April 2026
This April issue of FORUM+ illustrates how diverse practices and discourses from within and outside the arts can meet, clash, or challenge each other. The contributions offer an abundance of ideas and perspectives on communication, collaboration, and community. Please feel most welcome to join the dynamic network that both FORUM+ and artistic research represent by reading, engaging with, and shaping research in and through the arts.
Mapping smooth spaces. A co-creation methodology for interdisciplinary artistic practice
Adrián Artacho, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim
This paper presents a co-creation methodology developed in the artistic research project Atlas of Smooth Spaces. Through stages like Null-Space, Experiments, Notation, Collision, Composition, and …
John’s care
Anaïs Chabeur
Anaïs Chabeur, Orange treat, 2024, scanned analogue photograph. I am an artist and researcher working with film, in situ installations, performative objects and workshops. I create sensorial …
The state of collective creativity within the site and upon arrival. Artists’ perspectives on the Liminal Lab project
Marija Griniuk
This article explores site-specific artistic creation as a dynamic process of immediate connection with place upon arrival. It examines how contemporary artists function as facilitators within a …
Double or nothing. A duet on mothering and artistic research
Mariske Broeckmeyer, Eva Moulaert
This essay presents itself as a doubling, a polyphonous autotheoretical reflection on the interaction between motherhood and research in the arts. A singer and a graphic designer meet at a doctoral …
The sexual body as a battleground of national identity. Independent cinema and film censorship in Vietnam
Việt Vũ
This study examines how Vietnam’s independent cinema employs the sexual body to challenge state morality and recode national identity, while tracing the evolution of censorship from the colonial era …
Drawing Across Borders. Collective mark-making in the networked studio
Janna Beck
This article examines Drawing Across Borders as a situated experiment in collective mark-making across studios in Antwerp, Kraków, Kentucky, and Durban. Using the open-source platform FRAMED, drawing …
De mythe van het document. Naar een probabilistisch theater
Sandra Sara Raes Oklobdzija
Dutch-language documentary theatre in Belgium holds a distinct position, often perceived as engaged, political, and objective. This paper questions what reality is truly portrayed and what kind of …
In transit. Magical guidance for radical imagination
Tina Lenz
Van Dijck, Bart. ÎNTERZONE Threshold Cards deck, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, 2025. Photo by Tina Lenz. By reviewing Bart Van Dijck's ÎNTERZONE Threshold Cards deck, I was triggered in the …