ROSETTA DRENTH
Theatre maker
"Always looking for balance and since real balance is a continuous movement between two points, always in motion."MACHTELD AARDSE
Artist
"In essence, my work is about the delicate dynamics of power and powerlessness."JOHAN BOUWMEESTER
Value driven leadership
"I enjoy it when I see people open up, when they show their qualities and talents, their strength, but also their vulnerability."NISRINE MBARKI
Theatre maker, writer, philosopher
"I watch and listen to the world around me and try to understand it in all its beauty and cruelty."SILVIA RUSSEL
Artist
"I investigate how to look at things differently from day to day and thereby create new possibilities for yourself."TEUN CASTELEIN
Artist, serial ideator
EEFJE SUIJKERBUIJK
Director
"My constant search for a new perspective on things that people take for granted."ANNEMIEK VERA
Artist
"As an artist, I want to ensure that the other person expands his perspective and inner world by meeting experiences and different ways of looking."in my work, i investigate what it takes to have an encouter and to establish a relationship. a relationship where vulnerability and empathy can unfold, where the personal is experienced as political, and where norms and power relations around this relationship are acknowledged and investigated.
i enjoy working with storytelling, performative interventions, film, and that what the body wants to tell us. and i constantly challenge myself to do so together, hand in hand, with softness, playfulness, poetry and care; even during the moments that i do not agree with you at all, or what you represent could exclude or hurt me. discomfort can be a fertile ground for building an equal relationship.
“i felt challenged to just step inside the organization, to stay open and close to myself. i felt challenged to embrace resistance as vulnerability. i felt resistance to the amount of expectations that you have to deal with and that you ask for in return. i was amazed at how difficult it is to really name problematic things. i felt moved when you said that you’ve also felt the value of small personal steps in this process. i felt moved when i saw your face change from skeptical and reserved to open and engaged. i am moved to have met you.”
the collaboration with art partner has given me, as an artist with a migration background, the special opportunity to stand in the middle of the dutch society, with my work but also as a person. through art partner i was able to give my political engagement a new form through my artistic practice.
i felt acknowledged in my different sides and talents.
i felt supported to experiment and grow.
i was able to draw long lines of research and to deepen them.
i felt inspired by their gentle leadership and strategic approach that never lost sight of what is human.
i have experienced their efforts in sticking to empathy.
the idea of transforming a ‘change trajectory’ into a transformative experience and an encounter instead of a business assignment. the creativity to see and approach business partners as fellow citizens.
i have the opportunity to work with partners and people whom i normally would never meet.
i am challenged to view issues that are very important to me as a citizen and person from the perspective of decision makers.
i entered to places where i would usually never come, but places that do have an influence on the quality of my life, of our lives, of our society.
i have seen and experienced real changes through our work.
ANOOK CLEONNE
Artist
"Why do we do what we do according to 'the rules' and in what way do the unwritten rules determine our behavior?"JULIKA MARIJN
Theater maker, 'voice-giver'
"I get inspired when I can bring a story or a text to life."JACCO VAN UDEN
Professor Change Management
"To relive the familiar again, let the silence speak again."MARJET WESSELS BOER
Public art & design
"My work gives the public space a story and makes her less anonymous.""we have an inexhaustible fascination with how people struggle with themselves and the situation they are in. our theater work is inspired by current, poignant stories from society, on their beauty and their pain.
in the assignments for art partner we experienced the enormous power of 'imagining'. at kpmg we gave a theatrical lecture at the foundation of their women's network. before that, we had interviewed 100 men and women. we caught on what was said between the lines, we asked, challenged. on the one hand, women were annoyed at how tough the corporate culture was with regard to women, but on the other hand, it was perfectly normal to think that a woman who works part-time is laughed at: 'yes, we just do that here'. we showed this contradiction in the interactive performance. if we had 'just' told them this ', the message would not have stuck. but it stuck in the concentrated context of the theatrical reading."
with anne gehring and vera ketelaars (together gehring & ketelaars) we worked a.o. together with: kpmg and the hague university of applied sciences. www.gehringenketelaars.nl