In the Making
Thursday night sessions on research in art

21.11.2024 — 10.04.2025 18:30 — Welcome with free soup and informal encounters
19:00 — Lecture
21:00 — After talk + free acces to the current exhibitions
22:00 — Closing of the evening free West in the former American embassy, Lange Voorhout 102, The Hague



The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and Art Institute West Den Haag are pleased to announce their close collaboration in the third season of the public series In the Making. This series, dedicated to the practice of research in the arts, will consist of four public sessions taking place on a monthly basis.

The articulation of art and research has a long and rich tradition that has grown in scope and relevance in the past few decades. ACPA has played a significant role in this process, as it is an internationally pioneering institution that enables artists to conduct research through their own practice in a University context. West Den Haag reaches a broad and diverse audience by presenting a cross-disciplinary programme that actively brings different artistic and cultural practices together. In the Making is meant to both present to the public the research carried out within ACPA as well as to foster a dialogue with a number of international actors from a variety of disciplines.

Artistic research makes the relationship between art and society permeable. Rather than bracketed in the private realm of the lone artist or the sometimes-isolated circuits of the art market, artistic research opens up its practice to the public domain. Its methods become part of collective process of exploration and re-imagining. With In the Making ACPA and West Den Haag aim to deepen a perspective which conceives of artistic practice not as the sole product of individual visionaries but as a collective endeavour embedded in society. It addresses the role of art in the construction of the present and the creation of possible futures.

Composer, sound artist, pianist and researcher Gabriel Paiuk is the curator of the series. Artist and researcher Chloë van Diepen is coordinator of the series.



In the Making #14:
Resonance in the Inanimate - Reflections on Performance and the articulation of Human, System and Score.
With Pavlos Kountouriotis and Mariella Greil. Pavlos Kountouriotis is a performance artist and choreographer and currently Deputy Director of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague. Mariella Greil is a senior artist at the Applied Performance Laboratory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Free ticket + information: https://ITM14.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #15:
On Researching Music Performance (Presenter TBC)
Free ticket + information: https://ITM15.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #16:
On Plant Intelligence, with Felipe Castelblanco and other guests.
Felipe Castelblanco is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and filmmaker, currently Postdoctroal artistic researcher at the Institute Art Gender Nature at the HGK Basel FHNW.
Free ticket + information: https://ITM16.eventbrite.nl

In the Making #17:
Towards and Artistic Research Community, with Tobias Dias and a panel of artist researchers.
Tobias Dias is a scholar, writer and editor, currently completing a book manuscript on the prehistory of “artistic research”.
Free ticket + information: https://ITM17.eventbrite.nl


The In the Making program 2026 is affiliated with NICA (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis). University students can obtain ECTS credits by participating in the sessions. More information can be found on the NICA website: www.nica-institute.com.

To receive information about the events you can register for the ITM mailing list do not hesitate to contact Chloë van Diepen: chloe@westdenhaag.nl