Collaborative practice with Emmie Liebregts
Since 2023, our collaboration has evolved through a series of international residencies, beginning at the Van GoghGalerie (NL) and extending to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (FR) and the Goethe-Institut in Kyoto (JP). Our artistic practice on documenting spatial experiences and architectural history through somatic learning, performative actions, drawing, video, and sound. These findings, often enriched by communal workshops, have been presented at venues including Witte Rook, PARK Tilburg and Clublokaal Breda, Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis, Bosch Parade Den Bosch and at Instituto Buena Bista (CW), supported by the Mondriaan Fund.
Chapter I, Stretch and fold
Two month resicency at VanGoghAiR, Atelier de Moeren
Zundert, Netherlands
nov-dec 2023
During our residency at the Van GoghGalerie (NL), we adopted a self-imposed structure based on Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 therapeutic routines in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Centered on the activation of the gut and the perception of emotion, our practice followed a strict daily regimen of hydrotherapy, isolation, and domestic rituals to explore the boundaries between labor and private life. This somatic research was documented through video, audio, and sculpture, culminating in the exhibition 'Can you live my space?' at Ecker Gallery. Curated by Cristina Materassi and organized by Witte Rook, the presentation invited an exchange of data and experiences gathered during this period of intentional living.
Chapter II, Going Out
Three week resicency at Saint Paul de Mausole
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France
apr. 2024
Following our research at the Van GoghGalerie, we extended our investigation into the mental and physical influences of structured living environments to its origin: the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Acting as "active guests," we engaged in art therapy sessions and dialogues with both caregivers and residents. This reciprocal exchange resulted in a workshop focused on somatic communication and the documentation of the monastery’s architecture. The project culminated in a film exploring the clinic's environment alongside ceramics and large-scale embroideries created during the workshops. A summary of this research was presented at Breda Central Station (2024), commissioned by IDFX and KOP.
Pictures by: Linsey Kuipers
Going Out/ outcomes off the workhsop with the patients
Chapter III, time and placeThree month resicency at Goethe Institute, Villa Kamogawa
Kyoto, Japan
may-june-july 2024
During our three-month residency at the Goethe-Institut in Kyoto, we investigated the intertwining of physical architecture and mental space. Central to our methodology is the concept of "doing": a systematic analysis of spatial and bodily rituals through drawings, video, and somatic exchange. As a tool for both boundary-setting and documentation, we work exclusively in self-designed uniforms. These "work outfits"—including modular zip-off pants that serve as a canvas for embroidery and dyeing—allow us to embody our research mindset and distinguish between labor and leisure within the domestic site.
Our practice utilizes the body as an entity of knowledge rather than merely a tool for expression. This approach led to collaborations ranging from rice planting with rural initiatives—exploring how production systems shape our environment—to a partnership with a contact improvisation dancer. Together, we hosted a workshop at the
Goethe-Institut, using movement as a medium to share and translate embodied knowledge into a collective experience.
Corps Collective
Workshop at Clublokaal
Breda (NL)
December 2024
Corps Collective is a collaboration between Klaar van der Lippe, Emmie Liebregts, and Fenna Koot. We facilitate workshops and shared experiences that explore the wisdom of interconnected bodies and our relationship with the environment. Utilizing contact improvisation— moving as one body, guiding and synchronising—and theoretical frameworks such as Sarah Ahmed’s 'Queer Phenomenology', we examine the body as the primary site of experience. By increasing awareness of the body-mind relationship, we aim to enhance the capacity to translate sensory insights into artistic practice, ultimately fostering new, literal connections to the surrounding world.
Picture by Hussel Zhu
Sening out an SOS
Project for Bosch Parade
in collaboration with Studio Barreda & Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis
Breda (NL)
2026
Inspired by the concept of messages in a bottle we are collaborating on 'Sending out an SOS' for Bosch Parade 2026. We invited patients and healthcare professionals at Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis to share a wish or a "cry for help" to their environment. These personal messages posted inside medieval-inspired uranium green glass bottles, created in close collaboration with glass artist Studio Barreda. Uranium glass was a common artistic material in the glass art history. After World War II, uranium was increasingly reserved for the nuclear industry, causing it to largely disappear from the fields of art and craft. As our personal "cry for help," we have brought this material back into contemporary artistic practice.
The collected wishes where activated during the Bosch Parade in June 2026.
Supported by Mondriaan fonds Voucher Ambacht
Chapter IIII, Allemanszaken
Three month resicency at Instituto Buena Bista
Willemstand, Curaçao
jan-maart 2026
For Fenna and Emmie, “beachcombing” during their residency at Instituto Buena Bista (IBB) has become an artistic method for unraveling the island’s identity. They collect not only physical materials but also the social experiences they gained at the Capriles Clinic and the IBB. In their work, they explore how the mental landscape is interwoven with the island’s physical environment.Their observations translate into sculptures of (found) objects that explore the tension between private and public, between reality and desire. This has resulted in a collage-like installation, constructed from fragments they encountered along the way. Thus, a breathy sound from a rock merges with a speaker found by the roadside. A piece of cloth washed ashore was given a voice through a text from the clinic, and building materials from a resort form the backbone of a new object. ‘Allemanszaken’ is a reference to Everyone’s Business: matters that concern us all, thereby simultaneously raising questions about ownership and responsibility.
Thanks to Instituto Buena Bista & Mondrian Fund
