Current artistic research projects (PhD)
Beyond gaze: Establishing the language of touch in applied drama - Can Boyan
Can Boyan, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Beyond gaze: Establishing the language of touch in applied drama (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Bob Selderslaghs and Pascal Gielen
Words out of tune. Collective practices of vocal improvisation - Miriana Faieta
Miriana Faieta, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Words out of tune. Collective practices of vocal improvisation (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Katrien Van Opstal and Pascal Gielen
Hearing room: Ghosts of the African Democratic Assembly - ayoh kré Duchâtelet
ayoh kré Duchâtelet, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Hearing room: Ghosts of the African Democratic Assembly (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Joachim Ben Yakoub and Matthias De Groof
Empowered Care - Dimitri van den Wittenboer
Dimitri van den Wittenboer, Sint Lucas Antwerp
Empowered Care (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Ann Laenen and Pascal Gielen
Corpo-gambiarra: dance, costume, and politics of the body - Renata Lamenza Epifanio
Renata Lamenza Epifanio, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Corpo-gambiarra: dance, costume, and politics of the body (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Pascal Gielen
From Stage to Page: An Experimental, Performance-led examination of the relationship between Musical Performance and Musical Analysis - Alastair Matthews
Alastair Matthews, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Supervisors: Jeroen Malaise and Bart Eeckhout
The Voice of Many Waters: Acoustemopoetic Composition of Carmelite Mysticism - Tomer Damsky
Tomer Damsky, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Voice of Many Waters: Acoustemopoetic Composition of Carmelite Mysticism (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Frank Agsteribbe and John Arblaster
On the perpetual becoming of sculpture and history and their moments of convergence - Laurence Petrone
Laurence Petrone, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
On the perpetual becoming of sculpture and history and their moments of convergence (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Herman Van Goethem and Hans Theys
Voices of Materials: Probing the Cultural Ecology of Material Finitude - Irma Földényi
Irma Földényi, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Voices of Materials: Probing the Cultural Ecology of Material Finitude (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kyoko Iwaki and Wesley Meuris
Practice: a metaphor - Metaphorizing practices and practicing metaphors - Vedran Kopljar
Vedran Kopljar, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Practice: a metaphor - Metaphorizing practices and practicing metaphors (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Arthur Cools and Nico Dockx
Hyperwithin: a shy dramaturgy in shadowtimes - Anne-Lise Brévers
Anne-Lise Brévers, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Hyperwithin: a shy dramaturgy in shadowtimes (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kyoko Iwaki and Annouk Van Moorsel
Benoit's language - Hannah Aelvoet
Hannah Aelvoet, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Benoit's language (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kevin Absillis and Jan De Wilde
Exploring the Diasporic Life of Armenian Script: a multiscript design laboratory - Garine Gokceyan
, Sint Lucas Antwerp
Exploring the Diasporic Life of Armenian Script: a multiscript design laboratory (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kathleen Gyssels and Ruth Loos
Against Forgetting: Exploring poetic gestures of return(ing) to the land in Palestine - Shayma Nader
Shayma Nader, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Against Forgetting: Exploring poetic gestures of return(ing) to the land in Palestine (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Joachim Ben Yakoub, Gert Van Hecken and Matthias De Groof
Play-White: Racial Passing and Embodied Images - Bianca Baldi
Bianca Baldi, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Play-White: Racial Passing and Embodied Images (2020-2025)
Supervisors: Wesley Meuris, Petra Van Brabandt and Diana Arbaiza
Contemporary Kasala and Lukasa: towards a Reconfiguration of Identity and Geopolitics - Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Contemporary Kasala and Lukasa: towards a Reconfiguration of Identity and Geopolitics (2020-2025)
Supervisors: Ruth Razan Loos, Bambi Ceuppens and Paolo Favero
The medium is the memory, the support the souvenir - Nicolas Baeyens
Nicolas Baeyens, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
The medium is the memory, the support the souvenir (2020-2025)
Supervisors: Thomas Crombez and Peter De Deyn
Connecting the dots - Lies Colman
Lies Colman, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Connecting the dots (2021-2025)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Pascal Gielen
Historical performance practice of post-war avant-garde music for guitar - Nico Couck
Nico Couck, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Historical performance practice of post-war avant-garde music for guitar (2014-...)
Supervisors: Yves Senden, Marlies De Munck and Arthur Cools
Perspectives on time in the music by Stockhausen: the experience of a performer - Karin De Fleyt
Karin De Fleyt, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Perspectives on time in the music by Stockhausen: the experience of a performer (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Steven Malliet
Thinking bodies in Dance - Klaas Devos
Klaas Devos, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Thinking bodies in Dance (2020-2024)
Supervisors: Annouk Van Moorsel and Timmy De Laet
The politics of publishing; researching encounters between artists’ books and intersectional feminist tools - Loraine Furter
Loraine Furter, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
The politics of publishing; researching encounters between artists’ books and intersectional feminist tools (2019-2025)
Supervisors: Kim Gorus and Diana Arbaiza
The voice as instrument / The instrument as voice - Paolo Galli
Paolo Galli, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The voice as instrument / The instrument as voice (2014-...)
Supervisors: Giusy Caruso, Marlies De Munck and Arthur Cools
Design as a Cultural Communicator - Carl Haase
Carl Haase, PXL MAD Hasselt
Outgoing joint PhD with UHasselt
Design as a Cultural Communicator (2016-...)
Supervisors: Ann Bessemans and Pascal Gielen
Embodying Forced Migration Accounts within Devastated Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage Sites: A Physical-Virtual Experience - Mona Hedayati
Mona Hedayati, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Incoming joint PhD with Concordia University Canada
Supervisors: Frederik De Bleser, Nele Wynants and Christopher Salter
The Mottolese Archive - Ilaria Lupo
Ilaria Lupo, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Mottolese Archive (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen and Nele Wynants
The traditions of mandolin music in the regions of Asia Minor and the Ionian Islands - Maria Markatatou
Maria Markatatou, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The traditions of mandolin music in the regions of Asia Minor and the Ionian Islands (2019-2025)
Supervisors: Yves Senden, Liselotte Sels and Marc Jacobs
The traditions of mandolin music in the regions of Crete and Athens - Styliani Markatatou
Styliani Markatatou, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The traditions of mandolin music in the regions of Crete and Athens (2020-2025)
Supervisors: Yves Senden, Liselotte Sels and Marc Jacobs
The oral performance of visual poetry - Philip Meersman
Philip Meersman, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
The oral performance of visual poetry (2017-...)
Supervisors: Johan Pas and Kevin Absillis
Moving towards resilience. Joint creation through music and movement for local, immigrant and refugee children - Georgia Nicolaou
Georgia Nicolaou, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Moving towards resilience. Joint creation through music and movement for local, immigrant and refugee children (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Bob Selderslaghs, Luc Nijs and Peter Van Petegem
Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical: How to Guide Individuals through Courses of Instructed Simple Action Here and Now as Sites for Framed Chance Interaction between Self and World towards a Truly Personal Body of Work of Art and Life - Yuki Okumura
Yuki Okumura, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Supervisors: Nico Dockx and Kyoko Iwaki
Different Tubes - Chiara Percivati
Chiara Percivati, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Different Tubes - 2021-2025
Supervisors: Renaud Guy-Rousseau and Jouke Verlinden
Intersecting repertoire: towards an inclusive, diverse and representative repertoire - Lauranne Paulissen
Lauranne Paulissen, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Intersecting repertoire: towards an inclusive, diverse and representative repertoire (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Edith Cassiers and Timmy De Laet
Empty Pages - Bas Rogiers
Bas Rogiers, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Empty Pages (2019-2025)
Supervisors: Johan Pas and Steven Jacobs
La Grande Bouffe - Challenges in the performance of musical comedies - Stijn Saveniers
Stijn Saveniers, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
La Grande Bouffe - Challenges in the performance of musical comedies (2021-2025)
Supervisors: Frank Agsteribbe, Marlies De Munck and Bart Eeckhout
Visions of becoming and belonging - Danial Shah
Muhammad Danial Shah, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Visions of becoming and belonging (2021-2025)
Supervisors: Ruth Razan Loos and Paolo Favero
Singing the Silences: Mediating female songs of resistance through audio-visual Performative art - Hoda Siahtiri
Hoda Siahtiri, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Singing the Silences: Mediating female songs of resistance through audio-visual Performative art (2020-2025)
Supervisors: Joachim Ben Yakoub and Paolo Favero
Sense of Wonder. Artistic portals between the real and the virtual - Kristof Timmerman
Kristof Timmerman, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Sense of Wonder. Artistic portals between the real and the virtual (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Steven Humblet and Jouke Verlinden
When the artist swallows his image - Karel Tuytschaever
Karel Tuytschaever, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
When the artist swallows his image (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Inge Henneman and Annemie Leemans
Interzone (architecture of the ritual space) - Bart Van Dijck
Bart Van Dijck, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Interzone (architecture of the ritual space) (2021-2025)
Supervisors: Nico Dockx and Walter Weyns
Black Yarns: A Decolonial Research into the History of Black Women’s Fashion & Jewellery Design Practices - Pierre-Antoine Vettorello
Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Black Yarns: A Decolonial Research into the History of Black Women’s Fashion & Jewellery Design Practices (2021-2025)
Supervisors: Kim Gorus and Diana Arbaiza
Queering the censorship: A (self-)investigation through the first-person perspective of an experimental filmmaker in Vietnam - Việt Vũ
Việt Vũ (Quang Trung Pham), Sint Lucas Antwerpen
Supervisors: Sofie Verdoodt and Philippe Meers
Towards Documentary Choreography. Intermedial approaches in working with extra-aesthetic materials - Arkadi Zaides
Arkadi Zaides, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Towards Documentary Choreography. Intermedial approaches in working with extra-aesthetic materials (2021-2025)
Supervisors: Annouk Van Moorsel, Thomas Crombez and Timmy De Laet
Movement system and sound production in marimba and percussion instruments - Anton Zhdanovich
Anton Zhdanovich, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Movement system and sound production in marimba and percussion instruments (2018-...)
Supervisors: Ludwig Albert and Gert Vercauteren
PhD researchers in action
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Klaas Devos (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, UAntwerp) presenting the developments in his PhD research ‘Thinking Bodies in Dance. Somatic R.E.A.C.H. (research in electronic and algorithmic choreography)’, during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Workshop by Andrea Cammarosano (PhD researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and ARIA, UAntwerp), during the Open Laboratory Weeks at the Academy, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Research class for students by artist Els Dietvorst (PhD researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and ARIA, UAntwerp), during the ARTICULATE Research Days at the Academy, 2020, photo by Miles Fishler. -
Umut Eldem (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, UAntwerp) performing ‘The Road Endless’ as part of his doctoral research into synaesthesia, during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, UAntwerp) performing ‘Composition 381 (Echo Echo Mirror House Music)’ by Anthony Braxton, during the ARTICULATE Research Days at the Conservatoire, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Lecture-performance ‘Hearing with the eyes - composing musical-gestural works’ by Winnie Huang (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, UAntwerp), during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré
