Research
Social Safety
safety does not exist
This artistic research begins with a simple, unsettling assumption: safety does not exist. This is both a personal reflection from artistic director Didi Kreike and a starting point for exploring how safety is understood, performed, and demanded in society. By questioning safety as a fixed condition, we open space to investigate its complexities, contradictions, and limits.
Systems of “protection”
Our projects look at the social and cultural meanings of safety; and how it is enforced. We explore how safety interacts with power structures, control systems, revenge, paranoia, and even violence. What happens when people feel compelled to follow rules or norms in the name of safety? How do systems of “protection” create vulnerability for some while privileging others? By examining these questions through performance, scenography, and interventions, we challenge audiences to rethink their assumptions about what it means to feel safe or unsafe.
This research also reflects on contemporary culture’s obsession with safety. Safety has become a hot topic, a brand, a guarantee, or even a hype. We ask: what does it mean to live in a society that constantly seeks to eliminate risk? And what is lost when we do? By confronting these questions in our work, we highlight the tension between desire for protection and the impossibility of complete control.
fragility of safety,
the complexity of consent
In practice, our research creates situations where safety is tested, negotiated, and experienced differently. Audiences encounter moments that are physically, emotionally, or morally unsettling. These interventions are not about harm for its own sake; they are designed to provoke reflection, dialogue, and awareness. By stepping into these experiences, participants can feel the fragility of safety, the complexity of consent, and the ways social structures influence who is protected—and who is exposed.
Ultimately, this research asks how art can illuminate the limits of safety and help us think critically about living in a society that seeks to manage uncertainty. It is an invitation to stay with discomfort, to question norms, and to imagine alternative ways of being together when safety is never guaranteed.