Current artistic research projects (PhD)
The historically curious guitarist - Giulio Quirici
Giulio Quirici, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The historically curious guitarist (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Erik Myin and Frank Agsteribbe
Metacognitive Assemblies. Crafting intra-relations with Technology in Posthuman Making - Edu Tarin
Edu Tarin, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Jouke Verlinden and Thomas Crombez
Entangled Rawness: navigating nonlinear creativity through the no-input mixer - Davide Paolillo
Davide Paolillo, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Jouke Verlinden and Umut Eldem
A Whirlpool of imaginary sounds - Nicholas Cornia
Nicholas Cornia, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Bert De Munck and Bruno Forment
Singing the cello - vocality as a principle of Romantic instrumental playing in Schumann's work - Marie-Louise Wundling
Marie-Louise Wundling, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Singing the cello - vocality as a principle of Romantic instrumental playing in Schumann's work (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Bart Eeckhout and Stijn Saveniers
Reviving Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495–c. 1560): Style, Context, and Performance - Arturo Moscoso Sequera
Arturo Moscoso Sequera, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Reviving Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495–c. 1560): Style, Context, and Performance’ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Luc Anthonis and Bruno Blondé
The Epistemology of Air: Musicing through Evolving Perspectives - Jonathan Chazan
Jonathan Chazan, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Epistemology of Air: Musicing through Evolving Perspectives (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Karin De Fleyt, Jonathan Impett and Kevin Mets
Who and what makes the academy garden? - Eline De Clercq
Eline De Clercq, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​? (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Heide Hinrichs and Pascal Gielen
Ghostly Dramaturgies: Staging Migrant Narratives through Immersive Technology in Performance - Furkan Ak
​Furkan Ak, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Youniss Ahamad (Royal Conservatoire Antwerp) and Kurt Vanhoutte (University of Antwerp)
Analogy and the Erotics of Interpretation - Emil Gryesten Jensen
​Emil Gryesten, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Frank Agsteribbe, Bart Eeckhout and Paulo de Assis
The Computer-Aided Composer - Andrea Agostini
​Andrea Agostini, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Computer-Aided Composer (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Umut Eldem and Jouke Verlinden
Beyond gaze: Establishing the language of touch in applied drama - Can Boyan
Can Boyan, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Bob Selderslaghs and Pascal Gielen
Words out of tune. Collective practices of vocal improvisation - Miriana Faieta
Miriana Faieta, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Words out of tune. Collective practices of vocal improvisation (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Katrien Van Opstal and Pascal Gielen
Hearing room: Ghosts of the African Democratic Assembly - ayoh kré Duchâtelet
ayoh kré Duchâtelet, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Joachim Ben Yakoub and Matthias De Groof
Empowered Care - Dimitri van den Wittenboer
Dimitri van den Wittenboer, Sint Lucas Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Ann Laenen and Pascal Gielen
Corpo-gambiarra: dance, costume, and politics of the body - Renata Lamenza Epifanio
Renata Lamenza Epifanio, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Pascal Gielen
From Stage to Page: An Experimental, Performance-led examination of the relationship between Musical Performance and Musical Analysis - ​Alastair Matthews
​Alastair Matthews, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Jeroen Malaise and Bart Eeckhout
The Voice of Many Waters: Acoustemopoetic Composition of Carmelite Mysticism - Tomer Damsky
Tomer Damsky, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Frank Agsteribbe and John Arblaster
On the perpetual becoming of sculpture and history and their moments of convergence - Laurence Petrone
Laurence Petrone, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Herman Van Goethem and Hans Theys
Voices of Materials: Probing the Cultural Ecology of Material Finitude - Irma Földényi
Irma Földényi, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kyoko Iwaki and Wesley Meuris
Practice: a metaphor - Metaphorizing practices and practicing metaphors - Vedran Kopljar
Vedran Kopljar, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Arthur Cools and Nico Dockx
Hyperwithin: a shy dramaturgy in shadowtimes - Anne-Lise Brévers
Anne-Lise Brévers, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kyoko Iwaki and Annouk Van Moorsel
Benoit's language - Hannah Aelvoet
Hannah Aelvoet, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kevin Absillis and Jan De Wilde
Exploring the Diasporic Life of Armenian Script: a multiscript design laboratory - Garine Gokceyan
, Sint Lucas Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kathleen Gyssels and Ruth Loos
Against Forgetting: Exploring poetic gestures of return(ing) to the land in Palestine - ​Shayma Nader
​Shayma Nader, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Joachim Ben Yakoub, Gert Van Hecken and Matthias De Groof
Contemporary Kasala and Lukasa: towards a Reconfiguration of Identity and Geopolitics - Sammy Baloji
Sammy Baloji, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2020-2026)
Supervisors: Ruth Razan Loos, Bambi Ceuppens and Paolo Favero
Connecting the dots - ​Lies Colman
​Lies Colman, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2021-2026)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Pascal Gielen
Perspectives on time in the music by Stockhausen: the experience of a performer - ​Karin De Fleyt
​Karin De Fleyt, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Steven Malliet
Thinking bodies in Dance - Klaas Devos
​Klaas Devos, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2020-2026)
Supervisors: Annouk Van Moorsel and Timmy De Laet
The politics of publishing; researching encounters between artists’ books and intersectional feminist tools - Loraine Furter
​Loraine Furter, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2019-2026)
Supervisors: Kim Gorus and Diana Arbaiza
The voice as instrument / The instrument as voice - ​Paolo Galli
​Paolo Galli, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
(2014-...)
Supervisors: Giusy Caruso, Marlies De Munck and Arthur Cools
Design as a Cultural Communicator - ​Carl Haase
​Carl Haase, PXL MAD Hasselt
Outgoing joint PhD with UHasselt
​ (2016-...)
Supervisors: Ann Bessemans and Pascal Gielen
The Mottolese Archive - ​Ilaria Lupo
​Ilaria Lupo, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen and Nele Wynants
Moving towards resilience. Joint creation through music and movement for local, immigrant and refugee children - Georgia Nicolaou
​Georgia Nicolaou, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Bob Selderslaghs, Luc Nijs and Peter Van Petegem
Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical: How to Guide Individuals through Courses of Instructed Simple Action Here and Now as Sites for Framed Chance Interaction between Self and World towards a Truly Personal Body of Work of Art and Life - ​Yuki Okumura
​Yuki Okumura, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2021-2026)
Supervisors: Nico Dockx and Kyoko Iwaki
Different Tubes - ​Chiara Percivati
​Chiara Percivati, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2021-2026)
Supervisors: Renaud Guy-Rousseau and Jouke Verlinden
Intersecting repertoire: towards an inclusive, diverse and representative repertoire - ​Lauranne Paulissen
​Lauranne Paulissen, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Edith Cassiers and Timmy De Laet
Empty Pages - Bas Rogiers
​Bas Rogiers, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2019-...)
Supervisors: Johan Pas and Steven Jacobs
​Sense of Wonder. Artistic portals between the real and the virtual - Kristof Timmerman
Kristof Timmerman, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Steven Humblet and Jouke Verlinden
When the artist swallows his image - Karel Tuytschaever
​Karel Tuytschaever, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Inge Henneman and Annemie Leemans
Black Yarns: A Decolonial Research into the History of Black Women’s Fashion & Jewellery Design Practices - ​Pierre-Antoine Vettorello
​Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2021-2026)
Supervisors: Kim Gorus and Diana Arbaiza
Queering the censorship: A (self-)investigation through the first-person perspective of an experimental filmmaker in Vietnam - Việt Vũ
​Việt Vũ (Quang Trung Pham), Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ - 2022-2026
Supervisors: Sofie Verdoodt and Philippe Meers
PhD researchers in action
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Klaas Devos (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ) presenting the developments in his PhD research ‘Thinking Bodies in Dance. Somatic R.E.A.C.H. (research in electronic and algorithmic choreography)’, during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Workshop by Andrea Cammarosano (PhD researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and ARIA, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ), during the Open Laboratory Weeks at the Academy, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Research class for students by artist Els Dietvorst (PhD researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and ARIA, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ), during the ARTICULATE Research Days at the Academy, 2020, photo by Miles Fishler. -
Umut Eldem (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ) performing ‘The Road Endless’ as part of his doctoral research into synaesthesia, during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ) performing ‘Composition 381 (Echo Echo Mirror House Music)’ by Anthony Braxton, during the ARTICULATE Research Days at the Conservatoire, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Lecture-performance ‘Hearing with the eyes - composing musical-gestural works’ by Winnie Huang (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ), during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré
