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We are Platform Nexus.
A movement, a collective,
a group of individual artists from different disciplines.
Together we share a workspace in the community of Het Domijn in Weesp.
What binds us is that we believe in our interdependency.
We want to explore the spaces in between.
To challenge ourselves to go further than ourselves.
Into unknown territories. Hybrid spaces. New disciplines.
Re-thinking ways of working, collaborating and sharing.
We are not a melting pot and we don’t have a hierarchical structure.
It’s about keeping the game alive,
keeping the flow and holding the space together.
Each from their own perspective and strength.
It’s about creating a fertile ground, to facilitate growth and empower each other.
We want to engage in a dynamic relation.
We are like housemates,
without knowing what kind of house it is we are building.
We are finding out the house rules along the way.
This requires a willingness for an open dialogue,
taking responsibility for our own voice, while listening to the choir we form together.
Listening to what the space, our common ground, has to offer.
As an organism that we are all part of, we will take care of it.
This space we are making, this platform, will generate new projects.
These projects are body’s of work,
and they don’t have to fit into any conventional constraint.
We are independent and we want to break through the expectations of an artist.
Our platform is a laboratorium, where we shift the focus to the process
instead of the product.
Giving a process time to breath, or creating a 100 pieces of work in one day.
Making way for new forms. Designing our own disciplines.
Being curious and stubbornly free.
It’s this organic process that we believe in.
Members
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Scenographer | Theatre-maker | Spatial designer
“Collaboration with diverse disciplines is an essential part of my work. Platform Nexus is the place where these connections arise and where building intersects thinking and spatiality becomes a physical issue. This is a long-cherished dream and a conceptual starting point for further development.”
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Theatre-maker | Performer | Education-maker
“Platform Nexus is my artistic home. A place where I can dream big and plant seeds. A makerspace where we are building a community together and where different encounters can take place. In Nexus I can explore new ways of making, where experimentation is central and where art gets more time to breathe.”
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Maarten Heijnens (1996) studeerde in 2019 af aan de performance opleiding van de Toneelacademie in Maastricht en maakt sindsdien werk op het snijvlak van podiumkunst en beeldende kunst. Na zijn opleiding werkte hij drie jaar intensief samen met Anthony van Gog met wie hij o.a. Breathing Piece (2019) en Heartscore (2021) maakte. In 2024 studeerde hij af aan DAS Theatre waar hij zich richtte op het ontwerpen van ruimtes die de bezoeker uitnodigt te reflecteren op onze gedragscodes, onze zogenaamde ‘etiquette’ voor sociale interactie.
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Sound-artist | Composer | Musician
“To me Platform Nexus is a focuspoint. It needs some effort and concentration but if done so it gives collaborations, motivation, inspiration and a place to figure things out, to learn and grow together and eventually to share.”
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Technical theatre-maker | Spatial designer
“Platform Nexus is a place of possibilities, and a good space to experiment! It is my little shed in the backyard, as well as it is the place where I will develop myself as an artist. Especially with so many interesting people around me.”
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Theatre-maker | Installation-artist | Performer
“Nexus for me is like having a new family. It’s the possibility to share dreams and to be inspired. It’s a place to create and show work on our own terms, and to do it together.”
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Theatre-maker | Performer | Singer
“Platform Nexus gives me the space to reunite all my activities in order to develop my work in music theatre: An office, room for experimenting with performers and musicians, and even building and montage is possible.
A great perspective for the future to be part of this inspiring group of artists, and contribute to managing this great platform.”
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Theatre scolar | Dramaturg | Programmaker
“I see Nexus as a space for encounter and process. The works of the members next to each other seem very different, but during the making process they share the inspiration for the physical; in the sense of space, body and environment. They are guided by what and who they encounter, by each other, by the relationships between people, things and nature. I am happy to be able to support Nexus in facilitating these encounters.”