OPEN CALL: 100 % Free Space
Space for beginning artists during the summer in the Brussels community centres: open call in collaboration with the Kunstenwerkplaats
Are you a professional artist or do you have plans to move in that direction? Do you have a clear link to Brussels and are looking for space for your research or project? This summer, the Brussels community centres are once again making some rooms available to artists free of charge. All disciplines are welcome.
CONCRETELY
You will have a workspace at a community centre where you can develop your artistic project or research. You can spend up to 4 weeks there. No technical support or remuneration will be provided. But you can use the space for free. We will help you find the most suitable space (see the list). At the end of the summer, Kunstenwerkplaats will accept some of the residents for a follow-up trajectory.
APPLY
Interested? Register via the registration form (NL, FR or ENG) by Wednesday, 11 May 2025.
After 11 May, Kunstenwerkplaats, the VGC and the community centres will look at all the applications. They will make their selection and allocate the most suitable and available spaces. You will receive a proposal on 9 June 2024 at the latest. Ensure that you can be reached by phone in the week of 9 and 16 June.
We do our best to give everyone a workspace. If there are more applications than spaces available, allocation will depend on the artistic quality of the proposal and the applicant’s artistic trajectory. We give priority to beginning artists with a clear link to Brussels and work that is open to the Dutch-speaking cultural field.
Would you like more information? Please contact Steffi De Cuyper of N22 Brussels Community Centres: 0490 523 995 or steffi.decuyper@vgc.be.
These roots never blossomed in avant-première!
On April 3 & 4, These roots never blossomed has its avant-première in Beursschouwburg!
Exploring the historic industrial ties between Belgium and Iran in the sugar industry, Sana shines a light on the old ruïne of the sugarfactory in Kahrizak (Iran). A seed sown in a once fertile landscape of lush lawns, brimming with promise and nurturing dreams of progress and the bloom of industrialization, now stands as a profound symbol of what was lost and sacrificed as ambition reshaped the landscape
Tickets en info via Beursschouwburg.
Picture by Navid Fayaz
Dark Habits in Kunstenwerkplaats I 18.10
These past two weeks, Simon Van Schuylenbergh worked on his research called Dark Habits and ends this residency period with a public showing at Kunstenwerkplaats!
18.10 — 20:30
Kunstenwerkplaats in Pianofabriek
Pay what you want — BRING CASH!
no reservations needed
Dark habits is an artistic pilgrimage which brings into light the understated beliefs of an artistic practice and its community.
As a starting point we will observe the actions of the ‘sisters of perpetual indulgence’, a group of queer activists who held meetings dressed up in self-made nun-costumes. They held ceremonies during the AIDS crisis in which they declared infected bodies as saints. The faith of these nuns centered on the society’s notion of the “dirty,” infected body, as opposed to the ‘pure’ body, described within Catholicism.
Dark Habits puts a spotlight on the beliefs and rationals which protect and generate both our society and artistic field through staging them in the context of different spiritual spaces: the church, the new age cult, satanic cults and the faith of the faithless.
By staging them we try to expose their possible inner-contradictions, examining their sanctity, and humorously playing with their demise.
Dark Habits will be built with artists from the network connected through Ne mosquito pas. Instead of solo’s we will make a series of group-acts. Each night you will see 5 different acts made by 5 different artists, performed together in group.
see you!
© DeepinSayd
Black Hole by Sara Dziri during AMOK Festival canceled!
Last week, sound artist and dj Sara Dziri had an amazing premiere of Black Hole, her first dance production! Normally, the next stop would’ve been in at AMOK Festival (KAAP, Brugge) the 5th of October. Sadly, this show has been canceled. For those who don’t want to miss out on this piece: Black Hole is playing on October 12 in deSingel (Antwerp) during BLISS!
Find all info:
https://desingel.be/nl/program…
Vulcanize Me by Audrey Apers is programmed by FRINGE festival in Amsterdam!
This week, Vulcanize Me by Audrey Apers is playing at Fringe Festival in Amsterdam.
Vulcanize me is an absurd quest of two women trying to break free from a seemingly stuck situation. They search for a system where there is room to explode. A space where bodies rebel, where untamable women, mother goddesses and biker babes rule. Their words can sometimes be incoherent and erratic. They refuse to surrender to a prevailing morality, which delights in going under or being swept away. Like little craters, they open up new possibilities….
An explosive theatrical performance in which rasping vocals and expressive physicality clash.
12, 13, 14 and 15 September in De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
tickets: https://amsterdamfringefestiva…
In 2023, Audrey graduated the master in Theater direction (RITCS) with Vulcanize Me. Currently, she’s working on Under Your Spell, produced by Kunstenwerkplaats. More on that soon, so stay tuned!
The Actors’ Guild nominates GERMAN STAATSTHEATER for ‘Most Appreciated Ensemble Performance’!
GERMAN STAATHEATER has been nominated for the Actors’ Awards in the category of ‘Most Appreciated Ensemble Performance.’
In this theater production, Rosie Sommers and Micha Goldberg explore what solidarity can still mean in our increasingly individualistic society. The performance, an energetic and captivating journey, is the result of a collective effort by a team of no less than 18 people! The nomination in this category is a wonderful recognition of the teamwork and dedication of this talented group.
Congratulations to Rosie, Micha, Simon V.S., Milka, Loucka, Ariadna, Giulia, Natacha, Simon B., Dahlia, Lydia, Anna Franziska, Nathan, Max, Milan, Vic, Veronika, Johannes, and Freek.
In the same category, ‘Up Your Ass’ by Nona Demey-Gallagher and Lieselot Siddiki, featuring KWP artist Sophia Bauer, has also been nominated!
Actress Loïs Lumonga Brochez has received a nomination for her role in Khadija’s ENSEMBLE PIECE, in the category ‘Most Appreciated Acting Performance (M/F/X) Up to 35 Years Old!’
The shortlist was determined by the jury of the TheaterFestival and will be awarded on Thursday, September 5th, at the festival’s opening, following The State of the Union.
Join us on Saturday 31st of August for the first edition of Apolemia / Performance by Lydia McGlinchey & Mario Barrantes Espinoza
[Apolemia] holds together nightlife and performance creating a fuller nightlife experience. For the very first edition @lydiamcglinchey and @marbares_ , two familiar faces of the Belgian performance scene, will bring a messy, chaotic 4‑hour show embedded to the night’s music, on a built-in decor filling the dance floor.
Rolling through liquids, soil, trash, fur, gym equipment, or cakes two performers inhabit the party making it their space to flourish as degenerates.
Saturday 31 of August, from 23:00 until 06:00, [Apolemia] brings you 4 DJ’s and a performance, located in an incredible warehouse that once hosted industrial design and architecture projects. With striking red beams, a glass ceiling (yes!), towering roofs, and a central dancefloor, this space will be the star of the night.
[Apolemia] is co-hosted by Pierre Bayet, Lydia McGlinchey, Mario Barrantes Espinoza and Martín Zícari.
Address: 161 Avenue Van Volxem, 1190 Forest
Tickets here!
Sign up for COSMOGRAM DRAWING SESSIONS by Sébastien Hendrickx!
23+24 August
At MANCHESTER Space
Cosmograms are objects that represent cosmologies or worldviews. They exist in iconographic, narrative, performative and architectural forms, and are produced within scientific, spiritual and and artistic contexts. They have been around for millennia. Think, for instance, of city plans of the Mayans, which reflected their idea of the cosmos, the spatial arrangement of the afterlife in Dante’s Divine Comedy or the contemporary speculative cartographies of Alexandra Arènes.
In two 150min work sessions we will make cosmogram drawings on circular pieces of paper, inspired by diagramming techniques and other infographics. Artists and non-artists from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome! You don’t need to be able to draw.
Practicalities
- doors open at 16h, work session from 16h30-19h
- for free
- minimum 5, maximum 15 participants priority is given to those who can participate in the two sessions
- take your own drawing material if you want (not an obligation)
- for registrations mail to sebahendrickx@hotmail.com
Oscar Murillo’s‘The flooded garden’ accompanied by Lydia McGlinchey
As part of his Tate Modern presentation, The flooded garden, Oscar Murillo will be organizing a program of performances, which depart from the exhibition and flood the city of London with echoes of the exhibit. The performances will consist of concerts by the Mar, Río y Cordillera, a group invited from Colombia, as well as several performances developed by Lydia McGlinchey, performed by close colleagues and collaborators from Brussels. The performances will be publicly announced 48 hours before their happening making for lively and spontaneous encounters.
Lydia McGlinchey will be developing a choreographic score in dialogue with the formal and conceptual framework of Murillo’s flight drawings and Surge series as an impulse for embodiment. This work will build on their last encounter during Murillo’s exhibition‘Masses’ at Wiels in the performance series‘Echoing Spirits’.
“Surge, having the connotation for both natural and social movement, made me think of dealing with the body in two registers: the body as a material and the body as a social entity. This idea could equally depart from the way in which the exhibit superimposes plastic chairs (which represent informal social assembly) with the Surge paintings (whose mesmerizing visual effects connotes itself with water/energetic movement).
The performance will fluctuate, moving into peaks then subsidence, evolving through different modes of inhabiting/composing the space.
“Inspired by the way that a mass of marks and gestures works to create a larger affect in Murillo’s paintings, I think of the performance like an evolving atmosphere. One where an assemblage of bodies, gestures, text, and voices works to form greater feeling in the space. I would like to incorporate the idea of collective choreographies which hold tension through being formally mesmerizing, yet contain a subtle tone of brutality.”
In the spirit of Murillo’s interest in spontaneous live encounters, the choreography will be receptive and lively in nature.
“The performance I create together with the performers will remain reactive to possible unexpected encounters with one another and audience, allowing the space, public, and present to merge into the work, whilst staying connected to a choreographic impulse which links us. Our performance enables the work accumulating in the Tate to resonate in public space.”
The performance will transform through a series of three shows starting at the Tate south tanks on the 1st of August at 3pm, flooding to Regents park on the 9th of August at 4pm, and then on to Bethnal Green Gardens on the 17th of August.
These performences were commissioned by London based artist Oscar Murillo and Lydia will be collaborating with international performance artists Stefa Govaert, Nabil Ennassouh, Castélie Yalombo Lilonge, Mate Jonjic, Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez, Alphonse Eklou, Ching Shu Huang and Nathan Feliot.
Picture: performance during the expo‘Echoing Spirits’ by Oscar Murillo in Wiels, Brussels (2024)
KWP aan Zee!
Ook dit jaar staan er artiesten van KWP op het programma van Theater aan Zee. Zaterdag 3 augustus kan je in De Grote Post gaan kijken naar Motherbaby van Sophia Bauer & Marieke Schraepen. Ze spelen om 16u en om 20u30.
Woensdag 7 augustus staat de bende van GERMAN STAATSTHEATER in De Grote Post.
Andere KWP residenten die ook te zien zijn op TAZ en zeker niet te missen:
- Vulcanize Me — Audrey Apers
- Up Your Ass — Nona Demey Gallagher & Lieselot Siddiki
- lightparticles inc. — Gilles Pollak
- ANGRYBODIES — Guus Diepenmaat & Anouk Friedli
- T‑2124 — Barbara T’Jonck
- De Vogels — Lieselotte De Keyzer & Kobe Chielens
Christina Clar warmly invites you to her try-outs this week!
Christina Clar is in the midst of her residency at Kunstenwerkplaats working on her new project The reason we sway and invites you to three showings these upcoming days!
Christina explores translations into sounds and gestures of emotional, sensorial and mental states experienced by persons with mental imbalances like the autism spectrum, but also of the animal and vegetal world. how might complex conversations of species and whole ecosystems sound like? is it possible to come closer to a different way of perceiving? what does a bird hear? can a tree sense a connection to surrounding plants through their roots? how to connect?
Friday 12.07 — 16:00
Thursday 18.07 — 16:00
Friday 19.07 — 14:00
All try-outs take place at Kunstenwerkplaats in Pianofabriek (Elsenor).
Fortstraat 35, 1060 Sint-Gillis.
Stijn Demeulenaere is invited for an artist talk by GLUON as part of their Leonardo LASER network!
In the series of talks organised as part of the Leonardo LASER Network, GLUON is happy to announce the talk “Environmental Justice for Non-Human Species”, by artist and researcher Dr Kat Austen and artist Stijn Demeulenaere.
The talk will take place on Tuesday 2nd of July 7pm at GLUON.
The talk will be livestreamed via their website.
In recent years, the discourse around environmental justice has grown to encompass the vast field of non-human species with whom human communities share planet Earth. These species, from the smallest micro-organisms to the largest mammals, play vital roles in maintaining ecological balance and biodiversity.
This expansion signifies an important shift in our – human — understanding of justice. We recognise that the well-being of our planet, and even the survival of humans, is inherently tied to the “health” all its inhabitants. Like contemporary philosopher Timothy Morton puts this shift in perspective by stating: “We are not living in a world of separable things but in a mesh of interconnection.“
This paradigm shift encourages us to see the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, and of life we cannot see or perceive, and to make an effort for a more harmonious coexistence with the natural world. It is through such efforts and narratives that we hope to address the current environmental disaster and restless proliferation of the human species on Earth. And – maybe – to rediscover what humans have lost on their way into what today is called modernity or the Anthropocene.
Moderator: Peter Friess
Speakers: Kat Austen & Stijn Demeulenaere
Chaired by Alexandra Dementieva
With the support of Fédération Bruxelles Wallonie, cyland.lab and lasertalks
Picture by Kristof Vranken (Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis)
Unfixing The Atlas — Heike Langsdorf I Try-out June 01, welcome!
Walk with us in a choreography of traces
On Saturday 1 June, Heike Langsdorf warmly invites u to the public try-out of Unfixing the Atlas!
The try-out takes place from 15:00 until 17:00 GC Elzenhof in Elsene.
Unfixing the Atlas is a piece, is a space, is a method: which enables an artistic process‘on stage’ by and with a group of people who met by chance while sharing the question of how a group becomes a group?
While creating Alena tights unfix 1*, we, makers and performers, with and without previous professional experience in the field, followed our desire to find a shared vocabulary – a path to be walked in dialogue with each other and the audience: Visitors are invited to walk through a choreography of traces – found, created, read and transformed‘sur place’.
Traces in Agni exultant fish are memories (coming back), remarkable spatial points on site, tools (of all kinds), written words, voices, hands in action, interested subjects, forgotten objects, … the other person next to you. Like so many spaces, Exhaust Inflation is inconstant, yet many decisions, already taken or in the making, shape/d it – think of a park, a theatre stage, a city-bus, a classroom, a casino, the woods… an open field…
When you enter Flux unhesitating you might find things strange, after a while you will understand what is possible (for you) and eventually you might get involved or just not at all. In any case, when you leave Exiting Lufthansa, you leave behind a little world that has changed in your presence, with or without you having contributed actively to the events that occurred while you were (t)here.
1* All anagrams used in this text are generated with https://www.ingesanagram.com
Interested in attending the try-out in Elzenhof the first of June?
Please contact roosje.mestdagh@pianofabriek.be.
Saturday 29 June, there’s a second try-out in De Markten (1000 Brussel).
See you!
KWP opens its doors for P.A.R.T.S. graduation festival!
GRADUATION FESTIVAL MA STUDIOS, Brussels 23 May — 15 June 2024
In June 2024, 12 students from the 2‑year Master’s program STUDIOS will graduate.
STUDIOS targets young choreographers and performance makers and puts a two-year focus on developing an independent artistic practice. During two years, they have followed a mutual path in which they have developed their own research and creation through a collective program of movement research, masterclasses in choreography, self-directed research, cross-cultural exchange in Ecole des Sables (Toubab Dialaw, Senegal) and theoretical seminars.
The graduation works that conclude this two-year trajectory will be presented at the Graduation Festival with Brussels partners Kaaistudios, Kunstenwerkplaats in Pianofabriek and WIELS, between May 23rd and June 15th, 2024.
The STUDIOS participants are:
Adem Ouhaibia, Ching Shu Huang, Géraldine Haas, Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek, Jair Jetzehu Montes Rangel, Judith Dhondt, Marikki Nyfors, Marlla Araújo, Mira Maria Studer, Osamu Shikichi, Rania Barhoumi, Urtė Groblytė.
Tickets via www.parts.be & www.kaaitheater.be
The program consists of several double bills
Pay what you can.
Residency partners: BRONKS theater voor jong publiek, CAMPO, @Destelheide Centrum voor Jeugd, Kunst en Creatie, De Markten Brussel, Field Works, Les Brigittines — Playhouse for Movement, Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, PAF Reims, @STUK — House for Dance, Image & Sound, Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez
Artwork Joram De Cocker
Laat je inspireren tot een kunstenaarsresidentie in een Brussels woonzorgcentrum!
UITNODIGING | Inspiratiemoment Art.is.t.Care | 17 mei 2024
Het project Art.is.t.care verzoent twee noden met elkaar. Enerzijds is er heel wat leegstand in Brusselse woonzorgcentra; anderzijds zijn jonge kunstenaars op zoek naar atelierruimtes. Art.is.t.care brengt hen met elkaar in contact.
De kunstenaars werken in interactie met de bewoners aan een kunstproject, bijvoorbeeld theater, dans of beeldende kunst. Goede zorg voor ouderen betekent meer dan medische zorg en moet ook aandacht hebben voor zingeving, creativiteit en de mens achter de oudere.
We nodigen je graag uit voor het inspiratiemoment van Art.is.t.Care. Er zijn artistieke interventies, een expo, voorbeelden van lopende projecten, interessante gesprekken, goede praktijken en de Koning Boudewijnstichting geeft duiding bij haar recente projectoproep ‘De waarde van kunst en cultuur voor zorg en gezondheid’.
Je kan deelnemen aan een slow date waarbij geïnteresseerde kunstenaars kennis maken met enthousiaste woonzorgcentra. Afsluiten doen we met taart en koffie.
Programma
13.30 — 14.00 uur Ontvangst
14.00 — 16.00 uur Artistieke interventies, expo, goede praktijken, … slow date
15.30 — 16.30 uur Koffie en taart
Hopelijk ontmoeten we elkaar op 17 mei!
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Team Coördinatie Brussel
Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur
© Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur
Palace of Justice I Sébastien Hendrickx presenting his new project at Plat(e)form(e) I 14.05
For several months now, actor and theatre-maker Sébastien Hendrickx has been working on his new project Palace of Justice, inspired by the most bizarre building in the world, once considered the largest: the Brussels Palace of Justice. This monster of a building has 150 lifts, 1530 interior doors, 2432 rooms, 473 corridors and 1513 windows. The Palace has been in scaffolding for decades, and recently ran out of toilet paper. Rumour has it that somewhere in a basement corridor there is a portal leading to an underground city…
On 14 May, Hendrickx will present this project at ‘Plat(e)form(e)’, the international visitors’ program organised by Kunstenpunt during Kunstenfestivaldesarts. And later this month, on 28 May, he will talk about his ideas at a collective meeting in a special place, namely the ‘Salle des pas perdus’, the overwhelming central hall in the Palace of Justice itself.The premiere of Palace of Justice is scheduled for autumn 2025.
© Sébastien Hendrickx
OPEN CALL: 100% FREE SPACE 2024
Space for beginning artists during the summer in the Brussels community centres: open call in collaboration with the ‘Kunstenwerkplaats’ (artistic workspace)
Are you a professional artist or do you have plans to move in that direction? Do you have a clear link to Brussels and are looking for space for your research or project? This summer, the Brussels community centres are once again making some rooms available to artists free of charge. All disciplines are welcome.
CONCRETELY
You will have a workspace at a community centre where you can develop your artistic project or research. You can spend up to 4 weeks there. No technical support or remuneration will be provided. But you can use the space for free. We will help you find the most suitable space (see the list). At the end of the summer, Kunstenwerkplaats will accept some of the residents for a follow-up trajectory.
APPLY
Interested? Register via the registration form (NL, FR or ENG) by Wednesday, 14 May 2024.
After 14 May, Kunstenwerkplaats, the VGC and the community centres will look at all the applications. They will make their selection and allocate the most suitable and available spaces. You will receive a proposal on 7 June 2024 at the latest. Ensure that you can be reached by phone in the week of 10 and 17 June.
We do our best to give everyone a workspace. If there are more applications than spaces available, allocation will depend on the artistic quality of the proposal and the applicant’s artistic trajectory. We give priority to beginning artists with a clear link to Brussels and work that is open to the Dutch-speaking cultural field.
Would you like more information? Please contact Steffi De Cuyper of N22 Brussels Community Centres: 0490 523 995 or steffi.decuyper@vgc.be.
Khadija El Kharraz Alami invited by NTGent for their All Greeks Festival
Hekabe’s revenge is grief — Khadija El Kharraz Alami
14.05 — 11:00 I Guislainsite / All Greeks Festival, Ghent
“Why does tragedy exist?
Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage?
Because you are full of grief”
– Anne Carson, Grief Lessons — Tragedy: A Curious Art Form
For their All Greeks Festival, NTGent invited Khadija El Kharraz Alami to adapt a Greek tragedy and make it her own. Creating an installation, Khadija draws inspiration from her encounters with children, adolescents and adults staying at Psychiatric Centre Dr Guislain. And from the earth-shattering tragedy Hekabe. In it, we are confronted with the awe-inspiring grief — a grief that reaches beyond language, beyond being human — and the gruesome revenge of the Trojan queen Hekabe, who lost all her children and loved ones.
In this time of extensive psychological suffering and numerous wars, numerous emotions remain unsaid and unprocessed. Guislain gives El Kharraz Alami the opportunity to dwell on this, to make space for shared mourning.
© ntgent
Samah Hijawi presents ‘Memories around the Kitchen Table’ at Kunstenfestivaldesarts — 6 workshops within the frame of their Free School program
Since 2020, artist Samah Hijawi has been engaged in projects that focus on the narrative potential of food. For three years, she researched the history, culture and practices surrounding food preparation resulting in her dinner performance Kitchen.Table. For this, she works with women cooking in Brussels community kitchens and explores ways to capture the many memories associated with one type of food.
For a new phase in her research, she now focuses on how recipes are connected to the body and often to important moments in life. What dishes are prepared in different cultures during periods of mourning, or for celebrating a new year, for example?
As part of Kunstenfestivaldesarts’ Free School, Hijawi is organising six stand-alone workshops, each lasting two days and each exploring one life moment. Using this moment as a starting point, participants will share and document their recipes and related stories. The aim is to bring out the knowledge that each of us possesses — calling family members for recipe details if necessary — and exchange memories about the meaning of food. On the second day, participants cook together and share the prepared dishes with others. Six gatherings for six crucial moments in life.
* Recipes for nursing parents
* Recipes to celebrate a new year
* Recipes that remind you of someone far away
* Recipes to celebrate a wedding
* Recipes for the mourning period
* Aphrodisiac recipes
All six workshops are completely sold out, but you can still sign up for ticket alerts via KFDA’s website if places become available.
On the 26th of May at 18:00, you can meet Samah at the artist talk — free entrance, no registration required.
© Samah Hijawi
Volksroom x Decoratelier — IT FOR NOW
24.04 — “Good spaces never die !”
Simplified : the legendary artist-run-space Volksroom brings 4 performances by 6 performers.
* a simple Monday but on a Wednesday
With Micha Goldberg, Helena Araujo, Loucka Fiagan, Luis Ramirez Munoz, Chiara Monteverde, Simon Van Schuylenbergh
26.04 — “Same thing but make it more !”
Multiplied: the 4 same performances multiplied by 10 performers.
With Micha Goldberg, Helena Araújo, Loucka Fiagan, Luis Ramirez Muñoz, Chiara Monteverde, Simon Van Schuylenbergh, Marivi Gazeta, Rojda Gülizar Karakuş , Nathaniel Moore and Marco Labellarte
Tickets via Decoratalier.
*combi-tickets available (24+26)
OPEN CALL /I Artistic Commission — GC Nekkersdal
As part of the community centre (GC) Nekkersdal construction project, the Flemish Community Commission (VGC) wishes to select an artist to realise an artistic commission. Read all about it here!
In the first phase, the KIO Core group offers artists the opportunity to send a concise response no later than 15 April 2024, focusing on the questions below, which will determine the selection.
MOTIVATION: What is your motivation for taking on this commission?
SEMI: What is your perspective on semi/semi-public?
BRUSSELS: What affinity do you have with an urban environment and with Brussels/Laeken in particular?
EXPERIENCE: Do you have experience in the field of (permanent) artistic commissions? And what is your artistic approach in open spaces?
Send your entry:
in Dutch.
max 1 A4 CV/portfolio
no later than 15 April 2024
to kunsten@vgc.be
with the subject: Open Call artistic commission — GC Nekkersdal
There is no fee for this submission.
Reflection day during It Takes a City at Kunstenwerkplaats / Pianofabriek
Value and Judgement: (Invisible) Operating Systems Within the Performing Arts
17 February — 14:00
Kunstenwerkplaats / Pianofabriek
In spite of a growing consciousness around inclusion and diversity, decisions in the performing arts are often still rooted in a Eurocentric value system and perspective. This concerns not only the way our field operates day to day, but also the choices within artistic programming, artistic practices or financial support. With growing far-right & conservative politics and the direct impact it enforces on our sector, not only who we choose, but also how we come to those choices is extremely relevant.
In this debate, we will look deeper into shared ownership of artistic programs within institutions and festivals and address the invisible barriers of gatekeeping and assimilation. A dismantling of the reality of “free” choice-making and who still has(owns) this possibility
Presented Kunstenpunt / Flanders Arts institute as part of It Takes a City!
Register here.
interview with Khadija El Kharraz in NRC
“For this performance, I don’t want to worry about labels that others put on me. Not to resist or have to justify myself. Staying soft. Explore that. Softness, love.”
- Khadija El Kharraz Alami, interview by Shira Keller for NRC.
Tonight, Khadija’s performance Ensemble piece exhume buried cries beauty love reanimate the dead will have its Dutch premiere at Theater Rotterdam.
Read the full interview here!
Picture by Hedayatullah Amid.
KWP artist Samah Hijawi is joining TANK TINK / ONE by Enkidu Khaled and Joachim Robbrecht!
In TANK TINK / ONE Enkidu & Joachim explore the devastating impact of war on the environment and brainstorm on possible countermeasures. They counter this horror with images of satire, despair and resistance, together with performers Ogutu Muraya & Caroline Ngorobi, writer Chris Keulemans and artist Samah Hijawi.
17.01.2024 I De Balie in collab with De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Tickets via De Balie.
KWP artists Marieke&Sophia performing Guilty of Love in KVS — extra date!
In Guilty of Love, Marie Schraepen, Sophia Bauer and Mats Vandroogenbroeck investigate the overload of sexual violence in our common cultural imagination.
The motive of the dead, raped women is especially prevalent: as a desire, as a monster, as a sacrifice. In constantly changing roles, the actors attempt to get a grip on the persistent nature of this image. Popular imaginations cross over each other. A testimony clashes with soap dialogue and YouTube re- enacting videos in the search for an adequate language that transcends the cliches of this theme.
January 17 and 18 in KVS. More info here!
The 22nd of February, Marieke&Sophia premiere at Monty in Antwerp with their newest creation, Motherbaby, in which they sing of the mother-child bond in all its contradictory facets. They take you into the twilight zone between love and aggression.
Recensie: FRICTION van Sophia Rodriguez door Dagmar Teurelinckx
Een interessante blik op FRICTION door Dagmar Teurelincx voor e‑tcetera, lees hier: e‑tcetera.be/friction-sophia-rodrigues
‘Sophia Rodriguez’s FRICTION departs from the hypothesis that friction between individuals is disappearing in our contemporary, capitalist society, because of the common association of friction with resistance and conflict. In attempting to ensure that everything runs smoothly, we trade proximity for coldness. FRICTION explores whether deliberately provoking friction between people is a way to rid them of psychological and cultural differences, which often get in the way of connecting with others. While Rodriguez’ ambitions are hyper relevant and important, the resulting performance is a watered-down version of them.’
Kunstendag voor Kinderen: Theater for Beginners
Marieke Schraepen en Seppe Decubber gaan op zoek naar jong theatertalent via workshops in aanloop naar de Kunstendag voor Kinderen. Basisschool De Balder, de Sint-Gillisschool en MABO zijn van de partij.
Alle andere activiteiten die in het kader van de Kunstendag voor Kinderen georganiseerd worden, kan je terugvinden op hun website: www.kunstendagvoorkinderen.be
Mindblowers 2023: Power invites Roel Heremans!
Tonight 12 October, transdisciplinary artist Roel Heremans will perform at Mindblowers 2023: Power, a collaboration between KVS and VUB. Starting from the idea that scientists and artists are the visionaries of society, KVS and VUB created this project to give these voices a stage.
In the context of his work The NeuroRight Arcades, Roel Heremans is invited to talk this evening about the power one might have over our brains in the near future. The retro game consoles will also be on display and in use at KVS for a month. With The NeuroRight Arcades, he points out the dangers that the battle for our minds represents for human integrity.
More info on the full programme via Mindblowers 2023: Power..
Read more via the article in Bruzz!
Tonight 11.10: Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis premiering in CAMPO
During their three weeks residency in the summer, Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis worked on the creation of their newest performance, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. Tonight they will have their première at CAMPO (Ghent)!
In this performance, Bosse & Ezra explore freedom and unfreedom in relation to technology, by staging Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem of the same name.
When?
11.10 — sold out
12.10
13.10
Tickets via CAMPO