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‘There Is in the Kitchen’
Expanding Academy book series
with Charlotte Koopman
During the Articulate 2023 research week, Charlotte Koopman held her 2nd master class -after its success during Articulate 2022- where the kitchen got the vantage point from where the participating master students were providing a daily lunch for everyone taking part in the research week.
All conversations take place in the kitchen while folding, pleating, chopping or stirring. Collaboration is key in this class, the direction taken will be a result of the skills and appetites of our formation. Onewill look at broad and sudden ways of recipe and menu writing as a means of communicating a daily archive of the content of the Flatbread. This may include audio/ visuals/ poetry and anything else that may seem suitable. As part of this master class and within the context of the Expanding Academy book series, Charlotte also presented her cookbook titled ‘There Is in the Kitchen’ with a collection of short stories on her personal experiences in the kitchen. A tool for future masterclasses on food and nourishment as well as a toolbox for Instroom Academy and Academy students and anyone who wants to learn more about how to work in the kitchen.
September 26-29, 2023
Feeling things together - The Studio Stadswaag Summer School
Royal Academy of Fine Arts
aims to generate a space of exchange and exercise for feeling and prefiguring a newly situated learning environment that connects the academy to the Stadswaag’s neighborhood.
Expanding Academy, together with Endeavour and Studio Staadswaag invited the artists Morten Goll and Joachim Hamou (co-founder of Trampoline House), Adva Zakai (artist, co-founder of School of Love), Brandon LaBelle (founder of the Pirate Academy), Johan Pas (dean of the Royal Academy of Antwerp), Seppe Nobels and Instroom Academy, Globe Aroma, Fran Edgerley (ex-founder of Assembly and founder of research network ab_), PubliekPark collective with Sophie Holst and Mathias Mu, Vincent Van Meessen, to explore with the students how this new space of imagination and care could conduit knowledges and skills across various communities and fields of action in the future. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Download Program booklet with text contributions by the Sommer School participants
Tomorrow’s Language
Louwrien Wijers
(2017-2020)
published on the occasion of Tomorrow’s language exhibition by Louwrien Wijers at the Lange Zaal, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, 26-29/05/2022
initiated by Expanding Academy
edited by Nico Dockx, Wouter Van der Wangen,
printed by Bruno Devos at Stockmans Art Books,
published by Bruno Devos at Stockmans, curious051
Photographs on dust wrapper by Sofie Coreynen, 2022
ISBN 9789464363203
Feeling Things Together - A Synthetic Adventure
Maarten Desmet et l’academie en pleine expansion
Texts and Visual Contributions by Upasana Dahal, Marten Desmet, Ronny Desmet, Gilly Karjevsky, David Price, Alejandra Sarria Molano, Pelin Tan, Wouter Van Der Hallen, Louwrien Wijers
Edited by Expanding Academy, 2022
Bruno Davos Stockmans
ISBN 9789464363272
Radical Hospitalities, Radical Pedagogies
Al Madhafah-The Living Room initiated by Sandi Hilal and Trampoline House initiated by Tone Olaf Nielsen, Joachim Hamou and Morten Goll
Texts and visual contributions by Khalid Albaih, Sara Alberani, Zoe Butt, Joachim Hamou, Sandi Hila, Shahram Khosravi, Carlota Mir, Tone Olaf Nielsen
Edited by Expanding Academy, 2022
Bruno Davos Stockmans
ISBN 9789464363265
CLIMAVORE by Cooking Sections
February 23, 2022
On Wednesday 23 February 2022, the London based artist duo Cooking Sections (Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernandez), who examines the systems that organise the world through food, share their artistic long-term project CLIMAVORE in a public lecture (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
Expanding Academy and “practice based learning” in the Arts
October 25, 2021 at ARTICULATE
Evening debate + REPLAY live stream
“Do we still need academies as we know them today?”
(Sarat Maharaj)
During this debate evening at ARTICULATE, we reflect — together with Sepake Angiama (artistic director of the iniva institute for international visual arts which is home to the Stuart Hall Library), Daniel Blanga Gubbay (artistic co-director of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts), Gabriëlle Schleijpen (artistic director of the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem) — on the notion of an ‘Expanding Academy’. The conversation is moderated by Johan Pas (dean of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp).
REPLAY live stream
September 28, 2021
Carved to Flow by Otobong Nkanga and Nuno Vasconcelos
Lecture + REPLAY live stream
The artist Otobong Nkanga and the architect Nuno Vasconcelos share their artistic research and practice in relation to the long-term project Carved to Flow in a public lecture (Guess who's coming to dinner) with students and researchers of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
