Welcome to the site of the dhfm artistic research cluster embedded in Intermedia (LUCA School of Arts, Brussels).
Dhfm encircles four research fields: The Forest of Things, Anecdotal Evidence, Glitches & Gibberish, and Omissions & Additions.
Background image: Ernst Haeckel, via Wikipedia.org
The Forest of Things
is concerned with lost herbals, matriarchal trees, digital landscapes and ecological imagination.
Anecdotal Evidence
explores writing and expanded language based practices.
Glitches & Gibberish
encompasses investigations into loss of language and the mechanical mistake.
Omissions & Additions
includes those projects that refuse categorization.
Recent posts
Impulsive Incantations – Voicing Migraine / JAR
This article by Mariske Broeckmeyer is published in the latest edition of the peer reviewed Journal for Artistic Research. When migraine arrives, not only the body suffers. The voice too…
Practice Sharing
Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group: Language-based Artistic Research. The new Special Interest Group: Language-based Artistic Research has been launched with an online presentation of expanded approaches to language-based…
The Taste of Sea Snakes
The greatest coincidence happened. I enjoyed my first free dive in the ocean surrounding Pongso no Tao – also known as Orchid Island or Lanyu. I tried to relax my…
Lecture: Dystopian Optimism, or that glint of water through the trees
In the context of an academic exchange with the National Dong Hwa University in Hualien (Taiwan), I gave a talk on November 12, 2020. It was exciting to exchange ideas…
The Compositor Composing
Publication. The Compositor. Edition of 12 + 2 HC, signed and numbered. 12″ 180 grams black vinyl record, recto: 33rpm/45rpm audio, verso: engraving. Sewn felt sleeve, 60×60 folded poster, 30×30…
Essay /// Handtassen van jeansbroeken.
Cultureel ondernemerschap of artistieke dienstverlening? Deze analyse van de perceptie van de kunsten door de Nederlandse en Vlaamse overheden werd gepubliceerd op de website van Etcetera, tijdschrift voor podiumkunsten.… Read…
No One Would Have Believed
Announcement / Exhibition by Wendy Morris and Runo Lagomarsino / Curated by Laurens Dhaenens and Fernanda Pitta / Netwerk Aalst 14.11.2020 – 13.02.2021 This is the announcement for an upcoming…
Music /// Botanical Bodies / Kaap
Botanical Bodies herwerkt de muziek van Hildegard von Bingen in een gedurfde en eigentijdse geest. Deze visionaire, genezer, botanicus, feministe en componist uit de 12e eeuw creëerde fascinerende werken met…
Ethnographic Returns Conference
Anja Veirman was selected to present her research project “Experimental ethnographic participative methods as forms of collective knowledge production. Senufo mud cloth production and the making of new narratives” at…
Launch of new site : midwif
Midwif is a new blog, a sub-blog of dhfm, that connects an international cluster of artists, writers and researchers around the figure of midwif as a knot at the centre of an…
Mistakes: the artist talk
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 anno covidi, I was supposed to give a talk over lunch at the end of my two months involvement in Residency Unlimited. This, of course, took…
On Longing: a dioramic residency
In March and April I’m connected to Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn New York, focusing on the diorama’s at the AMNH.… Read More
Tableau Vivant 2019-2020
Wan-Lun Yu and Joeri Verbesselt, in collaboration with Mei-Ning Huang After summer residencies in P.A.R.T.S. and GC Nohva (through VGC) in Brussels, we moved with the Tableau Vivant-project to Taiwan.In…
Hortus+Herbarium
A stone’s throw from the site of last year’s Fantastic Encounter with the Matriarchal Ginkgo is ‘t Gasthuys, the city museum of Aalst, and an enclosed garden that was once…
A conversation
In HART Magazine’s 200th issue: a conversation between Alexandra Crouwers and HART editor Pieter Vermeulen.… Read More
The Three Motions of Loom
The exhibition ‘The Three Motions of Loom’ opened Sunday, December 15 at the Antwerp Art Pavilion (next to the MAS Museum) in Antwerp. It’s running until February 16 2020. Jeroen…
Keynote: Hilde Van Gelder at AHM Conference
Hilde Van Gelder is keynote speaker at ‘Memory, Word and Image: W.G. Sebald’s artistic legacies’ AHM Conference 12-14 December 2019 in Amsterdam.… Read More
Reading the Curtain and The Three Motions of Loom
Traces 2: a mini-publication, first print 10 copies and Reading the Curtain. Dhfm-meeting at museum Vleeshuis, November 19 2019.… Read More
theappealoftheunreal.com research blog
Announcing my research blog at www.theappealoftheunreal.com. Posts may appear both there and here, at the dhfm blog.… Read More
Impulsive Incantations
The migraine patient lives a nomadic life. In an almost ritualistic way she trudges between two worlds – a ceremonial procession that goes back and forth, back and forth, back…
Is it lovely yet?
in the archives of Christine Brooke-Rose, Anna Kavan, Ann Quin and Muriel Spark 1. It is the summer of 2014 and I’m at the Olin Library at Washington University in…
Botanical Bodies, on the political and ritual meaning of plants
An afternoon with international guests around the work of Wendy Morris. Saturday, 12.10.2019 12:30 – 22:00h. Zwartzusterstraat 17, Aalst & Netwerk Aalst. … Read More
Dystopian Optimism
Our future imagination suffers from an impasse between technological optimism and dystopian visions of the end of humankind. ‘Dystopian Optimism’ counters globally interconnected precariousness as the condition of our time.…
The Suitcase
Made of brown leather, monogrammed with the initials L.J.M. and dating from the 1930s, the suitcase was found under the bed of Muriel Leyson at the time of her death…
Random Forests
On the application of machine learning and AI to enhance or restore natural environments: a project by artist/researcher Theun Karelse / FoAM.… Read More
Through that which is seen: Dioramas and the Appeal of the Unreal
Through that which is seen: Dioramas and the Appeal of the Unreal. Abstract research phd in arts in animation Leuven University / LUCA School of Arts Brussels by Alexandra Crouwers.…