The aim of this research project is to gain novel musicological insights into a large dataset of music from Central Africa. While practicing ethnomusicological research on this dataset, we develop ...read more
The theory of embodied music cognition is centered on the strong coupling of human body and musical patterns. The human body mediates through actions the information from and to the ...read more
This project studies the logic of constructing cosmopolitan subjectivity in a selection of plays written by immigrant artists and plays written about migration since 2000. Specifically, it focuses on plays ...read more
The latest developments in techno-sciences often find new forms of expression in art practices, situated at the border of art and science, combining insights from biological sciences, notably biotechnology and ...read more
This project contains the writing of a monography for which Katharina Pewny has been awarded with a research sabbatical by the Flemish Research Funds (FWO, in the academic year 2016/17). ...read more
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an explicit interest to deal with theater as a visual event. Bringing theater studies in close connection with visual studies, ...read more
What is the potential of not-understanding (Nichtverstehen) for a critique of culture and subversive aesthetic strategies? How do forms of situational representation actualize this potential? These questions are addressed by ...read more
The worlds of theatre is regarded the start with the ritual ceremony similar to a dialogue with God. Early theatre tries to enter into a relationship with God, during the ...read more