Leo
Kees

Serotonin Lab explores clubbing as a performative practice, tracing relationships between movement, presence, and pleasure through layered improvisations. Inspired by house music and the search for a personal beat, participants develop individual movement vocabularies and a distinct style. Removed from nightlife, alcohol, or social codes, the body becomes the focus. Between dance and physical investigation, roles of audience and performer dissolve, creating a shared experiential space where tendencies and qualities become visible. The lab links somatic practice, house music, and alternative movement culture in contemporary studio-based collective research. 

The Europe Trilogy is a physical lecture-performance composed of IMAGINE: Your Life (2026), IMAGINE: Europe (2027), and IMAGINE: The Future (2028). It traces three connected questions: how different interpretations of one’s own biography become an engine for identity-building (2026); how narratives of European identity have shifted over the last century and remain a work in progress (2027); and how shared imagination might recalibrate future scenarios beyond dominant dystopian narratives (2028). With enough space for humour, sweat, and a willingness to engage with impossible tasks, the journey has now officially begun. Partner institutions and further details will follow soon.

As part of my artistic research on staging the act of learning as performance, I am currently looking for partner institutions to collaborate on open AI labs, exploring how artificial intelligence can be applied to creative processes as well as project management for artists.

Simultaneously, I’m also looking for partner institutions (possibly clubs) to learn DJ skills and integrate them into my somatic research practice (see the Serato workshop at tanzhaus nrw). Updates soon..

This Spanish-language podcast explores what skill sets artists need to build sustainable careers in Latin America, how useful European academic models still are, and where the biggest opportunities for innovation and reframing might lie. When infrastructure and production conditions are fundamentally different, how similar should academic training be?

The series draws on my years teaching career management at the Folkwang University of the Arts and on questions first developed in my 2016 cultural management thesis, translated to the realities of independent artists in the Americas. Available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Launched in 2026 and currently in its early stages.