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Introducing SLARG’s new researchers.

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Revival, Revival of What? Belgian Signage and Typographic Imaginary

Mateo Broillet is a graphic designer and researcher interested in typography, visual culture and the ways design shapes our experience of the everyday. His work explores the forms and meanings carried by the visual language of public space.

What happens when Belgian signage and vernacular typography are revived, and whose histories, values and visual identities are carried forward in the process?

His one-year research project at SLARG examines the cultural and political imaginaries embedded in Belgian signage and typography, asking what is at stake when these visual forms are rediscovered, preserved or reinterpreted.

More on his research via our website, link in bio.

@atelieramb @sintlucasantwerpen by @_slarg_

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Introducing SLARG’s new researchers.

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The Everyday of Territorial Struggles, On/Off Screen

Lietje Bauwens is an artist and filmmaker whose practice explores the relationships between moving images, collective action and political struggle. Her work engages with people resisting the transformation of urban space and the conditions that shape everyday life in Brussels.

How can filmmaking make visible everyday forms of resistance to the privatisation of public space and the commodification of housing, and broaden our understanding of what counts as political action?

Her PhD research at SLARG and ARIA (University of Antwerp) explores how filmmaking and collective montage can bring these often overlooked struggles into view, both on and off screen.

Follow her research through our website, via link in bio.

Photo: Stine Sampers.

@lietjebauwens @sintlucasantwerpen by @_slarg_

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Introducing SLARG’s new researchers.

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WAKA Studio: Art, Education, Research and Society, Njombé-Penja

Guy Woueté is an artist and researcher whose practice explores the relationships between art, education and society. Working from Njombé-Penja in Cameroon, he investigates how artistic practice can create spaces for collective learning, exchange and social transformation.

How can an artistic practice become a form of institution-making rooted in local realities, collective knowledge and relationships with the land?

His PhD research at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG) and ARIA (University of Antwerp) develops WAKA Studio as a space for artistic research and collective experimentation. The project collaborates with Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, where Guy will undertake an annual research residency.

More on his research via our website. Link in bio.

P�hoto of Guy ©IPATEER2023

@guywouete @sintlucasantwerpen @janvaneyckacademie by @_slarg_

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Introducing SLARG's new researchers.

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The Hi-Vis Workie: Reflective Workwear from Appropriation to Queercoding

Jivan van der Ende is an artist whose practice spans performance, installation, video and print. She explores how everyday materials, clothing and social codes can be reworked through artistic practice.

How can reflective workwear become a site for exploring gender, labour, visibility and queer expression?

Her one-year research at SLARG investigates how workwear and its associated social codes can be appropriated, embodied and queered.

Follow her research through our website. Link in bio.

Jivan van der Ende in the studio, 2025. Photo: Galya Feierman

@jivanvanderende @sintlucasantwerpen by @_slarg_

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Introducing SLARG’s new researchers.

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Imagination as Infrastructure: Rehearsing Political Aesthetics at the Base of the Social

Noor Abed is an artist working across performance and film, exploring how bodies, gestures and collective movement can open up new political possibilities.

How can collective imagination become a shared political capacity, making liberation thinkable and actionable in Palestine?

Her PhD research at SLARG and ARIA (University of Antwerp) ventures into the role of imagination and political aesthetics in processes of collective transformation.

More on her research via our website, link in bio.

@noor_abed @sintlucasantwerpen by @_slarg_

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Introducing the newly started researchers at SLARG.

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A Circle of Birds: On Recomposition as Murmuration

How can collective histories be reactivated through storytelling, sound and artistic recomposition, without being fixed in the archive?

SLARG welcomes AZ OOR (first slide) and Sofyann Ben Youssef (second slide), who join Joachim Ben Yakoub in this two-year collective research project at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG). Together, they explore the traces of Ahl El Hijra, a Brussels-based art collective active in the 1970s, through visual, sonic and poetic forms, bringing overlooked memories and histories back into movement.

AZ OOR is an Amazigh Futurist, visual artist, noisist, storyteller and poet working between Marrakech and Rotterdam. Sofyann Ben Youssef is a musician, composer and researcher whose practice engages with sound, musical traditions and cultural memory. Joachim Ben Yakoub is both a researcher in the project and its supervisor within SLARG.

We look forward to following this collective research as it unfolds.

@az_oor_ sofyann72 @hakim_jakobs @sintlucasantwerpen by @_slarg_

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Our third edition of RAIVE Summer School was once again a fruitful week full of new ideas and connections. RAIVE was born from the desire to offer a space for artists to meet and work collaboratively with performative arts and technology. Each year we grow a little and this year we had thirteen participants. We saw an AI fashion show come into being, told our secrets, got to know the term ‘Italian brain rot’ and witnessed a piano being turned into a racing car. All in all, a successful and fun week!

As each year we give huge thanks to the @royalconservatoireantwerp for hosting us, @sintlucasantwerpen and @_slarg_ for facilitating, @umutreldem and @giusycarusopianist_researcher from @creatie.research - @research_conservatoireantwerp for the wonderful collaboration and the participants for making RAIVE what it is. We are already looking forward to next year!

Special thanks to @cactuar__ and @nigel_grey_dubois

September 2026

📸 @borisbruegel (1-3, 9, 11, 13) and @celiatortpujol (4-8, 10) taken in Royal Conservatoire Antwerp by @_slarg_

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SLARG is excited to announce the final part of Pierre-Antoine Vettorello's PhD in the Arts:

Join us on Monday 26 October for the public defense of Black Yarns: Fashion and African Women's Resistance in the Parisian Afropea (1939–1966).

How did Black African women in mid-twentieth-century Paris use dress to negotiate identity, belonging and resistance? And how can artistic research bring overlooked histories into view?

Promotors: Dr Kim Gorus (Sint Lucas Antwerpen) and Prof. Dr Diana Arbaiza (University of Antwerp).
External Committee Member: Fatima Fall Niang (CRDS Saint-Louis, Université Gaston Berger, Senegal).
External jury: Romeo Mivekannin (Artist), Prof. Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang (Carnegie Mellon University), Prof. Dr. Julia Binter (University of Bonn).

*Horloge du Sud, Rue du Trône 141, Brussels
*Monday 26 October 2026
*Archive viewing from 12:00 | Public defense 14:00–16:00, followed by deliberation and a reception.

💡 Please RSVP via Pierre-Antoine : pierreantoine.vettorello@kdg.be

Organised by SLARG (Sint Lucas Antwerpen) and ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, University of Antwerp), as part of SLARG Research Week 2026.

More info via the slides + link in bio.

Visuals @felix_godefroy

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@romeomivekannin @mame_fatouniang
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SLARG Film Screening Program 🎥

Thursday 29 October 2026
15:15–19:30
Aula, Sint Lucas Antwerpen School of Arts

Three films, three different ways of thinking through images, time, landscape and history:

15:30 · Make It Look Real (first slide)
Danial Shah · 70 min

17:00 · Hear Her Calendar System: A Year of Thirteen Months (second slide)
Bianca Baldi · 20 min

17:40 · L’Arbre de l’Authenticité (third slide)
Sammy Baloji · 85 min

From the construction of photographic reality in a studio in Pakistan, to alternative rhythms of time and the more-than-human world, to the entangled histories of colonialism, ecology and knowledge production in the Congo Basin.

Part of SLARG Research Week ’26.

Free and open to all.

More info via link in bio.

@sintlucasantwerpen @bianca_baldi @danialshah_ @twentyninestudioproduction by @_slarg_

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ADANIA SHIBLI
‘Language as an Impasse’

Closing lecture · SLARG Research Week ’26

Friday 30 October 2026
18:00–19:30
Showroom, Sint Lucas Antwerpen

We are pleased to welcome Palestinian writer Adania Shibli for the closing lecture of SLARG’s Research Week ’26.

In ‘Language as an Impasse’, Shibli explores what happens when language falters: when words disappear, stall, repeat, or give way to silence. Taking the experience of becoming dysfluent in writing as a point of departure, she reflects on silence as a counterpoint to speaking and on writing at the limits of language.

Image caption (second slide): Khalil al-Sakakini, handwritten diary entry, 2 January 1950. Image courtesy of Adania Shibli.

FREE ADMISSION
SEATS ARE LIMITED
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

Please register via the link in our bio to reserve your place.

Be welcome.

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@uitgeverij_koppernik taken in Sint Lucas Antwerpen by @_slarg_

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SLARG RESEARCH EXHIBITION
28 October – 1 November

What happens when research is still in the making?

Come explore works-in-progress, experiments and proposals by artists and researchers at SLARG. A glimpse behind the scenes of artistic research: unfinished, questioning, testing, changing.

Sint Lucas Antwerpen Showroom
Opening: Wednesday 28 October, 17:00
Guided tour: 18:00 with Petra Van Brabandt (head of research)
Meet the researchers and join the conversation!

29 Oct – 1 Nov · 14:00–17:00

Come curious. Stay for the questions. And a drink.

With @ayoh.kre Brenda Bikoko @celiatortpujol @dimitri_van_den_wittenboer @enigmeta @garine.gokceyan @irmafoldenyi @jeroen.bocken Joachim Ben Yakoub, Jonathan Paepens @kvermeren Lieven Menschaert Myrthe Bokelmann @ra.sheen @robinvanbesien @sam__vanbelle Sander van de Vyver

Production: Wesley Meuris & Tom Viaene
@wesleymeuris @tom.viaene.31
With assistance: Tom Volkaert @tomvolkaert (wood workshop) Gerard Leysen @uitslag_punt_net (print) Joud Toamah @joudtoamah (graphic design) by @_slarg_

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SLARG is back for a new academic year!

And... we’re kicking things off with Research Week 2026:

A week bringing together artistic research at Sint Lucas Antwerpen School of Arts through a research exhibition, a screening programme, presentations and a public lecture.

At the centre of the week is a research exhibition bringing together the work of SLARG’s PhD and other researchers. Rather than presenting finished artworks, the exhibition makes research itself visible: its questions, processes, materials, experiments and forms of knowledge. It offers a space to encounter artistic research as something in development, and to see how different practices generate and share knowledge.

On Wednesday 28 October, we open the exhibition with a tour, drinks and conversation. On Thursday, a screening programme with Danial Shah, Bianca Baldi and Sammy Baloji brings film into dialogue with artistic research, with space for discussion and exchange with the audience, researchers from other institutions and students across the arts.

Friday afternoon focuses on presentations of completed research projects, followed by a public lecture by Palestinian writer Adania Shibli, ‘Language as an Impasse’, exploring the breakdown of language, the disappearance of words and silence as a counterpoint to speaking.

The research exhibition remains open throughout the week, inviting students, researchers and visitors to spend time with the work and follow the different trajectories of research.

SLARG is welcoming you!

28 October – 1 November 2026
Sint Lucas Antwerpen / SLARG

Full programme and practical information at slarg.be

Many thanks to Loraine Furter & Imane Khoutoul Benyecif for visuals and website. @lorainefurter

@garine.gokceyan @robinvanbesien @ayoh.kre Brenda Bikoko @dimitri_van_den_wittenboer @irmafoldenyi @ra.sheen Joachim Ben Yakoub @kvermeren @sam__vanbelle @celiatortpujol Myrthe Bokelmann Lieven Menschaert @enigmeta @jeroen.bocken Jonathan Paepens & @sandervandevyvere @wesleymeuris @twentyninestudioproduction @danialshah_ @bianca_baldi @kim_gorus @joudtoamah @ruth.loos by @_slarg_

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