- Installation
- Performance
- Performance-installation
Home Bound
Over 10 days, Neude transforms into Home Bound as artists, craftspeople, and community groups weave diverse rope materials and their stories together to build a giant rope installation. As fibres intertwine, communities who do not typically share the same space collaborate in a choreography of knots that represents the social dialogue in the Netherlands. You’re invited to enter the woven landscape, witness the makers, learn their skills, hear their stories, or add your own hands to this growing tapestry, woven by and for Utrecht.
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.
Over ten days, 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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Credits
Lead performers: 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, main sponsor: DECJUBA Foundation, project partner: Craft Victoria
This performance is a part of AECFest, a multidisciplinary public arts festival that alternates annually between Asia and Europe. In 2026, it will be presented as a festival-in-a-festival within SPRING, taking place from May 14 to 23. This edition marks the third consecutive year that AECFest is hosted within a major international festival platform, following editions in Italy (2024) and China (2025).
The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival (AECFest) is organized by Asia Europe Foundation with the financial support of the People’s Republic of China and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. 