But you certainly don't need to have been to Cambridge, or indeed any university, to engage with the theme of education as a cornerstone of freedom.
How do I engage with this?
In this research, students completed digital stories and engaged with the theme of their "future".
Some directly engage with the springtime theme, like some resin-encased leaves by Natasha LeSourd, while others are more abstract.
Some engage with wider themes of nostalgia, hope and faith in God.
"I engage with historical themes or folklore with a totally open mind and try to invent new theories," explains Mr Hoshino.
For Performa 15, new commissions, performances, and installations will engage with themes of history (particularly the Renaissance, this year's "historical anchor"), geography (this year's featured country is Australia), geometry, media, politics, spectator dynamics, and more.
This gave him the opportunity to innovate and to engage with explicitly radical themes.
Interested in how storytellers can engage with themes of mortality?
Some refer to poems of his by title; others engage with themes he addressed.
Paintings and illustrations – many of which were of women's faces – were meant to engage with themes of "femininity, representation and power".
