Extra Academy is a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Sint Lucas Antwerp and Royal conservatory of Antwerp. They organize an open program of lectures, performances, workshops and screenings around artistic practices, reflection and research. Since September 2024 they hold there monthly meetings at Stadsform. The program is in English and open for non students also, no need to register!
image from the first SPTM 'winter school' hosted by Het Wilden Weten in Rotterdam, January 2025.
image credit: Kate Briggs
Join us Wednesday, March 12th, for a conversation with writer, translator, and educator Kate Briggs!
Kate will be in conversation with Kim Gorus, delving into her unique approach to writing and translation.
Kate Briggs was born in the UK and after many years in France is now based in the Netherlands, where she teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute and co-runs the writing, publishing and co-learning project Short Pieces That Move! She is the translator of works by Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and, most recently, Hélène Bessette, whose 1953 novel Lili is Crying will be published in June 2025. Recent editing projects include: Silent Whale Letters by Ella Finer and Vibeke Mascini; Preparations, a special issue of Barthes Studies co-edited with Sunil Manghani and A Social Process of Unknowing Yourself in Real Time: Work on Conversation, co-edited with Laura Haynes. She is author of This Little Art, an essay on the practice of translation (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017), Entertaining Ideas (Ma Bibliothèque, 2018) and The Long Form, a novel (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Dorothy, a publishing project), which was shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize and The US Republic of Consciousness Prize. In 2021 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction and in 2022-2023 was the inaugural practitioner-in-residence at Glasgow School of Art. Short Pieces That Move! publishes pamphlets of new writing by artists, writers and other beginners twice yearly, most recently: Dot Dash Fish by Arno Renken, I Did Not Want to Interrupt the Man Who Was Not the Optician: A Love Story by James Epps, O Delicate Roundabout! by Linus Bonduelle and The Weather and the Tides / Are Changeable Like People's Minds by Eothen Stearn.
Kim Gorus is a teacher and senior researcher at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Her research focuses on narrative fiction strategies in the visual arts. Next to coaching master papers and PhD’s, she teaches Narrative Strategies in the master and Writing in the Advanced Master. She is editor-in-chief of Grounds, the new in-house research magazine of SLA.