ieke Trinks is co-curating the Inter-City project that will take place on September 23 & September 30, 2023 and was part of the jury panel for this year’s Flow • embody in site, 2023.

Netherlands based artist ieke Trinks performs work that often includes the contributions of others in the creation of it. Unscripted Play (Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, OK, USA, 2014), for example, was a collaborative residency with U.S. artist Sarah McKemie, in which the artists initiated improvisational work with high school students, clients from a centre for physical challenges, and residents of a home for the elderly. Designed to invite participation from strangers in public spaces, also include Call for Participants, performed as part of thePlayful Arts Festival (Den Bosch, 2014), and the Meetings, performed as part of Out of Site: unexpected encounters in public space (Chicago, 2013), both in collaboration with U.S. artist Bernard Roddy. Trinks has also worked in the same spirit alone. In Value Products, for example, she selects discarded items on the streets, has them named and valued by people she approaches, and then packages and labels each in order to offer it for sale at market during the event. Markets for this performance have included those provided on the occasion of Anders Sein (Alte Post, Neuss, Germany, 2015), Outside/Inside(Spectacle Island, Boston, 2016) and Whose Museum (Krets gallery, Malmö, 2019). Since 2015 Trinks’ creates works that explore the relation between performance and documentation. Performance Monologues is one of these projects and can be compared to a template for the creation of an oral encyclopaedia. Trinks has been a member of the TRICKSTER performance collective since 2008 and organizes with artist Nina Boas Performance Art Events in the Netherlands. Trinks has been a returning visitor of Chicago. In 2020 she collaborated with artist and director of the performance art gallery Defibrillator Joseph Ravens on a major project called What Remains, featuring an international group of artists responding to Ravens’ collection of performance art objects. Since the first lock-down during the Covid-19 pandemic, the collaboration with artist and director of Out of Site Chicago (OoS) Carron Little has deepened through regular online meetings. Trinks performed in their first online streaming event in partnership with Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) called the Quarantine Concert Series.