ARTICULATE 2025 I What if…?
9 – 24 October
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During ARTICULATE 2025 I What if…?, artists, researchers, experts, and students explore the relationship between art and society. The programme focusses on collaboration, participation, interpersonal relationships, activism, and engagement.
Featuring a selection of research classes for the Academy’s master students, an intimate and intensive two-day programme for artist-researchers, alongside a series of public events, ARTICULATE 2025 will highlight and deepen key aspects of socially engaged artistic practices.
What if…
… you feel the need for ‘something else’ to happen
… you ask yourself ‘what can I do?’
… you want to create novel relationships between things and people
… you believe art is a tool to build community and foster care
… you want to collaborate
… you like to look, listen, feel, think, learn, play and create together
… you intend to hold space for a multitude of voices
… you agree to start from what we share and from where we are different
… you want to find out how to share spaces by testing situations, interventions, initiatives
… you want to question the rules of the game and invent new rules
… you dream of an art that brings forward a social impact in society
… you ….
then join us at ARTICULATE 2025*
PROGRAMME I ARTICULATE 2025 I ACADEMY |
| Thursday 9 October, 10:00 – 17:30 Unframing Walter Leblanc An expanded conversation on the notion of archives Organised by ArchiVolt research group, the Centrum Kunstarchieven Vlaanderen and the Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation Where: Wintertuin, Academy More info |
| Friday 10 October, 16:00 – 18:00 Ancestral Voices: Landscape of Resonance Symposium organised by Léonard Pongo Where: Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels More info |
Monday 13 October, 16:00 – 18:00 Talk with Harry Gamboa jr., Marc Bertel & Rudolph Drayton Jr. |
| Monday 13 October, 20:00 Aan Tafel: (Ver)beelden van Oorlog How to capture or portray violence? Film and talk with Jan Beddegenoodts, Bruno Beeckman, Inge Henneman Organised by Toneelhuis and ARIA Where: Bourla More info |
| Tuesday 14 – Friday 17 October Research classes Four-day experimental, in-depth, interdisciplinary research programme Led by: Anais Chabeur & Khristine Gillard, Yuki Okumura, Jan Beddegenoodts, Harry Gamboa jr., Mathias Mu, Sina Hensel & Ligia Poplawska & Delphine Wibaux Where: in and around the Academy For students only More info |
| Thursday 16 October, 19:30 MUDDLED & CONFUSED. 10 years ARTICULATE Evening with music and performances by students and researchers from the Academy and the Conservatoire Programmed by Boris Van den Eynden & Vedran Kopljar Where: Het Bos More info |
| Thursday 16 October Exhibition opening: Parasite the White Cube Preview of the one-day exhibition resulting from Yuki Okumura's research class, coinciding with 'MUDDLED & CONFUSED' Where: Het Bos More info |
| Friday 17 October, 14:00 – 16:00 Final presentations of the research classes Students share their process, experiences, and reflections Where: Academy and Het Bos For students only More info |
Monday 20 October, 16:00 Where: Academy |
| Monday 20 – Tuesday 21 October, 18:00 – 20:00 Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical: Teaching Artist Conference Two-evening symposium on teaching artists, with Simon Asencio, Feiko Beckers, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, and Luka Savić Organised by Yuki Okumura In collaboration with the Educational Master of Visual Arts Where: Lange Zaal, Academy More info |
| Tuesday 21 – Wednesday 22 October Activating the Archive: A Practice of Love and Loss A two-day continuous programme for and by artists-researchers, exploring how artistic research and archival practices can respond to the urgencies of our time – personal, societal, and planetary loss, displacement, and the search for belonging. Curated by Inge Henneman, Nico Dockx & the ArchiVolt research group Where: Research Room, Academy For artist-researchers from the Academy More info |
| Thursday 23 – Friday 24 October Beyond Binary: Non-Dual Perspectives on Art and Technology Symposium Organised by Maxlab and Thinking Tools research groups, with Steven Humblet, Koenraad Jonckheere, Martina Menegon, Kristof Timmerman, Marcel Van Brakel, David Young, Victorine Van Alphen, Ilona Puskás, Vanessa Hannesschläger, and CREW Where: MEDAA, Brussels More info |
* Inge Henneman and Nico Dockx, curators of the two-day programme Activating the Archive, wrote this free interpretation of the What if…? manifest, which was originally printed for the Festival of Misfits, organised at Gallery One in London in 1962 by Robert Filliou, Gustav Metzger, Daniel Spoerri, Ben Vautier and others.
in collaboration with ARIA | Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts