HOME BOUND

2026
EDITION

In Home Bound, diverse rope materials and practices are woven together to form a massive social tapestry. Members of different communities — knitters, scouts, shibari practitioners — who don’t usually share the same space collaborate to build a giant rope installation. 

From 14 – 23 May craft specialists, community groups, and members of the public will weave their materials, skills, stories, and histories together through workshops and activities at Neude Square. 

As the fibres intertwine, Home Bound enacts the social entanglement of life in Utrecht. It is a choreography of knots that represents social dialogue, negotiation of differences, and a testament to co-existence. 

You are invited to get involved by donating materials, observing the creation process, or partaking in workshops to help shape the tapestry themselves.

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Admission: Free/Pay-what-you-want

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The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival 2026 - Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti
Home Bound © Gregory Lorenzutti

Lead Artists: Luke George, Daniel Kok

Creative Producer: Jennifer Ma

Lighting Designer: Katie Sfetkidis

Sound Designer: Nick Roux

Home Bound is made possible by The Betty Amsden Endowment, commissioned by Asia TOPA 2025, Principal Sponsor: DECJUBA Foundation, Project Partner: Craft Victoria

Daniel Kok studied Fine Art & Critical Theory (Goldsmiths College, London), Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT, Berlin), and Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies (APASS, Brussels). In 2008, he received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council (Singapore). His artistic work deals with the politics of spectatorship and audienceship and has been presented across Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America; notably in the Venice Biennale, Maxim Gorki (Berlin), Rising (Melbourne), and Festival/Tokyo. Still Lives: Melbourne won Outstanding Contemporary and Experimental Performance and Design/Technical Achievement at the Green Room Awards 2023. As artistic director of Dance Nucleus (Singapore), he develops capacities for artists and trans-local partnerships in the Asia-Pacific. He curates da:ns LAB and the VECTOR exhibition annually in collaboration with the Esplanade (Singapore). He is based between Singapore and Berlin. Luke George is a multidisciplinary artist creating work across performance and installation. Born in lutruwita/Tasmania and based on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne, Luke works with rope, tension, suspension, and release. His practice examines how people interact with one another and relate to their environment. Luke is interested in “safe spaces” that allow for both care and risk. His work is informed by queer politics and communal spaces, where people are neither singular nor isolated. Bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, and take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke presents work across Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, including at the Venice Biennale, National Galleries of Victoria and Singapore, and Arts Centre Melbourne. He was a 2019 Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship recipient, appointed inaugural Artistic Associate of Temperance Hall in 2020, bequeathed a Chloe Monroe Fellowship in 2022, and is a studio artist at Collingwood Yards.
Daniel Kok studied Fine Art & Critical Theory (Goldsmiths College, London), Solo/Dance/Authorship (HZT, Berlin), and Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies (APASS, Brussels). In 2008, he received the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council (Singapore). His artistic work deals with the politics of spectatorship and audienceship and has been presented across Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America; notably in the Venice Biennale, Maxim Gorki (Berlin), Rising (Melbourne), and Festival/Tokyo. Still Lives: Melbourne won Outstanding Contemporary and Experimental Performance and Design/Technical Achievement at the Green Room Awards 2023. As artistic director of Dance Nucleus (Singapore), he develops capacities for artists and trans-local partnerships in the Asia-Pacific. He curates da:ns LAB and the VECTOR exhibition annually in collaboration with the Esplanade (Singapore). He is based between Singapore and Berlin.

Luke George is a multidisciplinary artist creating work across performance and installation. Born in lutruwita/Tasmania and based on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne, Luke works with rope, tension, suspension, and release. His practice examines how people interact with one another and relate to their environment. Luke is interested in “safe spaces” that allow for both care and risk. His work is informed by queer politics and communal spaces, where people are neither singular nor isolated. Bodies of difference can intersect, practice mutual listening, and take responsibility for themselves and one another. Luke presents work across Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, including at the Venice Biennale, National Galleries of Victoria and Singapore, and Arts Centre Melbourne. He was a 2019 Australia Council for the Arts Fellowship recipient, appointed inaugural Artistic Associate of Temperance Hall in 2020, bequeathed a Chloe Monroe Fellowship in 2022, and is a studio artist at Collingwood Yards.