Projects
Spectacle culture. An interdisciplinary platform for historical research into film, theater, dance and music performance. KU Leuven
The Scientific Research Community (WOG) "Spectacle culture" wants to bring a trend break in this area. Apart from institutions and disciplines, scientists come together to compare their current research on cultural culture in terms of content and methodology, to sketch a state of affairs, but also to develop new research hypotheses or questions.
Restoring Gestures: Exploring Aby Warburgs Method for Theater Studies University of Antwerp
Restoring gestures: exploring Aby Warburg's method for theater studies. University of Antwerp
Inside the image. Immersion and narration at the intersection between theater and film. University of Antwerp
Early Modern theater and 'gouvernementalité' (Foucault): three pieces of Joost van den Vondel in a new light Ghent University
This research project analyzes aims of three dramatic texts of the Dutch seventeenth-century poet Joost van den Vondel. More specifically to Palamedes oft murdered silliness (1625), Gijsbrecht Aemstel (1637) and Lucifer (1654). These texts will be read in light of Michel Foucaults analysis of the early modern period (16th-17th centuries) as the cradle of 'governmentality'. The documents in question are more than just illustrative of what ...