Rozan Van Klaveren

Rozan van Klaveren is a post-doctoral researcher within the Cultural Education and Participation research cluster of the Inter-Actions Research Group. As a lecturer in the Educational Master of Art at LUCA School of Arts, campus C-Mine, she mainly focuses on participatory art practices and arts-based environmental education.

Rozan has been interested in artistic inquiries and interactive storytelling for many years. She won the ISOC Award for Internet and the Arts with the science fiction project Braintec, which was subsequently nominated for the International Media Art Price of 2002. She finalized her art-based PhD project Towards Togetherness: Probing as a Decolonizing Approach for Artistic Inquiry in 2018, for which she was a fellow at the Estonian Art Academy through the ADAPT-r program. She explored the decolonizing potential of artistic inquiries during the creation process of an online platform and an interactive road movie, both with a focus on indigenous Arctic peoples.

She is currently continuing her search for inclusive approaches towards other ways of knowing in her postdoctoral project Wild Matters, which departs from queer theory and rewilding philosophies. Partly based in a small wilderness cabin in northern Finland, she explores how queerness and masculinity enhance her connection to nature. Intrigued by the diverse perspectives from which people view and represent reindeer, she artistically maps anthropomorphic tendencies and other relational misconceptions about this species. And through a poetic use of 360° video, she tries to share her findings.