I Taste the Future

Filip Van Dingenen

Filip Van Dingenen (born in 1975 in Diest, Belgium; lives and works in Brussels, Belgium) is a multidisciplinary artist and PhD researcher at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent/Brussels and affiliated researcher at the Laboratory of Education and Society at KU Leuven. In his process-based art practice he uses a broad range of methods and outputs merging participatory strategies with a social and ecological relevance. He investigates and questions forms of display in zoological collections and archives of natural history.

Filip Van Dingenen, Tidal Migration Pattern of Seaweed Spirit When Moon is Shining, 2016–2017. Series of 9 framed seaweed pressings, 40 x 135 cm each. Photo: Kjell Ove Storvik/LIAF
Seaweed Workshop with Filip Van Dingenen. Photo: Kjell Ove Storvik/LIAF