Anouk Hoogendoorn is an artistic researcher, who is currently doing a PhD with the Centre for Culture and Creativity at Teesside University, UK and the Department of Performing Arts and Film at Zurich University of the Arts, CH. They were formerly part of PEERS ’22/’23 (pre-PHD) at Zürich University of the Arts, studied Artistic Research (Research MA) at the University of Amsterdam and Image and Language (BFA) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Anouk has a practice that always has an important collaborative and experimental orientation to it. The (spoken) texts, textile works, sketches, movements, and sounds that come out of this practice are moments of processes rather than presentations fixed once and for all. Main interests include radical pedagogies and intimacy and proximity grounded in queer and disability studies. Their PhD ‘A lull nearby: textural, social, and temporal explorations of language in artistic practices‘ looks at the materiality of language and conditions needed for change.  Focusing on sensory and aesthetic qualities, this project aims to counter ideas of intersubjectivity and transactional ideas of learning, sharing, and meeting.