The creative workshop soil painting. Photo Guy Ackermans A group of WUR researchers and Wageningen artists renamed June ‘WUR’s art month’. On June 10, Impulse hosted creative workshops ranging from dancing to writing and from menstrual art to soil paintings.
‘Art meets Science is also a call to action – encouraging artists and scientists to seek each other out more often. Not just to illustrate one another’s work, but to co-develop new ways of thinking, feeling, and understanding, to ask different questions, and to look at familiar problems from a fresh perspective’, said initiator Tossa Harding.
For the exhibition – on display in Impulse until the end of the summer – 20 scientists and 27 artists worked together. They visited each other’s studios and laboratories, and worked together on a work of art. The White Rabbit – a symbol of curiosity – was their mascot.
On Wednesday, June 25, the art month ends with a dialogue in which the researchers and artists reflect and look ahead: how can WUR better promote cooperation between art and science? Harding: ‘We plan to collect the insights and ideas or recommendations from this session and present them to the executive board.’
Photos Guy Ackermans
