The contributions in this October issue of FORUM+ present pedagogical and artistic practices as "rehearsals for agency", as spaces to exercise imagination, appropriate existing tools, invent new ones, and set situated conditions. As community-building around shared values comes under pressure, FORUM+ aims to offer an open space for diverse practices that are often sensitive, situated, embodied, and vulnerable.
Annelys de Vet
“Agency emerges from the capacity to make informed decisions, born in understanding constraints, recognizing implications, and accepting responsibility for outcomes,” writes Simona Kicurovska in her …
Assia Bert
This article stems from the project Landscape Sketch: Artistic Research in Flanders, a collaborative initiative between the eight Flemish Schools of Arts. It examines the relationship between …
Mathias Moors, Adri de Vugt, Thomas De Baets
This article presents a case illustrating how the nexus between research and education takes shape within a music education curriculum: the Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on practitioner research …
Jeroen Billiet
This article presents two student-centred educational laboratories at Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel: the 19th-Century Salon (2022) and the Synthetists Brass Ensemble Project (2023). Rooted in …
Anne-Lise Brevers
This text explores how theory and practice can be integrated within practice-based dance research through the course Embodied Theory at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. The course seeks to challenge …
Yuki Okumura
This article explains how the author translated his ‘conceptual-performative’ method into a cross-disciplinary curriculum through a research project not merely related to, but conducted as, teaching. …
Rosine Mbakam
The text explores personal and collective deconstruction through documentary cinema. Rosine Mbakam describes how disobedience, confrontation and ‘“contamination’” have shaped her practice as a …
Ellen Gillard, Jori Galama
This article examines the Winter School as an intensive environment for artistic research and practice, where students experiment with methods and develop their position as artist-researchers under …
Frederik De Bleser, Cèlia Tort Pujol, Myrthe Bokelmann, Lieven Menschaert
Art education faces enormous pressure to adopt large-scale AI tools into the curriculum, while students increasingly express anxiety about these same technologies displacing the professional …
Guus Vandeweerd, Anneleen Swillen
The Master’s seminar “S (or: exploring more-than-human entanglements in a post-digital culture)” at PXL-MAD grew from our research into more-than-human, co-creative practices, post-digital worlds, …
Simona Kicurovska
This article centres Synchronized Swimming, a situated experiment in which an artistic score – a set of open-ended prompts – served as a scaffold for embodied, sensory attunement, collective …
Özgür Ilter, Allan Siegel
Urban space offers fertile ground for pedagogical experimentation, where artistic practices and collective enquiry converge. In this article, we present Mapping the Local, a project-based seminar at …
Julián García Long
This article examines how artistic research can transform one’s “Sense of Place”. Reflecting on the process of making a film in a burnt native forest in northern Patagonia, I explore how a …
Andrew Bracey
This text introduces the concept of “parasitical appropriation art” to critique the limitations of the dominant semiotic reading of appropriation art. Drawing on the author’s artistic research …
Clementine Butler-Gallie, Kwasi Darko, Luamba Muinga, Nisha Merit, LiLi 丽丽 Nacht, Sofía Steinvorth
“Take a walk in your local landscape. Capture an image. Write a reflection.” – A prompt is shared among the curatorial, digital network Continued Conversations…: a dispersed group of curators based …
Yaohan Zhang, Yujing Ma, Marcel Zaes Sagesser
Shenzhen, in stark contrast with its high-tech narratives, is characterized by a portable infrastructure of distorting megaphones and bright LED screens that form a “street mediascape” both informal …
U. Laura Nsengiyumva
This article reflects on my years of teaching decoloniality through the arts (2018-2025), within the framework of my performance studio Radical Presence and the seminar Mapping (de)colonial Belgium. …
Angela de Weijer, Karin Bijsterveld
Collective Signal by Angela de Weijer is a composition originally conceived as a requiem for the air raid sirens in the Netherlands. In 2018, the artist created a proof of concept of the artwork in …