During Beyond the Black Box, a hybrid editorial lab transforms De Brakke Grond into a temporary workspace. Ten experienced writers, thinkers, and makers explore - together with guest lecturers and art critics - how we can reflect on art that is increasingly hybrid, embodied, and connected to other domains such as gaming and nightlife culture.
The Tuinzaal is set up as an active editorial floor, with a long table, an wall, of ideas, and space for conversations, experiments, and shared moments of writing, speaking and listening. Under the guidance of guest lecturers, participants develop new forms of reflection. Examples include a podcast where two visitors share observations through tandem viewing, a video essay translating the slowness of slow looking into images, or an essay or illustration capturing a collective conversation.
Festival visitors are welcome in the Tuinzaal to explore the research and outcomes of this exciting, interactive, three-day lab.
Why this lab?
In hybrid artistic practices, where disciplines intersect and bodies, spaces, and social situations play a role, traditional frameworks of art criticism often prove limited. Classical reviews can provide insight, but rarely capture the multiplicity and embodied dimension of the experience. This lab offers writers, makers, and editors the opportunity to experiment with new methods and forms of reflection suited to this hybrid domain.
