Els Silvrants-Barclay
Els Silvrants-Barclay is artistic director of Netwerk Aalst, with Pieternel Vermoortel. Previously she was head of Contemporary Art Heritage Flanders (CAHF), a collaborative platform uniting the four contemporary art museums in Flanders S.M.A.K., Mu.ZEE, Middelheimmuseum & M HKA on how to think and practice contemporary collecting. From 2010 to 2012 she coordinated the advanced master’s in theater studies at the University of Antwerp, where she also taught a course in dance theory.
From 2004 to 2009 she lived and worked in China, where she was program coordinator and performance curator of the Dashanzi International Art Festival and worked as curator and artistic director for several exhibitions, projects, and organizations, such as the Dashanzi International Art Festival (curator, 2004-2006), Platform China Contemporary Art Institute (artistic director, 2005-2006), Convergence Satellite Exhibition Beijing Biennale (with Feng Boyi, 2006). In 2005, she founded the Institute for Provocation, a Beijing-based workspace for artists and architects. Over the years, IFP has facilitated research projects with Mette Ingvartsen, Juan Dominguez, Edwin Zwakman, Ben & Sebastian, Tudor Bratu, Mette Edvardsen, Michiel Hilbrinck, Maja Bekan & Angela Serino, Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki, Sasha Pohle, Danai Anesiadou, Vermeir & Heiremans, Edit Kaldor, Pieterjan Ginckels, and many others. She has edited Everything Beautiful is Far Away (2008, Timezone 8, with Jean Bernard Koeman and Carol Lu), The Making of Meeting (2013, MER.Paper Kunsthalle, with Defne Ayas and Davide Quadrio) and Cave#1: Territories (2016, Sternberg Press, with Pieternel Vermoortel).
小艾目前主持着CAHF,这是一个综合利用比利时佛兰芒地区四大当代美术馆藏品的合作平台。之前,她在安特卫普大学执教戏剧研究生课程的舞蹈理论。
2004-2009年期间她在北京生活和工作,曾担任大山子国际艺术节的项目协调人和表演行为策展人。2005年她成立了“动舞台” (2010年重命名为激发研究所),一个基于北京的跨文化艺术研究工作空间。她是安特卫普“附加城市”艺术机构的组委会成员,为亚洲和欧洲非营利组织提供咨询。