Keynote Speaker / Fontys Academy of the Arts Tilburg, The Netherlands
Dr. Falk Hübner
Biography
Falk Hübner (1979) is an artist-researcher working at the intersection of music, performance art, socially engaged practices, and physical practices. With a background as a composer, theatre maker, researcher, and educator, he holds the professorship in Artistic Connective Practices at Fontys Academy of the Arts and co-leads the Fontys Centre of Expertise Arts, Culture and Embodied Change together with Danielle Arets.
Since completing his composition and double bass studies at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands, he has been active in contemporary jazz, experimental music theatre, and a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations within and beyond the arts. Between 2008 and 2013, he conducted his doctoral artistic research project Shifting Identities at DocARTES/Leiden University, which led to a series of experimental music theatre works as well as his first book, Shifting Identities: The Musician as Theatrical Performer (2014). From 2019 to 2021, Falk conducted postdoctoral research at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht on artistic research methodology and ethics.
As a teacher and research supervisor, he has worked at HKU University of the Arts, the Master NAIP (New Audiences and Innovative Practices) at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, the ArtEZ Master in Music Theatre, and as Director of Research and Writing for the ArtEZ International Master Artist Educator.
Falk’s current research focuses on the social and activist potential of artistic research, transdisciplinarity, artistic research methodologies, practices of care and care-fulness, climate justice, circularity, and anti-racism. He is part of the Dutch research network Creating Cultures of Care and a member of the Graduate Committee of the Professional Doctorate in Arts & Creative Practices. He currently supervises two Professional Doctorate candidates and four PhD candidates.
Among other publications, Falk is the author of Method, Methodology and Research Strategy in Artistic Research: Between Solid Routes and Emergent Pathways (2024) and co-editor (with Henny Dörr) of the volume on the collaborative transdisciplinary artistic research project If You Are Not There, Where Are You? (2017). Together with Annelys de Vet, he is co-editor-in-chief of Forum+, a journal for research and the arts based in Antwerp.
In addition to his professional life, Falk is an (ultra-)marathon runner. He lives in Rotterdam with his partner and their five children.
Biography
Falk Hübner (1979) is an artist-researcher working at the intersection of music, performance art, socially engaged practices, and physical practices. With a background as a composer, theatre maker, researcher, and educator, he holds the professorship in Artistic Connective Practices at Fontys Academy of the Arts and co-leads the Fontys Centre of Expertise Arts, Culture and Embodied Change together with Danielle Arets.
Since completing his composition and double bass studies at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands, he has been active in contemporary jazz, experimental music theatre, and a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations within and beyond the arts. Between 2008 and 2013, he conducted his doctoral artistic research project Shifting Identities at DocARTES/Leiden University, which led to a series of experimental music theatre works as well as his first book, Shifting Identities: The Musician as Theatrical Performer (2014). From 2019 to 2021, Falk conducted postdoctoral research at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht on artistic research methodology and ethics.
As a teacher and research supervisor, he has worked at HKU University of the Arts, the Master NAIP (New Audiences and Innovative Practices) at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, the ArtEZ Master in Music Theatre, and as Director of Research and Writing for the ArtEZ International Master Artist Educator.
Falk’s current research focuses on the social and activist potential of artistic research, transdisciplinarity, artistic research methodologies, practices of care and care-fulness, climate justice, circularity, and anti-racism. He is part of the Dutch research network Creating Cultures of Care and a member of the Graduate Committee of the Professional Doctorate in Arts & Creative Practices. He currently supervises two Professional Doctorate candidates and four PhD candidates.
Among other publications, Falk is the author of Method, Methodology and Research Strategy in Artistic Research: Between Solid Routes and Emergent Pathways (2024) and co-editor (with Henny Dörr) of the volume on the collaborative transdisciplinary artistic research project If You Are Not There, Where Are You? (2017). Together with Annelys de Vet, he is co-editor-in-chief of Forum+, a journal for research and the arts based in Antwerp.
In addition to his professional life, Falk is an (ultra-)marathon runner. He lives in Rotterdam with his partner and their five children.