ARTICULATE 2026 I Presence and Absence
We are pleased to announce the 11th edition of the annual research festival at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.
What does it mean to be present today?
In a world shaped by technology, representation, and public visibility, presence has become something complex — and unstable. Between what is visible and what withdraws from view, between sound and silence, something shifts.
ARTICULATE 2026 takes this the tension between presence and absence as its starting point. Across performances, lectures, research classes and workshops, the festival explores how absence can be just as powerful as presence — in the body of a performer, in collective memory, in digital spaces, in what art holds but cannot say outright. It also asks whose presence has historically been kept out of view, and how art can offer new ways of seeing and listening.
Save the dates!
14 - 23 October 2026 |
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19 - 30 October 2026 |
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in collaboration with ARIA | Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts