Method/Art #8
The Threshold of Co-Creation
Seminar on Methods in Artistic Research
→ Mon 30 March at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
→ Tue 31 March at @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
www.methodartseminar.com
We’ve gathered all the research-related activities that took place in and around the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social throughout 2025.
🤍 A heartfelt thank you to all the artists, collaborators, students, and visitors who made this an inspiring year!
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Card game by Nik Naudts
'Wiggle Room: Daily Deviations for Curious Citizens'
→ New publication!
→ Published by Track Report / @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
www.ap-arts.be/publicatie/w...
PhD defence by Philip Meersman
'The Immersive Performance of Visual Poetry'
Conducted at the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social and at UAntwerp (ARIA)
→ Wednesday 25 February 2026, 10:30
→ more info: www.ap-arts.be/en/event/phd...
Extra Academy invites:
BALOJI
→ Lecture
→ Thu 29 January, 19:00
→ Stadsform, Stadswaag 6, Antwerp
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/ex...
PhD defence by Nicolas Baeyens
"The medium is the memory, the support the souvenir"
→ Saturday 13 December 2025
→ at @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/ph...
Inês Neto dos Santos & Sina Hensel
→ Duo exhibition
→ Opening Thu 13 November, exhibition until 20 November 2025
→ @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/in...
PhD defence by Bart Van Dijck
ÎNTERZONE (architecture of the ritual space)
→ Friday 7 November 2025
→ at @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
www.ap-arts.be/en/event/phd...
Vibrant Death
Lecture-performance by Nina Lykke
→ Mon 20 October, 16:00
→ Research Room @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/vi...
Streets on Fire
→ Mon 13 October, 16:00
→ @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
Artists Harry Gamboa Jr., Marc Bertel, and Rudolph Drayton Jr. discuss their diverse practices in public space.
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/st...
(image: Harry Gamboa Jr, 2025)
ANTWERP ACADEMY ART BOOK FAIR
11 October 2025 → 10:00-18:00
@royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
Happy to share that our publishing house Track Report will be represented by @tiqueart.bsky.social at the annual Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair!
www.ap-arts.be/track-report
Beyond Binary
Non-Dual Perspectives on Art and Technology
→ Thu 23 & Fri 24 October, 09:30 – 17:00
→ MEDAA, Brussels
Two-day seminar
Organised by Kristof Timmerman & Steven Humblet
@royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
with ARIA / UAntwerp
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/be...
Ancestral Voices
Landscape of Resonance
→ Fri 10 October, 16:00 – 18:30
→ Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels
Open symposium organised by Léonard Pongo, on the links between landscapes in the DRC, artistic representations and cultural meanings.
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/an...
Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical
Teaching Artist Conference
→ Mon 20 & Tue 21 October, 18:00 – 20:00
→ Lange Zaal @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
Organised by Yuki Okumura
With Simon Asencio, Feiko Beckers, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, and Luka Savić
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/co...
What if…? ARTICULATE 2025
10th edition of our annual research festival
@royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
9 – 24 October 2025
www.ap-arts.be/evenement/ar...
Welcome (back) researchers!
We’re kicking off another inspiring Art & Research year ☀️
OPEN CALL for research projects!
→ Apply for a one- or two-year research project
→ At the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
→ Starting in September 2026
🖊 Apply before 3 November 2025
🔗 More info
www.ap-arts.be/en/submit-re...
☀️Have a great summer!
Save the date for the 10th edition of our annual research festival ARTICULATE
What if…?
9 – 24 October 2025
at the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
See you back in September!
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The research project 'Constructed Landscape' by Dušica Dražić explores a (hu)man-made forest in Yugoslavia, created over ten years through collective volunteer labour. How can the ecological and ideological processes help us understand the contemporary world?
www.ap-arts.be/en/research/...
'God Save the Queer(s)' is a continuation of Denys Shantar's first research project at the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
It explores religious spaces and saints outside the church context tying together politics, his own identity, reflection and healing.
www.ap-arts.be/en/research/...
Frankie Anh Le will begin a one-year research project at the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
They will explore the concept of personal space in today’s interconnected world, seeking to confront modern isolation, intimacy, and human interaction.
www.ap-arts.be/en/research/...
Khristine Gillard will soon begin a research project at @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
'Vivid Tales' explores how rethinking death and mourning rituals can foster a deeper connection with our ecosystems and activate new practices, collaborations, and narratives.
www.ap-arts.be/en/research/...
✨ Congratulations to Edu Tarín
new PhD researcher at the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social and ARIA / UAntwerp
www.ap-arts.be/en/research/...
✨ Congratulations to Eline De Clercq
new PhD researcher at the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social and ARIA / UAntwerp
www.ap-arts.be/project/who-...
Tree grates completed at the Stadswaag!
By students and alumni of the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
Photos by Alies Torfs
www.ap-arts.be/en/event/ant...
During Antwerp Art Weekend, we celebrate the opening of the art integration at the newly renovated Stadswaag square.
Eight student–alumni duos from @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social designed custom tree grates for the square.
Inauguration: Saturday 31 May, 13:30
www.ap-arts.be/en/event/ant...
Karl Joonas Alamaa will soon start a two-year research project at the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
`Home, carried` explores the essence of belonging, with a focus on marginalized histories that have often been forgotten or excluded from mainstream narratives.
www.ap-arts.be/en/research/...
New publication!
“Know how to now it’s that you’re learning the segments That aren’t sentences at all and converse with each other
Readings, sounds and performances on the poetics of measure
Edited by Andrea di Serego Alighieri
www.ap-arts.be/en/publicati...
During Antwerp Art Weekend, we celebrate the opening of the art integration at the newly renovated Stadswaag square.
Eight student–alumni duos from @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social designed custom tree grates for the square.
Inauguration: Saturday 31 May, 13:30
www.ap-arts.be/en/event/ant...
In September 2025, Liza Goncharenko will begin a two-year research project at the @royalacademyantwrp.bsky.social
This research investigates the role of artistic practices in contributing to the recovery of war-impacted landscapes in Ukraine.
www.ap-arts.be/en/research/...
