Renée van Oploo
Fine artist & researcher
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I am a visual artist, lecturer and researcher. I teach in the Art & Research programme (since 2021) and Photography, Film & the Digital (since 2023) at St. Joost School of Art & Design, and conduct research at the Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT). I am also a member of the art collective YAFF and the art alliance The Long Tail of Art.
My artistic practice centres on the relationship between art, shared experience and ethical reflection. Through installations, essays, workshops and collaborative projects, I develop situations in which artistic practice creates space for collective inquiry into current dilemmas in art, education and society, and the assumptions and reflexes that shape them. I hold a background in Fine Arts (cum laude, St. Joost School of Art & Design) and Applied Ethics (MA, Utrecht University).
Workshop
Welcome
to the Weird and the Dirty
In collaboration with The Long Tail of Art and YAFF.
Is your reflex to avoid what is weird, messy, or slightly dirty? In this workshop, we create a panorama in which we pay attention to what is usually seen as too strange or too filthy. To arrive at a more nuanced worldview, we need to acknowledge that we are not merely virtuous beings, and that the dominant moral voice leaves little room for doubt and contradiction. Can we imagine a world in which vices are allowed to make themselves known as part of a search for a better world? In this workshop, we work towards a new panorama in which our vices and virtues are brought to life through hand puppets, with aesthetic precision and imaginative force.
This workshop has been presented at, among others, the following events:
https://caradt.nl/project/studium-generale/
https://instituteofassociations.com/willenwealleszien