Euregional Forum, a discussion platform focused on cultural, social, economic and political issues in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine. In Spring and Autumn of this year, BAVO curates a lecture series on the unresolved borders of Europe.
Jeroen Boomgaard (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Jeroen Boomgaard is Professor of Art and Public Space at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He is also head of the master Artistic Research of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In 2008 he edited the book Highrise – Common Ground. Art and the Amsterdam Zuidas Area.
Pascal Gielen (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Pascal Gielen is professionally based at the University of Groningen as a sociologist of the arts and he has the research chair ‘Arts in Society’ at the Fontys College for the Arts in Tilburg. Books written by Gielen are Aesthetics for Decision Makers (2001), Art in Networks (2003) and as co-author with Rudi Laermans An Environment for Contemporary Art (2004) and Cultural Good (2005). Gielens recent monographs are The Unattainable Inside of the Past (2007) and The Art Institution (2007). He edited the journal Open. Cahier on Art and the Public Domain 17 – ‘The Biennial as a Global Phenomenon. Strategies in Neo-Political Times’ (SKOR/NAi – 2009). At this moment he is preparing the monograph The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude. Global Art, Memory and Post-Fordism (Valiz – 2009).
Marc Glaudemans (Stadslab, Tilburg, Netherlands)
Marc Glaudemans has a PhD in the field of Urban and Landscape Theory and History and has lectured at several Dutch and international universities and participated in many international conferences. In 2000 he started the architectural consultancy firm AERO Architecture and Planning, which was combined with being head of the Architecture department at Eindhoven University. In 2004 Marc Glaudemans became dean of the Academy of Architecture and Urbanism in Tilburg and since 2008 he is professor of Urban Strategies at the Fontys University of Applied Sciences.
Lene ter Haar (Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, Netherlands)
Lene ter Haar recently started work as contemporary art curator at Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen. Among the artists she has collaborated with in her former position at Museum Het Domein Sittard are Kati Heck (G), Dzine (USA), Duan Jianyu (CH), Rik Meijers (NL) and Bas de Wit (NL). She is also involved in the international projects Made in Mirrors and Cecac2008. Since 2001 ter Haar has been running the non-budget art space B32, situated in a Maastricht squat, which is supported financially by the city of Maastricht from 2009-2011. Her curatorial background is formed by DIY-mentality, urban culture and modernism and forms of art that emerge in the dense field in-between. Regular contributor to catalogs and art magazines, ter Haar is part of the advisory commission of The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fund BKVB), the Mondriaan Foundation as well as local organizations.
Jean Jacobs (Municipality of Maastricht, Netherlands)
Jean Jacobs (1944) is currently alderman for culture, finance and economics at the Municipality of Maastricht. Born in Maastricht, he has worked as a policy advisor and inspector in the area of social security for the ministry of culture, recreation and social work (CRM) / welfare, public health and culture (WVC) and the ministry of social affairs and employment (SZW) as well as a government adviser (rijksconsulent) / chief inspector of social security for the inspection office work and income. He has also been chairman in the municipal council of Maastricht for the PVDA party from 1998 to 2002, alderman of finance and culture from 2002 until 2006, and project alderman for the Belvédère Maastricht development plans.
Zora Jaurová (Košice 2013 European Capital of Culture, Slovakia)
Zora Jaurová has been working as an indepedent theatre dramaturg and critic since 1998, after graduating from the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Bratislava. She has experience with different types of theatrical projects, with journalistic and research work in the field of theatre and has worked extensively in an international context as a CEE consultant. Since 2003 she has been working for the Cultural Contact Point Slovakia (national agency of Culture 2000 / Culture (2007-2013) programme), in 2005 she became director of the office. In 2004-2006 she was the nominated expert of the Slovak Republic within the Cultural Affairs Committee in the Council of EU. She is active in various European cultural networks, being an executive board member and vice-president of Culture Action Europe. Recently, she founded the Institute for Cultural Policies – a platform for research, analysis and advocacy in the field of cultural policies. Since 2007 she has worked as a chief consultant for the city of Košice in their succesful bid for European Capital of Culture 2013 and in 2008 was appointed Artistic Director of the project Košice – Interface 2013. She has also been a member of the artistic board of the International Theatre Festival Divadelna Nitra and a jury member of several national art competitions. A number of her translations of British and American theatre plays were published and staged in Slovak and theatres.
Therese Kaufmann (EIPCP, Vienna, Austria)
Therese Kaufmann is co-director of the eipcp – European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies in Vienna and currently involved in the research project “Creating Worlds”. 2005-2008 she co-ordinated the transnational art- and research project “translate. Beyond Culture:
The Politics of Translation”. She is member of the editorial board of the journal Kulturrisse and teaches regularly. She graduated in German literature and art history at the University of Vienna and in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Janicke Kernland (Studio Kernland, Maastricht, Netherlands)
Janicke Kernland was born in Park Ridge, IL in 1966 to Norwegian parents. Raised in Europe, she studied philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway, before joining the art school Höhere Schule für Gestaltung in Luzern, Switzerland, to study Visual Communications. In 1991 she took her Masters degree in Communications Design, Mixed Media at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. After working for Shapiro Design in New York, NY, she moved to Dresden, Germany, to work for the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte developing and designing exhibitions. In 1999 she moved to Maastricht, the Netherlands, to work for the municipality organizing exhibitions and cultural events in their city center Centre Céramique. In 2003 she started her own business Studio Kernland that conceptualizes, organizes and realizes exhibitions and educational productions.
Sjaak Koenis (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Sjaak Koenis has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, since 2002. In 1992, he wrote his dissertation Tussen marge en professie; Frankfurt en Chicago: twee visies op de praktische rol van sociologen (Amsterdam: Van Gennep). He published Het verlangen naar gemeenschap; over moraal en politiek in Nederland na de verzuiling (Amsterdam: Van Gennep) in 1997. On a regular basis, he publishes in Filosofie & Praktijk and other journals. At present, he is acting chair of the Department of Philosophy and coordinator of the Master’s programme Arts and Sciences. His most recent publication is Het verlangen naar cultuur. Nederland en het einde van het geloof in een moderne politiek (Amsterdam: Van Gennep).
Olivier Kramsch (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
dr. Olivier Thomas Kramsch is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography, Radboud Universiteit. He received his MA and PhD in Urban Planning from the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied under Edward W. Soja. Since coming to Nijmegen dr. Kramsch has developed a research specialty and written widely on issues pertaining to cross-border institution-building and governance in Europe’s internal borderlands (the so-called euregions), and is increasingly interested in how the EU manages its new southern and eastern external frontiers following the last wave of enlargement. His main goal theoretically is to achieve a greater dialogue between the ‘spatial turn’ in social theory of the last decades with the burgeoning field of European border studies.
Anne Lorentzen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Anne holds a position as professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, where she is involved in teaching and research in relation to geography, planning and local development. Since 2007 Anne has run a research programme on the experience economy and spatial development, focussing on small cities and peripheral areas. Other research interests involve: Regional institutions building and regional development politics, regional innovation systems, regional economic development, knowledge networks, globalisation and proximity, technology transfer and technological capability building, technology planning and technology management and innovation.
Angela Melitopoulos (Berlin, Germany)
Angela Melitopoulos, artist in the time-based arts, realizes video-essays, installations, documentaries and sound pieces and curates exhibitions and seminars. Her work focuses on duration and mnemonic micro-processes in documentation. She studied fine Arts with Nam June Paik. Her work was awarded and shown on many international video and film festivals, exhibitions and museums (Antonin Tapies Foundation Barcelona, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Manifesta 7, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, Whitney Museum New York, among others). She is collaborating in political networks in Europe and Turkey and publishes theoretical articles on her artwork and on mnemopolitics. Currently she is a research fellow at the Matrix East Lab in the University of East London and a PhD student at the departement for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College in London.
Piet Menu (Het Huis van Bourgondië, Maastricht, Netherlands)
Piet Menu (1977) is artistic leader of het Huis van Bourgondië in Maastricht. Het Huis van Bourgondië is a production house, of which there are several more in the Netherlands. Places where, often young, theatre makers/directors can develop themselves artistically. Production houses provide a place for this development, and primarily offer production, technical, financial and artistic support. Piet Menu has been working in Maastricht since 2008. Before, he worked in Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond in Amsterdam as a programmer for the performing arts.
Hans Mommaas (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Hans Mommaas (1955) studied Western Sociology at the Agricultural University Wageningen. In 1993 he published his PhD titled ‘Modernity, Leisure and the City’. In 2000 he wrote a study for the Dutch Scientific Council for the Government on: ‘The leisure industries in city and countryside’. At the moment he is professor in Leisure Studies at Tilburg University, endowed professor in Urban Dynamics and Culture at Utrecht University, scientific director of Telos, Brabant Centre for Sustainable Development, a member of the National Council for Spatial Planning and scientific director in Transforum, a national program on agricultural and regional innovations and transitions. His research activities concentrate themselves around issues of leisure, culture and sustainable spatial developments.
Jorijn Neyrinck (tapis plein, Bruges, Belgium)
Born in 1978 in Bruges, Jorijn Neyrinck studied Philosophy at Brussels Universities VUB and ULB and finished her master in Anthropology (Science of Comparative Cultures) at Ghent University with highest distinction. Until 2003 she was active as member of the Program for Bruges Cultural Capital of Europe 2002. As a volunteer she organized the world film festival Cinema Novo (1995-2005) and the youth heritage organization ERFgoedjongeren (1993-2004) in Bruges. She started the heritage collective tapis plein with a group of like-minded friends in 2003 and coordinates the activities of tapis plein as a Flemish centre of expertise on heritage participation.
Ruta Norvaisaite (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Ruta Norvaisaite is currently finishing her BA Arts and Culture studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences with a thesis on the impacts of the European Capital of Culture programme in Lithuania. She is the chair of the initiative called Books 4 Life Maastricht – a bookstore selling donated second-hand books with proceedings going to charities like Amnesty International, Oxfam Novib and other smaller projects. She also has been a member of various other cultural initiatives in Maastricht and Limburg, such as Amnesty International festivals and ‘Van Limburgse bodem’ dance projects.
Kate Oakley (City University London, United Kingdom)
Kate Oakley is a writer and policy analyst, specialising in the cultural industries, cultural labour markets and regional development. She is a Visiting Professor in Innovation at the University of the Arts in London and at the Department of Cultural Policy and Management, City University. She was the author of the “Creative London” Report in 2004 and has worked with a number of cities and regions, both in the UK and internationally, on public policy in the creative industries.
Matthias Pauwels (BAVO, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Matthias Pauwels studied architecture and philosophy and is part of BAVO, an independent research office focused on the political dimension of art, architecture and planning, based in Brussels and Rotterdam. Recent publications by BAVO include: Cultural Activism Today. The Art of Over-identification (Episode Publishers, 2007) and Urban Politics Now. Re-imagining Democracy in the Neoliberal City (NAi Publishers, 2007). Since 2006, BAVO has been organizing the Euregional Forum, a discussion platform focused on cultural, social, economic and political issues in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine. In Spring and Autumn of this year, BAVO curates a lecture series on the unresolved borders of Europe.
Neil Peterson (Liverpool Culture Company, United Kingdom)
Neil was appointed as Head of Liverpool Welcome for the Liverpool Culture Company in January 2005 and shortly afterwards took over responsibility for the City of Liverpool’s International Relations function. His team established its 08 Welcome Programme which is aiming to ensure that Liverpool capitalises on the economic benefits of its year as European Capital of Culture in 2008. Neil also leads the City’s International Relations team, bringing a strong European dimension to the 2008 Capital of Culture programme. He is also project director of Intercultural Capital, Liverpool, and the UK’s year of Intercultural Dialogue project. He is an active member of the Eurocities Culture forum, and has presented and published work about the links between culture, regeneration and social inclusion in a number of EU countries.
Greg Richards (TRAM Research, Barcelona, Spain)
Greg Richards is senior partner with Tourism Research and Marketing in Barcelona. He was a member of the Palmer/Rae team evaluating the impact of the European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) and an international jury member for the selection of the Hungarian ECOC in 2010. He conducted ECOC visitor research in 2001 in Rotterdam and Porto and undertook the evaluation research for the 2007 ECOCs, Luxemburg and Sibiu (Romania). He is currently advising Stavanger2008 on their evaluation report.
Michelle Teran (Berlin, Germany)
Michelle Teran explores the interplay between social and media networks within urban environments. She has talked, performed and exhibited at events and venues worldwide such as the Transmediale Festival, Ars Electronica, ISEA, V2, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Impakt Festival, Vooruit and Waag Society. She has lectured and led workshops at several educational institutions including Bauhaus Universität (Weimar), Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Dance Unlimited (Amsterdam), Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam) and Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen (Bergen).
Leo zum Vörde sive Vörding (Municipality of Maastricht, Netherlands)
Leo zum Vörde sive Vörding (1952) studied History and Dramaturgy at the University of Amsterdam. After his studies, he worked at the cultural department of the city of Amsterdam, was a dramaturge with various theatre companies (such as The National Theatre in The Hague) and artistic advisor for numerous smaller theatre groups. He has also taught history of theatre, dramaturgy and semiotics at various universities, conservatories and theatre academies in the Netherlands and was chairman of the commission for theatre production at the Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten for five years. Currently, he is coordinator of cultural policy at the cultural department of the Municipality of Maastricht.
Guido Wevers (Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, Netherlands
Born just accross the border in Maasmechelen (Belgium), Guido Wevers studied Psychology in Leuven, switched to the Toneelacademie in Maastricht and found his passion in teaching and directing drama. He became artistic leader of Tryater in Leeuwarden, founded het Kruis van Bourgondië Maastricht (nowadays Huis van Bourgondië), was artistic leader of ’t Arsenaal Mechelen (B) and has been general manager of Theater aan het Vrijthof Maastricht since 2006. Over the years he made and directed some sixty performances: from Shakespeare’s Richard III, Jules and Alices by Ton Lanoye, Coupure by Heleen Verburg to The light in the eyes by Ger Thijs. He resided in many committees, including the Fonds van de Podiumkunsten. Recently, Guido Wevers was appointed artistic leader of Maastricht Culturele Hoofdstad 2018 for the period 2009-10.
Rein de Wilde (Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands)
Rein de Wilde is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University since October 2005. In 2000 he was appointed as chair of the philosophy department. De Wilde’s inaugural lecture De kenniscultus (2001) critically considers the assumed blessings of our knowledge society and its belief in progress. His other publications include De voorspellers (2000), a critique of the futures industry, and Bezeten van genen (2003, with Niki Vermeulen and Mirko Reithler), a book on the innovation struggle around genetically modified food. Currently De Wilde is also chairing the Maastricht University Art and Heritage Committee.
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Jean-Paul Barbou (Studio Bananas, Maastricht, Netherlands)
Studio Bananas specializes in strategy, content and design for marketing and communication. With a background in marketing, new media and fine arts Studio Bananas is an unconventional and open-minded agency that likes a challenge. For Lieu de Passages?, Jean-Paul Barbou worked in cooperation with the designers from Homo Ludens.
Koen Brams (Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, Netherlands)
1964, Turnhout (Belgium). Studied psychology, specializing in psycholinguistics, at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). Editor in chief of the Belgian bimonthly magazine De Witte Raaf from December 1991 until June 2000. Director of the Jan van Eyck Akademie from June 2000 onwards. Lecturer and author of texts about art, on the policy of Belgian art institutes and on political-cultural problems in general. Editor of The Encyclopaedia of Fictitious Artists, published in 2000 by the Dutch publishing house Nijgh & van Ditmar, containing over 350 entries. A German translation of the Encyclopaedia was released in 2002 (Die andere Bibliothek, Eichhorn Verlag, Frankfurt). An English translation is in preparation (JRP Ringier, Zürich). Recent text: ‘Het heimelijke in het werk van Jef Cornelis. Bij de films over Daniel Buren (1971) en Sonsbeek buiten de perken (1971)’. in: De Witte Raaf, 23(136), pp. 8-11 (see also: http://jefcornelis.janvaneyck.nl)
Bas van Heur (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
Bas van Heur is currently a post-doc at the Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio, Maastricht University, where he does research on creative/cultural industries, cultural heritage and urban development. Having studied at Utrecht University (MA Cultural History, 2004) and the Humboldt University in Berlin, he started his PhD in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Relocating to Berlin, he was a DFG-Fellow at the Center for Metropolitan Studies and submitted his doctoral dissertation (‘Networks of Aesthetic Production and the Urban Political Economy’) at the Department of Earth Sciences of the Free University in Berlin.
Paul Lambrechts (Municipality of Maastricht, Netherlands)
Paul Lambrechts (1965, Genk, Belgium) has been policy adviser art and culture for the Municipality of Maastricht since 2000. Here he is involved in the development of a new cultural infrastructure for the city and in the preparation of the candidacy of Maastricht as European Capital of Culture 2018. After a Master in history in Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and a specialization in cultural history in Florence (Instituto Universitario Europeo) and Paris (EHESS), he started his career as a dramaturgist with the Vlaamse Opera and the National Opera Brussels (La Monnaie). Until 2000 he worked as a programmer of opera, classical music and youth theater for the city theater Hasselt (Belgium) and as press officer for La Monnaie in Brussels.
Peter Peters (Hogeschool Zuyd, Maastricht, Netherlands)
Peter Peters (Amsterdam, 1960) studied sociology at the University of Groningen. He is assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. In his thesis, he combines insights from social theory and science and technology studies to analyse cultures of travel. It was published as Time, Innovation and Mobilities (Routledge, 2006). He is member of the editorial board of Mobilities (Sage). In 2008 he was appointed as professor in the research centre ‘Autonomy and the public sphere in the Arts’ of Zuyd University, Maastricht. In his inaugural address, he critically considers the discourse on artistic research. In the 1990s, he was editor of the Dutch journal Mens en Melodie and published Zoeken naar het ongehoorde (1994) and Eeuwige Jeugd: Een halve eeuw Stichting Gaudeamus (1995).
Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn (AINSI, Maastricht, Netherlands)
Lieneke van Waalwijk van Doorn (1981) works as a manager-assistent in Theatre AINSI in Maastricht. She completed her studies at Maastricht University (Arts and Sciences) and at the Theatre Academy Maastricht (Director). In the past years she has worked for several cultural institutes in Maastricht: Maastricht University, Toneelacademie (Hogeschool Zuyd), Kumulus, Jekerstudio, Setheater, Theatergroep het Vervolg and more.
