Every DAI week, one full day is dedicated to lecture-presentations or lecture-performances by students. Following a model that has been developed and chiseled since 2003, six to eight students each present a 20 minute update of their research to an audience consisting of their fellow students and two, monthly changing respondents (invited artists, theoreticians, curators).

Beginning their presentation with a carefully crafted key question addressing both guests the students will each present relevant aspects of their praxis / works in process / reference sets, rather than finished works.That said: other than the limits of the given time and space there are no restrictions to the content of the presentation. Following each performance, in a conversational mode, the two invited respondents try to come up with a spoken reflection while simultanuously engaging with the question. The discussion between the guests is (lightly) moderated by DAI director Gabriëlle Schleijpen.

In July 2015 DAI will organize a four day 'marathon' where all students, in the presence of all core tutors and project leaders will present a final research update or a performative work (again, within the limits of the set time frame). These presentations will function as the final wrap up of the overall learning trajectory of the student in the academic year 2014-2015. This time we will open our doors for anybody interested.

 Each student will be aligned with a coach: this experienced practitioner / researcher / performer attends all 6-7 presentations on a Tuesday and presents the students with feed back during 6-7 face to face tutorials on the Thursday in the same week. In the DAI-week in June during a full day of training the coach and her/his 6-8 students will work towards the student's final presentations in July 2015. 

Coaches 2014-2015: Rebecca Sakoun, Rana Hamadeh, Stefanie Seibold, Snejanka Mihaylova , Chiara Fumai and Vivian Ziherl.

Presenters, Respondents & Coaches 2014-2015

TUESDAY May 19 with Stewart Martin & Adelita Husni-Bey as respondents

Coach: Vivian Ziherl in the audience. Vivian will return Thursday May 21 for tutorials and on Tuesday June 16 for a workshop on presenting/ performing a lecture.

1.Julietta Aguinaco 

2.Mathilde Sauzet        

3.Yung Han Juan 

4.Maja Renn 

5.Malina Suliman 

6.Benjamin Burtenshaw 

7.Chris den Dulk 

8.Michelle Brown

TUESDAY April 21 with Daniel Blanga-Gubbay & Anik Fournier as respondents

Coach: Chiara Fumai in the audience. She returns on Thursday April 23 for tutorials and on Tuesday June 16 for a workshop on presenting/ performing a lecture.

10.30 Monique Hendriksen

11.15 Nil Ilkbasaran

12.00 Marie-Andrée Pellerin

13.00 Communal lunch 

14.00 Eona McCallum

14.45 Dai Xiyun

15.30 Melissa Tun Tun

16:15 Peter Sattler

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24 with Mo Salemy & Christian Nyampeta as respondents

Coach: Snejanka Mihaylova in the audience. She returns on Thursday February 26 for tutorials and on Tuesday June 16 for a workshop on presenting/ performing a lecture.

10.30 Maria Barlasov

11.15 Valentina Miorandi

12.00  Bryony Gillard

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Coco Duivenvoorde

14.45 Miguel Angel Rego Robles

15.30 Constanza Puente

16.10 Eduardo Cachucho

TUESDAY JANUARY 20 with David Panos & Rachel O'Reilly as respondents

Coach: Stefanie Seibold in the audience. She returns on Thursday Januari 20 for tutorials and on Tuesday June 16 for a workshop on presenting/ performing a lecture.

10.30 Kaste Šeškeviciute

11.15 Celia Shomal

12.00 Jammie Nicholas

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Sebastian De Line

14.45 Savannah Theis

15.30 Martha Jager

Presentations Associate PHD Research Collective:

16:15 David Maroto

17:00 Florian Göttke

TUESDAY DECEMBER 9 with Alexandra Navratil & Vesna Madzoski as respondents

Coach: Rana Hamadeh in the audience. She will act as a coach to these 6 presenters and return on Thursday December 11 for tutorials and on Tuesday June 16 for a workshop on presenting/ performing a lecture.

10.30 Joost Mellink

11.15 Katia Barrett

12.00 Kristinn Guðmundsson

13.00  Lunch

14.00 Laila Torres Mendieta

14.45 Avan Omar Muhammad

15.30 Sarah Demoen

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4  with Bridget Crone & Bernard Akoi-Jackson as respondents

Coach: Rebecca Sakoun in the audience. She will act as a coach to these 6 presenters and return on Thursday November 6 for tutorials and on Tuesday June 16 for a workshop on presenting/ performing a lecture. 

10.15 Charlie Dance

11.00 Aarti Sunder

11.45 Jan Adriaans

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Hu Wei

14.15 Panagiotis Panagiotakopoulos

15.00 Pilar Mata Dupont

15.45 Tea break

16.00 Presentation Bernard Akoi-Jackson