CLIC is delighted to announce that the preliminary programme for the CLIC Day 2026 is now online, and available below. Entitled “Writing and Listening as Artistic Inquiry: Perspectives from Artistic Research and the Humanities”, the conference will take place on 11 December 2026 at RITCS | Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound. This year’s programme features Wendy Morris (LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven) as its keynote speaker.
To register, please click this link. Registration closes on 28 November 2026.
This year’s event is jointly organized by Ellen Gillard, Hannah Van Hove, Inge Pieters, Kurt Bertels, and Tiago Silva. The languages of the conference are English, Dutch and French. A publication of the proceedings, with selected contributions, is planned in the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (JLIC).
For further information, please contact Inge.Pieters@vub.be.
Writing and Listening as Artistic Inquiry:
Perspectives from Artistic Research and the Humanities
11th December 2026
RITCS | Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound
08.45-09.00 Registration
09.00-09.10 Opening remarks
09.10–11.00 Panel 1. Epistemologies of listening: Inquiries across frames, media and methods
Leonie Persyn (LUCA School of Arts), “I, You, We, Them: Storying on Listening”
Alexandra Murray-Leslie (Trondheim Academy of Fine Art/Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Sophia Efstathiou (Norwegian University of Science and Technology/the American College of Greece Research Center), “The Research Song as Epistemic Practice: Writing, Listening and the Circular Production of Knowledge in Pop Music”
Bruno Forment (Orpheus Instituut), “Frames Are Meant to Be Broken: (Neo-)Baroque Quadratura in Intermedial Artistic Research”
Esther Venrooij (LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven), “We Meet on Empty Walls: Listening Exercises as Artistic and Pedagogical Inquiry”
11.00-11.10 Short break
11.10-12.40 Panel 2. Working with What Is Absent: Archives, Traces and the Illegible
Sameeya Maqbool (Lancaster University), “Reimagining Another Bloomsbury: Edith Miriam Spray in 1915”
Dandelion Eghosa (RITCS/VUB) and Eva Ulrike Pirker (VUB), “Death Work: Anonymity, Positionality and Artistic Research”
Ayşe Ateş (University of the Arts Bremen/University of Groningen), “Holding by Other Means: Archival Listening in ‘Kept From Decay, Held From Forgetting’”
12.40-13.30 Lunch
13.30–14.20 – Keynote performance lecture: Wendy Morris (LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven)
14.25-15.55 Panel 3. Ecological Listening: Beyond the Human
Lotte Nijsten (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), “Listening for the Unheard: ‘Listening-narrating' as Mode of Attentiveness”
Nele Möller (LUCA School of Arts), “Spruce-listening”
Luca Piovesan (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel), “Listening to the source: ecological listening and artistic inquiry along the Piave Rive”
15.55-16.15 Coffee
16.15-18.05 Panel 4. Writing, Voice and Experiments in Form
Sara Vermeylen (LUCA School of Arts), “We moeten nog eens afspreken”
Kris Pint (Hasselt University), “‘No face to enter as your home’. Exploring experimental (auto)biographical techniques in artistic research.”
Sofie Vandamme (KASK School of Arts, Gent), “Sporen van waanzin schrijven: Het essayistische portret als artistieke onderzoekspraktijk”
Mariske Broeckmeyer (LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven), “Rehearsing a Porn Opera: On the Autotheoretical Fiction of a Singer”
18.05-18.10 Concluding remarks
Tout au long de cette journée CLIC, Coraline Vandernotte expérimentera durant le colloque différents gestes de prise de notes, en mettant à l'épreuve les relations complexes entre corps, pensées et outils qui composent tout geste d'écriture, au-delà d'une unique expression conceptuelle. Ce sera également une manière de garder une trace de l'infra-ordinaire qui aura lieu durant ces rencontres, d'en révéler les éléments sensibles souvent mis hors-jeu de nos réflexions collectives.