“A puppet can fly: The more-than-human portrays ultimate humanity” – Lisanne Brouwer
“It can walk, yes, but that’s not what it does best. Because a puppet can fly.” Ulrike Quade, theatre-maker, researcher and artistic leader of puppet theatre group Ulrike Quade Company, needs but a single sentence to enthral a room full of theatre students and scholars with her fascination for puppetry. On 29 November 2023,
“Imagining the power of a smelly robot”– Elsbeth Hoefkens
A group of people dressed in beige costumes that distort them in many ways and make it almost impossible for them to move, share the same real but also virtual space. Immersed in the same virtual world, each participant has their own character and symbiotic role in the overall world and to each other.
“Multisensory storytelling – Dancing by looking” – Lisa van den Burg
On December 6th, I met multi-sensory storyteller Grace Boyle in an online session of Meet the Makers. This initiative is part of Transmission in Motion, which is a research community that provides a platform for meetings, seminars, and presentations between researchers, artists, and students from across disciplines. Grace is the founder and director of the
“Manipulation of the Senses, VR and Gender” – Andrina Imboden
In the Transmission in Motion seminar Meet the Makers: Grace Boyle on the 6th of December 2021, Lianne Toussaint moderated a talk with the multi-sensory storyteller Grace Boyle. This resulted in an inspiring discussion on the manipulation of the senses in art, virtual reality, and cross-modal correspondences, to name only a few of the topics.
“Opening Your Ears to the World Around You” – Rogier Hornman
What would have been an experimental set-up a decade ago, is now an ingrained praxis: seeing others, hearing others, while hovering my fingers over a touchpad to read a chat. This set-up was the stage for Grace Boyle and Lianne Toussaint at the Meet the Makers meeting on December 6th, 2021, organized by the workgroup
“Grasping Theatre With Your Hands, Your Nose, and Your 31 Other Senses” – Selma Visscher
On December the 6th, as part of the Meet the Makers sessions, Grace Boyle spoke about her work as a multisensory storyteller. She states that human beings don’t have 5 senses, but up to (at least) 33. She talked about how this multisensory principle comes into being in her artistic work. In her performances, she
“Joyce, Woolf and Beckett: Multisensory Storytellers avant la lettre?” – Eline Hadermann
On Monday 6 December, the members of the Dramaturgical Practices Course (theatre module) had the honor to meet the multisensory storyteller Grace Boyle. Boyle is the founder of ‘Feelies’, a London-based studio that creates multisensory XR content. With this project, she aims to debunk the Western belief that humans have only five senses, and attempts