Projects
Beyond the dots in TODs.Analysing Transit Oriented Development in networked rural-urban places. University of Antwerp
Humanist Condolences. Funerary Collections in Quattrocento Italy. KU Leuven
Voices of Materials:Probing the Cultural Ecology of Material Finitude. University of Antwerp
Comparing regionality and sustainability in Pisidia, Boeotia, Picenum and NW Gaul between Iron and Middle Ages (1,000 BC - AD 1,000). KU Leuven
The project first wishes to establish and compare the regional trajectories of change and development in four specific ancient regions (Pisidia in SW Turkey, Boeotia in Central Greece, Picenum in Central Adriatic Italy and NW Gaul in Belgium and N France), in which the research partners have been active during the past decades. Regions do not conform to static entities, but rather change through time, in a dialectic relationship with both ...
Perspicio: To Look At, Through and Beyond the Picture Plane KU Leuven
This Research by Drawing uses linear perspective in the reconstruction of Proto-Renaissance (hence pre-perspectival) painted space, in such manner that the act of drawing becomes a re-observation of as well as a dwelling in the unlocked imaginary world that exists behind the canvas. Drawing (by hand) and reading drawings is harnessed as a way of exploring other works and, thereupon, the idea of space and how we look at it. ...
Towards a Mixed Definition of Art. The Ontology of U+2018First ArtU+2019 and the Historical Definitions of Art. Ghent University
In this investigation, I criticize the circularity of historical definitions of art through the problem of U+2018first artU+2019 and I develop a new mixed definition of art that takes into account historical as well as aesthetic features of art. Therefore, I will show that Kants theory of art bridges aesthetic and historical approaches and can direct us to a more refined definition of art.
SITUATING CHARLES IVES MUSIC-HISTORICALLY: a transatlantic reconsideration of Ives’s aesthetics and music within the debate on absolute music Ghent University
This study aims to redefine the music-historical positioning of the American composer Charles Ives
as a key figure in the fin de siècle. Ives has been regarded as an extension of the European
Romantic tradition, but has embodied a peculiar stance among contemporaries that seemed
difficult to declare. By exploring his aesthetics, I discovered that Ives took a distinct position in the
debate on absolute ...
Aesthetic regimes, social characteristics of visual artists, and cultural consecration: A diachronic sociological analysis of artists’ subsidies between 1965 and 1999 in Flanders Ghent University
We offer a historical-sociological analysis that looks into how characteristics of art and artists are associated with receiving state support. Using visual artists’ applications for subsidies between 1965 and 1999 we can relate social characteristics of artists and aesthetic dimensions of their work to subsidies and frame these relationships historically in the political and artistic context.