Timely traces / traces of time
Timely traces / traces of time
This is the log of my postdoctoral research in the arts on Timely traces / traces of time from the 1st of January 2023 on:
2023
06/01/2023: online publication of Le dos-cul ment (text & image) on the-documents.org
Jan-feb 2023: first draft of 44 full text pages on 'sporen/traces', drawing on Ginzburg, Freud, Agamben, Lacan, Miller, Lispector e.a.
Februari 2023: closing the 'Seven Sins' working cycle started in 2022, working from collages to painted posters to ink drawings.
Feb-March 2023: closing preproduction of 'Fragments', a reflective montage book on comics and more to appear with infinitif.org
24/03/2023: Introductory presentation of postdoc research on Luca Research Day 'Becoming Image', Kunsthal, Ghent.
March-April 2023: editing of the text on 'sporen/traces', studio work on drawings in the wake of the 'Seven Sins' series.
May 2023: studio accrochage on 06 & 07/05 (Open Studio Days) and contribution to Reparative Research by Lore Smolders.
26/05/2023: Presentation of Passeport (5c) at L'Imaginaire, Brussels.
June 2023: first lay-out of 'Sporen' (t.b.p. 2024) and first approach of Derrida's concept of 'trace' through, amongst others:
Jos Defoort, Het woekerend schrift. Een inleiding op Derrida, Hadewijch, 1996
Jacques Derrida on Being in: Amy Ziering & Kirby Dick, Derrida, 2002 (online videofragment)
Rick Moore aka BlueSpectacles (struggling with) 'Derrida: About Trace', 12/06/2014 (online videofragment)
Lemmas: 'Trace (deconstruction)' on Wikipedia.org; 'Trace and play' on Literariness.org; 'The trace' on WhitesWritingWhiteness.ed.ac.uk; 'Derrida, la trace' on Idixa.net; 'Trace et archive, image et art' on Inatheque.fr
Charles Remond, 'Trace & mémoire - De l’écriture à l’animal, la trace chez Jacques Derrida', Canthel, Paris, October 2021
Camille Trimardeau, 'Trace & mémoire - écrire le geste', Canthel, Paris, October 2021
Laurent Milesi, 'Derrida and Posthumanism (I): From Sign to Trace' on CriticalPosthumanism.net, 14/09/2020
and articles by Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf, Timothy Secret, Alexandre Serres, Jean Greisch, Susan Sontag, Rafael Argullol, Carlo Ginzburg and La Voix et le Phénomène (1967) by Jacques Derrida.
July 2023: publication of my article on Ilan Manouach's conceptual comics as 'Collision #89' on Collateral - Online Journal for Cross-Cultural Close Reading.
July-August 2023: continuation of tracing the trace in Derrida and concerning the arts: Derrida's De la grammatologie (1967), Secret & Wilhelmi 2012, Hertrampf 2014, Birman 2007, Argullol 2003, Ginzburg 2003, Greisch 2003, Serres 2003, Sontag 2003, Vinciguerra 2018, Laufer 2004 etc. Writing on traces with regard to Cézanne, Twombly, Tal Coat, Meier-Castel, Broodthaers, Toroni, Grygar e.a.
May-September 2023: Reducing and reformulating scraps from the Seven Sins series and last studio accrochage.
September: late summer break and reading of Derrida's L'écriture et la différence (1967), esp. 'Freud et la scène de l'écriture.'
October: finalization of Rabiots - Restjes with Jan Baetens, a post-comics blowbook to be published by BLOW BOOK (La Crypte Tonique) end 2023. Continuation of second text on the trace throughout the arts.
November-December: publication of Rabiots-Restjes and final touches to Fragments (tbp) + publication of 'Aching, smiling, never really there: on Lore Smolder's Touch Response' on Image[&]Narrative.
2024
January: winter break.
Publication of Fragments and presentation in discussion with Tim Bruggeman and Lore Smolders around their recent publications Narcissus and Touch Response @ The Green Corridor, Brussels, 11/02/2024.
11/03/2024: Hosting the 30th Anniversary Exhibition of comics publisher La Cinquième Couche around Conceptual Comics at Terrarium, LUCA Brussels until 24/03/2024.
14/03/2024: Contribution to 'Atelier Lacaniaanse Kliniek 3', Geuzenhuis, Gent within a group lecture ('kartelproduct') on shame.
21/03/2024: Participation to Luca Research Day 'Desire-based Research', Kunsthal, Ghent.
19/04 - 28/04/2024: Duo Exhibition Still . trace with Colette Broeckaert @ AYNITL (Croxhapox), Ghent.
14/06/2024: Article publication; on voices and traces in 'Off-Comics' (Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent) with Annabelle Dupret, Rekto:Verso.
28/06/2024: Jury member (as commission member) in PhD defense by Gabri Molist, Vroom, Brussels.
04/07/2024: Article publication; on the (inner) voice and multiple traces in two artist's books by Maud Vande Veire, Image[&]Narrative.
July-August 2024: summer break; focusing on Derrida's La Dissemination (1972) amongst other things; expo preparation. Recent talks with Jasper Delbecke (01/07/2024) and Emmanuel Vincart & Steven Deketele (studio visit, 09/07/2024) stressed my recent shift from the residual and the graphic trace to semi-abstract, colored (land/sea)scapes as 'bandes peintes' (cfr. 'bandes dessinées'). Meanwhile, continuing exploring the trace graphically in a (wordless) logbook, consisting of several sketchbooks, experimenting with markers, graphite, ink and diverse 'instruments', and different gestual treatments, correspondingly processing a traumatic experience with a member of Luca.
21/09/2024: keynote lecture on practice-based research in the arts on prof.dr. Peter De Graeve's retirement colloquium @ Lemmensinstituut, KULeuven - LUCA, Leuven.
23/09 - 06/10/2024: Tentative research group exhibition traces @ (where else than a space called...) BLANCO (by Nucleo), Ghent.
17/11-19/12/2024: Contribution to research exhibition Kunst.vormen @ MAD Gallery, PXL MAD Faculty, Hasselt, 17/11-19/12/2024.
Retrospective and analytic text by Jasper Delbecke with Collateral on traces.
2025
27/01/2025: Short article on the trace of the enigma within Zondag by Olivier Schrauwen, Pulp Deluxe.
January 2025: publication of my contribution on 'Schools of Arts & Schools of Creativity' in De Baets, Magerman & Vansieleghem, Compos(t)eren. Schetsen van kunst en educatie, Owl Press, 2025.
Several visual contributions to Acts of Reading, group research exhibition and program, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent, 11/02-06/03/2025.
Finishing reading of Derrida's La Dissemination (1972) amongst other texts.
Presentation of postdoc project and focus on the concept of 'post-comics' on the second study day of Numérisations de la bande dessinée en Europe francophone: création, édition, patrimonalisation (2024-2025) - Partenariat privilégié ULB/UniL @ ULB, Brussels, 04/04/2025
May 2025: preparation of intervention on World Exhibition in Osaka for Ilan Manouach's Echo Chamber on mission for Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgian Delegation, on comics and innovation. Reasserting the impact of online comics repositories and shadow libraries, such as Manouach's on Conceptual Comics (Monoskop, Ubuweb), in the light of recent evolutions in contemporary comics' making (IA, remixing e.a.) and the 'archive' of Franco-Belgian comics, amongst others. Study of Crucifix 2023 on Conceptual Comics and Online Archives; Giddens 2024 on Comics as Archive (Multiframe Fever); Manouach 2024 on Comics as Big Data etc. Nice one: Lewis Waller 2019, Then & Now, 'Archive Fever - Derrida, Steedman & The Archival Turn' (online youtube introduction).
Lecture-intervention on Online Comics Archives on behalf of Echo Chamber and Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles on the KIKK-day for Creative and Cultural Industries, 26th of May 2025, 'Wallonia Week', Belgian Pavillion, World Exhibition at Osaka, Japan.
Academic visit at Kyoto Sendai University, Manga depts., 27th of May 2025.
Publication of article on 'Reading Rubbish: Re-tracing Kasper Andreasen's High Capacity', Collateral, End of May 2025.