Associate professor of cultural theory and artistic research at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at Hasselt University (BE). His research focuses more specifically on how literature and visual arts help propose alternative forms of living, dwelling, and knowing. He is the author of The Perverse Art of Reading (2010), De wilde tuin van de verbeelding. Zelfzorg als vrolijke wetenschap (2017), and Meteorologie van het innerlijk (2020).

Doceert cultuurwetenschappen en artistiek onderzoek aan de Faculteit Architectuur en Kunst van de Universiteit Hasselt. Zijn onderzoek focust op literatuur en beeldende kunsten, en meer bepaald de alternatieve manieren van leven, wonen en weten die deze helpen verkennen. Hij is auteur van The Perverse Art of Reading (2010), De wilde tuin van de verbeelding. Zelfzorg als vrolijke wetenschap (2017), en Meteorologie van het innerlijk (2020).

Teaches art history at PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt) and mythology at Ghent University. Her research explores the common denominator between art and mythology, as two fields that are part of a continuum: she approaches both as expressions of the way in which humans use analogous thinking and metaphor to find meaning and orientation in an inherently meaningless and overwhelming reality. This historical process does not only run through concepts, but starts out from a bodily, sensory involvement with the world.

Doceert kunstgeschiedenis aan PXL-MAD School of Arts en mythologie aan de Universiteit Gent. Haar onderzoek focust op het raakvlak tussen mythologie en kunst, velden die ze in continuüm met elkaar ziet. Ze benadert beide velden als uitingen van de eindeloze menselijke pogingen om door middel van analogie en metafoor zin en oriëntatie te vinden in een inherent betekenisloze werkelijkheid. Die voortdurende, historisch bepaalde, constructie van betekenis verloopt niet alleen via concepten, maar vertrekt vanuit een lichamelijke, zinnelijke verhouding tot de wereld.

Postdoc researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at Hasselt University (BE). Her doctoral thesis, Collapse: A Warburgian Autotheory of Impacted Interiorities and Folding Bodies mixed autobiographical excerpts with secular, contemporary reflections on the Catholic trope of the swooning Virgin; as well as contemporary art, literature, and cultural theory. Currently, she is researching architectural interiors and interiority; soft materials; and performative writing.

Goda Palekaitė is a PhD researcher and artist working in the intersection of contemporary art, performance, artistic research, literature, and anthropology. Her practice evolves around projects exploring the politics of historical narratives, the agency of dreams and imagination, and social conditions of creativity. Her performances and installations have been presented at Whitechapel Gallery in London, BOZAR Brussels, Swamp pavilion in The Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice, Georg Kargl gallery in Vienna, Vilnius Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius international theatre festival Sirenos, Kanal – Centre Pompidou in Brussels, The Institute of Things to Come in Turin, among others. In 2020 she published her first book of fiction Schismatics (Lapas books).

Multimedia artist working across the boundaries of performance, experimental film & sound art.

In her work Julie Pfleiderer explores the border of documentary and fiction. She is interested in the shift where fiction becomes truth and truth starts to be fictional. Julie enjoys collaborative processes where different media and approaches are put in dialogue to create friction out of permanent differentiation.