Fall 2015
The actor's grace. Charisma between mysticism and technique
Edith Cassiers, Timmy De Laet, Esther Tuypens
In a series of interviews with drama teachers from Flemish actor training programs, the researchers from Visual Poetics (UAntwerp, www.visualpoetics.be) investigate the role that an actor or …
Henrik Ibsen's relevance. A reflection from theatrical practice
Evgenia Brendes, Lauranne Paulissen
At the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, the acting classes do not pay much attention to the work of Henrik Ibsen. The Flemish theatre world, on the other hand, often revisits his texts: Ibsen’s plays are …
Mobile Autonomy, exercises in artists’ self-organisation. A summer school at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp
Karina Beumer, Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen
A group of artists and academics from around the world travelled to the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp for a week in late August to attend summer school. Atelier van Lieshout – a workshop created by …
‘Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art’
Nicolas Baeyens
Sculptor Nicolas Baeyens created a visual contribution for FORUM+ in which he cut several canonical images from the history of art into new, dynamic images by employing collage techniques. He …
Alphonse Stenebruggen's ‘style distingué’. Artistic research on the interpretative exploration of the romantic cornet repertoire
Jeroen Billiet
‘Historically informed performance’ is ubiquitous in our European concert halls. During the last decade, the eld of interest shifted from medieval chant to early 20th-century music. But what …