Jasper Delbecke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jasper Delbecke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jasper |
| FAMILY NAME | Delbecke |
| SIGNATURE | DELBECKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8293-6133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exposing the Politics of Extractivism by Scenography
status: Published
Opposing Anthropocentric Displays
This contribution aims to enrich the discussions addressed in this special issue by exploring how performative and theatrical interventions in a museum or exhibition context help to tackle the fraught relationship between mankind and nature. Three case studies are put to the fore to explore how such interventions can help to think about the role of humans in the struggle, suffering and, in some cases, extinction of flora and fauna. Points of depa…
From Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo to the museum of human-hunting
This article explores how Belgian theatre maker Thomas Bellinck turns the scenography of an exhibition into a critical framework to examine the politics of memory and representation at play on the European continent. In his projects, Bellinck plays with conventional modes of displaying and exhibiting to challenge the current course of the European Union (as in Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo) and question how the EU copes with migratory movemen…
Documentary(‘s) Challenges in the Anthropocene
This article engages with the obstacles confronting documentary-oriented artists when engaging with the multifaceted problem of the era of climate change. The label ‘documentary’ evokes several assumptions and suggests that such artworks represent events in an objective, neutral and unmediated way. Consequently, the premise of representing reality-as-it-is is attached to these kinds of documentary artworks. Despite the large body of theoretical r…
Injecting the Essayistic into the Curatorial
Inspired by the work of artists Walid Raad and Ho Rui An, this article reflects on the role performative practices could potentially play in what is termed these days in the field of exhibition making as 'the curatorial'.Whereas 'curating' refers to the professional practice of making exhibitions according to a set of practical skills, the 'curatorial' refers, as curator Maria Lind argued, to connections between artworks and other material, the s…
The Anatomy of Knowledge
This article revolves around the long-term and ongoing research project on the role and the position of the dead in western society by Mobile Akademie Berlin. This nomadic platform, initiated by Hannah Hurtzig, has been experimenting with new forms of knowledge production and knowledge transfer over the last twenty years. This contribution surveys the performative and theatrical strategies developed by Mobile Akademie Berlin over the years in var…
Secret Gardens, Ritualistic Renovations and Modernist Failures
Surveying four projects by DECORATELIER, All Problems Can Never Be Solved (2012), INFINI 1-15 (2015-16), Underneath Which Rivers Flow (2019) and The Soft Layer (2019), this text explores how Belgian scenographer Jozef Wouters revisits, with his scenographic practice, the aesthetics and poetics of stage machinery and theatre technology in order to explore the potentiality of intervening by means of scenography in abandoned and forgotten urban site…
Survival on the shores of a sacrifice zone
How to address and cope with the complexity of the ecological breakdown as a documentary moving image artist? This text contends that the causes and the consequences of the current ecological situation create some challenges for documentary-orientated artistic practices. These challenges are on the one hand related to the overwhelming complexity of the Anthropocene. On the other hand, as addressed in this text, these challenges are connected to d…
The Essay, the Maligned
This contribution aims to enrich the discussion on the notion of 'hybridity' in this present volume of Performance Research through the lens of the essay form. The interest of my present assessment is to demonstrate how 'hybridity' as a key feature of the essay form is not merely a random mix of styles and genres. Rather, as the essayistic performances in this contribution will illustrate, they attest to the desire to not only interrogate and to …
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The Essay, the Maligned
This contribution aims to enrich the discussion on the notion of 'hybridity' in this present volume of Performance Research through the lens of the essay form. The interest of my present assessment is to demonstrate how 'hybridity' as a key feature of the essay form is not merely a random mix of styles and genres. Rather, as the essayistic performances in this contribution will illustrate, they attest to the desire to not only interrogate and to …
The Anatomy of Knowledge
This article revolves around the long-term and ongoing research project on the role and the position of the dead in western society by Mobile Akademie Berlin. This nomadic platform, initiated by Hannah Hurtzig, has been experimenting with new forms of knowledge production and knowledge transfer over the last twenty years. This contribution surveys the performative and theatrical strategies developed by Mobile Akademie Berlin over the years in var…
Secret Gardens, Ritualistic Renovations and Modernist Failures
Surveying four projects by DECORATELIER, All Problems Can Never Be Solved (2012), INFINI 1-15 (2015-16), Underneath Which Rivers Flow (2019) and The Soft Layer (2019), this text explores how Belgian scenographer Jozef Wouters revisits, with his scenographic practice, the aesthetics and poetics of stage machinery and theatre technology in order to explore the potentiality of intervening by means of scenography in abandoned and forgotten urban site…
Survival on the shores of a sacrifice zone
How to address and cope with the complexity of the ecological breakdown as a documentary moving image artist? This text contends that the causes and the consequences of the current ecological situation create some challenges for documentary-orientated artistic practices. These challenges are on the one hand related to the overwhelming complexity of the Anthropocene. On the other hand, as addressed in this text, these challenges are connected to d…
From Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo to the museum of human-hunting
This article explores how Belgian theatre maker Thomas Bellinck turns the scenography of an exhibition into a critical framework to examine the politics of memory and representation at play on the European continent. In his projects, Bellinck plays with conventional modes of displaying and exhibiting to challenge the current course of the European Union (as in Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo) and question how the EU copes with migratory movemen…
Documentary(‘s) Challenges in the Anthropocene
This article engages with the obstacles confronting documentary-oriented artists when engaging with the multifaceted problem of the era of climate change. The label ‘documentary’ evokes several assumptions and suggests that such artworks represent events in an objective, neutral and unmediated way. Consequently, the premise of representing reality-as-it-is is attached to these kinds of documentary artworks. Despite the large body of theoretical r…
Injecting the Essayistic into the Curatorial
Inspired by the work of artists Walid Raad and Ho Rui An, this article reflects on the role performative practices could potentially play in what is termed these days in the field of exhibition making as 'the curatorial'.Whereas 'curating' refers to the professional practice of making exhibitions according to a set of practical skills, the 'curatorial' refers, as curator Maria Lind argued, to connections between artworks and other material, the s…
Opposing Anthropocentric Displays
This contribution aims to enrich the discussions addressed in this special issue by exploring how performative and theatrical interventions in a museum or exhibition context help to tackle the fraught relationship between mankind and nature. Three case studies are put to the fore to explore how such interventions can help to think about the role of humans in the struggle, suffering and, in some cases, extinction of flora and fauna. Points of depa…
Exposing the Politics of Extractivism by Scenography
status: Published
Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Scenography (3 works)