Projects
Queering the censorship: A (self)-investigation through the first-person perspective of an experimental filmmaker in Vietnam. University of Antwerp
The (Dis)Appearance of Time (On Exhibiting kairos) KU Leuven
The (Dis) Appearance of Time questions the exhibition as a moment of 'kairos' or interruption in an accelerating visual culture. The idea of kairos connects to Hannah Arendt's ‘thinking’. According to Arendt ‘thinking’ has its own inner time course and searches for meaning instead of knowledge. Departing from the film installation as a method to create a friction in the perception of time, I aim at causing a friction that not only favours the ...
Re-Familiarizing the Body and its Umwelt: Uncanny Imaginary as a Tool to Cope with Contemporary Societal Challenges (REFAM) KU Leuven
Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism KU Leuven
Mimesis is one of the most influential concepts in Western thought. Originally invoked to define humans as the “most imitative” creatures in classical antiquity, mimesis (imitation) has recently been at the centre of theoretical debates in the humanities, social sciences, and the neurosciences concerning the role of “mimicry,” “identification,” “contagion,” and “mirror neurons” in the formation of subjectivity. And yet, despite the growing ...
Exploring the artistic-technical possibilities of VR as an animation-production tool. KU Leuven
My research will focus on the following questions: - How can VR be used to facilitate the production pipeline of animation film and stimulate the creative process? - How can the use of VR in the animation production process create new forms of aesthetics and stylization? - How can the use of VR in the animation production process contribute to the creation of a hybrid form of artistic expression (in animation)? The central idea of these three ...
In and Out of Brussels: Africa Inside Europe. KU Leuven
Towards Documentary Choreography – Intermedial Approaches in Working with Extra-Aesthetic Materials AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Belgian Avant-Garde Art on Paper in a European Context, 1918-1950 KU Leuven
The BePAPER project This PhD, under supervision of promotor Prof. dr. Sascha Bru and co-promotor Prof. dr. Barbara Baert is a component of the BePAPER project, Belgian Art on Paper in a European Perspective, 1918-1950. It is part of the research programme BRAIN-be 2.0, Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks (https://www.belspo.be/belspo/brain2-be/project_p2_nl.stm), funded by BELSPO. The project is conducted in ...
Remembering the City of Life. The literary memory of the occupation of Fiume (1919-2015) KU Leuven
In September 1919 a group of volunteers headed by the Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the town of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) to claim its annexation to Italy. During the occupation, that lasted till December 1920, Fiume became a unique political and artistic labyrinth, attracting all sorts of political activists, as well as many Italian and foreign avant-garde artists. Extensive scholarly attention has been devoted to the ...