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Philippine Hoegen is a visual artist living in Brussels. Recent activities: residency/performance at WP Zimmer, Antwerp, From the Finger to the Bone with Paloma Bouhana (11-2022); performance Performing Working at DIS-Seminar #2, Utrecht with Paloma Bouhana (11-2022); Training the Sense of our Selves: Performing Work, with Nirav Christophe, Carolien Stikker: a performative workshop at Marres, Maastricht; performance NÓS at Zenne Art-Lab, with Flávio Rodrigo, Brussels (06-2022); a performative research project, residency and series of presentations at Kunsthal Gent titled What is Work? (03/2021-04/2022); the publication In these circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices' (editor: launch May 2022) by/about a.pass Brussels, publisher Onomatopee, Eindhoven); a series of podcasts for/i.c.w. Club Solo Breda About The Future and the Artists’ Initiatives (11-12/2020) a series of seven broadcasts titled Scores for Isolation on Onomatopeenet / Instagram Live (04-05/2020) and the presentation of her book ANOTHER VERSION: Thinking Through Performing (publisher Onomatopee, Eindhoven) during the Bâtard festival at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels (01/2020);
Hoegen is currently a researcher at the Professorship Performative Creative Processes, HKU, Utrecht, and Caradt, Avans University, Breda, with the project Performing Working; she is an active member of State of the Arts, and co-initiator of SOS-Relief.
Working mostly with performance, Hoegen explores the ways in which we continuously create versions of ourselves, what triggers this and what their existence means for our understanding of 'self'. In the past 2 years, this has led her to focus specifically on how this functions in the contexts of work. Hoegen approaches performance as a way of thinking in which the physical is involved, a way to generate versions of the self and to activate those versions in research questions.