Projects
Between accessibility and aesthetics: the translator agency at work in multilingual, postdramatic theatre in Brussels Ghent University
Multilingual theatre in Brussels poses a heightened challenge to the contemporary theatre translator. This study analyses how dramaturgical considerations of multilingual performance texts motivate the selected translation modes and how the translator’s agency is conceptualized within the creative team. This multiple case-study of postdramatic performances by Brussels-based companies aims to provide practitioners with a framework for ...
Being inside the image. Immersion and narrative on the intersection of theatre of film. University of Antwerp
Practicing Odin Teatret's archive: training transmission, interaction and creativity Ghent University
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as far as theatre technique is concerned. In line with these recent developments, this research proposes to investigate what it means to develop, practice and perform an archive. We propose to create a sustainable model for the development, ...
Audio Description for the theatre: preparing the stage University of Antwerp
Digitising the indigenous and indigenising the digital: Using new technologies to create ethically minded paths for circulation of traditional dances Ghent University
Explore and critique the possibilities that new digital technologies convey for the safeguarding of indigenous dances and intangible cultural heritage practices. Blockchain, motion-capture, and other digitisation tools are to be examined within the margins wherein they are embedded: intellectual property, interculturalism and accessibility issues. The interdisciplinary methodology aims to deliver theoretical and critical frameworks for future ...
Dancing on Common Ground. Labor and Aesthetics in Contemporary European Dance from Center to Periphery and back again. Ghent University
Unlike in most Western European countries, contemporary dance communities in the Eastern European periphery generally do not have access to public funding, do not have a high degree of transnational mobility, and do not know a long history embedded in capitalist and neoliberal ideology. Therefore, contemporary dance’s working conditions and aesthetics in Belgrade (Southeastern Europe) and Riga (Northeastern Europe) are hugely understudied and ...
NECROPOLIS UNITED: integrated data platform of dead and missing migrants in Europe Ghent University
NECROPOLIS UNITED aims at developing an integrated, sustainable, open-source database on reported migrants’ deaths in Europe. It integrates and updates the source data of three available databases that present fragmented data on reported border death victims: the list composed by UNITED Against Racism (data of 44.764 reported deaths, covering 1993-2021), the Missing Migrants Project (MMP) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) ...
Digitising the indigenous and indigenising the digital: Using new technologies to create ethically-minded paths for circulation of traditional dances.. Ghent University
The aim of this research project is to contribute to the decolonizing imperative to explore, understand and critique the possibilities that new digital technologies convey for the safeguarding of indigenous intangible cultural heritage (ICH) practices with a special accent on dance. Misappropriation, disrespectful uses, and lack of attribution of their artistic practices are troubles that traditional peoples keep facing, even more intensely ...