TAAT is a transdisciplinary arts collective, bringing together international artists, designers and other (non-)professionals to share, explore and develop ideas around regenerative art and embodied encounters between humans and more-than-humans. 

TAAT is a regenerative practice that shifts between artistic research, social practice and collaborative learning.

TAAT is currently growing “Encounter Portals”: bio organic structures that are based on and contribute to a regenerative, multispecies co-existence. These are part of the long term project HALL33, which facilitates encounters between humans, more-than-humans, institutions, research and education and has been unfolding as ‘rehearsals through space’ from 2012 until now.

“TAAT’s work is situated in the interdisciplinary terrain of socially and spatially engaged artistic work that takes place in, and explores, urban public space and its social conditions. Operating ‘outside’ or ‘in-between’ the established fields of art, theatre and architecture, TAAT’s work is a form of critical spatial practice: they use the performativity of space to mediate intersubjective interaction, questioning disciplinary procedures and working through a collective and distributed understanding of authorship. Common to socially engaged art and performance practices their work provides opportunities for embodied social interaction and exchange.” (Andrew Filmer, ConferencePaper IFTR 2019)

TAAT is registered as a foundation (stichting) with a Non-Profit Status (since November ‘21) and is based in Maastricht (NL). You can find our strategic vision, our goals and activities, our board, our sustainability model and our financial reporting here.

Collaborations

TAAT was founded in 2012 by Gert-Jan Stam and Breg Horemans after a collaboration on the project KHORI (Venlo, Floriade 2012) commissioned by Huis van Bourgondië, Maastricht (NL). TAAT operates within a constellation of art institutions, organisations, universities and companies. The core team currently exists of Efrosyni Tsiritaki (Athens, GR), Goda Verikaite (The Hague, NL), Amandine David (Bruxelles, BE), David Martens (Bruxelles, BE), Martin Simpson (Graz, AT) and Pichaya “Jaja” Puapoomcharoen (Rotterdam, NL).

The development of HALL33 is based on a network of collaborations with a.o. KASK (BE), KISD (DE), Aberystwyth University (WA), University of London (UK), KABK (NL), Theatre Academy Riga (LV) and supported/presented by a.o. Creative Europe, (partners) Dutch Creative Industries Fund, Art&Amen Köln, BUDA Kortrijk, Biënnale Interieur Kortrijk, DAZ Berlin, CAMPO Ghent, Design Museum Ghent, Gessnerallee Zürich, Prague Quadrennial, Verbeke Foundation, Homo Novus Festival (Riga, LV) and Sansusi Festival (Akniste, LV).

BOKRIJK SENGU was created in collaboration with Jolien Naeyaert, Ward Delbeke, Bas Vrehen, Frederik Schobben en Sylvie Hagens and commissioned by Open Air Museum of Bokrijk, Genk, BE.

Maas Lab is a collaboration with SoAP and the river Meuse.

TAAT is structurally supported by SoAP foundation (Maastricht, NL) and the Dutch Performing Arts Fund.