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OPEN CALL: 100 % Free Space

17.04.25
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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!

26.03.25
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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

16.10.24
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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!

24.09.24
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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://​des​in​gel​.be/​n​l​/​p​r​ogram…


Vulcanize Me by Audrey Apers is pro­gram­med by FRINGE fes­ti­val in Amsterdam!

09.09.24
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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’!

03.09.24
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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.

https://​www​.deac​teurs​gil​de​.be/​n​l​/​n​e​w​s​/​t​r​a​l​i​e​r​s​-​g​e​n​o​m​i​n​e​e​r​d​e​n​-​v​o​o​r​-​d​e​-​a​c​t​e​u​r​s​g​i​l​d​e​-​t​h​e​a​t​e​r​p​r​i​j​z​e​n​-​c​a​t​e​g​o​r​i​e​-​m​o​o​i​s​t​e​-​s​a​m​e​nspel

Join us on Saturday 31st of August for the first edi­ti­on of Apolemia / Performance by Lydia McGlinchey & Mario Barrantes Espinoza

27.08.24
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[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!

06.08.24
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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

31.07.24
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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!

30.07.24
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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!

10.07.24
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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!

20.06.24
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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!

23.05.24
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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​.inge​sana​gram​.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!

22.05.24
PARTS


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.

Discover their full pro­gram!

Tickets via www​.parts​.be & www​.kaai​the​a​ter​.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!

17.05.24
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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

Inschrijven!

Hopelijk ont­moe­ten we elkaar op 17 mei!

Met vrien­de­lij­ke groe­ten,

Team Coördinatie Brussel
Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur



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Palace of Justice I Sébastien Hendrickx pre­sen­ting his new pro­ject at Plat(e)form(e) I 14.05

13.05.24
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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

07.05.24
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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

07.05.24
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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
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– 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.

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Samah Hijawi pre­sents ​‘Memories around the Kitchen Table’ at Kunstenfestivaldesarts — 6 work­shops within the fra­me of their Free School program

02.05.24
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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

18.04.24
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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

12.04.24
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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

07.02.24
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Value and Judgement: (Invisible) Operating Systems Within the Performing Arts

17 February — 14:00
Kunstenwerkplaats / Pianofabriek

What are the voi­ces, nar­ra­ti­ves, bodies that are pro­gram­med or still exclu­ded today — in Belgium as much as the neigh­bou­ring coun­tries?

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

12.01.24
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“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!

08.01.24
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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!

05.01.24
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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

29.11.23
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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

16.11.23
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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​.kun​sten​dag​voor​kin​de​ren​.be

‘Nu är jag Medea’: Khadija El Kharraz Alami in Sweden!

30.10.23

Khadija El Kharraz Alami star­ted the tour of ​‘Nu ben ik Medea’ in Sweden. In 2018, she won awards with her per­for­man­ce at Theater Aan Zee. Her per­so­nal retel­ling of Euripides’ tra­ge­dy has not esca­ped Riksteatern in Sweden either. Khadija is tou­ring the Swedish coun­try with the English-lan­gu­a­ge ver­si­on, ​‘Nu är jag Medea’. This week­end, she per­for­med at Sara Kulturhus!



‘Nu ben ik Medea’ is a per­so­nal retel­ling of Euripides’ tra­ge­dy, inter­wea­ving the sto­ry ofMedea with her own expe­rien­ces of gro­wing up bet­ween two worlds — and about the clash of for­ces within yourself. Alami explains how she has been sha­ped by the riches from the Western and Moroccan worlds: the many tra­di­ti­ons, dif­fe­ren­ces in cul­tu­re, mul­ti­lin­gu­a­lism, belie­ving or not belie­ving, music, food, free­dom… Until the­se riches col­li­de: she stands bet­ween them and tries with all her strength to hold onto both. So she grows up fur­ther, no lon­ger with, but bet­ween two worlds.



Mindblowers 2023: Power invi­tes Roel Heremans!

12.10.23
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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

11.10.23
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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

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