October 2025 - Antwerp
The Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) starts the academic year 2025-2026 with a month full of lectures, debates, performances, exhibitions, workshops and open classes on research in the arts. This research on the intersection of science and fiction highlights the importance of imagination, intuition, aesthetics and design for science and society.
Research in the arts lays the foundation for a 'sensitive science' that seeks solutions for current ecological, technological, cultural and social problems through critical pedagogy, ecopoetics, radical hospitality, cooking and digital sound sculptures. Art is much more than entertainment and culture is much more than a leisure activity. Artists make substantial contributions to our ecosystem and our ways of living together. In the month leading up to research in the arts, ARIA puts the potential of research in the arts in the spotlight for both specialists and the general public.
9-24 October 2025
'What if…' - Articulate Research Weeks at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
During ARTICULATE 2025 | What if…?, artists, researchers, experts, and students explore the relationship between art and society. The programme focusses on collaboration, participation, interpersonal relationships, activism, and engagement.
Featuring a selection of research classes, alongside a series of public events and moments, ARTICULATE2025 will highlight and deepen key aspects of artistic practices and research.
With ARIA PhD researchers Yuki Okumura, Kristof Timmerman, and others.
15-17 October 2025
'What if…' - Articulate Research Week at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Boundaries between art and society, between disciplines, between Schools of Arts, between art and science, between teachers and students, between artists and researchers? The tenth edition of ARTICULATE is all about encounters, wonder, and exchange, presented through a programme of performances, lectures, workshops, and public events and moments, related to research in music and the performing arts.
With ARIA PhD researchers Tomer Damsky, Alastair Matthews, Chiara Percivati, Emil Gryesten, Anne-Lise Brévers, and others.
20-25 October 2025
Sint Lucas Antwerpen Research Week
During the Research Week 2025, Sint Lucas Antwerpen is organising a series of public moments around artistic research, with a particular focus on climate politics, AI, religion, film, collective practices and activism. Several ARIA PhD students and members will present work, engage in dialogue or publicly defend their research.
With ARIA PhD researchers Mona Hedayati, Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Dimitri Van den Wittenboer, Bianca Baldi, Danial Shah, Việt Vũ, and others.
Public events
13.10.2025 20:00 - 22:00 | ARIA & Toneelhuis | Film screening and debate "Aan Tafel: (Ver)beelden van Oorlog" with Jan Beddegenoodts and Bruno Beeckman, moderated by Inge Henneman. @ Bourla, i.s.m. Toneelhuis & Artsen Zonder Grenzen, curated by Erwin Jans (Toneelhuis) & Pascal Gielen (ARIA, UAntwerpen) |
15.10.2025 09:30 - 16:00 | Royal Conservatoire Antwerp | Symposium on arts & science "The Voice of the practitioner" by research group CORPoREAL |
15.10.2025 17:00 - 21:00 | Royal Conservatoire Antwerp | Opening night with keynote & performances |
16.10.2025 20:00 | Royal Conservatoire Antwerp & Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp | "Muddled & confused", music and spoken word @ Het Bos - programmed by Boris Van den Eynden and ARIA PhD researcher Vedran Kopljar |
17.10.2025 13:00 - 15:30 | Royal Conservatoire Antwerp | Lunch concert "KENOSPHERA" by ARIA PhD researcher Tomer Damsky & Quantum Choir and symposium FORUM+ |
20.10.2025 11:00 - 13:00 | Sint Lucas Antwerpen | Public session on ways to make artistic research public |
20.10.2025 & 21.10.2025 17:30 – 20:00 | Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp | Symposium "Conceptual, Performative, Pedagogical: Teaching Artist Conference" by ARIA PhD researcher Yuki Okumura |
22.10.2025 17:00 - 19:00 | Sint Lucas Antwerpen | Lecture "The body on screen", about independent cinema and film censorship by ARIA PhD researcher Việt Vũ |
23.10.2025 13:30 | Sint Lucas Antwerpen | Guided tour of the exhibition "Sea Through Skin" by ARIA PhD researcher Bianca Baldi @ Kunsthal Extra City |
23.10.2025 16:00 - 18:00 | Sint Lucas Antwerpen | Mini symposium about AI and social media |
23.10.2025 19:00 - 22:00 | Sint Lucas Antwerpen | Vernissage of the exhibition by ARIA PhD researcher Danial Shah @ FOMU |
23.10.2025 & 24.10.2025 | Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp | Symposium "Beyond Binary" by ARIA PhD researcher Kristof Timmerman @ MEDAA, Brussels |
24.10.2025 | Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, Sint Lucas Antwerpen & ARIA | Art & Technology networking event @ MEDAA, Brussels |
24.10.2025 10:00 - 11:30 | Sint Lucas Antwerpen | Keynote lecture "Beyond the national frame: scenes from the Indo-Pak border", by prof. Natasha Raheja (Cornell University) @ FOMU |
24.10.2025 12:30 - 16:30 | Sint Lucas Antwerpen | Film screening "Make it look real" with introduction by prof. Christopher Pinney (UCL) followed by the public defence of Danial Shah @ FOMU |
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