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Erik Hagoort

Avans University of Applied Sciences, Master Institute of Visual Cultures, Faculty Member

Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Master Inter-Relational Art Practices, Frank Mohr Institute, Faculty Member

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My art practice, writing and teaching is driven by a curiosity for what happens in encounter and for how we can think about encounter in artistic ways.

My practice emerged in the 1990s from my research in ethical motifs in art practices of encounter. This interest originated from my training in Philosophy of Ethics and social work, as part of my study Theology at the University of Amsterdam (drs., 1989). Since then my practice has grown through writing, participating, curating and initiating practices of encounter.

In 2017 I received my Ph D in the Arts at the Antwerp University & the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, united in the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA), Belgium. From 2015-2017 I was guest Professor Research Methodologies in the Arts (2015-2017) at the Royal Academy of Fine Art Antwerp.

2021-2022 I teach as tutor at the master Inter-Relational Art Practices of Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, NL

Since 2006 I teach as tutor Fine Art at the Master Institute for Visual Cultures/ St. Joost Academy of Art and Design in 's Hertogenbosch, NL.

My latest book 'I don't know what you are going to say' (2018) offers an artistic-philosophical exploration of closeness of thinking. The book includes diverse layouts of conversations amidst a series of essays, in which I build on philosophical ideas on closeness.
In 2005 my book 'Good Intentions. Judging the Art of Encounter' was published, through the former Netherlands Foundation for Visual Art, Design and Architecture , now Mondriaan Foundation.

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Papers by Erik Hagoort

Hear, See, Feel, Change. In conversation with Grant H. Kester.

by Erik Hagoort and Grant Kester

in: Metropolis M. Dutch Magazine for Contemporary Art, 2018 #4, 2018

Talking to Grant H. Kester, Professor of Art History in San Diego and founding editor of FIELD: A... more

Pertaining Asymmetry

in: Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (eds.), Hospitality, Hosting Relations in Exhibitions, 3rd volume in the Cultures of the Curatorial book series, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2016, 168-185. ISBN 978-3-95679-089-8, 2016

It happens that we have come to think of social art practice in terms of reciprocity. Ever since ... more It happens that we have come to think of social art practice in terms of reciprocity. Ever since the rise of this art practice, reciprocity widely has been identified as the main condition for this art practice to work indeed as social art practice. Yet, this art practice also produces experiences, which are not necessarily reciprocal by nature: responsibility, generosity, hospitality, friendship, confidence, trust, faith. This is acknowledged, by practitioners and theoreticians alike, but the question how these experiences relate to the condition of reciprocity, in which they would function, still needs to be addressed.
Some curators, amongst them Mary Jane Jacob and Viktor Misiano, testify of a sensibility to experiences which fall outside of reciprocity. In their curatorial practices and writings these curators start to question reciprocity and try to account for asymmetry in encounter.

Quotations from & Thoughts after Symprovisation on Art and Empathy,

in: Nico Dockx & Pascal Gielen (eds.) Mobile Autonomy. Exercises in Artists' Self-Organization, Antennae series, Valiz, Amsterdam 2015, 155-169., 2015

In a sort of 'polylogue' Erik Hagoort explores a conversational working mode of affinity, which h... more In a sort of 'polylogue' Erik Hagoort explores a conversational working mode of affinity, which he titles 'Symprovization'.

This article consists of Quotations from/ and Hagoort's Thoughts after 'Symprovization on Art and Empathy', for which he invited curator Tricia van Eck and artists Kirsten Leenaars, Jason Pallas and Caroline Picard.

This 'Symprovisation' took place on November 5, 2014 at Sector 2337 in Chicago, IL., USA.

Dead against Consensus. The Thinking of Chantal Mouffe.

in: Metropolis M. Dutch Magazine for Contemporary Art, 2007 #5, 2007

The ideas of Chantal Mouffe, a French-speaking Belgian political philosopher working in London, d... more The ideas of Chantal Mouffe, a French-speaking Belgian political philosopher working in London, does not reveal her as much of a proponent of the Dutch ‘polder model’. Her position is that people must dare to have passionately different opinions, for this is the best building block for democracy. Mouffe’s theory is increasingly being seen as a universally applicable model to liberate politics from the stranglehold of consensus thinking. Now she has become a sought-after speaker in the art world. The issue is whether artists can do justice to her intentions.

As published in Metropolis M, Dutch Magazine for Contemporary Art, 2007 #5

Fel tegen consensus. Het denken van Chantal Mouffe.

in: Metropolis M. Tijdschrift voor hedendaagse kunst, 2007

In de kunstwereld is zij inmiddels een veel gevraagd spreker. De Waalse, in Londen werkende polit... more In de kunstwereld is zij inmiddels een veel gevraagd spreker. De Waalse, in Londen werkende politiek filosoof Chantal Mouffe toont zich in haar denken niet bepaald een voorstander van het poldermodel. Haar stelling: durf gepassioneerd van mening te verschillen, want juist daar is democratie bij gebaat. Mouffe’s politieke theorie wordt meer en meer gezien als een bruikbaar model om de politiek uit de wurggreep van consensusdenken te bevrijden. Ook kunstenaars voelen zich tot Mouffe's agonistische denken aangetrokken. Maar of haar intenties in de kunst tot hun recht komen, is de vraag.

Books by Erik Hagoort

Being on the point of saying something

Being on the point of saying something, 2018

"You walk towards a door and out of the corner of your eye you see someone else walking towards t... more "You walk towards a door and out of the corner of your eye you see someone else walking towards the same door. Will you increase your speed and enter before them, or let the other person go first?"

This is a revised version of the speech by Erik Hagoort at the defense of his Phd in the arts, 13 October 2017, in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp.

The Phd jury consisted of supervisors Arthur Cools and Nico Dockx, and the jury members Voebe de Gruyter, Marijke Hoogenboom, Geert Lernout, Dieter Lesage, and chairman Henk de Smaele.

The Phd in the arts was granted by the University of Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, united under the name of ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts).

Graphic design: Jean-Michel Meyers
Translation: Gregory Ball
Publisher: Erik Hagoort
© 2018 Erik Hagoort
ISBN: 978-90-825657-1-3
NL & English

Op het punt staan iets te zeggen

Op het punt staan iets te zeggen, 2018

"Je loopt op een deur af en in je ooghoek zie je iemand anders in hetzelfde tempo ook op die deur... more "Je loopt op een deur af en in je ooghoek zie je iemand anders in hetzelfde tempo ook op die deur aflopen. Zal ik mijn pas versnellen en als eerste naar binnen gaan of zal ik de ander voor laten gaan?"

Dit is een bewerkte versie van de voordracht van Erik Hagoort tijdens de verdediging van zijn doctoraat in de kunst, op 13 oktober 2017,.

De doctoraatsjury bestond uit de promotoren Arthur Cools en Nico Dockx, de juryleden Voebe de Gruyter, Marijke Hoogenboom, Geert Lernout en Dieter Lesage, en voorzitter Henk de Smaele. Het doctoraat in de kunst werd verkregen bij de Universiteit Antwerpen en de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, verenigd in ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts).

Vormgeving: Jean-Michel Meyers
Uitgever: Erik Hagoort
© 2018 Erik Hagoort
ISBN: 978-90-825657-1-3

Hagoorts doctoraatsonderzoek in de kunst vond plaats aan de Universiteit Antwerpen en de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, verenigd in ARIA: Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts.

Good Intentions. Judging the Art of Encounter

Good Intentions. Judging the Art of Encounter, Netherlands Fund BKVB, Amsterdam, 2005

How should we judge the quality of the art of encounter? Through conversations, meals, walks and ... more How should we judge the quality of the art of encounter? Through conversations, meals, walks and community activities, visual artists strive for solidarity, commitment, intimacy and friendship. What about these good intentions? What if art and morality merge? How do artists work with moral dispositions?
Hagoort spoke with prominent representatives of the art of encounter in the Netherlands and turned to moral philosophy for answers.
Written in a clear and illuminating style, Hagoort examines the relation between art and morality. He demonstrates that the assessment of good intentions can enrich art criticism, provided that we are prepared to forsake the will to pass judgement.

This essay is the first part of the essay series commissioned by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Art, Design and Architecture, currently Mondriaan Foundation.

Book Reviews by Erik Hagoort

Review Mary Jane Jacob_ Dewey for Artists.pdf

Metropolis M #1, 2019

In her book 'Dewey for Artists' Chicago-based curator Mary Jane Jacob points to a radical practic... more In her book 'Dewey for Artists' Chicago-based curator Mary Jane Jacob points to a radical practice, inspired by the thinking and doing of John Dewey (1859-1957), in which reform is regarded as a more powerful and effective way to change and amelioration of society than revolution. Jacob gives intriguing comparisons between Dewey's practice and contemporary social art practice. She shares her own history of curatorial practice in dialogue with Dewey. This makes her book also a valuable document.

Mary Jane Jacob, Dewey for Artists
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018
ISBN 9780226580449

Hear, See, Feel, Change. In conversation with Grant H. Kester.

by Erik Hagoort and Grant Kester

in: Metropolis M. Dutch Magazine for Contemporary Art, 2018 #4, 2018

Talking to Grant H. Kester, Professor of Art History in San Diego and founding editor of FIELD: A... more

Pertaining Asymmetry

in: Beatrice von Bismarck, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (eds.), Hospitality, Hosting Relations in Exhibitions, 3rd volume in the Cultures of the Curatorial book series, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2016, 168-185. ISBN 978-3-95679-089-8, 2016

It happens that we have come to think of social art practice in terms of reciprocity. Ever since ... more It happens that we have come to think of social art practice in terms of reciprocity. Ever since the rise of this art practice, reciprocity widely has been identified as the main condition for this art practice to work indeed as social art practice. Yet, this art practice also produces experiences, which are not necessarily reciprocal by nature: responsibility, generosity, hospitality, friendship, confidence, trust, faith. This is acknowledged, by practitioners and theoreticians alike, but the question how these experiences relate to the condition of reciprocity, in which they would function, still needs to be addressed.
Some curators, amongst them Mary Jane Jacob and Viktor Misiano, testify of a sensibility to experiences which fall outside of reciprocity. In their curatorial practices and writings these curators start to question reciprocity and try to account for asymmetry in encounter.

Quotations from & Thoughts after Symprovisation on Art and Empathy,

in: Nico Dockx & Pascal Gielen (eds.) Mobile Autonomy. Exercises in Artists' Self-Organization, Antennae series, Valiz, Amsterdam 2015, 155-169., 2015

In a sort of 'polylogue' Erik Hagoort explores a conversational working mode of affinity, which h... more In a sort of 'polylogue' Erik Hagoort explores a conversational working mode of affinity, which he titles 'Symprovization'.

This article consists of Quotations from/ and Hagoort's Thoughts after 'Symprovization on Art and Empathy', for which he invited curator Tricia van Eck and artists Kirsten Leenaars, Jason Pallas and Caroline Picard.

This 'Symprovisation' took place on November 5, 2014 at Sector 2337 in Chicago, IL., USA.

Dead against Consensus. The Thinking of Chantal Mouffe.

in: Metropolis M. Dutch Magazine for Contemporary Art, 2007 #5, 2007

The ideas of Chantal Mouffe, a French-speaking Belgian political philosopher working in London, d... more The ideas of Chantal Mouffe, a French-speaking Belgian political philosopher working in London, does not reveal her as much of a proponent of the Dutch ‘polder model’. Her position is that people must dare to have passionately different opinions, for this is the best building block for democracy. Mouffe’s theory is increasingly being seen as a universally applicable model to liberate politics from the stranglehold of consensus thinking. Now she has become a sought-after speaker in the art world. The issue is whether artists can do justice to her intentions.

As published in Metropolis M, Dutch Magazine for Contemporary Art, 2007 #5

Fel tegen consensus. Het denken van Chantal Mouffe.

in: Metropolis M. Tijdschrift voor hedendaagse kunst, 2007

In de kunstwereld is zij inmiddels een veel gevraagd spreker. De Waalse, in Londen werkende polit... more In de kunstwereld is zij inmiddels een veel gevraagd spreker. De Waalse, in Londen werkende politiek filosoof Chantal Mouffe toont zich in haar denken niet bepaald een voorstander van het poldermodel. Haar stelling: durf gepassioneerd van mening te verschillen, want juist daar is democratie bij gebaat. Mouffe’s politieke theorie wordt meer en meer gezien als een bruikbaar model om de politiek uit de wurggreep van consensusdenken te bevrijden. Ook kunstenaars voelen zich tot Mouffe's agonistische denken aangetrokken. Maar of haar intenties in de kunst tot hun recht komen, is de vraag.

Being on the point of saying something

Being on the point of saying something, 2018

"You walk towards a door and out of the corner of your eye you see someone else walking towards t... more "You walk towards a door and out of the corner of your eye you see someone else walking towards the same door. Will you increase your speed and enter before them, or let the other person go first?"

This is a revised version of the speech by Erik Hagoort at the defense of his Phd in the arts, 13 October 2017, in the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library in Antwerp.

The Phd jury consisted of supervisors Arthur Cools and Nico Dockx, and the jury members Voebe de Gruyter, Marijke Hoogenboom, Geert Lernout, Dieter Lesage, and chairman Henk de Smaele.

The Phd in the arts was granted by the University of Antwerp and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, united under the name of ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts).

Graphic design: Jean-Michel Meyers
Translation: Gregory Ball
Publisher: Erik Hagoort
© 2018 Erik Hagoort
ISBN: 978-90-825657-1-3
NL & English

Op het punt staan iets te zeggen

Op het punt staan iets te zeggen, 2018

"Je loopt op een deur af en in je ooghoek zie je iemand anders in hetzelfde tempo ook op die deur... more "Je loopt op een deur af en in je ooghoek zie je iemand anders in hetzelfde tempo ook op die deur aflopen. Zal ik mijn pas versnellen en als eerste naar binnen gaan of zal ik de ander voor laten gaan?"

Dit is een bewerkte versie van de voordracht van Erik Hagoort tijdens de verdediging van zijn doctoraat in de kunst, op 13 oktober 2017,.

De doctoraatsjury bestond uit de promotoren Arthur Cools en Nico Dockx, de juryleden Voebe de Gruyter, Marijke Hoogenboom, Geert Lernout en Dieter Lesage, en voorzitter Henk de Smaele. Het doctoraat in de kunst werd verkregen bij de Universiteit Antwerpen en de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, verenigd in ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts).

Vormgeving: Jean-Michel Meyers
Uitgever: Erik Hagoort
© 2018 Erik Hagoort
ISBN: 978-90-825657-1-3

Hagoorts doctoraatsonderzoek in de kunst vond plaats aan de Universiteit Antwerpen en de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen, verenigd in ARIA: Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts.

Good Intentions. Judging the Art of Encounter

Good Intentions. Judging the Art of Encounter, Netherlands Fund BKVB, Amsterdam, 2005

How should we judge the quality of the art of encounter? Through conversations, meals, walks and ... more How should we judge the quality of the art of encounter? Through conversations, meals, walks and community activities, visual artists strive for solidarity, commitment, intimacy and friendship. What about these good intentions? What if art and morality merge? How do artists work with moral dispositions?
Hagoort spoke with prominent representatives of the art of encounter in the Netherlands and turned to moral philosophy for answers.
Written in a clear and illuminating style, Hagoort examines the relation between art and morality. He demonstrates that the assessment of good intentions can enrich art criticism, provided that we are prepared to forsake the will to pass judgement.

This essay is the first part of the essay series commissioned by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Art, Design and Architecture, currently Mondriaan Foundation.

Review Mary Jane Jacob_ Dewey for Artists.pdf

Metropolis M #1, 2019

In her book 'Dewey for Artists' Chicago-based curator Mary Jane Jacob points to a radical practic... more In her book 'Dewey for Artists' Chicago-based curator Mary Jane Jacob points to a radical practice, inspired by the thinking and doing of John Dewey (1859-1957), in which reform is regarded as a more powerful and effective way to change and amelioration of society than revolution. Jacob gives intriguing comparisons between Dewey's practice and contemporary social art practice. She shares her own history of curatorial practice in dialogue with Dewey. This makes her book also a valuable document.

Mary Jane Jacob, Dewey for Artists
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018
ISBN 9780226580449