The new issue of Forum+, journal for research and arts, is out! The issue has been launched publicly in Antwerp last Friday, 17 October, during the yearly ARTICULATE festival in the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.
We were lucky to have some of this issue’s authors with us to create a mixed programme of interactive presentations, a short film and a hybrid interview. Lies Vandeburie discussed her article on theatre work in relation to wellbeing and autonomy of elderly people in care homes. In her presentation, Lies led us through an exploration of the relationship between how we would wish to live as elderly on the one hand, and our thoughts on how we picture elderly homes at this moment.
Lies’ presentation was followed by a video intervention by Pau Catà, which took us on a journey through the Saharan desert and served as a “visual introduction” to his article “Walking the Unmapped.” In this contribution, Pau reimagines the history of artist residencies through cross-cultural methodologies and walking practices.
Danae Theodoridou’s contribution to this October issue is also concerned with residencies, albeit in a different format: She reflects on the collaboration between the professorship and research group Artistic Connective Practices and the community centre Wij West in Tilburg West; through artist-researcher residencies, this collaboration explores the potential for more connectivity in the community through art. In Danae’s interactive presentation, we collected working principles for such socially engaged community work.
We closed the launch with a hybrid interview with Lucy Cotter, author and editor of Articulating Artistic Research. The interview was a welcome opportunity to add more depth and perspective to the review I wrote on the publication, and the book itself.
Please feel welcome to explore this new issue of the journal, and be sure not to miss Golnesa Rezanezhad Pishkani’s editorial, in which she does not only offer short introductions to the included contributions, but also opens with a wonderful reflection on “waiting”, on both personal and global levels.
Falk Hübner 