Surfing the Black
Initiated by Dubravka Sekulic, Pietro Bianchi, Ziga Testen and Gal Kirn, Surfing the Black wishes to open up the discussion on the ‘black wave’, the new film movement that spread in Yugoslavia during the 60s, from its limited post-Yugoslavian context. The project investigates possible correlations and interpretations bridging various disciplines and contexts in a critical survey of the subject through various activities ranging from archival work to a poster project. more info
Versus Laboratory
Pietro Bianchi, Giuseppe Bianco and Tzuchien Tho currently run Versus Laboratory, a theoretical laboratory which seeks to examine and experiment upon some of the most pertinent moments of the polemical genesis of thought in contemporary philosophical practice. The project aims to explore how the intrusion of the material from political, aesthetical, scientific and more widely extraphilosophical acts and discourses shapes, transforms and divides philosophy. more info
NEUTRALITY is a new research project of the Jan van Eyck Design department, initiated by John Palmesino. The investigation researches the modalities and substances that contemporary practices of neutrality give rise to and contribute in sustaining, and analyses forms of transformation and control of contemporary space. more info
Mladen Dolar has initiated the Hegel seminar, a reading group on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, which is reputedly one of the most difficult texts in the whole classical tradition of philosophy; it stands at the privileged historical crossroads, where it presents the end and the culmination of that tradition and, at the same time, inaugurates the era of modern post-Hegelian philosophy. more info
Agora: The archive – exhibited
Agora: The archive – exhibited is centred around the archive of former gallery Agora in Maastricht. The artists’ initiative Agora was set up in Maastricht in 1972 by artists Theo van der Aa and Ger van Dijck. Apart from the fact that Agora greatly boosted the art climate in the city of Maastricht and the province of Limburg, it also gained a leading position in the area of innovative artists’ initiatives in the Netherlands. Agora: The archive – exhibited is coordinated by Leen Bedaux & Koen Brams. more info
Imaginary Property
Imaginary Property, a research project of the Jan van Eyck Design department, initiated by Florian Schneider, aspires to explore new potentials for design practices across various registers. The project is set up as a realm of experimentation at the intersections of design-theory and image-production. It is a laboratory where emerging concepts and terminologies are set to a series of tests. What challenges emerge from the paradoxes that research into ‘imaginary property’ has given rise to? How could these potentially generate new rules of production, bearing in mind that property relations are constantly exchanging meanings? Against this background: do we have to rethink and re-evaluate the notion of ‘design’ as such? more info
This project is about finding new vocabularies and aesthetic possibilities for design to formulate a political negation. It aims to respond to the current wave of populist public opinion and politics in the Netherlands. more info
Research project on the notion of the political in postmarxist theory. more info
The Euregional Forum (EF) is a debating programme that engages in the
Euregion Meuse-Rhine. Its central dictum is that there are many more cultural, linguistic, material, political or national things that bind people from the Euregion than divide them. more info
The Jan van Eyck Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique (CLiC) gathers researchers interested in Lacanian theory who do not consider it as a dogmatic closed system, but as an open set of tools helping us to form a critical look at/on current (post)modern culture. more info
The Jan van Eyck Academie has started a research project, in cooperation with Argos, Brussels BE, on the television work of Flemish film maker Jef Cornelis. The special stylistic properties of his works, the unique documentary value of his films on fine art, architecture and literature as well as the – exceptional – production conditions are in fact virgin territories. more info
