ACTIVITIES
dddddddddduettttttttttttttttttttttttt is the first collaboration between Dan Mussett and Laurent Delom. It is an attempt to encompass their entire ongoing relationship into a single duet. The very processes that occur when two...... Read more
Trails & Grooves expands the research of the solo Farmer Train Swirl and explores the dynamic relations walking and running bodies can entertain with each other. Starting from walking, the dancers will draw individual and...... Read more
Movement Essays is an encounter with dancer and choreographer Anneleen Keppens. Inspired by the personal essay in the tradition of writer Michel de Montaigne, she presents three ‘movement essays’ that each place a fundamental aspect...... Read more
Ayiti, island of mountains, is where the Tainos lived when christopher columbus* arrived in 1492. Marking the beginning of the genocide, the brutal extractivism of the many territories of Abya Yala, and the transatlantic slave trade in connection...... Read more
In residency
Within a series of small compositions, bodies are placed and displaced in relation to each other, in a very precise manner but without complying with rigid rules. Their movements are simple and therefore often recognisable. They play with...... Read more
At workspacebrussels Eva will explore an approach to film-making that experiments with collaborative live-editing and speculates on its politics. Over the past eight years she has been returning to the High Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard...... Read more
dddddddddduettttttttttttttttttttttttt is the first collaboration between Dan Mussett and Laurent Delom. It is an attempt to encompass their entire ongoing relationship into a single duet. The very processes that occur when two...... Read more
Facebook has over 2.2 billion users. Just over 30 million are dead. By 2065, dead users will outnumber the living, rendering the site a digital graveyard. Dead People Are Liking Things On Facebook is a performance lecture exploring our online...... Read more
There is a long history in the arts of anthropomorphism in which we focus on the interests of humans and solely humans. Now is the time to, in the arts as well as more in general, take a step back and show empathy for our environment. We will have...... Read more
GREEN NASIM is an experimental choreographic work about outsider art imaginaries, set inside a hijacked cinema screening a live as yet unfinished documentary about the coming animal revolution. It is inspired in part by the strange story of Nasim...... Read more
Grimorio is the name of a research project that looks at categories and identity politics through the logics and aesthetics of Fantasy Role Playing Games. Taking as a starting point the highly formalized systems of rules that give shape to the...... Read more
Ice is the solid form of water. It stops cellular decomposition in living organisms. Thus it stops time and freezes everything in an eternal youth. Ice is a solo for two that melt into each other and collapse in a continuous movement. They...... Read more
IN.here is a long-term project of artistic research and creation, developing an immersive, sensory installation exploring systems of control. Spaces that we inhabit daily are often designed – physically and sensorially – to attract...... Read more
The expression ‘killjoy’ refers to a person who deliberately spoils the enjoyment of others. To be "killjoy" is to kill all the fun, to kill happiness. But what does it mean to kill happiness today? What kinds of narratives...... Read more
‘When I first invited the dancer Elizabeth Ward to work on what would become this piece, I did not know what it was going to be ‘about’ or what form it would have. What I did know, was that we were in March 2017 and that an...... Read more
During this residency Femke Gyselinck collaborates with Bryana Fritz, Sue Yeon Youn & Hendrik Lasure on Moving Ballads. Taking the word ‘ballad’ literally: in etymological sense it’s a danced song, moving lyricism. Originally a...... Read more
Not Found On is galvanised by the desire to co-create an online ‘space’ to value and share feminist queer arts and social knowledge. Recognising that LGBTQIA+ ‘spaces’ are often far more than just bars, book clubs,...... Read more
Other Enter is a performance about artistic participation in the life of others, in local politics, within unknown territories, in the neighborhood. Einat Tuchman wishes to communicate the journey she took during the last years into the...... Read more
Poems and Other Emergencies is a solo dance performance at the intersection of choreography and poetry. It centers around a figure: The Girl-with-her-tongue-out, through which an intensive female language emerges. Poems and Other...... Read more
Raising the question of the fluidity of media, videographer Manon de Boer and choreographer Latifa Laâbissi meet in 2015. For both artists, pluridisciplinarity is essential to their work. They decide to deepen their collaboration in a...... Read more
Temporary Body Worker Union is a platform for knowledge production and creative exchange amongst self-identified body-workers. As practitioners dedicated to exploring notions of embodiment, consciousness, and presence, we come...... Read more
The chance to find yourself is a collaboration between two migrants from very different worlds. One is a German-speaking man from Tirol in northern Italy who has lived in Brussels for a few years; Benno Steinegger. The other, Jovial Mbenga, is from...... Read more
The Electric Lucifer (working title) focuses on notions of physical performance and of injunction to happiness through the "fantasy" of transhumanism. On the one hand the research will zoom in on issues of body improvement, optimizing...... Read more
Transtexting is a choreographic tool and collective writing score. It explores the body’s implication in poetic production of text, positioning the body and its movement as a listening aid, acting as a filter; a net capturing words, syntax and...... Read more
