Aflevering Episode 5 — Creativity, Curiosity And Collaboration

Idea featured: Choir of the Sea, by Remco de Kluizenaar How can artistic practices reshape research itself? What happens when art and science collide? In this episode, we listen to “Choir of the Sea” by Remco de Kluizenaar and together we look at how creative, speculative, and embodied practices can expand what counts as research — and why funders should care. We discuss the hurdles in funding art-science collaborations, and what lessons science can learn from the cultural sector and what the role of openness, experimentation, and imagination is. How can artistic research challenge the boundaries of what is considered scientific? More scientists and artists team up to collaborate, but can't find funding. In this episode we discuss what gets funded, and who gets to explore the unknown. The conversation opens up questions about the hidden “gateways” that determine access to funding, the need for more divergent and transdisciplinary funding models, and how embracing discomfort might lead to more transformative forms of knowledge-making. Host: Alex Szwaj Speakers: Jonas Torrens and Kornelia Dimitrova More about Remco de Kluizenaar: www.remcodekluizenaar.nl/ Audio credits: music composed by Remco de Kluizenaar (exerpts from "Voice of the North Sea" (2023) and "Soil, LIVE!" (2024) Voice of the North Sea is made possible by contributions from Wageningen Municipality and WUR. "Soil LIVE" concert is written in collaboration with Wageningen Soil Biology Group and made possible by support from the Wageningen Biodiversity Inititative and a Wageningen University grant as part of the Biodiversity Positive Foodsystems investment theme. Orchestra in the audiorecording: Stedelijke Muziekvereniging De Harmonie Wageningen. Relevant connections mentioned in this episode: Wendy Brown (University of California, Berkeley): polisci.berkeley.edu/150w/wendy-brown Regeling voor Artistiek en Ontwerpend Onderzoek (SIA and Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie): www.stimuleringsfonds.nl/nieuws/nieuw…nd-onderzoek Collaborations for Future: collaborationsforfuture.com/ Innovatielabs: innovatielabs.org/