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Le monde à portée de main : Outils pédagogiques de Spermalie pour l’enseignement aux aveugles

Fri, 21 May 2021 16:34:00 +0200

Le monde à portée de main vient d’ouvrir ses portes à Bruges et à Louvain. Il s’agit de la première exposition consacrée à l’histoire de l’enseignement destiné aux enfants aveugles et malvoyants en Belgique. Tonia In den Kleef et moi avons le privilège d’avoir été désignés commissaires de cette exposition multisensorielle.

Le monde à portée de main : Outils pédagogiques de Spermalie pour l’enseignement aux aveugles written by Piet Devos in Sensory history.

Performing the monument: kneeling down at Irene Ransburg’s Stolperstein

Sat, 20 Jun 2020 08:00:00 +0200

For this performance, Florian Grond and I recorded my visit to and reading of the Stolperstein dedicated to the memory of the deaf-blind poet Irene Ransburg.

Performing the monument: kneeling down at Irene Ransburg’s Stolperstein written by Piet Devos in Sensory history.

Missing child in the mirror

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 09:42:00 +0200

(First prize in the Dr. Alam Darsono short story competition 2019)

Stop and linger a while, dear visitor: this is me lying here before you, in clay.

Missing child in the mirror written by Piet Devos in Creative writing.

Meeting Blindness: When visual art enters the life-worlds of blind people

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:18:00 +0200

(Foreword to Kristina Steinbock’s catalogue Selected Works on Blindness, 2018)
Living with a disability is comparable to making art in the sense that they both force us to shake off stifling norms.

Meeting Blindness: When visual art enters the life-worlds of blind people written by Piet Devos in Reflections.

Tardy Presents: Embodied agency in the ‘documental’ poetry of Benjamin Péret and Antonio Porchia

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 18:36:00 +0100

(Article co-authored with Gys-Walt van Egdom, published in Literature as Document. Eds. Sarah Bonciarelli et al. Pp. 133-148)

In this paper, we examine an often overlooked literary tradition, which came to see the act of writing as a way of documenting ‘pure’ embodied agency.

Tardy Presents: Embodied agency in the ‘documental’ poetry of Benjamin Péret and Antonio Porchia written by Piet Devos in Research.

Jacques Lusseyran, entre cécité et lumière

Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:21:00 +0100

La première étude consacrée à la vie et l’œuvre exceptionnelles de Jacques Lusseyran vient de paraître aux Éditions Rue d’Ulm.

Jacques Lusseyran, entre cécité et lumière written by Piet Devos in Research.

Dancing Beyond Sight: How blindness shakes up the senses of dance

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 09:32:00 +0200

(Article published in Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 38 no. 3)

In this essay I argue that blindness offers up a most fruitful perspective through which to rethink the visualist aesthetics of dance.

Dancing Beyond Sight: How blindness shakes up the senses of dance written by Piet Devos in Research.

Encuentros con la (a)normalidad: los cuerpos (in)tocables de Pablo Palacio

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:35:00 +0100

(Artículo publicado en Cuerpos ilegales. Ed. Nanne Timmer. Pp. 231-259)

Al estudiar la obra de Pablo Palacio, analizo el vínculo estrecho entre el tacto y la constitución normalizadora del sujeto moderno.

Encuentros con la (a)normalidad: los cuerpos (in)tocables de Pablo Palacio written by Piet Devos in Research.

Beyond disciplines: come to your senses

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 11:14:00 +0100

(Podcast released by Concordia University, Montreal)

How do we use our senses in everyday life? How do people with disabilities experience the sensory world?

Beyond disciplines: come to your senses written by Piet Devos in Media.

Sonic Boundary Objects: Negotiating disability, technology, and simulation

Thu, 10 Nov 2016 11:54:00 +0100

(Article co-authored with Florian Grond, published in Digital Creativity: health and wellbeing, pp. 1-17)

In this article, we discuss the use of binaural sound recordings as a tool to negotiate between blind and sighted experiences of an urban soundscape.

Sonic Boundary Objects: Negotiating disability, technology, and simulation written by Piet Devos in Research.

‘Productive and inspiring’: Piet Devos bids adieu to Concordia’s Centre for Sensory Studies

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:32:00 +0200

(Interview published in Concordia NOW)

The visiting postdoctoral fellow tackles visualist thinking in two final events coordinated by the Centre for Sensory Studies.

‘Productive and inspiring’: Piet Devos bids adieu to Concordia’s Centre for Sensory Studies written by Piet Devos in Media.

Le toucher de la lumière: la vue intérieure de Lusseyran entre phénoménologie et mystique

Sun, 03 Jul 2016 18:48:00 +0200

(Intervention lors du colloque 'Jacques Lusseyran (1924-1971) entre cécité et lumière. Regards croisés' tenu à la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris)

Le toucher de la lumière: la vue intérieure de Lusseyran entre phénoménologie et mystique written by Piet Devos in Lectures.

Senses and (dis)ability: a creative reorganization

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(Interview published in Concordia NOW)

On December 11, Concordia postdoctoral fellow Piet Devos will discuss his research at a public seminar.

Senses and (dis)ability: a creative reorganization written by Fork CMS in Media.

The recumbent speaks: the disabled subject and literary creation (1900-1950)

fork-cms-example.com-fork-cms@example.com (fork-cms@example.com (Fork CMS)) — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:24:00 +0100

(Lecture VIII in the History of Disability Lecture Series, KU Leuven)

In a 1926 essay, Virginia Woolf argued that the ‘recumbent’ ill body should no longer be neglected in literature.

The recumbent speaks: the disabled subject and literary creation (1900-1950) written by Fork CMS in Lectures.

Touched by Surrealism: reflections on a new sensory approach to literature

fork-cms-example.com-fork-cms@example.com (fork-cms@example.com (Fork CMS)) — Sat, 20 Dec 2014 08:25:00 +0100

(Article published in RELIEF 8.2 2014)

In this paper, I discuss a new sensory approach to literature. Literature might be studied in order to trace the perceptual effects of cultural, political and technological transformations.

Touched by Surrealism: reflections on a new sensory approach to literature written by Fork CMS in Research.

Re-imagining perception from a disabled perspective

fork-cms-example.com-fork-cms@example.com (fork-cms@example.com (Fork CMS)) — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:26:00 +0100

(TEDx talk Stadsschouwburg, Groningen)

“How is it possible that braille is completely white when printed, when the description can be so extremely colorful? Literature of any kind can create such a vivid picture and might also reactive earlier memories.”

Re-imagining perception from a disabled perspective written by Fork CMS in Media.

‘Estamos en el ciclo de los nervios’: las imágenes electrificadas de Huidobro y la reconsideración científica de la visión

fork-cms-example.com-fork-cms@example.com (fork-cms@example.com (Fork CMS)) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:27:00 +0100

(Ponencia publicada en las Actas del congreso ‘Imágenes y realismos en América Latina’, Universidad de Leiden)

En varios manifiestos el vanguardista chileno Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) comparó la imagen poética con una 'chispa' eléctrica y el poema con una batería cargada.

‘Estamos en el ciclo de los nervios’: las imágenes electrificadas de Huidobro y la reconsideración científica de la visión written by Fork CMS in Research.