Alexandra Crouwers

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Belgium (residence), Netherlands (citizenship) °1974
research interests: ecology, Ecological Consciousness, science fiction, forest, digital art, digital cultures, speculative fiction, divination, technology, interspecies fictions, nonhuman perspective, experimental film, sound art, augmented reality, mixed reality, multispecies, natural science, digital space
affiliation: LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven
orcid: 0000-0002-9956-8290
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Alexandra Crouwers (NL, 1974)  is a visual artist and artistic researcher, responding to ecosystem crises through digital technologies. Between 2019 and 2026 she is a doctoral candidate at the Associated Faculty of the Arts of KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts, working on the research project Summoning a Forest. Crouwers lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. 

 

 

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  • The Plot, The Compositor, Mourning/Mistakes (2021) author(s): Alexandra Crouwers published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
    In the Summer of 2019, a small family forest fell victim to a spruce bark beetle plague. Unusually mild winters caused larvae numbers to explode, and extreme drought weakened the otherwise more resilient trees. Expanding patches of dead forest can be found from the North Sea coast to the Baltics. The cleared forest became The Plot: a witness to climate change, and a gateway to dealing with ecological grief. My own eco-anxiety is utilized as a case study: how to deal with this new kind of loss? What is The Plot telling us? How do we move forward without losing hope? The exposition presents The Plot as fertile ground for artistic and collaborative research, including a contribution by Lisa Jeannin, a custom made font, moving image, and an audio work.
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