Dhfm is located in the Intermedia research unit of Luca School of Arts, Brussels.
The first aim of dhfm is to seek points of convergence between our projects, to share research and artistic methodologies, to be each other’s most engaged audience and to collectively seek to expand each other’s research practices. The second aim of dhfm is to make this research visible, communicable and traceable. As the shared paths, forkings and crossroads begin to appear this site will become the map of these convergences.
who is?
The research cluster centers around a core group: Mariske Broeckmeyer, Alexandra Crouwers, Laurens Dhaenens, Marjolijn Dijkman, Wendy Morris, Nele Möller, Hannah Van Hove, Anja Veirman, Renée Turner. It is led by Wendy Morris and Laurens Dhaenens.
Wendy Morris
Associate Professor in contemporary art at Leuven University and Luca School of Arts. Wendy instigated the collaborative research project Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th century Angolan Midwife at the Cape. Related research site: Nothing of Importance.
Laurens Dhaenens
Dr. Laurens Dhaenens is a lecturer and researcher at LUCA School of Arts campus Brussels, a postdoctoral research fellow of the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) at the University of Leuven, and a freelance curator. His research is focused on art criticism, exhibition politics and cultural diplomacy at the end of the nineteenth century & beginning of the twentieth century and art from South America.
Anja Veirman
Anja Veirman is an art historian-anthropologist who is active in the field of textile studies, audio-visual ethnography and global art history. Her fields of interest are ontologies / epistemologies of biocentric worldviews, embodied knowledge and multiple identities/narratives, ethnography and multimedia co-creation as forms of critical knowledge construction and textile practices. Her research project ‘Textile Dialogues’ focuses on the interrelations between ritual, social and artistic making processes of Senufo mud cloth (Burkina Faso, Mali) in co-creation with Tiécoura N’Daou. Textility, transculturality and decolonisation are key themes in her teaching activities.
Hannah Van Hove
Hannah Van Hove is a writer and researcher. She completed a PhD on the fiction of Anna Kavan, Alexander Trocchi and Ann Quin in 2017 and is currently starting a new research project on the work of post-war experimental women writers. She has published articles and reviews on British avant-garde fiction in various academic publications as well as some translations of Flemish modernist Paul van Ostaijen’s poetry. Some of her poems have appeared in Adjacent Pineapple and Gutter. Currently Hannah is promoter of the project Unstable Subjectivities in British Post-War Experimental Women’s Writing
Alexandra Crouwers
Crouwers is a visual artist working in the digital realm. In October 2019 Alexandra started working on a PhD in art and animation at Leuven University/Luca School of arts, Brussels. Her research focuses on artistic means to deal with ecological grief, using a plot of land – a former forest – as catalyst.
Mariske Broeckmeyer
Mariske Broeckmeyer is a singer, composer and PhD Researcher at the Department of Composition, LUCA School of Arts campus Lemmens. Her research focuses on the artistic relation between migraine and music and is entitled: unVOICING Migraine – A Study of the Failing Voice.
Renée Turner
Renée Turner is an artist and writer whose practice engages with digital narratives, archives, and interdisciplinary collaborative inquiry. Whether working collectively or on her own, her research is informed by feminist perspectives, and the entanglement of sites, histories, material encounters, and embodied subjectivities. Currently, she is a Senior Research Lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy, a researcher within the Rotterdam Arts and Science Lab (RASL), and a fellow of Lab for the unstable media. Renée is working on a doctorate in the Arts at KU Leuven/Luca.
Nele Möller
Nele Möller focuses on forest conversations, historical nature inscriptions, and listening practices. She is working primarily in sound, video, performance, and radio. In October 2021 she started her PhD project ‘The Forest Echoes Back’ at KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts Brussels.