Pascal Gielen full professor About Pascal Gielen Pascal Gielen Contact Stadscampus Show email address Lange Sint - Annastraat 7 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Pascal Gielen is writer and full professor of sociology of culture and politics at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) where he leads the…

Pascal Gielen gewoon hoogleraar Over Pascal Gielen Pascal Gielen Contact Stadscampus Toon e-mailadres Lange Sint - Annastraat 7 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Pascal Gielen is schrijver en gewoon hoogleraar cultuursociologie, verbonden aan het Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) van de Universiteit …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Trust Building on the Cultural Commons How can we break through a culture of mistrust? Suspicion regarding our fellow beings, the authorities and enterprises is growing, blamed on passing the buck and feelings of impotence. We seek remedies in …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Passivity Between Indifference and Pacifism ‘A pacifist is a rare beast in a bomb shelter.’ The war in Ukraine challenged our idea of pacifism. Should Europe take up arms or not? Can it ease its conscience only with humanitarian aid? Isn’…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Fragility To Touch and Be Touched In a competitive existence we hide our weak spots. When something comes too close, threatens to touch us, we had better shield our vulnerability. However, this means there is less and less room for exchange. Ev…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content The Aesthetics of Ambiguity Understanding and Addressing Monoculture In The Aesthetics of Ambiguity: Understanding and Addressing Monoculture Pascal Gielen and Nav Haq argue that multiculturalism is paradoxically based on monocultural thinking.…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Nearness Art and Education After Covid-19 The Covid-19 crisis teaches us how priceless human nearness is. Art and education can't do without it either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at digital arm's length. Art is lifeless…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content When Fact is Fiction Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era What is the value of fiction at a time when fake news, alternative facts, and infotainment undermine the integrity of politics and media? This question is the common thread of When Fact…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Contemporary Artist Residencies: Reclaiming Time and Space Artist residencies provide space, time, and concentration for making art, doing research and for reflection. Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career develo…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Repressief Liberalisme Opstellen over Creatieve Arbeid, Politiek en Kunst Vrijheid, zo heet de waarde die de kunstenaar deelt met de liberaal. De kunstenaar weet dat de beste ideeën naar boven komen wanneer hij in alle vrijheid kan werken. De …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Imaginative Bodies Dialogues in Performance Practices Imaginative Bodies contains a series of in-depth conversations with dancers and choreographers, composers, visual artists, hip hop artists, dramaturges, a lighting designer, and a puppeteer.…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content The Practice of Dramaturgy Working on Actions in Performance There is a growing interest in the notion and practice of dramaturgy (the theory and practice of dramatic composition), which is often discussed either as the work of the dramaturg, o…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content In-between Dance Cultures On the Migratory Artistic Identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan Belgian-Moroccan Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and British-Bengali Akram Khan are two of today's most prolific choreographers. Given their respective bac…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content The Future of the New Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration In The Future of the New: Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration artists, theorists, and professionals working the art field reflect on the role of the arts …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Design Dedication Adaptive mentalities in design education Design Dedication makes a plea for adaptive mentalities within design pedagogy, with a non-normative approach to design practices. It explores an attitude in and towards design educatio…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Mobile Autonomy Exercises in Artists' Self-Organization Neoliberalism has taken autonomous professional values and labour firmly in its grasp. Traditional forms of employment are replaced with post-Fordist conditions in which work has become fr…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Interrupting the City Artistic Constitutions of the Public Sphere Can art intervene in the public sphere? Interrupting the City explores the ways in which artistic practices and interventions intersect with the public sphere. The tactics by whi…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content The Art of Civil Action Political Space and Cultural Dissent Civil society around the world increasingly deals with global questions and starts to assume transnational forms of organization. The arts can play a key role in addressing public and…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Commonism A New Aesthetics of the Real After half a century of neoliberalism, a new radical, practice-based ideology is making its way from the margins: commonism, with an o in the middle. It is based on the values of sharing, common (intellect…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content What’s the Use? Constellations of Art, History and Knowledge: A Critical Reader Essays tackling an age-old question: Can art change the world? Is art only art insofar as it refuses to be useful? At a moment when the boundaries between public …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Spaces for Criticism Shifts in Contemporary Art Discourses Is art criticism losing ground to the Internet and its rapidly proliferating art blogs? Do people still consider the art critics employed by newspapers and magazines the most important …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Sensing Earth Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe Sensing Earth states that our environmental issues are in the first place a matter of culture and aesthetics. Technology and science are not enough to solve these problems. Our globe is facing…

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content The CCQOfficers Pascal Gielen - Full Professor, CCQO founder Pascal Gielen (1970) is full professor of sociology of culture and politics at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University – Belgium) where he leads the Culture …

Culture Commons Quest Office search menu search content Commons For the Politics and Aesthetics of Sharing The digital book Common: For the Politics and Aesthetics of Sharing invites a collective reflection on the significance of participation, communal processes, the articulation between trust and …

Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts zoeken menu zoek inhoud Without a center, with many Designing across Diasporas, Languages & Times 26 & 27 May 2026, Brussels As part of her PhD research at ARIA (Sint Lucas Antwerp & University of Antwerp), Garine Gokceyan invites you to a two-day hybrid semin…