This PhD research investigates the relation between performer and costume and acts on approximating both crafts, mediating the relation of body with matter. Approaching costume as a sensorial-relational entity with an agency, could the entanglement ...
ΗORIZON 2020, SC6 TRANSFORMATIONS 2018-2020, ‘SMOOTH: Educational Common Spaces. Passing through enclosures and reversing inequalities’ (2021-2024), PI for Aristotle University, coordinator University of Thessaly. SMOOTH intends to introduce the emergent paradigm of the ‘commons’ as ...
HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01, ‘FIERCE: Feminist movements revitalizing democracy in Europe’ (2022-2025), PI for Aristotle University (coordinator vilabs.eu). FIERCE sets out to study and revitalise the alliances between the feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers by ...
The Mottolese Archive is a research project focusing on a video archive never made public: the fifteen-years-long documentation of the local environmental struggles created by Piero Mottolese, a 70-years old former worker of Taranto’s ILVA. ...
OXOt vzw is an artists’ collective that runs on volunteers with a specific focus on socially integrating vulnerable people. Established in 2006, it runs spaces in Westerlo, Ghent, and Antwerp, pioneering the socialization of care, ...
Sigrid Bosmans wants to investigate how experimental practices and needs of artistic and heritage communities can give meaning to urban (Mechelen) cultural policies (participation, cooperation, and innovation). What can these experiments mean for the day ...
Projects (as active citizen/commoner): Spilkiekes/community garden: www.spilkiekes.be A church as a common – www.fundament2060.be Community supported beekeeping Antwerp Coop of community food producers – www.coop2060.be Collective of ‘Oude Geuze’ lovers – www.bierboot.be Board member ‘Europahuis ...
Commons Lab is a grassroots, not for profit ‘socio-cultural’ organization, founded as ‘Commons Lab Antwerp’ at the end of 2017 in the city of Antwerp (Belgium). It’s an experimental lab investigating ‘commons transition’; new forms ...
Alexandra Tryanova’s curatorial interests are focused on the research of recreational practices and their transformation with contemporary art, gender, institutional critique, and Eastern European post-war avant-gardes. Currently, she is developing research on the role of ...
With the 2024 elections on the way, Katrien Reist is currently investigating the notion of the ‘representation’ of the Flemish art field in the political realm. Questioning the legitimacy of the classical organisation of the ...
