Ruth Razan Loos
Staff, Post-Doc, Supervisor
ruth.loos@kdg.be
Ruth Razan Loos holds master's degrees in visual arts and art history and a PhD in the arts. She supports SLARG in its social outreach approach. In collaboration with Stadscanvas (Fameus), a space for artistic newcomers in Antwerp, she initiates artistic events that value participatory practices, multiple canons, stories, languages, scripts, and solidarity. She teaches on the socio-political aspects of our multilingual world and how artists and designers navigate multiscript realities; and is preparing a course on Islamic Knowledges and Aesthetic Practices.
She is interested in supervising PhD in the arts projects related to the Arabic script intertwined with Islam / the role of art in Islamic ways of knowing / sustainability and social justice from the Islamic perspective.