Leo
Kees
CREATIVE PROCESS LAB
A lab for experimentation and discovery
Throughout my career, I have worked across disciplines — moving between dancers, actors, composers, musicians, video and visual artists, dramaturgs, and, increasingly, collaborators from scientific and technological fields. Much of this work has been developed through devising: rather than beginning with a finished form or predetermined method, each project asks us to start again and discover what the material, the people and the situation might generate.
Creative Process Lab grows out of this experience, and it's an approach to interdisciplinary creation. The aim is not to teach one particular creative method, but to expose participants to different ways of entering a process — and to help them discover which strategies allow their own creativity to become more precise, surprising and productive.
Starting from Zero
How do we begin when there is no fixed form yet? Through a series of practical experiments, participants explore different ways of generating material — without knowing in advance where the process will lead.
Thinking
Ideas can be a starting point. Participants work conceptually, analytically or associatively, using questions, structures, images and connections to generate material.
Moving
The body can think before language does. Movement, physical impulses, rhythm and spatial relationships become tools for developing ideas and discovering unexpected directions.
Writing
Words can create worlds. Writing may begin with a sentence, a fragment, a story, a list, a question or simply a stream of associations — and become material for further experimentation.
Intuition
Not every decision needs to be explained. Participants experiment with intuitive processes, following impulses and making choices before knowing exactly why they are making them.
Alone / Together
Creative processes change when we move between individual concentration and collective exchange. Participants explore when to work independently, when to share, and how the ideas of others can transform their own material.
Fast / Slow
Some ideas emerge through speed, play and immediate decisions. Others need time, repetition and sustained attention. The workshop moves between these different modes of thinking and making.
Focus / Disruption
Deep concentration can open one kind of creative space; interruption, constraint and unexpected challenges can open another. Participants encounter different conditions for generating and transforming material.
Finding Your Process
The aim is to experience different creative strategies and recognize which ones allow each participant to work with greater freedom, clarity and curiosity.