Authors:Alina Cristea Abstract: AbstractArchives are related to history, memory, and the creation of meaning. In the context of post-communist Romania, getting access to and studying the archives of communism are highly relevant to help us understand the recent history of the region, including those events that a lot of people would like to be/have forgotten. As someone born in 1989, the year of the Revolution and the fall of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, I am looking for my own answers in both state and private archives about the trauma the city of Bucharest suffered during communism, while also wanting to retrace personal family histories. This is an account of my first encounter with the archives of several public institutions and my preliminary observations on them. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Philip Lüschen Abstract: AbstractHow can we prevent ourselves from becoming too comfortable with adapting to human-constructed environments which seem to preclude open-ended exploration' Philip Lüschen researches his ambiguous relationship with public space and develops methods of ‘vagueing’ to explore possibilities for alternative experiences within rigidly scripted and rationalized urban environments. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Annelys de Vet Abstract: AbstractThe term disarming design has been moving through my practice as a description of a book, in the title of a design label, and a master’s programme. The words seemed poetic and nonconformist, but caused tensions, particularly in the context of Palestine, where the projects are undertaken. In this text, its interpretations and values are discussed as a critical self-reflection to carefully regard the political and ideological stance a title can imply. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Peter Krüger Abstract: AbstractN, The Madness of Reason by Peter Krüger premiered at the 2014 Berlinale. The press lauded the film as a poetic masterpiece. In 2015, the film was awarded an Ensor for best feature film, best musical score and best editing. Seven years later, Peter Krüger's doctorate on film and its poetics is complete. In his dissertation, he testifies about the thought processes that guided him during his trips to the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal in order to make a film about the spirit of French encyclopaedist Raymond Borremans in West Africa. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Patrícia Domingues Abstract: AbstractWith a background in jewellery and the craft of stone cutting, I am interested in understanding how materials and landscapes are cut, fractured, and broken up and how the fragmentation and reconstruction of the landscape is intimately connected with human skills, techniques, craft, and technologies. Within my practice I explore the idea that matter, rather than being an inert object, is sensitive, embedded in aliveness. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Paulo de Assis Abstract: AbstractArguing that society is going through a major civilisational transformation and claiming that Western art music has been a one thousand year-long epochal phenomenon, this paper is a plea for a reconfiguration of musical practices, provocatively labelled as ‘Music 2.0’.This reconfiguration can benefit from ongoing developments in artistic research, crucially moving from an aesthetic regime of the arts to more pluralistic, inclusive, and diverse aesthetico-epistemic modes of expression. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Aline Verstraten Abstract: AbstractThe daily life of Aline Verstraten provides a starting point for her paintings, in which her partner often appears. In this way, she explores the relationship between the intimacy of her direct surroundings and the necessary distance she takes as a painter from the subject. In this article, she connects some experiences with and some thoughts about colours and layers with her two most recent paintings. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Hannes Verhoustraete Abstract: AbstractAs an early projection device, the magic lantern was often used for colonial propaganda. For instance, to showcase and legitimize the ‘good works’ of the church in the colony. But lanterns were also used by missionaries in Africa to evangelize the local people and create a colonized mindset. This text is a reflection on the work process of Broken View, an essay film on colonial images from the Belgian Congo and the magic lantern. Through montage, collage, and assemblage the film examines and recontextualizes these images of the Belgian colonial past. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Katarina Antunovic Abstract: AbstractIn this contribution, Katarina Antunovic examines the term “perversity”. She approaches the concept as a paradoxical synthesis: highly sensory and physical, but at the same time always invisible and elusive. In Flemish acting courses, the notion is all too often mentioned, always with a different interpretation and often unambiguously interpreted by students in a sexual manner, leaving its exact meaning undecided. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn Abstract: AbstractSkill acquisition entails a slow but permanent metamorphosis of the body and the self. In the arts, these transformations emerge during and through the act of performance, which can obscure the material and corporeal qualities of enskilment. By investigating the autobiography of the Kwakiutl shaman Quesalid and its interpretations from anthropology to critical performance theory, this paper will examine the relationships between performance and identity while showing how Quesalid’s model can inform contemporary artistic practice. PubDate: 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Sofie Decock; Sarah Van Hoof Abstract: AbstractThe guide Waarden voor een nieuwe taal presents recommendations, suggestions, guidelines and examples that should result in a widely supported use of inclusive language by all possible actors within the Dutch arts and culture sector. In this article, Sofie Decock and Sarah Van Hoof frame and comment on the guide based on their expertise as linguists. PubDate: 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Charlotte Vanhoubroeck Abstract: AbstractBy engaging fiction as a method, Charlotte Vanhoubrouck brings queen Marie-Louise of Orléans’s (1812-1850) lost sentimental jewellery back to life. Vanhoubroeck has been conducting art-historical research on Louise’s jewellery for several years. The pragmatic descriptions of these pieces in archive documents appeal to Vanhoubroeck’s artistic imagination and encourage her to create. With these renewed jewels, she reactivates the quiet and sentimental sensibility of the first Belgian queen. PubDate: 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Risk Hazekamp; Nina Lykke Abstract: AbstractNina Lykke and Risk Hazekamp found each other in their love of micro-organisms, especially Diatoms and Cyanobacteria. A warm digital exchange followed, both in words and images, in which the voices of Nina and Risk eventually merged into one shared ‘I’. A speculative, passionate conversation shaped up, investigating the precarious conditions of life and death on the planet, and figuring out pathways towards more joyful and ethical co-becomings with the planet body than Anthropocene extractivism can offer. PubDate: 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Mirjam van Tilburg Abstract: AbstractIn this essay, Mirjam van Tilburg delineates a shift in the craftsmanship of art teachers in corona’s first year of crisis. Together with ten art subject teachers, she occupied artist studios in Tilburg and Rotterdam to de-automate and scrutinize teaching practices. The crisis elucidated the discrepancy between how the education system approaches art teachers and what they themselves require. In those studios, they had one mainstay: being art teachers-savants. PubDate: 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z
Authors:Kurt Bertels Abstract: AbstractThis article focuses on the first concerto for saxophone, written in 1902 by Belgian musician Paul Gilson and dedicated to the famous American amateur saxophonist Elise Hall. With both contextual and artistic arguments, Kurt Bertels wants to show that Hall did not order or perform the work herself, even though Gilson dedicated the concerto to her. In this way, Bertels sheds new light on an important document in saxophone history, as well as on the function of commissioned works. PubDate: 2022-10-01T00:00:00Z
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