Monday Mourning
Residencies
- 01.09 > 05.09.2025
During their residency at Pianofabriek, YLÏAM will explore how grief has influenced their recent work, and it could be the bridge between the visual and the sonic of their artistic practice.
“After a big loss, mixtures of traditional prayers of Buddhism and personal lovely memories turned into short pop-punk songs of repetitive mantras. Lyrics, poems, jokes and loops were not only sung but also written and drawn like a monk, repetitively. These then became images, and vice versa. While singing alone, I noticed how grief is often an isolated experience, here. How can this lonely practice of grieving become shared, maybe a little bit funny too, or just experienced differently than what we know now?”
Within the walls of the busy cultural hub of Brussels, YLÏAM hopes to encounter stories and experiences around various grieving experiences at Pianofabriek and its surroundings to the process of their new creation. They will hold moments for encounters, formal and informal around their work and the topic of alternative grieving rituals.
A public survey will also be launched through their self-publishing platform COMPLEX BUSINESS, extending the research beyond the residency walls.
De residentie is georganiseerd en ondersteund door de NWNM (Nomadische Werkplaats voor Nieuwe Meesters). Dit is een residentieprogramma dat zich volledig wijdt aan de (individuele) kunstenaar, diens praktijk en (ontwikkelings-)noden. Met de artiesten als het kompas verloopt elke residentie op basis van de persoonlijke behoeften, zodat er telkens een gepaste ondersteuning gegarandeerd is. Of het nu werken op een open veld, in een black box of ergens tussenin is: NWNM stimuleert en koestert nauwgezet het potentieel van de kunstenaar.