April 2024
This April issue of FORUM+ includes a fascinating diversity of contributions from the various fields, genres and disciplines of the arts and artistic research. The contributions all situate themselves as being in the world, rooted in the society of which we are all a part. You now have this brand-new issue of FORUM+ before you, to be explored and discovered. Wishing you a joyful read!
Outside the rules, outside the boundaries
Jaana Erkkilä-Hill
The following contribution is a written account of Jaana Erkkila-Hill’s keynote lecture at the FORUM+ symposium The art school as an ecosystem: Future perspectives on higher arts education, co-organised with ARIA during the research festival ARTICULATE on 20 October 2023. The event also marked the launch of the FORUM+ October 2023 issue and new dossier “The art school as an ecosystem”.
Educational research in the arts: a practice-based and nomadic perspective
Joost Vanmaele, An De bisschop
The introduction of educational master programmes in the arts created an environment within higher education in Flanders in which research conducted by aspiring teaching artists plays an important …
The mess we are in
Mona Hedayati
For the past two years I have been collecting neurophysiological data from my own body using biosensors and audio recordings towards building performances. In the last iteration of these experiments, …
Staging e-waste: Media archaeology in an e-waste recycling centre
Luuk Schröder
This text draws on a recent work experience at the WEEE recycling centre in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, during which I wrote a series of auto-ethnographic texts. Through a performative of framing …
Behind the façade. Exploring the different layers of meaning in an organ performance
Francesca Ajossa, Kurt Bertels
Although the organ frequently occupies a prominent place in an acoustic space, the player of the instrument is often barely visible. In this special concert and listening situation, questions are …
The art of mycelium teachings
Risk Hazekamp
In sharing some thoughts on Let’s Become Fungal!, the best place to start is with the materiality of the book. The first time I held it in my hands, I was particularly surprised by its weight, as if your muscles make a mistake in picking up what you thought was a stone but turns out to be a shell.
