
Methods in Artistic Research
A seminar for artistic researchers to discuss their methods
31 March - 1 April 2025
Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
SCHEDULE Method/Art #7
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31 March Monday - Witte Zaal - Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
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11:00 - 11:20 Introduction
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11:20 - 11:50 Lecture online - What would Leonardo do? De- and reskilling in the (early modern) past
Annemie Leemans (ViDi - Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center, University of Antwerp)
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11:50 - 12:20 Lecture - Expanding horizons – Reimagining 20th-century Western classical music via improvisation
Peter Knudsen (Senior lecturer in Music performance at Örebro University // PhD candidate in artistic research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU)
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12:20 - 12:50 Lecture - The proficient jazz performer – Insights from an experimentation with jazz and abstractions from spectral music
Piergiorgio Pirro (PhD candidate, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel)
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* 13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH *
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14:00 - 15:00 Keynote lecture - Performance art: craft or ‘amateur’ art? A game with the codes of the theatre and the museum
Katleen Van Langendonck (Teacher & researcher Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Dance Department)
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* 15:00 - 15:15 COFFEE BREAK *
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15:15 - 15:45 Lecture - The three-legged horse. Topic theory as a means of performing Peter Benoit (1834-1901)
Hannah Aelvoet (Chair of Labo XIX&XX research group, PhD candidate at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp / University of Antwerp)
15:45 - 16:15 Lecture - Territory between. Reskill in dance within museum space
Inesa Markava (University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts, Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts (CIEBA))
1 April Tuesday - Wintertuin - Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
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11:00 - 11:20 Introduction
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11:20 - 11:50 Expo + lecture - Jewellery mockumentary
Elena Karpilova
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11:50 - 12:20 Lecture-performance - Skill as empathy, empathy as skill
Julie Michael (PhD candidate, KU Leuven / LUCA School of Arts)
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12:20 - 12:50 Expo + lecture - Lithophanes – Images of light
Martha Kicsiny (DLA fellow at the Doctorate School of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design // Guest researcher at KASK, Belgium)
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* 13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH *
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14:00 - 15:00 Keynote lecture - Essaying as a way of de-skilling
Emily Huurdeman (PhD candidate, Fontys, NL)
Peter Tho mas (PhD candidate, Middlesex University, London)
Ana Cristina Pansera de Araujo (PhD Candidate, University of Basque Country)
Jo O'Brien (PhD Candidate, University of Applied Arts, Vienna // Lecturer, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver)
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* 15:00 - 15:15 COFFEE BREAK *
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15:15 - 15:45 Lecture
Patricia Domingues (PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
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15:45 - 16:30 Workshop - How to become a platypus. A gameplay to (un)learn
Alessandro Tollari (PhD candidate, Iuav University Venice // Visiting student at CCQO, University of Antwerp)
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