We are pleased to present the new research projects starting in September 2026 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.
One-year start projects (Sep 2026 - Sep 2027)
- Rodrigo Batista, 'Translating theory into theater: overflow of content shaping forms not yet born'. (Conservatoire)
- Cian-ti Wang, 'When entering a foreign place, can eating and digestion become a way of belonging?' (Academy)
One-year research projects (Sep 2026 - Sep 2027)
- Niel de Vries, 'Brakke Praktijken: Sociale Organisatie in het Schelde Estuarium' (Academy)
- Hannes d'Hoine, 'Double Bass as Algorithmic Improvisation System: Redefining the Role of a Traditional Instrument Through Embodied Synergy with Embedded Electronics' (Conservatoire)
- Ioannis Panagiotou, 'I’ve Heard on Skipper Street: Exploring Lived and Imagined City Identities Through Voicescapes of Its Passers-by' (Conservatoire)
- Will Peck, 'Drawing Out: Marks, Machines, Material Worlds' (Academy)
- Anne Pustlauk, 'Fluitconcerto’s van Benoit en Hanssens in de kijker', (Conservatoire)
- Oleksandr Sirous, 'LIMEN: Signal Ecologies and Hybrid Actors in Dead-Zone Territories' (Academy)
- Raf Wollaert, '“Prix de l’image:” A Speculative Reenactment of the (Para)cinematic Imaginary' (Academy)
- Nicole Wysokikamien, 'From Desire to Application Form: Dramaturgies of Justification in Contemporary Creation' (Conservatoire
Two-year research projects (Sep 2026 - Sep 2028)
- Jenny Åkerlund, 'Visual Artefacts (Carte du Ciel)' (Academy)
- Nicolas Kummert, 'RAMEAU(x) Improvising New Branches of Rameau’s music' (Conservatoire)
- Sanderijn Helsen, 'To be(come) : theatrical co-creation empowering the voices of adolescents' (Conservatoire)
- Sina Hensel, 'Fields Without Soil (Animal Letters from Liquid Agriculture)' (Academy)
- Pauline Lebbe, Jan Sanen, 'Gitaarliederen en de 19e eeuwse populaire muziekcultuur' (Conservatoire)
- Jeroen Malaise, 'TAQSIM / تقسيم' (Conservatoire)
- Anne Penders, 'rewind / remind / rewrite' (Academy)
- Cecilia Belén Sandoval, 'If a Forest Could Take Its Own Portrait: Regenerative Image-Making in the Paraná Rainforest' (Academy)
- Sabrina Seifried, 'Weekly Paintings' (Academy)
- Jenneke Slaets, Jef Van Den Abbeele : 'Object-Oriented Choreographies: Rethinking Agency and Materiality in Dance' (Conservatoire)
- Emmanuel Van der Auwera, 'The Technological Republic' (Academy)
- Joppe Venema, 'Electric Bodies: The infrastructures of medicine and technology' (Academy)
- Angelo Vermeulen, 'Quantum Crossing' (Academy)
- Adilia Yip, 'Echoes of Heritage: Intercultural music exchange through network music co-creation' (Conservatoire)
(image: KIDNAPPED: A Training Ground for the Brutality that is Coming. Theater-piece by Rodrigo Batista in collaboration with Mariana Senne and Luiz Pimentel. Belgium, 2025. © Ana Francisco)