In the summer of 1566, Calvinist iconoclasts attacked churches all over the Low Countries. They destroyed religious sculptures, paintings and cult objects. Essentially, the Beeldenstorm was a physical reaction of ...read more
In the past, Belgium has played a pioneering role in prison design. Despite the growing interest in the history of prison architecture abroad since the 1970's, the study of ...read more
The so-called city symphony, also often described as city film or city poem, is a film genre that had its heydays in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining elements of documentary, ...read more
By examining the artwork and relevant examples from the media, the objective of this project is to give insight into contemporary art practices interwoven with the idea of terrorism or ...read more
The postdoc research project "The body and its double" concerns the politics of the body in 21st century media society relating to the issues of post-humanism, performing identities, presence and ...read more
Since the late eighties, posthumanism is gaining ground both in philosophy (Harraway 1989, Halberstam and Livingstone 1995 and Hayles 1999) and in art (see for example the artistic practice ...read more
The objective of this PhD research is to examine the relevance of political philosopher Chantal Mouffe's project of agonistic democracy for performance studies. Since the task of democratic politics is ...read more
In the 19th century, the arts, like music, were an obligatory part of the education of young girls from the upper classes. Some of these young women developed a careers ...read more
This project sheds light on the art world in Belgium and the Netherlands in the 1st half of the 19th century, and the role nationhood played in it. The PhD ...read more
The aim of this project is to assess various relationships between images and indulgences, especially in the context of Flemish paintings produced in the fifteenth-century and the beginning of the ...read more