Henk Borgdorff is emeritus professor of Research in the Arts and former Academic Director of the Academy of Creative and Performing Art, Leiden University, and until December 2020 professor (‘lector’) at the Royal Conservatoire, University of the Arts, The Hague. He was professor in Art Theory and Research at the Amsterdam School of the Arts (until 2010), and visiting professor in Aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg (until 2013).
Borgdorff served as editor of the Journal for Artistic Research (until 2015), and as president of the Society for Artistic Research (2015-2019). His has published widely on the theoretical and political rationale of research in the arts. A selection is published as The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia (Leiden University Press 2012).
After the lecture, from 10:15-11:00: Conversations on artistic research with Henk Borgdorff and Siv Hofsvang.