27.06.26, 10:00, 
Expo and performances saturday,
Expo and performances saturday,
graduation projects visual arts and design,
Campus Bijloke
Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Gent

Across the Bijloke site, you’ll discover the graduation projects of our visual arts and design students, presented this year as a bouquet of fines fleurs. Feel free to put together your own bouquet as you stroll through our buildings and gardens. Whether the work has been home-grown, cultivated or has sprung up wild, our students will show you its colours, textures and blooms.

With works by students in photography, graphic design, autonomous design, fine arts, textile design, fashion, musical instrument making, interior design, landscape and garden architecture, landscape development, curatorial studies, educational master in audiovisual and visual arts and the educational master in music and performing arts.

BOOKSHOP

Six graphic design students (Eline Cremers, Mira Keygnaert, Inès De Laender, Liv Meysman, Maïté van Genugten, and Maud Declerck) warmly welcome you to their Bookshop during the Graduation Weekend. Here, you’ll find a diverse selection of publications, zines, posters, drawings, T-shirts, theses, and other unique editions. Furthermore, masterstudent Maud Declerck will make live radio with Radio.(punt).

PERFORMANCES

  • 14:00, The Story Behind the Curtain, Mona A.Shahi
    interactive installation & storytelling, 30-60min.
    Filmstudio
  • 15:30, BITE, MEASURE, OBEY: obsession served daily, Carlotta Cormegna
    performance, 15-20min.
    Masereel
  • 16:00, Tussen ons Het Koord, Gaia op de Weegh
    performance, 40-50min.
    Filmstudio
  • 17:00, It's About Time, Zora de Dreu
    performance, 15 min.
    Zwarte Zaal

PROFESSIONELE BACHELORS

In R12, the interior design, landscape & garden architecture and landscape development programmes are continuously showcasing the final-year students’ graduation projects.

  • 10:00 – Ontvangst ingang gebouw Pauli en introductie tot de opleiding
  • 11:00 – Presentaties door 4 studenten interieurvormgeving
  • 11:30 – Rondleiding door docenten interieurvormgeving
  • 12:00 – Presentaties door 4 studenten landschapsontwikkeling

OPENING HOURS

  • 25.06.26, 15:00 – 22:00
  • 26.06.26, 12:00 - 20:00
  • 27.06.26, 10:00 - 21:00
  • 28.06.26, 12:00 - 20:00


The Story Behind the Curtain, Mona A.Shahi

The Story Behind the Curtain is an interactive installation inspired by Pardeh-khani, a traditional Iranian storytelling practice.

Using four magic lanterns representing the main characters of the story of Siavash, participants can alter the visibility of each character by changing their position in space. In this system, visibility functions as power: the larger a character appears on the screen, the greater their influence within the narrative.

Each new arrangement activates a different version of the story, inviting audiences to reflect on how narratives are shaped by repetition, perspective, and the distribution of power.

  • Credits: Mona A.Shahi - Thijs Deschildre


BITE, MEASURE, OBEY: obsession served daily, Carlotta Cormegna

Welkom, beste gasten, bij BITE, MEASURE, OBEY — een plek waar elke hap wordt geteld, elke portie wordt afgemeten en elk bord weet wie de controle heeft. Dit project is een immersieve installatie in de vorm van een fictieve restaurantbeleving, waarin eetstoornissen en de systemen van controle die aan het lichaam worden opgelegd kritisch worden onderzocht.

Bezoekers worden verwelkomd in Kiosko, een fictief restaurant waar ze een menu ontvangen en naar hun tafel worden begeleid. Daar begint de performatieve ervaring. De handeling ontvouwt zich via een reeks veranderende tafellakens, waarbij elk nieuw tafellaken verschillende gerechten, gebaren en gedragsinstructies introduceert.

Er wordt geen echt voedsel geserveerd. In plaats daarvan vervangen digitaal geproduceerde en geborduurde 3D-weergaven van gerechten de consumptie. Als “gastheer” zal ik samen met mijn collega en vriendin Rita de gasten instrueren hoe ze voedsel kunnen achterhouden, controleren en verbergen, waardoor de handeling van eten verandert in een ritueel van beperking in plaats van delen.

Door een vertrouwde eetsituatie na te bootsen, onthult de installatie de verborgen en vaak onzichtbare rituelen van eetstoornissen. De ervaring verschuift van gezellig samenzijn naar controle, waarbij discipline niet alleen wordt gesuggereerd, maar actief wordt uitgevoerd en doorgegeven.


Tussen ons Het Koord, Gaia op de Weegh

As a Dutch woman married to an Ecuadorian man, Gaia lives in a constant negotiation with borders. In Tussen ons het koord (Between Us, the Tightrope), she explores how political, bureaucratic, and cultural systems affect the intimate: love, family, and the body. Through her international and multicultural relationship, she re-examines her own background, privileges, and assumptions.

Through movement, tightrope balancing, and text, Gaia reveals a vulnerable exercise in finding balance.

Tussen ons het koord is an intimate, multidisciplinary performance about family, love, and migration.

  • Performer/Maker: Gaia op de Weegh, Muziek: Paul op de Weegh, Mentor: Geert Belpaeme

It's About Time, Zora de Dreu 

Can we take a moment? No!! We are running running running out of time. But where will we be when we are out of time? Maybe at this performance, where we create a small pocket of time that is ours.. Not for the capitalists, not for the fascists.. For us and the puppets alone.

  • made by: Zora de Dreu, Arjan Bouw, Ad Bouw, Els Bouw; costumes: Josha Zwanenburg
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