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TAAT taat.live TAAT is an arts collective that develops environmentally engaged installations for embodied encounters between humans and more-than-humans.

TAAT is a transdiciplinary practice that shifts between artistic research, social practice and collaborative learning. TAAT is currently growing "Encounter Portals”: bio based structures that contribute to a regenerative co-existence. These portals are part of the long term project HALL33 and are developed together with a.o. Efrosyni Tsiritaki (Athens, GR), Linda Vilka and Liga Zepa (Riga, LV), Goda Verikaite (Rotterdam, NL)
Pichaya “Jaja” Puapoomcharoen (Rotterdam, NL) and Martin Simpson (Graz, AU).

“TAAT’s work is situated in the interdisciplinary terrain of socially and spatially engaged artistic work that takes place in, and explores, urban public space and its social conditions. Operating ‘outside’ or ‘in-between’ the established fields of art, theatre and architecture, TAAT’s work is a form of critical spatial practice: they use the performativity of space to mediate intersubjective interaction, questioning disciplinary procedures and working through a collective and distributed understanding of authorship. Common to socially engaged art and performance practices their work provides opportunities for embodied social interaction and exchange.” (Andrew Filmer, ConferencePaper IFTR 2019)

Collaborations
TAAT was founded in 2012 by Gert-Jan Stam and Breg Horemans after a collaboration on the project KHORI (Venlo, Floriade 2012) commissioned by Huis van Bourgondië, Maastricht NL. Evelina Kvartunaite joined in 2022 as ‘Regenerative Manager'. The development of HALL33 is based on a network of collaborations with KASK (BE), KISD (DE), Aberystwyth University (WA), Alanus University, DE, KABK (NL), Theatre Academy Riga (LV) and supported/presented by C-TAKT, (partners) Dutch Creative Industries Fund, Art&Amen Köln, BUDA Kortrijk, Biënnale Interieur Kortrijk, DAZ Berlin, CAMPO Ghent, Design Museum Ghent, Gessnerallee Zürich, SIA Zürich, Verbeke Foundation, Homo Novus Festival (Riga, LV) and Sansusi Festival (Akniste, LV). TRERU in Kampala (UG) is a collaboration with lijah Agwaru Anomet, Fridah Babirye Erinah, Rebecca Khamala, Joseph Tebandeke, Maria-Sheba Atukunda, Brian Gisa, Sarah Nansubuga, Moses (Jerom) Ntege, Kajebe Jacob Joshua, Hassan Matovu, Erick Naganzwa, Robert Ssempijja and Odil Gerard. BOKRIJK SENGU was created in collaboration with Jolien Naeyaert, Ward Delbeke, Bas Vrehen, Frederik Schobben en Sylvie Hagens and commissioned by Open Air Museum of Bokrijk, Genk, BE. TAAT is structurally supported by SoAP foundation (Maastricht, NL) and the Dutch Performing Arts Fund.

Dear all, due to a growing last-minute interest in the hive-program, we decided to push the final deadline to Saturday S...
31/08/2026

Dear all, due to a growing last-minute interest in the hive-program, we decided to push the final deadline to Saturday September 5th, noon (CET).

Want to join this international peer-to-peer learning network? This is your (last) chance! In the coming 9 months the TAAT-artists will guide you into nurturing your practice, through a rich hybrid program on eco-social cocreation!

In the upcoming week, the final cohort will be assembled. If you have any questions, let us now via the insta-chat or send an email to [email protected]. Lottie and Breg are available for a last-minute call if you need so.

See you on September 19th for our kick-off?

20/08/2026

Lotties workshop ‘Devised Theatre Making’ explores devising practices to explore new connections, associations and interrelationalities between materials as a way of developing and expanding your work in unexpected directions. Devising is a great tool when working interdisciplinarily and intermedially, as we will be in hive.

Lottie will be back later in the programme for ‘Curation for Presentation’ to expand the cuartional and dramaturgical framing of the work in preparation for the public presentation.

18/08/2026

Gert-Jan’s workshop ‘Hydrological Devising Lab’ is an invitation to follow the water. Starting from your own water body, we’ll look at the different motions and stages of the hydrological cycle: fluid, vapour, ice, snow,... We’ll connect with the water cycles that go through our cities, animal bodies, plants and ecosystems. Feeling, following, playing, emerging,...

The focus will be on playful experimentation. On doing, in cocreation with water. You will tap into the form of water that resonates the strongest with your personal process. Experiencing, exploring, worlding, weathering,... We will look at the science and the theoretical frameworks surrounding the water cycle. Leaving puddles and creating currents.

Looking forward to diving in?
Join hive! Register via link in bio.

18/08/2026
Dear all, tomorrow, 13th of August at 19:00 CET, we will hold the second info session in the Live Agora, TAAT’s online p...
12/08/2026

Dear all, tomorrow, 13th of August at 19:00 CET, we will hold the second info session in the Live Agora, TAAT’s online platform for playful exchange. If you want to know more about what the hive-program can mean for your practice, join us and meet the TAAT-team!

Register for the session through the link in bio.
Or download the information leaflet on our website taat.live/hive.

Some snapshots of the first hive launch session! A colourful bunch of transdisciplinary artists, designers and researche...
26/06/2026

Some snapshots of the first hive launch session! A colourful bunch of transdisciplinary artists, designers and researchers, gathering around common topics of situated and embodied working methods.

In the coming weeks, we will start posting more detailed workshop-information per module, so stay tuned!

Meanwhile, register via link in bio to sign-up for the first cycle (early-bird reduction before July 3rd), or to receive more information. Any other questions, mail at [email protected].

Looking forward to welcome you!

hive is a new hybrid learning cycle on eco-social cocreation!hive is a 9-month hybrid learning cycle on eco-social cocre...
25/06/2026

hive is a new hybrid learning cycle on eco-social cocreation!

hive is a 9-month hybrid learning cycle on eco-social cocreation, based on TAAT arts collective’‘ecology of practice(s)’. Starting in September 2026, it’s an opportunity to learn from and with different TAAT-artists and to connect with a wide range of international creatives, environmentalists, and scholars.
hive is about learning, creating and experimenting as a multispecies together. Through situated, embodied and relational learning you will engage with different TAAT-artists as well as with a wide range of international creatives, environmentalists, and scholars. 

More info: taat.live/hive or via link in bio
On June 25th, at 19:00 CET, TAAT will host a hive info session (online). 
Interested? RSVP via link in bio

If you have any questions, write an email to [email protected]

Course fee: €1250 (excl. VAT)
EarlyBird: 10% off (before July 3rd)

Focus 1: how do we practice arriving on a working location?  For this module we develop practical skills of dramaturgy a...
23/06/2026

Focus 1: how do we practice arriving on a working location?

For this module we develop practical skills of dramaturgy and curation through the process of preparing a public presentation of work generated across the duration of the hive program. The public presentation gives participants the opportunity to share work in the professional sphere, among colleagues, peers and the broader community.

Focus 2: what kind of knowledges live between our hands and the environment?

In this module we explore materiality, embodied engagement and the generation of situated artistic output. We draw on the foundational work generated in ‘Approaching’, to develop practical skills, devised thinking and dramaturgical considerations.

Focus 3: how do we evolve traces of shared movements?

In this module we focus on the entry into both site and creative processes. Each session provides new methods of approaching artistic works, co-creational environments and methodologies of care. At the end of this segment, we engage in a reflective exercise to collate new knowledges and digest them into practical systems to inform the subsequent work.

More info and detailed program: download the pdf via taat.live/hive (or via link in bio)

Curious about the content of the hive program?In the coming posts we will highlight the different threads in the program...
23/06/2026

Curious about the content of the hive program?

In the coming posts we will highlight the different threads in the program.
If you want to know more, join us on the info session Thursday June 25th at 7pm!
(link to register in bio)

—meet David 
‘I came to TAAT with curiosity and a camera. I was challenged to capture things other than humans and learn...
22/06/2026

—meet David

‘I came to TAAT with curiosity and a camera. I was challenged to capture things other than humans and learnt to both question and trust my own eyes. Part of that practice, of continuously connecting analysing-talking with being-making, I’m taking into my work with policy. Eventually, we have to go down to the river.´

David Martens is a designer and maker working at the EU Policy Lab at the European Commission. He’s good at weaving pathways between what is known and not known yet. He works between policy, foresight, art, and science and is drawn to spaces where imagination, complexity, and lived experience meet. He swings from the embodied and relational to the operational: how does it feel, how does it connect, and what’s next? Since joining TAAT, he swims and sings about rivers.

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