The foragers
Responsive Recording
Atelier
Atelier: Responsive Recording
In this atelier, foraging becomes a way of gathering sound in close dialogue with the environment of the VUB campus. Instead of treating recording as something we take, we approach it as a form of listening with a place. We ask how recorded sounds can stay connected to where they come from, and what it means to record in a responsive and ethical way. If we take sound, how can we also give something back? Through hands-on exploration, shared listening, and discussion, participants are invited to rethink field recording as a reciprocal process, where human and more-than-human presences resonate together.
The workshop is initiated by sound artists and researchers Nele Möller (LUCA) and Ernst Maréchal (RITCS), in collaboration with artist/curator Gosie Vervloessem (The Foragers for VUB Crosstalks).
PRACTICAL INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
This two-day workshop takes place on Friday 24 April and Thursday 30 April, from 10:00 to 17:00. The workshop is designed for RITCS and VUB students and participation is free. Please bring your own lunch and whatever you consider to be a recording device.
If you’d like to join, please email a short motivation to goedele.nuyttens@vub.be.
PART OF
The Foragers: Engagements beyond the Human, an interdisciplinary art-science project that brings together artists, researchers and enthusiasts to reimagine the ancient practice of foraging as a bold, imaginative and future-facing practice. Alongside film screenings, talks and collective practices, the programme comes together in the exhibition at Pilar (24 April – 29 May).
This field recording atelier is developed in collaboration with Future Narratives, the artistic research program of RITCS School of Arts.
Ernst Maréchal is an audiovisual artist, performer, and singer-songwriter. With his work, he seeks to address, understand, and (re)imagine issues of (in)equality, diversity, and commonality. He is interested in the ethics of engaging with the voices he meets: how direction and meaning can be given and positions taken – together – around shared interests that he alone cannot embody. As an artistic (PhD) researcher at the RITCS School of Arts/VUB, he develops Social Recordings, a process-based practice that gathers (in musical assemblies) field recordings, sonic encounters, and improvisations created in diverse social, pedagogical, and artistic contexts, in collaboration with artists and non-artists of all ages.
Nele Möller is currently working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA Brussels. Her research project, The Forest Echoes Back, oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by monoculture plantings, climate change, and bark beetle outbreaks, exploring ways to retrace and react to these ongoing changes using field recording, live audio streaming, listening, and mimicry as central methodologies.
Gosie Vervloessem lives and works in Brussels. She studied Educational Sciences at KU Leuven, Audiovisual Arts at LUCA School of Arts Brussels, and Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies at a.pass. In 2010, Vervloessem began working under the name Domestic Science Club, through which she developed lectures, performances, workshops, recipes, and installations. In 2014, the focus of her work shifted toward food, digestion, and indigestion. She is currently concerned with tensions and oppositions related to nature and its environment. Her work has been presented at Recyclart, Vooruit, Beursschouwburg, STUK, De Brakke Grond, Belluard Festival, PPP Bern, Dock 11, and other venues. Since 2025 she co-curates the public program The Foragers, in collaboration with Benoît Henriet and VUB Crosstalks.
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