Hello! My name is Marthe. I’m an artistic researcher, educator and advisor specialised in developing (arts) educational programmes and experimental methods for publishing research. Drawing from tactics of resistance theatre and comedy, I make discourses around systemic inequality tangible; actively engaging communities, students and institutions both in- and outside the Dutch cultural sector. 

❦ With a background in labour activism and performance theatre, my practice-based research is concerned with how performative strategies can help us rethink the exploitative, wasteful and destructive forces of work. I have developed performances and collective engagement around the devaluation of women’s work; the absurdity of (self)optimisation technologies and trickle-up hustle culture; work as waste; wage-theft; the politics of the CV and the theatrics of CV-bluffing. As antidote to our exhaustive drive towards constant productivity, I currently explore ways of rehearsing refusal. 

❦ For over ten years now I have passionately guided BA, MA and PhD students in both arts academic and university settings. I support students in their individual artistic development, research trajectories and the broader dramaturgy of their practices. Within this context, I also offer pedagogical advice on curriculum development and the future of arts-education in the Netherlands. 

Marthe Prins teaches artistic research at Design Academy Eindhoven (MA) and The Royal Academy of Art The Hague (BA), where she works as researcher as part of the Deep Futures Lectorate. In 2020 she co-founded Art Goss, a platform publishing high-effort, critical art gossip. For HetHEM she writes a satirical advice column titled Noa’s Advice, on the inner workings of the art-world. Recent performances include If Not A Worker, Who Am I at Museum de Lakenhal; Curriculum Veto at Impakt Festival Utrecht/Het Nationale Theater The Hague; Window of Opportunity at Impakt Utrecht and GAS/LIGHT at Het Resort Groningen.