(Trans)literate art
Editorial
Language and inclusion: dissonance in polyphony
Assia Bert, Elisa Seghers, Nele Wynants
October 2022
Earlier this year, FORUM+ launched the dossier (Trans)literate art | De kunst van (ver)talen. Various contributions in this October issue will elaborate on this dossier. We invite readers to engage in further dialogue with these texts. Language, diversity and power are complex themes that constantly provoke new perspectives and continuously stimulate us to exchange our insights.
(Trans)literate art
A linguistic reading of the guide Waarden voor een nieuwe taal
Sofie Decock, Sarah Van Hoof
The guide Waarden voor een nieuwe taal presents recommendations, suggestions, guidelines and examples that should result in a widely supported use of inclusive language by all possible actors within …
Artistic contribution
Louise-Marie of Orléans’s sentimental jewellery. An artistic reactivation of material memories
Charlotte Vanhoubroeck
By engaging fiction as a method, Charlotte Vanhoubroeck brings queen Marie-Louise of Orléans’s (1812-1850) lost sentimental jewellery back to life. Vanhoubroeck has been conducting art-historical …
Ancestral conviviality. How I fell in love with queer critters
Risk Hazekamp, Nina Lykke
Nina Lykke and Risk Hazekamp found each other in their love of micro-organisms, especially Diatoms and Cyanobacteria. A warm digital exchange followed, both in words and images, in which the voices …
Rediscovering savant art teaching. Is the craftsmanship of art teachers shifting?
Mirjam van Tilburg
In this essay, Mirjam van Tilburg delineates a shift in the craftsmanship of art teachers in corona’s first year of crisis. Together with ten art subject teachers, she occupied artist studios in …
Performing dedications. A contextual and artistic reflection on the dedication of the world’s first saxophone concerto
Kurt Bertels
This article focuses on the first concerto for saxophone, written in 1902 by Belgian musician Paul Gilson and dedicated to the famous American amateur saxophonist Elise Hall. With both contextual and …