In this year’s Collab Project 3 professional artists work together with 6 students from the University of the Arts Utrecht, faculty Music & Technology. Together they will create 3 performances/works and they design the way finding on the location. Here’s an introduction to the artists and students.
COLLAB PROJECT 2025
Collective 1:
Cookie Dough Rave
Maan
Roman James
Syd
Come dance. Come be whoever you think you are.
For 15 minutes, lose yourself in a world of sound, light, and shifting reflections — where identity melts and everything feels possible. Nothing is quite what it seems. Move through connection, through questions, through Alan Westin’s ghost.
Rave at cookie-speed with your other self.
Collective 2:
From a Star to a Black Hole - Debris of Humanity
Paola
Pier
Pip
“From a Star to a Black Hole - Debris of Humanity” explores how the individual relates to the global.
Every day we create ourselves – our style, our voice, our identity – as small singularities. But sooner or later, we feel the pull of the collective — of community, of culture, of society. In a world obsessed with individualism and conformity, we often fear that joining the group means disappearing. Being absorbed. Flattened. Lost.
But what if connection is not disappearance?
What if it allows us to discover our identity in a fluid, relational, infinite way?
We move alone.
We are pulled together.
We break.
We re-form.
We create new patterns, new bodies, new balances.
Collective 3:
Brain Bunker
Leonie
Gaston
Pepijn
"Echoes of Thought, Buried in Concrete"
In a sealed space where mind and matter blur, thoughts come alive! Not as abstract ideas, but as an embodied being.
Thought becomes matter, a concrete entity emerging from the architecture itself. Dressed in fabric and motion, it blurs the line between performer and structure, mind and material. Witness how it discovers its anonymity and how emotions arise that have never been felt before.