Projects
Beyond Demarcation and Fault Lines: navigating and mapping the divide through artistic practice in Post- Apartheid Cape Town and Post-War Beirut Hasselt University
Jan van Eyck: Knowledge Profile, Artistic Practice and Reception Ghent University
Research conducted in the context of the current conservation/restoration project of Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece and in preparation of our recent exhibition ‘Van Eyck: an Optical Revolution’, has opened new avenues for further innovative art- historical scholarship.
- It has been established now that Van Eyck was the first pictor doctus in the North, who was knowledgeable about antique texts, natural sciences (optics, alchemy) ...
Practice - Towards an artistic methodology of multisensorial learning Hasselt University
Copying the master or mastering the copy? Creative copying as a mediator between artistic practice and emerging art theory in the early 16th-century Low Countries. Ghent University
We investigate creative copying as a catalyst for art theory in the early 16th-century Low Countries. We define the status and function of creative copying in the altering art practice and theory by unraveling underlying visual strategies. We thus elucidate how creative copying generated opportunities to enrich art with theories of imitation and enforce pictorial innovations in the Northern decorum.
Egyptian artists in Europe. Mobility, resettlement and the reconfiguration of artistic practices Ghent University
Linking places through artistic practices. KU Leuven
A-PLACE. Linking places through networked artistic practices
A-PLACE will design and implement art-centred placemaking activities (i.e. performances, installations, debates, video and photography productions) in six European cities -Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana, and Nicosia- to connect meanings and experiences associated to places across cultural and geographic boundaries. People of multiple origins ...
Rethinking situated artistic practices. Towards collective places for imagination KU Leuven
This transdisciplinary practice-based research in the arts draws from my site-specific installation and situated performance artwork. I understand situated artistic practices as the constitution of temporary places for exploring, exchanging, and creating knowledge in collectivity through diverse art forms such as temporary sculpture constructions, expanded drawing and body movement. These practices are challenging commonalities between ...
A grammar of the school drama. About the creation of artistic space for contemplation in processes of theatre making as world-centred praxis in drama education of the Flemish Artistic Secondary Education (KSO). KU Leuven
Towards Togetherness: Probing as a Decolonizing Approach for Artistic Inquiry KU Leuven
Motivated by a strong passion for the Arctic regions and a deep respect for the indigenous peoples living there, I designed my artistic doctoral research in the favor of decolonization processes. Two art projects were realized during this PhD: Food Related, for which knowledge on Arctic food is shared on a platform, and Niva to Nenets, an interactive road-movie that questions gift-giving and aspects of the us-and-them ...