What does the way someone else is depicted say or not about the creator, the maker?
‘Als de kunstenaar zijn beeld inslikt’ digs deeper into the barely explored domain of embodied knowledge in the relationship between the maker and his image of someone else.

Karel Tuytschaever investigates the role that the physicality of the maker plays in creating a visual representation of someone else. He does this by mutually distilling his hybrid makership and making his teaching method as a discipline-wide teaching artist at the Antwerp Schools of Arts explicit.

As a theatre and filmmaker, he searches for new ways to capture bodies honestly in a 2D image, by using lens-based media and his body as a maker as equal instruments. In his teaching method, he links the different disciplines to physical awareness and emphasizes how the own physicality of makers in training can be a driving force in their vision and skill development.

This symbiotic and self-reflective research creates an interesting intermediate field in which a relevant awareness for contemporary artistry arises, in which the body forms the mediator between the world and an image. His methodology starts from the core values ​​of his practice, and wants to name crucial elements in an evolution towards a more integral and reciprocal embodied artist practice. A practice that consists of the different layers of sensory embodied knowledge. Because that is necessary because our urge for identity in a digitalized network society threatens to prevent us from productive involvement and empathy. In this way, Karel Tuytschaever hopes to contribute to (the awareness of) a more physical, tactile imagery in the visual and performing arts, and therefore a more layered multisensory viewing experience.