Master Classes
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BOTANICAL INTIMACIES
Master Class with Benny Nemer
November 13-17, 2023
Whether staring into a flower, smelling its perfume, touching the textures of mosses and barks, tasting berries, seaweed, mushrooms and saffron, watching the bowing dance of reeds and rushes in the wind or listening to the song of rustling leaves, botanical life offers us infinite sensations and affects upon which the human experience is dependent. For many of us, our attraction to, and engagement with flowers, plants, and trees is more elemental than intellectual, our intimacies with botanical life are central to the ways we live, think, and create. We turn to flowers to mediate human relations, to observe and understand the cycle of life, for inspiration on how to adorn ourselves, how to flirt, how to dance and how to wither and die. We see the true natures of our genders and sexualities in the polyform stamens and petals of flowers, a reflection of our kinship formations in the cruisy, meandering growth patterns of ivy and bougainvillea, of elm branches and gypsophila.
This Master Class will consider the ways as artists we can work with the botanical world as material and collaborators. We will create individual and collective artworks with and alongside botanical material, tuning into the vegetal world and seeking ways to invite them in collaboration. We will go on observational and foraging walks to Ghent’s Botanical Gardens, Citadel Park, and other green spaces in the city.
12 Students
- 1 Nancy La Rosa (nancy.larosa@student.hogent.be)
- 2 Shoaib Zaheer (shoaib.zaheer@student.hogent.be)
- 3 Jeandré Eli José (jeandre.wauters@student.hogent.be)
- 4 Kadia Doumbouya (kadia.doumbouya@student.hogent.be)
- 5 Vincent Van Asten
- 6 Laura Anno (laura.anno@student.hogent.be)
- 7 Malte Möller
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Waiting List
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- 2 Beljita Gurung (beljita.gurung@student.hogent.be)
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LOOSE ENDS AND FRAIL BEGINNINGS
Master Class with Leonie Brandner
February 5-8, 2024
For this Master Class, Leonie Brandner will lead participants through collective embroidery, cosmos building, and storytelling. Brandner will introduce different embroidery techniques, while questioning notions of threads without ends and fabrics with more than one side. We will collectively build our own cosmos with thread and needle, holding what will be unfolding. No previous knowledge of fabric or embroidery is required.
Den Haag-based artist Leonie Brandner describes herself as, "an excavator of stories and a maker of large-scale installations. I work with embroidery, ceramics, singing and botanical storytelling. Stories are important: the psychologist Bessel van der Kolk goes as far as to say that ‘without stories, memories become frozen and we cannot imagine a future.’ That is why I am committed to finding stories for the uncertainty looming at the edge of all our existence. The stories I tell with my work evoke the land and the troubled relationships we have to it. They commemorate ancient fertility goddesses (Mossopera, 2022) and the stories of night-blossoming neophytes (My Ears Are My Eyes, 2021). My work tells of loss, dislocation, things gone by, fleeting and ungraspable. Yet it also provokes abundance and a necessary joy to stay alive, not on our own but in a bustling world of complexities and communities."
Brandner's work has been shown in artist-run spaces and museums across Europe, among others in exhibitions at the Aargauer Kunsthaus (CH), the Barbican Greenhouse (UK), Stroom Den Haag (NL), Liebermann Villa (DE), and the Casino Display (LU). She holds an MA in Artistic Research and an advanced course in Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine from the University in Zurich. In 2024, Brandner will undertake residencies at the European Ceramics Centre and Hotel Maria Kapel (both NL).
15 Students
- 1 Fanny Wellens (fanny.wellens@student.hogent.be)
- 2 Jitske Vandesande (jitske.vandesande@student.hogent.be)
- 3 Fien Vrolix (fien.vrolix@student.hogent.be)
- 4 Sura Al-Ibraheemi (sura.alibraheemi@student.hogent.be)
- 5 Natalija Gucheva (natalija.gucheva@student.hogent.be)
- 6 Sophie Bertram (sophie.bertram@student.hogent.be)
- 7 Armangul Zeken (armangul.zeken@student.hogent.be)
- 8 Jacob Lambrecht (jacob.lambrecht@student.hogent.be)
- 9 Hazel Ver Moesen (hazel.vermoesen@student.hogent.be)
- 10 Thaïs Schiemsky (thais.schiemsky@student.hogent.be)
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Waiting List
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SLOW READING CLUB
Master Class with Slow Reading Club
February 5-9, 2023
Slow Reading Club considers reading not as a passive process of ingesting information, but as an active and generative site of contact/friction between text and reader, reader and reader, text and text. Moving the activity of reading out of the silent, seated reader and into the room, the voice, the body, the screen, the page.
This Master Class aims to occupy the thresholds between collective reading, writing, editing, and publishing. The workshop will focus on “artist writings” - that is, writings by artists in which strategies and concerns learned from the artist’s material practices are applied to written language. What permissions can we take as readers and what kind of writers do we then become? The workshop strums the mantra that one does not need to be a writer in order to write.
Together, students will enact and develop protocols for reading extant texts. These protocols will seek to interrupt or intensify elements of collective reading as an embodied practice, a fully body practice. This repertoire of protocols will then be repurposed as writing tools and used to generate a corpus of text-substance to be then collectively edited into a text. Finally, we will think through “publishing” (making public) and dissemination to ask how this text might iterate its (public) form.
Practically, we will be working between screen and page, simple body practices and softwares for shared editing. We want to work collaboratively, finding ways to produce material that is unprecious and open to shared ownership and co-contamination. The workshop is not interested in “good” writing, but rather material writing, bodily writing, generative writing, generous reading.
6 students from Master Vrije Kunsten who will be joined by 6 students from Graphic Design
- 1 Yasaman Nozari (Yasaman.nozariheshmati@student.hogent.be)
- 2 Jo Wu (tzujo.wu@student.hogent.be)
- 3 Aleksandar Iliev (aleksandar.Iliev@student.hogent.be)
- 4 Anouk Ringoet (anouk.ringoet@student.hogent.be)
- 5 Zoë Dejonghe (zoe.dejonghe@student.hogent.be)
- 6 Hilke Walraven (hilke.walraven@student.hogent.be)
Waiting List
- 1 Beljita Gurung (beljita.gurung@student.hogent.be)
- 2 Natalija Gucheva (natalija.gucheva@student.hogent.be)
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HIC . EST . TUUM . HORA. HIER . IS . UW . UUR
A Master Class with artist Katja Mater
March 18-22 2024
His watch pushes the White Rabbit around, who in turn pushes Alice around. We check the time every day all day long — But what do we experience as a NOW, as an absolute present, what does being ‘in the moment’ mean, and how long does such ‘a moment’ last in a hasty world where speed has become a status symbol?
Brussels-based artist Katja Mater is interested in revealing a different or alternative (experience of) reality through capturing the areas where optical media hardly behave like the human eye, by mediating between time, space, perception and our understanding of them, while recording events that simultaneously can and cannot be – holding midway between information and interpretation.
Mater is a visual artist, editor, organizer and educator who studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and subsequently at the postdoctoral institute de Ateliers in Amsterdam, with a practice that focuses on the parameters of photography and film as non-transparent media. By creating hybrids between photography, film, drawing, performance and installation Mater documents something that is often positioned beyond our human ability to see. Next to a solo practice as a visual artist Katja is involved in different collaborative projects as editor of Girls Like Us Magazine since 2014 and as one of the founding members of Mothers & Daughters, a Lesbian* and Trans* Bar.
12 Students
- 1 Suzanne Cleerdin (suzanne.cleerdin@student.hogent.be)
- 2 Léa Mainguy (lea.mainguy@student.hogent.be)
- 3 Charlotte Rood (charlotte.rood@student.hogent.be)
- 4 Wolfe De Roeck (wolfe.deroeck@student.hogent.be)
- 5 Hera Jacquet (hera.jacquet@student.hogend.be)
- 6 Fieke Buyse (fieke.buyse@student.hogent.be)
- 7 Sien Custers (sien.custers@student.hogent.be)
- 8 Alban De Wachter (alban.dewachter@student.hogent.be)
- 9 Ava Darvishi (ava.darvishi@student.hogent.be)
- 10 Ferre Kinne
- 11 Sofie Roelants (sofie.roelants@student.hogent.be)
- 12 Yann Struyf
Waiting List
Shoaib zaheer
- 1 Naomi James Schatteman (naomi.schatteman@student.hogent.be)
- 2 Nancy La Rosa (nancy.larosa@student.hogent.be)
- 3 Yasaman Nozari (Yasaman.Nozariheshmati@student.hogent.be)
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