Philippine Hoegen

Research Group: Cultural and Creative Industries

‘Performance is about engaging with versions of the self, stretching the gaze to see what others see when they look at you.’

Philippine Hoegen was a researcher within the Cultural and Creative Industries research group from 2016 until 2020. In that period, she also was a tutor at St. Joost School of Art & Design and the Master Institute of Visual Cultures. Currently Philippine works as an independent artist and researcher.

Philippine Hoegen is a visual artist living in Brussels. Recent activities include a research residency and series of presentations at Kunsthal Gent titled What is Work? (03/2021-04/2022); the publication In these circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices (editor: launch May 2022) by/about a.pass Brussels; and the presentation of her book ANOTHER VERSION: Thinking Through Performing (publisher Onomatopee, Eindhoven) at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels (01/2020). She is currently a researcher at the Professorship Performative Creative Processes, HKU, Utrecht, and Caradt, Avans University, Breda, with the project Performing Working. Working mostly with performance, Hoegen explores the ways in which we continuously create versions of ourselves and what their existence means for our understanding of ‘self’.

She works in an international environment and publishes and teaches in Dutch and English.

Performing Working

This artistic research project revolves around questions such as: What is work, really? And what is it not? How can we work without exhausting ourselves or our environment? Who are we when we work, and who are we when we are excluded from work? And what happens if we begin to use the term work for activities that are not usually considered work, such as being ill?

Alongside generating new knowledge about these questions, the research also aims to develop new artistic methods. It takes the form of performative research, using artistic practice not only to investigate the subject of work, but also to explore and expand artistic research methodologies themselves.

Professional Doctorate

Performing Working is one of the first Professional Doctorate (PD) trajectories in the Netherlands: a new doctoral-level programme within Universities of Applied Sciences that prepares candidates to intervene in complex societal challenges through practice-based research.

A Professional Doctorate is equivalent in level to a university PhD but has a distinct focus and an internationally recognised title: PD. Whereas a PhD prepares candidates to become professional researchers, a Professional Doctorate educates reflective, research-driven professionals who develop knowledge through practice.

The first cohort of candidates across five domains started in 2023. Arts + Creative is one of these domains, and Philippine Hoegen is the first Professional Doctorate candidate at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht.

Performances

Callisthenics, Stories of Support, Aversion and Love, performance at Beyond the Black Box festival Antwerp, with Paloma Bouhana and Henny Dörr (05-2025)

Ushering in Some Alternate Ego’s, performance with Antye Geunther, Varia Rotterdam, 02-2025)

Callisthenics, Stories of Support, Aversion and Love, performance at CERC2025 with Paloma Bouhana and Henny Dörr, (01-2025)

Alter Ego, Training the sense of our other selves, performative workshop with Sohrab Kashani and Ina Darakchieve, Marres Maastricht (11-2024)

Performing Working (2022 – 2023)

“I’m still me! Even if I can no longer perform the job,” said a former doctor who is now unable to work because of chronic illness. “But when I open my wardrobe, I still see, and can step into, all the roles I played in my work”.

The Self as a Relational Infrastructure in Process (2016 – 2020)

This research project is a practice-based enquiry into personhood and autonomy.

Publications

Hoegen, Ph. (2020), ANOTHER VERSION: Thinking Through Performing, published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, in collaboration with Caradt.

Hoegen, Ph. (2019), co-editor ‘Fair Arts Almanac’, published by State of the Arts, BE

Hoegen, Ph. (2018), Body of Books: The BAS Collection, performatieve tekst over het kunstenaars initiatief BAS in Istanbul, uitgegeven door Collectorspace, Inc, New York/Istanbul.

Hoegen, Ph. (2018), Ventriloquists III, uitgegeven door The Society for Artistic Research in Proceedings 9th SAR Conference: Artistic Research Will Eat Itself.

Hoegen, Ph. (2018), Body of Books: The BAS Collection, performative text about the artist initiative BAS in Istanbul, published by Collectorspace, Inc, New York/Istanbul.

Spronck, V., Camuti, F., Leest, J., Hoegen, P., & Teunissen, T. (2025). Consent in action: Learning from artistic research within an institutional review context. Consent in action: Learning from artistic research within an institutional review context – ScienceDirect

Hoegen, P., & Spronck, V. (2025). How We Wish to Work: An exchange on participation, connectivity and care. How We Wish to Work: Performance Research: Vol 29 , No 2 – Get Access

All publications

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?