Research project tested at @ exposition in A Tale of a Tub

Caradt researcher Rob Leijdekkers, as member of a collective with Hedwig Houben and Brenda Tempelaar, uses and tests the model that he developed for his project Dilemmas for Artists and Designers during the exposition in A Tale of a Tub between 14 November 2020 and 24 January 2021.

In collaboration with A Tale of a Tub and all invited artists Rob is looking for ways to break open the closed bastions of the art world and put their social responsibility at risk. The practice of Brenda Tempelaar should be interpreted as an invitation. The host institution A Tale of a Tub and the public are also invited to affiliate and become stakeholders in this practice.

You can find more information and tickets for the exposition on the website of A Tale of a Tub.

Dilemmas for Artists and Designers

This research project is a follow-up to the YAFF (Young Artist Feed Forward) project.

‘As a result of my current research, I ask the students the questions “what is your work” and “what works for you.’

Rob Leijdekkers is a researcher at the Cultural and Creative Industries research group and a tutor at the Art & Research programme at St. Joost School of Art & Design.

Rob Leijdekkers

Research Group: Cultural and Creative Industries

The research group Cultural and Creative Industries investigates the role of artists and designers as creative innovators and drivers of social and economic change. Affiliated researchers analyse the cultural and creative industries from a critical point of view and examine the conditions under which timely forms of aesthetic expression and social connectedness can actually take place within the precarious reality of this field. What economic models are required by artists and designers to create a meaningful practice within the aesthetic, social, and economic intentions of the cultural and creative industries? What skills sets are required for those artists and designers who don’t just want to follow movements, but actually shape novel social and economic models of the future?