FORUM+ - Volume 26, Issue 1, 2019

Abstract In what way can drawing be a method of reflection? “Drawing Instruments”, an artistic research workshop, was organized in the Research Centre For Arts, Autonomy and the Public Sphere of Hogeschool Zuyd, Maastricht from November 2016 to March 2017. For this interdisciplinary subject we took the artistic practice of Dear Hunter, the studio of Remy Kroese and Marlies Vermeulen as the object of research. Veerle Read More

Abstract The limestone quarry at Rüdersdorf close to Berlin provides the capital with stone that is then transformed in mortar, cement and concrete. In this way the geological landscape forms the basis of the city, with the raw materials being absorbed into cartographies. The stones pass the boundaries of the site and move via structures, ladders and nets to settle into the new grid of the city. The painter Karen Verm Read More

Abstract Murat Ali Cengiz is an architect as well as a jazz pianist and composer. In this article he traces the artistic development of architectural designs into graphic scores that form the basis for jazz improvisation. Cengiz describes his journey between the disciplines and illuminates concepts such as the grammar of form, timelines versus time and graphic notation. In this way he develops an approach for translating the archit Read More

Abstract In a Woody Allen film we see a simple street scene in New York. It looks like a continuity shot, just made to provide a link between the previous and the next scene. The dialogue we hear seems to be taking place off screen. But the camera keeps on filming longer than we expect. The disjunction between image and sound suddenly vanishes when it turns out that the dialogue is between two people who have appro Read More

Abstract In the Ik zie ik zie wat jij niet ziet [I see what you don’t see] project art students draw portraits of people suffering from dementia. The student gets to know these people and the people close to them during this process. Anke Coumans explains why this approach can be articulated as an artistic anthropological research procedure in which the drawing makes a temporal meeting visible. The drawings show the viewer Read More

Abstract Just as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1476 – 1564) worked as a sculptor, painter, architect and poet, Matthew Barney (1967) switches smoothly between various contemporary art forms. The oeuvre of this US artist includes performance, photography, drawing, design and film. Not coincidentally an art critic, writing in 1989, dubbed him “The Michelangelo of genital art” and this was not just because of the many athl Read More

Abstract Traditioneel gezien bedoelt men met onvertaalbaarheid de onmogelijkheid om iets om te zetten van de ene taal naar de andere. Wat als het ook onmogelijk wordt om iets van het ene tekensysteem (bijvoorbeeld tekst of partituur) naar een ander tekensysteem (bijvoorbeeld zegging of uitvoering) om te zetten? Vincent Van Meenen onderzoekt de betekenis van onvertaalbaarheid en maakt tekeningen met waterverf en C Read More