Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) 2025-26 Seminar Series

Methods in Artistic Research
A seminar for artistic researchers to discuss their methods
30-31 March 2026
Gele Zaal, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Wintertuin, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
SCHEDULE Method/Art seminar "The Threshold of Co-Creation"
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30 March Monday - Gele Zaal - Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
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11:00 - 11:20 Introduction
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11:20 - 12:00 Gerard Gormley / Buckinghamshire New University
Vibrational Listening and Material Resonance: The Threshold of Co-Creation in Sonic Practice
12:00 - 12:40 Nicolas Kummert / Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Sound Between Us: Co-Embodiment and Electroacoustic Improvisation
12:40 - 13:40 LUNCH
13:40 - 14:20 Carmen Kleykens Vidal / Hochschule Für Musik und Theater Hamburg
Fluid Virtual Identities as Relational Processes: Listening as a Threshold of Co-Creation in XR Performance
14:20 - 15:00 Anne Marleen Olthof, Inesa Markava & Elena Khurgina / University of Amsterdam & University of Antwerp / University of Coimbra / Independent musician
3 ½ Kaleidoscopic. Anachronistic. Diffractive.
15:00 - 15:20 COFFEE BREAK
15:20 - 16:00 Leonardo Melchionda / Conservatory of Siena
Multisensory Sounds: A Case Study. Workshop on Haptic Perception of Sound and Co-Creation with Deaf and Hearing People
16:00 - 16:40 Gianmarco Canato / Conservatorio G. Verdi, Como, Conservatorio A. Vivaldi, Alessandria
Collaborative Design of Improvisational Space in Experimental Music Theatre: “Framing” as a Model to Support Co-Creation and Shared Agency
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31 March Tuesday - Wintertuin - Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
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11:00 - 11:20 Introduction
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11:30 - 12:00 Dualtagh McDonnell-Grundy / ArtEZ, Arnhem
Bogs as Structural Force: Reflexive Co-Creation with Wetlands
12:00 - 12:30 Anna Andrejew & Floris Janssens (research duo somæ) / Independent artist / Dutch National Archives
Tending the Unfinished: Fermentation, Archives: Towards Non-Extractive Co-Creation (Talk + Expo)
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12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 14:10 Miriana Faieta / University of Antwerp
For More than One Voice Shared Vocal Practice as Artistic Research (Workshop)
14:10 - 14:50 Spring Pears (Katy Drake, Saskia Van der Gucht, Yi Zhang, Kristí Fekete, Anthe Hermans & An-Marie Breem) / Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp & Sint Lucas Antwerpen
A Case Study in Mutual Referencing (Expo + Workshop)
14:50 - 15:10 COFFEE BREAK
15:10 - 15:40 Liesl Roos Leseberg / Hasselt University, PXL-MAD
Contamination and Sand Casting as Co-Creative Process (Talk + Expo)
15:40 - 16:10 Wieke Aerts & Fabienne Snellinx / Independent artist / Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
City Whisperings (Talk + Expo)
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