The Creator Doctus project enables higher arts education institutions to be able to independently enter the 3rd Cycle. Within this trajectory, institutions can award new and innovative artistic research methodologies, recognizing the conducted research at the same level of - and equivalent to- PhD. The process of research by the artist leads towards a corpus of works or projects, and entails no compulsory writing. In 2017, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie started the first CrD-pilot with artist Yael Davids.

The focus of Yael Davids’ research A Daily Practice is on somatic learning and consists of three phases. The research, supervised by the Van Abbemuseum and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, is inspired by the work of Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais. Feldenkrais developed a method for people to change bodily habits from within. This method has played an important role in Davids’ artistic practice in the last years.

The examination was, in attendance of the supervisors Nick Aikens and Sher Doruff, conducted by the members of the examination committee:

Dora Garcia Lopez
Flavia Dzodan
Franciska Zólyom
Grant Watson
Jennifer Lacey
Paula Albuquerque
Sruti Bala