This one-and-a-half-day workshop at the University of Amsterdam explores credit as a connective operator between theatre and economy. Bringing together researchers and artists who engage critically with money, debt, speculation and financial transactions, the workshop investigates how credit functions simultaneously as financial infrastructure, representational regime and performative practice. Rather than positioning theatre and economy as separate spheres placed in dialogue, the workshop approaches them as mutually constitutive systems of value production. Credit serves as the analytical hinge through which this interrelation becomes visible. The workshop thus resists the confinement of economic thinking to the discipline of economics, foregrounds how theatre has been constitutive in shaping what we understand as the economy, and acknowledges the capacity of artistic practices to render this visible and to propose strategies for critical inquiry.
Thursday, 10th December 2026: Workshop & Artistic Encounters
Location: University of Amsterdam, Kartinizaal (Kartini Room)
09.00 | Walk-in with coffee and reception
09:30 | Round 1: Introduction (Toon Fibbe, Suzanne Kooloos, Lisa-Frederike Seidler, and Felix Stenger)
10:15 | Round 2: Research Spark by Marieke de Goede
11:00 – 11:15 | Break
11:15 | Round 3: Approaching Credit – Introducing Artists’ Work
With Marissa Lee Benedict, David Rueter, Bik van der Pol (Jos van der Pol, Liesbeth Bik), and Falke Pisano
12:30 – 13.30 | Lunch Break
13:30 | Round 4: Performing Credit (working groups)
15:00 – 15.30 | Coffee Break
15:30 | Round 5: Observations and Wrap-up
16:30 | Closing Remarks
17.30 | Evening Programme
Friday, 11th December 2026: Reflection and Forward Planning
Location: University of Amsterdam, University Library Vendelstraat, Ruyszaal
09:30 | Walk-in with coffee
10:00 | Introducing the “Theatre & Economy” research collaboration
10:30 | Reflection: Imagining futures for the “Theatre & Economy” research collaboration
12:00 | End of the workshop