Anouk works with text, textile, sound and performance. Their practice is oriented to the experimental and collective. The materials that come out of this practice are moments of processes rather than presentations fixed once and for all. Their PhD research “Sensuous address: textural, social, and temporal explorations of language in artistic practices” looks at the materiality of language and conditions for change and exchange. The project develops the concept of 'sensuous address' through disability studies, radical pedagogy, and performative practices in textile, text, and sound. Perceived linguistic ability has been the metric and method of dehumanization, conferring knowledge, communication, agency, intention, and sociability. Moreover, encounters are seen as structured by pre-existing conditions, which often obscure how meetings come into being. Sensuous address, unlike a hierarchical exchange of information, explores encountering and sharing knowledge in sensory and aesthetic terms. This research contributes to the field of language-based artistic research and finds place at Teesside University (UK) in collaboration with ZHdK. Currently Anouk is funded by Cultuurfonds, The Netherlands.