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 ...
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 ...
Accessibility Aesthetics: a participatory inquiry into accessibility for the performing arts. University of Antwerp
CoReAD - Cognitive Research in AD - Towards a model determining cognitive load in audio described audio(-visual) products. University of Antwerp
Goodman, a prophet of doom Ghent University
A theatre performance will be created as an essay that translates academic research results for a broader audience. The research concerns a text from 1616 in which the impending death of nature is announced. This historical case study will, through the use of theatrical tools, be made relevant and accessible for a broader audience in the present.
Rural materialism and peripheral rebels: Re-thinking peasantry and politics in conflict-areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ghent University
Over the past two decades, the literature on armed groups in the DRC has portrayed the peasantry as either an accomplice or a victim of violent conflict. Rooted in an armed group-focussed approach, the victim and the accomplice bias have contributed to erasing the peasantry as a political actor in the DRC. Its political importance has been ignored within peace-building, demobilisation and rural development programmes, which explains part of ...