Masterclasses: Can peace be depicted?

Ontwerp: Autobahn

Masterclasses: Can peace be portrayed?
Ronald Ophuis & Renate Schepen
When: 24 September 2022, 9.30-12.00 and 11 October 2022, 18.30-21.00
Location: Stroom The Hague, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague

Masterclass Dialogue without words
Peter Rombouts
When: 21 September 2022, 18.30-21.00
Location: Stroom The Hague, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague

As part of the programme line See You in The Hague and Just Peace month 2022, Stroom Den Haag organised two workshops on the theme of art and peace. In a world where war, violence, crisis and conflict are increasingly coming to the fore, it is important to look at what mechanisms underlie them. Art offers new perspectives and thus makes an important contribution to this research. Conflict and war already has a tradition of imagination in our culture, but what about the imagination of peace?

Masterclass Can peace be depicted?
Ronald Ophuis & Renate Schepen

Ronald Ophuis is known for depicting traumatic situations. His work is praised for the power of daring to name and depict violent situations that go beyond our imagination, and that we collectively try to avoid. He challenges the viewer to look, even if it hurts, precisely to break the taboo and silence that lies at the root of such situations. Over the past year, Ronald Ophuis has been exploring the possibility of depicting peace, the other end of the spectrum, in his own work. During the master class, he will share his findings and connect them to his far-reaching understanding of the artist's role as an activist without a political movement.

Renate Schepen is an independent philosopher. From her research in intercultural philosophy and into forms of dialogue, she has specialised in different sources of knowledge and knowledge transmission. She is an activist for epistemic justice, or recognising different forms of knowledge, knowledge carriers and becoming aware of power mechanisms that influence this. She describes this in the book of her dissertation Kimmerle's Intercultural Philosophy and Beyond. The ongoing Quest for Epistemic Justice (Routledge, Aug 2022). In this master class, she will guide dialogue on the relationship between peace and conflict, and explore whether art can be a form of knowledge that contributes to understanding how we want to relate to both peace and conflict.

Master class Dialogue without words
Peter Rombouts

Peter Rombouts is a dancer, choreographer, change expert, maker, thinker, doer and above all someone who connects with the person opposite him from the heart. Years of experience have made him realise that complex problems cannot be faced via the head, by thinking, controlling and organising, but only from the heart, from the connection. The power of communicating from the body beyond spoken language, from within, offers opportunities to represent and make visible how we relate to the world around us. In his master class, he engages in a dialogue in which you gain insight through movement on how to approach peace within yourself and with others. The question ‘Can peace be depicted?’ and the role of the artist will be the starting point of this master class. Here, the collaboration between senses and imagination plays an important role. This dialogue will be about obstacles and pain, but above all about tapping into potential to initiate change, in small and large ways. This master class is open to all disciplines, and does not require experience with dance or movement.