27.04.26, Inspiration day Schools of Arts, Global South

What opportunities and possibilities exist for conservatories in the Global South? How can we work together with partner institutions to create impact in both the South and the North? What can we learn from best practices? And how do the Schools of Arts fit into the VLIR-UOS portfolio?

These are some of the questions we will try to answer together during this first inspiration day, where the conservatories of AP, EhB, and HOGENT are joining forces. 

This event focuses on exploring new and existing forms of artistic collaboration with institutions in the Global South. The day is conceived as an open learning space: a place to share concrete practices, question assumptions, and collectively reflect on possibilities, doubts, and tensions.

Through practice-based cases, exchange moments and co-creation sessions, we aim to broaden perspectives, deepen understanding, and strengthen international artistic networks. Throughout the day, we explicitly acknowledge this topic’s complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity.

Programme

• 09:15 Welcome & coffee
• 09:30 Practice-based case presentations
  A series of short (15 min) and sharp case presentations, drawn from a wide range of artistic disciplines and collaborative practices. These cases are intentionally not framed as success stories, but as learning objects. Alongside promising trajectories, we also include projects that were challenged, rejected or did not unfold as expected.

• 12:30 Interactive lunch
  Participants join round tables designed to stimulate conversation from a personal position and intuition rather than from expertise.

• 13:30 Keynote speaker: Milica Ilic
  Rather than a traditional policy-oriented keynote, a reflective or critical voice will address tensions between artistic practice and “development logics” in transnational projects.

• 14:00 Co-creation sessions
  Participants will collectively explore underlying principles, alternative criteria and imaginaries for collaboration in the future.

• 15:15 Reception & networking

We look forward to welcoming you to the first edition of this Inspiration Day!