Projects
With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Play(s) of Féminitude. The role of female artists in Belgian theatre history 1830-1948 AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration: An Interdisciplinary Research into Post-Narrative Modes of Trauma Recovery in Transcultural Trauma Psychology and Theatre Studies Ghent University
This study focuses on the blurring of the linearity between narration and trauma recovery, which forms the topic of theoretical developments in both transcultural trauma psychology and theatre studies. This interdisciplinary study develops an empirical inquiry into post-narrative modes of a postdramatic aesthetic in applied theatre, aiming to further the understanding of trauma recovery shaped by coping strategies beyond narration.
Theatre society. Vernacular literary culture and the development of an early modern knowledge society in the Low Countries, 1450-1650 Ghent University
Between 1450 and 1650, the world of performative literature became the centre of a Western European media system. Performative literature also became a model for the public organization and communication of knowledge. This project studies ways in which the institutions, agents, and media of the theatre society of an early modern metropolis (in this case Antwerp) translated and applied knowledge and information.
Theater with the elderly: never too old to create a scene. Research into possible play and theater methods to play and create theater with the elderly in a residential care or day center. AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Text Theatricality. An integrated approach based on rhetorical narratology and performance analysis Ghent University
The present proposal takes its cue from the increasing trend to adapt novels to the theatrical
stage and from other innovative performance practices (reading performances, installations,
social immersion projects). The project aims to study the intersection between narrative and
drama both from a theoretical point of view and in contemporary performance practices.
Selected case studies from 20th and 21st century German ...
Resounding Libraries: Unfolding Archived Knowledge Through Artistic Research Orpheus Institute
In one of his many writings, the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) pleads for the maintenance of a bibliothèque bien garnie. Such a book collection, Leibniz argues, constitutes an indispensable instrument of reform in every realm of human endeavor. There exists one condition for success: the library must excel in its arrangement and accessibility. Self-evident as though Leibniz’s point of view might seem, the issue of orderly, ...