Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-Academic Institute
for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory
Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-Academic Institute
for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory
Annually, the Jan van Eyck organises a receptive recruitment campaign. Candidates are requested to submit proposals for research and/or production and to indicate the length of the desired research period (minimum 1 month, maximum 24 months). Candidates can apply for a one or two year period starting at the academic year on 1 January each year.
15 April 2011
The recruitment website with video messages to candidate researchers, created by Kim de Groot, researcher in the Design Department and designer of the April 2010 recruitment campaign, is still online.
The relationship between the researcher and the Jan van Eyck is laid down in a contract. The contract covers the following topics: registration, information on policy and the concrete results of the research. Candidates who are accepted as researchers can only start their research period once the contract is signed.
The Jan van Eyck is based in Maastricht, a student city in the south of the Netherlands, situated near Belgium and Germany. Cities like Brussels, Antwerp, Aachen and Cologne, but also Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Paris can be reached by train within three hours.
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Researchers are expected to have attained a level equivalent to a master’s degree, and preferably to have some years of professional experience.
Researchers are expected to establish the aims, methodologies and realisation of their projects.
Researchers are expected to independently formulate a relationship to the discipline of fine art, design or theory or to a collective research project.
Candidates applying for either Fine Art, Design, Theory are asked to propose an individual research project. They can indicate their interest in participating in one of the projects that are offered by the department of their choice or other departments:
– After 1968. What is the political?
– Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique