The ATD Lectorate is delighted to announce that, from June 2nd, Rosa te Velde will be joining the team as a researcher.
Rosa is already known in the AHK from her great work co-leading the Social Justice and Diversity in the Arts lectorate with Aminata Cairo. Rosa is returning now after maternity leave, and is joining the ATD Lectorate which focuses on practice research in performance led by core values of justice, regeneration and care.
Specifically, Rosa will be picking back up on a project on “Socially Just Feedback” which she planned and started in collaboration with the ATD as part of the AHK’s Thematic Collaboration Program (TCP).
ATD Lector Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca says: “We are very excited to be welcoming Rosa to our group. We already worked together to host the AiR program with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson last year and know that we share a commitment to the urgent need for a paradigm shift in ways of thinking, being and relating to the Earth and each other. Our research program is about how performance practices can shape personal and societal transformation in the context of the polycrisis we see unfolding every day. Rosa brings a huge range of theoretical and practical expertise that brings a lot to our mission to do what we can to build more justice, regeneration and care into education, research, the working field and society. The work that she and Aminata did inspired our Lectorate a lot, so we look forward to carrying on that learning together.”
Rosa says: “I’m extremely grateful to be able to join the ATD Lectorate, where commitment to create cracks in the system and courageously testing and expanding imaginaries in the face of multiple environmental and political catastrophes, is so rare to find within institutions. In the work I did with Aminata Cairo, one of the foundational aspects in our thinking about social justice was the importance of the body as the site for transformation, for example in the Tuning in! protest choir where we studied the notion of an ‘embodied community’. Coming originally from a design/visual arts background, I am delighted to join the ATD where embodied learning is so central and natural! In my work I will focus on systems of feedback and evaluation of creative practices, aiming to study and build onto existing practices where values such as community, collaboration, transformation and regeneration are centered in the search of moving beyond legacies of modernity/coloniality. I look forward to move, breathe and share together, please get in touch if you have questions or suggestions, or simply would like to have a cup of tea.”
To find out more about Tuning In, see here: https://tuningin.nl/
