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Making books @triggerfomu @fomuantwerp, philosophy lecturer @sintlucasantwerpen, artistic research communication @_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
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Just a few days until Tashattot’s 𝙎𝙒𝘼𝙉𝘼 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 & 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙁𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 📚 a book fair, focusing on publications from the South West Asia and North Africa, region with an accompanying programme of talks, workshops and performances.⁠ ⁠ 📅 05 - 06.06. at Kaaistudios⁠ ⁠ All ticket profits will go to Tanseqeye Shaabeye collective – التنسيقية الشعبية @tanseqeye_shaabeye_lebanon . They support Lebanon Emergency Relief, which uses the funds to provide food for those affected, purchase tents and mattresses, supply hygiene products and baby food, and fund basic infrastructure and more.
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How does publishing shape collective gathering and exchange? Join us during Tashattot’s 𝙎𝙒𝘼𝙉𝘼 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 & 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙁𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 for 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀, a conversation on publishing, traces, and collective practices with Joachim Ben Yakoub, Barrack Zailaa Rima and Charbel Alkhoury, moderated by Tom Viaene⁠ ⁠ 📅 06.06. 18h-20h at Kaaistudios⁠ 🗣️ EN⁠ 🩶 FREE (limited capacity, come early)⁠ ⁠ This conversation departs from the book 𝙏𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧 #6: 𝘼𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨, approaching publishing as a form of gathering. Through the lens of “paper assemblies,” it explores how printed matter such as magazines, posters, and postcards can carry traces, circulate stories, and continue to bring people together across time and place. The panel considers how publishing connects dispersed geographies, and how traces, memories, and stories continue to circulate, gather, and shift meaning over time. ⁠ ⁠ 📸 cover of Trigger #6: Assemblies
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Days of Polycopies
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Today we’re launching something very special! Last year, an open call was issued among MAPS alumni, students, and staff. After a year of collaboration, @triggerfomu launches ‘Networking the Audience’ in collaboration with MAPS and @aalto_photography , launched during the #helsinkiphotomedia conference. MAPS Alumni @willboase graduated in 2022, in his thesis arguing that digital circulation was transforming photography’s role in the world. In response, MAPS initiated the Networked Audience research program, which set out to explore how and where photographs travel online, and how these journeys transform them, their messages, the people they encounter, and their relationship to other types of imagery, including AI generated ones. The research program was led by Will and MAPS senior lecturer @andreastultiens .  Over the course of its two-year duration, the program resulted in a host of moments of engagement with interested students, academics, and personal connections. Outcomes include essays, seminars, websites, and toolkits. And today another moment of engagement is launched into the world: a thematic online series published with Trigger, as a special edition. The edition features nine essay themed around the digital circulation of images and the shifting relationships between makers and audiences. The publication unfolds in two formats: an online issue and a custom Telegram edition, testing how images—and their meanings—transform across platforms. Participating artists: @len.a.holzer @fentasy.jpeg @rafael.roncato @benj_morrison @donaldweber @elenakrukonyte @catalina__torres @therewasbeatrice @theofficeofalinalupu @patriciakuehfuss A BIG thanks to @tom.viaene.31 @willboase @andreastultiens @triggerfomu @aalto_photography GO AND CHECK IT OUT NOW ON TELEGRAM + TRIGGER Guest Editors: Andrea Stultiens & Will Boase Developer: Anna Lebedieva Designer: @saraitokyo Platform Specialist: Kamil Kućma Digital Lead: Will Boase Editor - Trigger: Tom Viaene Proofreading: Jessica Murphy Editorial Support: Eline Adriaensen, Mikaela Ariana Christabel
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Throwback to some moments at #iffr2026 There are a number of other dear people that I can’t share the photos I’m standing with for the moment.
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Next week! DARKNESS: A Photography Conference Thursday 19th – Friday 20th March, to coincide with the vernal equinox. This conference examines the significance of darkness, proposing to invert our thinking about photography and remind us of the image’s many entanglements and consequences, buried possibilities and repressed impulses. Drawing together artists, researchers, writers, curators, the conference makes visible the many resonances of darkness as a necessary subject in approaching photography’s elaborate material, industrial, psychical and social roots and interconnections. https://www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/darkness-a-photography-conference/ SODA Building, Manchester Metropolitan University 14 Higher Chatham Street, Manchester, M15 6ED Ticket link for 1 or both days is in bio @mmu.photography Presentations by Roger Ballen @rogerballen Lisa Barnard @lisacbarnard Holly Birtles @hbirtles Manila Castoro @manilacastoro Sara Dominici Jessie Edwards Thomas @jessieedwardsthomas Benjamin Green @benjamin_green_ Michelle Henning @prof.michellehenning Julie F. Hill @juliefhill Teemu Hupli @hupliteemu Laura Hynd @laura_hynd Jamie Jelinski @jamie.jelinski Sarah Jones @sarahjones_studio Rut Blees Luxemburg @rutbleesluxemburg Sian Macfarlane @swllwss Aspen Mays @aspenmays Helen McGhie helen_mcghie Jana Müller @jana_mueller_berlin David Penny @dav1dpenny Zsuzsanna Szegedy Maszak Tom Viaene @tom.viaene.31 Ellen Yiwei Wang @ellenennui Performances: Lucy Soutter Tom Lovelace @tomlovelacestudio Screenings of film work by: Andrea Jaeger Roger Ballen An exhibition of photographic work that expands on the thematics of the conference will be open for the duration of the conference, on 2nd floor SODA, curated by the conference team. Organised by Duncan Wooldridge, Sian Macfarlane, David Penny, Sue Fox and Victoria Smith @anti_foto @swllwss @dav1dpenny @suefox5501 @victoriasmith.uk
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ASSEMBLING ERASURES On Borders, Photos and Colonial Cartography Published in Trigger #6: Assemblies (FOMU, Belgium) ...................... I’m honored to share that my essay “Assembling Erasures: On Borders, Photos and Colonial Cartography” has been published in Trigger #6: Assemblies, a publication by FOMU (Fotomuseum Antwerpen). In this text, I reflect on how photography and colonial maps shape borders, memory, and identity, and how erased histories can be reassembled through artistic practice. For me, borders are not abstract lines. They are lived realities. Grateful to be part of this important issue, guest edited by Taous Dahmani @taous_r_dahmani , alongside powerful voices reflecting on photography today. #rushdi_anwar #triggermagazine #fomu
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Waarom kunstkritiek? De tijd dat in de kunsten één criticus het vanzelfsprekende laatste woord had over het kunstwerk, is voorbij – gelukkig maar. Wat komt er in de plaats van die ongenaakbare autoriteit? Is een recensie meer dan zomaar een mening? En wat doet kunstkritiek er eigenlijk toe, voor een lezer, een kunstenaar of een maatschappij? Goede critici zijn open en zelfkritisch, waakzaam voor de eigen vooroordelen. Maar hoe kan je dan toch nog tot een oordeel komen? Welke houding moet een recensent aannemen? Hoe blijf je alert voor je eigen positie, onbevangen en zoekend, zonder te vervallen in vrijblijvendheid? Hoe kan je ‘zorgzaam’ over kunst schrijven: bewust van je blinde vlekken, maar toch kritisch? KMSKA Laat brengt drie critici uit verschillende media en disciplines samen in een gesprek over hun vak. Margot De Grave Loyson (Etcetera), Tom Viaene (Trigger, FOMU) en Eric Rinckhout (Zaal Z, KMSKA) gaan in debat, gemodereerd door auteur en curator Siska Baeck op 5 maart, van 20:30 tot 21:30. 👉Tickets via link in bio! @kmska_museum @triggerfomu @margotdegraveloyson @tom.viaene.31 @siskabaeck
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a bit late to share, but here is a proud book contribution from 2025. A brilliant selection edited by Taous Dahmani. With thanks also to Tom Viaene as @triggerfomu s series editor. @fomuantwerp . My contribution is a text and a stills selection based on my video installation ‘at night, on faultlines’ discussing the artistic research process we created with Mihran Tomasyan. with thanks to the editors 📕♥️
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Over the past month, I held three events to publicly present my research on photography and public space. The first, “Photography in the Public Realm: Practices, Tools & Reflections,” took place at @fourcornerse2 in London, with Anthony Luvera, Pierre Terdjman from @Dysturb, and Emma Chetcuti from @Multistory. We explored different ways of acting in urban space—from socially engaged practices to spontaneous street interventions. The second talk, titled “The Billboard Image: The Politics of Urban Display,” was held online in collaboration with @triggerfomu and it turned into a wonderful conversation with Tom Viaene, Willem De Haan, Alexander Rosenkranz, Jun Mabuchi from @ForFreedoms, and Nicola Shipley from @grain_projects . We focused on the billboard as a device for reflection, but above all as a catalyst for collective social and political awareness. For the third talk, held in Milan at @connectingcultures and titled “Billboards as Monuments: What Photography Teaches Us About the Political Role of Public Space,” I invited Maurizio Montagna and Pietro Gaglianò. Here, we looked at how the billboard can become a site of artistic investigation, as well as a platform for protest and the expression of dissent. My research will soon result in two small, preliminary publications, and in the near future I’m also hoping to work toward something more substantial, such as an exhibition and a dedicated volume. At a time when social networks have increasingly isolated us and distanced us from any real sense of community, and when public space is progressively eroded by processes of privatization, gentrification, and overtourism, I believe that images can play a crucial role in the public realm. Not only in helping construct alternative imaginaries, but above all in their ability to bring us together: to talk, to share time, and to live collectively. A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who took part and made these events possible! — The research was funded by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. 📸 Carlotta Beck Peccoz (1) and Angelo Iaia (3).
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TRIGGER #6 somehow made it through tariffs and customs. An ample volume on "Assemblies," with many amazing contributors, edited by Taous Dahmani and coordinated by Tom Viaene, brilliant and ever-gentle both. Really happy that the book opens with a poem of mine (slides 2 & 3). I don't always like what I write, but I'm attached to "Between the Steps". I composed it last year, for (and after) Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abourahme, as a reflection on collective acts of liberation, in a glorious time of student encampments. It was inspired by a Palestinian saying, often heard in demonstrations and at martyrs' funerals: علّي علّي وعلّي الصوت ... واللي بيهتف ما بيموت Raise raise and raise your voice high ... if you chant you will not die . Trigger is "a publication for reflection on photography", by FOMU (Fotomuseum Antwerpen), published by Fw: Books. The cover photo is "Tunisia, Tunis, 2023" by Zied Ben Romdhane. Slide 5: 'Greetings from Gaza', by Rehaf Al Batniji and Kegham Djeghalian, 2025.
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