Projects
Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration: An Interdisciplinary Research into Post-Narrative Modes of Trauma Recovery in Transcultural Trauma Psychology and Theatre Studies Ghent University
This study focuses on the blurring of the linearity between narration and trauma recovery, which forms the topic of theoretical developments in both transcultural trauma psychology and theatre studies. This interdisciplinary study develops an empirical inquiry into post-narrative modes of a postdramatic aesthetic in applied theatre, aiming to further the understanding of trauma recovery shaped by coping strategies beyond narration.
Tracing Literary Influences in the Choreographic Experiments of Judson Poets' Theater and Judson Dance Theater. University of Antwerp
A Phone Call with the Dead. Necrodialogues in Western Literature, Theater and Media. Ghent University
The necrodialogue is an anthropological need that finds expression in ritualistic and artistic representations. Inherent to this dialogue is the use of personal intermediaries and technical media to establish contact. We know that cultural historical and religious views on death have always influenced necrodialogues and vice versa. The fact that changes in media history reshape the necrodialogue has, however, received far less attention. In ...
La Grande Bouffe – challenges in de performance of musical comedies AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
La Grande Bouffe – challenges in the performance of musical. University of Antwerp
Postdramatic Aesthetics: Word - Sound - Image Ghent University
In POstdramatisches Theater (1999), Hans-Thies Lehmann analyzed the ruins of classical dramatic aesthetics. New possiblities were created for the autonomous functioning of word, image and sound in signifying structures. These possibilities are investigated in the field of artistic, practise-based research and within the field of performance studies, in a mutual dialogue.