Current artistic research projects (PhD)
Witches, Bitches and the Scene: Female villainy – stage strategies to perform gender and morality - Annika Serong
Annika Serong, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
(2026-2030)
Supervisors: Katrien Schaubroeck and Bob Selderslaghs
The Book of Giants: The Author as Curator between Divine and Artificial Agency - Eli Elise Hoopman
Eli Elise Hoopman, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
(2026-2030)
Supervisors: Gwennie Debergh and Katharina Smets
Silence, Vibrations & Noise. Artistic Research into Co-Creation in Contemporary Compositional Practice - Diederik Glorieux
Diederik Glorieux, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2026-2030)
Supervisors: Henk de Smaele and Stijn Saveniers
​This research is conducted within the international doctoral programme .​
Bye-Certainty: (Rehearsing) Choreographies for Shifting Bodies in Transitional Ecologies - Ella-My Blomdahl
Ella-My Blomdahl, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2026-2030)
Supervisors: Kyoko Iwaki and Anne-Lise Brévers
The Embodied Interface: Assembling Interactive ALife Systems for Musical Performance - Helen Bledsoe
Helen Bledsoe, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2026-2030)
Supervisors: Jouke Verlinden and Jonathan Impett
​This research is conducted within the international doctoral programme .​
The everyday of territorial struggles on/off screen - Lietje Bauwens
Lietje Bauwens, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
(2026-2030)
Supervisors: Robin Vanbesien, Matthias De Groof and Astrid Jamar
Eclips - Jeroen Cluckers
Jeroen Cluckers, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2026-2030)
Supervisors: Kristof Timmerman and Jouke Verlinden
Old Counterpoints for the New Guitar - Giulio Quirici
Giulio Quirici, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Old Counterpoints for the New Guitar (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Erik Myin and Frank Agsteribbe
​This research is conducted within the interational doctoral programme .​
Metacognitive Assemblies. Crafting intra-relations with Technology in Posthuman Making - Edu Tarin
Edu Tarin, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Jouke Verlinden and Thomas Crombez
Entangled Rawness: navigating nonlinear creativity through the no-input mixer - Davide Paolillo
Davide Paolillo, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Jouke Verlinden and Umut Eldem
A Whirlpool of imaginary sounds - Nicholas Cornia
Nicholas Cornia, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Bert De Munck and Bruno Forment
​This research is conducted within the interational doctoral programme .​
Singing the cello - vocality as a principle of Romantic instrumental playing in Schumann's work - Marie-Louise Wundling
Marie-Louise Wundling, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Singing the cello - vocality as a principle of Romantic instrumental playing in Schumann's work (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Bart Eeckhout and Stijn Saveniers
​This research is conducted within the interational doctoral programme .​
Reviving Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495–c. 1560): Style, Context, and Performance - Arturo Moscoso Sequera
Arturo Moscoso Sequera, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Reviving Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495–c. 1560): Style, Context, and Performance’ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Luc Anthonis and Bruno Blondé
The Epistemology of Air: Musicing through Evolving Perspectives - Jonathan Chazan
Jonathan Chazan, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Epistemology of Air: Musicing through Evolving Perspectives (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Jonathan Impett and Kevin Mets
​This research is conducted within the international doctoral programme .​
Who and what makes the academy garden? - Eline De Clercq
Eline De Clercq, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​? (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Heide Hinrichs and Pascal Gielen
Ghostly Dramaturgies: Staging Migrant Narratives through Immersive Technology in Performance - Furkan Ak
​Furkan Ak, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Youniss Ahamad (Royal Conservatoire Antwerp) and Kurt Vanhoutte (University of Antwerp)
Analogy and the Erotics of Interpretation - Emil Gryesten Jensen
​Emil Gryesten, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Frank Agsteribbe, Bart Eeckhout and Paulo de Assis
​This research is conducted within the international doctoral programme .​
The Computer-Aided Composer - Andrea Agostini
​Andrea Agostini, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Computer-Aided Composer (2025-2029)
Supervisors: Umut Eldem and Jouke Verlinden
​This research is conducted within the international doctoral programme .​
Beyond gaze: Establishing the language of touch in applied drama - Can Boyan
Can Boyan, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Bob Selderslaghs and Pascal Gielen
Words out of tune. Collective practices of vocal improvisation - Miriana Faieta
Miriana Faieta, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Words out of tune. Collective practices of vocal improvisation (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Katrien Van Opstal and Pascal Gielen
​This research is conducted within the international doctoral programme .​
Hearing room: Ghosts of the African Democratic Assembly - ayoh kré Duchâtelet
ayoh kré Duchâtelet, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Joachim Ben Yakoub and Matthias De Groof
Empowered Care - Dimitri van den Wittenboer
Dimitri van den Wittenboer, Sint Lucas Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Ann Laenen and Pascal Gielen
Corpo-gambiarra: dance, costume, and politics of the body - Renata Lamenza Epifanio
Renata Lamenza Epifanio, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Pascal Gielen
From Stage to Page: An Experimental, Performance-led examination of the relationship between Musical Performance and Musical Analysis - ​Alastair Matthews
​Alastair Matthews, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Jeroen Malaise and Bart Eeckhout
The Voice of Many Waters: Acoustemopoetic Composition of Carmelite Mysticism - Tomer Damsky
Tomer Damsky, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2024-2028)
Supervisors: Frank Agsteribbe and John Arblaster
On the perpetual becoming of sculpture and history and their moments of convergence - Laurence Petrone
Laurence Petrone, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Herman Van Goethem and Hans Theys
Voices of Materials: Probing the Cultural Ecology of Material Finitude - Irma Földényi
Irma Földényi, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kyoko Iwaki and Wesley Meuris
Practice: a metaphor - Metaphorizing practices and practicing metaphors - Vedran Kopljar
Vedran Kopljar, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Arthur Cools and Nico Dockx
Hyperwithin: a shy dramaturgy in shadowtimes - Anne-Lise Brévers
Anne-Lise Brévers, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kyoko Iwaki and Annouk Van Moorsel
Benoit's language - Hannah Aelvoet
Hannah Aelvoet, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kevin Absillis and Jan De Wilde
Exploring the Diasporic Life of Armenian Script: a multiscript design laboratory - Garine Gokceyan
, Sint Lucas Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Kathleen Gyssels and Ruth Loos
Against Forgetting: Exploring poetic gestures of return(ing) to the land in Palestine - ​Shayma Nader
​Shayma Nader, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2022-2027)
Supervisors: Joachim Ben Yakoub, Gert Van Hecken and Matthias De Groof
Connecting the dots - ​Lies Colman
​Lies Colman, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2021-2027)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Pascal Gielen
Perspectives on time in the music by Stockhausen: the experience of a performer - ​Karin De Fleyt
​Karin De Fleyt, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Kathleen Coessens and Steven Malliet
Thinking bodies in Dance - Klaas Devos
​Klaas Devos, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2020-2027)
Supervisors: Annouk Van Moorsel and Timmy De Laet
The politics of publishing; researching encounters between artists’ books and intersectional feminist tools - Loraine Furter
​Loraine Furter, Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ (2019-2026)
Supervisors: Kim Gorus and Diana Arbaiza
Design as a Cultural Communicator - ​Carl Haase
​Carl Haase, PXL MAD Hasselt
Outgoing joint PhD with UHasselt
​ (2016-...)
Supervisors: Ann Bessemans and Pascal Gielen
The Mottolese Archive - ​Ilaria Lupo
​Ilaria Lupo, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2023-2027)
Supervisors: Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen and Nele Wynants
Moving towards resilience. Joint creation through music and movement for local, immigrant and refugee children - Georgia Nicolaou
​Georgia Nicolaou, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2022-2027)
Supervisors: Bob Selderslaghs, Luc Nijs and Peter Van Petegem
Different Tubes - ​Chiara Percivati
​Chiara Percivati, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2021-2027)
Supervisors: Renaud Guy-Rousseau and Jouke Verlinden
​​This research is conducted within the international doctoral programme .​
Intersecting repertoire: towards an inclusive, diverse and representative repertoire - ​Lauranne Paulissen
​Lauranne Paulissen, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
​ (2022-2027)
Supervisors: Edith Cassiers and Timmy De Laet
Empty Pages - Bas Rogiers
​Bas Rogiers, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2019-...)
Supervisors: Johan Pas and Steven Jacobs
​Sense of Wonder. Artistic portals between the real and the virtual - Kristof Timmerman
Kristof Timmerman, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2022-2027)
Supervisors: Steven Humblet and Jouke Verlinden
When the artist swallows his image - Karel Tuytschaever
​Karel Tuytschaever, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
​ (2022-2026)
Supervisors: Inge Henneman and Annemie Leemans
Queering the censorship: A (self-)investigation through the first-person perspective of an experimental filmmaker in Vietnam - Việt Vũ
​Việt Vũ (Quang Trung Pham), Sint Lucas Antwerpen
​ - 2022-2026
Supervisors: Sofie Verdoodt and Philippe Meers
PhD researchers in action
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Klaas Devos (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø) presenting the developments in his PhD research ‘Thinking Bodies in Dance. Somatic R.E.A.C.H. (research in electronic and algorithmic choreography)’, during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Workshop by Andrea Cammarosano (PhD researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and ARIA, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø), during the Open Laboratory Weeks at the Academy, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Research class for students by artist Els Dietvorst (PhD researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and ARIA, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø), during the ARTICULATE Research Days at the Academy, 2020, photo by Miles Fishler. -
Umut Eldem (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø) performing ‘The Road Endless’ as part of his doctoral research into synaesthesia, during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø) performing ‘Composition 381 (Echo Echo Mirror House Music)’ by Anthony Braxton, during the ARTICULATE Research Days at the Conservatoire, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré -
Lecture-performance ‘Hearing with the eyes - composing musical-gestural works’ by Winnie Huang (PhD researcher at Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and ARIA, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø), during the ARTICULATE Research Days, 2021, photo by Wannes Cré
