Unfolding Universes

Name: Unfolding Universes
Start: 2026-04-29T19:30:00.000+02:00
End: 2026-04-29T21:00:00.000+02:00
Location: Mediamatic

What does it feel like to have your curiosity being pulled into 30 interests at once? To long for structure but also resist it? When starting a task feels like climbing a mountain?

When you get stuck in a thought loop about how you're overthinking your thoughts? And when searching for flow and calm becomes a perfectionist goal in itself?

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In this second chapter of Unfolding Universes, Rosa shares new texts written during her research into neurodivergence and creative flow, alongside drawings that capture sensory details and map inner states of tension. The evening is intimate and unhurried: Rosa reads, drawings are projected, and the senses are gently invited in. The audience is welcome to engage in their own way, through optional moments of guided meditation, drawing, and small sensory surprises.
Where her first presentation traced a personal journey inward, this one moves into the studio, into the creative process itself. Each chapter is different in shape and content, but can be experienced on its own.

About Unfolding Universes

Across six evenings in 2026, Rosa Vrij shares different stages of her long-term research projects. Each “universe” develops over multiple years, generating drawings, performances, structures, and game-like instructions that explore how we sense, imagine, and organise the world.

Participants will get the opportunity to not only peek into Rosa’s research but dive together in a creative universe where together you will reflect on the connections between neurodiversity, space, and daily rituals where slowness makes its way in the face of our fast-paced environment. Unfolding Universes embraces experimentality as the character of the event sits between an artist talk and an engaging performance game.

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Rosa Vrij _ Bio Profile Image - picture by Tetsuro Miyazaki

About Rosa Vrij

As a performance maker and visual artist, Rosa creates universes around a central research theme. Within these universes, a series of artworks arise, building upon each other: from interactive book presentations to live drawings. Often, she reverses the roles of the audience and the artwork, inviting the audience to act as co-creators in her exploration of the boundaries between the body and architecture. Her inspiration draws from video games and board games, and the instructional methods these media employ.

Rosa's work is rooted in intersectional feminism and anti-capitalism. She thinks the focus on economic value, efficiency and competition has gone way overboard in our society. Her work activates the senses so that the audience can meet themselves, each other and their environment in the here and now.

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Unfolding Universes #1 - Presentation at Mediamatic with Rosa Vrij -
About Haptic Lab

The Haptic Lab focuses on tactile and proprioceptive research by challenging authority and established norms collectively, through ‘craftivism’ and parallel-play.

We believe that exploring touch and movement is particularly relevant to understanding and celebrating neurodiversity, as individuals with diverse sensory processing styles can offer unique insights. With the introduction of the costume-lab in 2022 we discovered the need for a space where this research can be done collectively. Alongside fashion and textile design, this workspace has transformed to include spatial design and traditional crafts, all focused on how our body experiences its exterior.