Summer 2020
Designing in the here and now. The artistic attitude in caring for people with dementia
Anke Coumans
Residential facilities for people with dementia seldom leave room for art and creativity. De ontwerpende attitude (‘The designing attitude’) is a project that tried to address this lacuna, …
The steep slope of Montaña Verde. Participation art, caught between bottom-up principles and top-down policy
Hanka Otte
In 2018, on the occasion of the Antwerp Baroque Year, Antwerp’s city administration invited the activist architectural collective Recetas Urbanas to create a ‘green’ participatory work in the De …
About the body and the landscape. A correspondence between filmmaker Jana Coorevits and writer Charlotte Van den Broeck
Jana Coorevits, Charlotte Van den Broeck
Een filmmaker en een schrijver corresponderen over hun samenwerking. Beiden verkennen ze in hun werk het verband tussen landschap en (het vrouwelijk) lichaam.
Tactile composition
Marloeke van der Vlugt
Marloeke van der Vlugt creates sculptural and spatial installations that invite an audience to interact with bodies, organisms, objects and materials in a non-hierarchical manner. Her aim is to raise …
Retraction note to FORUM+ (June 2020) vol. 27, no.2, pp. 43-52.
Nele Wynants
After a careful analysis of the article entitled "Black Antigones", published in volume 27 of FORUM+ for research and arts (June 2020, pp. 43-52), the editors have decided to retract this …
A plea for symbolic verticality. A few thoughts on experience-oriented art
Marlies De Munck
In this essay, Marlies De Munck questions the political power of contemporary art. Through metaphors of verticality and horizontality, she distinguishes two key dynamics in the creation of artistic …
