We are pleased to present the new research and PhD projects starting in September 2025 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.
One-year start projects:
- Céline De Schepper, 'The (Never)-Ending Archive' (Academy)
One-year research projects:
- Matthijs de Ridder, Isabel Voets, 'Harlekijn. Karel Albert, August Baeyens, Paul van Ostaijen en het muzikale modernisme in Vlaanderen (1918-1928)' (Conservatoire)
- Khristine Gillard, 'Vivid Tales' (Academy)
- Fabiola Burgos Labra, ‘Reweaving Ourselves’ (Academy)
- Frankie Anh Le, 'Personal Bubble' (Academy)
- Anne-Lene Nöldner, 'A newer narrative: Unveiling the dancer's authorship through auto-fictional writing' (Conservatoire)
- Denys Shantar, 'God Save The Queer(s)' (Academy)
- Isjtar Vandebroeck, 'One To(o) Many' (Academy)
- Marianne Vierø, 'Subjectivity in Translation: Perceptual Bias through the Prism of Dimensionality' (Academy)
- Adilia Yip, 'PercAI: A Generative AI Model for the West African Balafon Polyrhythm' (Conservatoire)
Two-year research projects:
- Karl Joonas Alamaa, 'Home, carried' (Academy)
- Giusy Caruso, 'ECHO - Embodied Counterpoint & Human-Machine Ontology. An exploration of AI training in piano performance and pedagogy' (Conservatoire)
- Ewald Demeyere, 'Richtlijnen voor klaviercontinuo in 18e-eeuws Duitsland - Een online platform gebaseerd op historische bronnen' (Conservatoire)
- Dušica Dražić, 'Constructed Landscape. Contemporary Forms of Social Realism' (Academy)
- Diederik Glorieux, 'Silence... Een Kritische Interpretatie en Realisatie van Onvoltooide Werken van Wim Henderickx' (Conservatoire)
- Liza Goncharenko, 'Landscapes of Recovery: The Role of Art in Ecological Restoration in War-Torn Ukraine' (Academy)
- Marta Keil, 'Gestures of withdrawal: dramaturgies of refusal in performing arts' (Conservatoire)
- Mathias MU, 'NEO SEER: A Syncretic Animacy' (Academy)
- Bob Selderslaghs, Lies Vandeburie, 'Crossroads in Creative Aging' (Conservatoire)
- Danae Theodoridou, 'Performing the Public Body: Collectively Authored Participatory Performance, Democracy and Institutional Politics' (Conservatoire)
- Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, 'Smashing the Myth of Absence: A Practice-Based Approach to Decolonizing Experimental Music - part 1: Composition and Improvisation in the 'Creative Orchestra'' (Conservatoire)
- Delphine Wibaux, ‘Otolitalgia: a visual exploration in the furrows of time’ (Academy)
- Laure Winants, 'Time Capsule, a transtemporal exploration from human time to uncharted imaginaries' (Academy)
PhD research projects:
- Arturo Moscoso, 'Reviving Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495–c. 1560): Style, Context, and Performance.' (Conservatoire)
- Davide Paollilo, 'Entangled Rawness: navigating nonlinear creativity through the no-input mixer.' (Conservatoire)
- Eline De Clercq, 'Who and what makes the academy garden?' (Academy)
- Edu Tarín, 'Metacognitive Assemblies. Crafting intra-relations with Technology in Posthuman Making' (Academy)
- Furkan Ak, 'Ghostly Dramaturgies: Staging Migrant Narratives through Immersive Technology in Performance' (Conservatoire)
(image: Khristine Gillard)