TalkMusicPerformance
The Act of Breathing: Notes on Fugitivity
16/09/2023
With The Act of Breathing: Notes on Fugitivity, curators Sorana Munsya and Evelyn Simons create a space-time in which to analyse the links between the struggle to breathe and the concept of Black fugitivity. The notion of Fugitivity, mainly developed in Black American and Caribbean literature, refers to the history of slavery and the flight of maroons from plantations. Here, we will be exploring how to translate this concept into a contemporary Belgian postcolonial context.
Performance
Myriam Van Imschoot & Lucas van Haesbroeck
NOCTURNES FOR A SOCIETY
23/05/2023
25/05/2023
27/05/2023
28/05/2023
Nocturnes for a society is an immersive sound experience that spans a whole night and is centred on the audience. As part of Kunstenfestivaldesarts.
Performance
(sold out)
The NarcoSexuals
20/04/2023
21/04/2023
22/04/2023
Dries Verhoeven examines the growing popularity of chemsex—the combination of drugs and sex—and what he calls the "narco-sexual revolution", decades after gay liberation.
Performance
Adam York Gregory & Gillian Jane Lees
A DIFFERENT NORTH
22/04/2023
Is North a geographical position or a direction? An identity or an orientation? The politics of the North are embedded in us and in the actions we take.
PerformanceConcert
Ula Sickle & Stine Janvin
NIGHT SHIFT II
29/06/2023
30/06/2023
Echoic Choir, a collaboration between singer, performer, and sound artist Stine Janvin and choreographer Ula Sickle, takes clubbing back to its core. The pure voices of a choir occupy the space, replacing the booming speakers of a club, while the performance explores the ritual of dance that unites in the small hours of the morning.
ConcertPerformanceDJ sets
Nyege Nyege
NIGHT SHIFT
17/03/2023
18/03/2023
To launch NIGHT SHIFT and usher in the spring, Nyege Nyege takes over K1 to instill the "sudden and uncontrollable urge to dance" that the Ugandan collective's name means in Luganda.
Performance
Aubrey Birch
CAVES-3
09/12/2022
10/12/2022
On 9 and 10 December, Aubrey Birch will perform CAVES-3 at K1. In an immersive performance - during which you can feel free to lie down - the writer, poet and performer reinterprets the allegory of the cave. Starting from the present and everyday, audience and performer descend into the past and future, to our geological roots. To the stone in our bones, the iron in our blood and the salt in our sweat...
PerformanceScreening
Éric Androa Mindre Kolo / Yannos Majestikos / Anne Reijniers, Nizar Saleh, Paul Shemisi, Rob Jacobs
Performances 'Kinshasa mon corps' / 'Tala Lelo' & screening
10/11/2022
Éric Androa Mindre Kolo is known for his performances which emphasize the relationship between the body, current events, and global conflicts. It takes a poetic look at the future, examining the role of humour, personal testimonies, and the public space.
In performances by Yannos Majestikos, his exuberant costumes, often used in public space, draw attention to issues such as environmental crisis and colonial heritage. In these performances at K1, the artists turn their attention towards Brussels and Kinshasa's urban fabric.
PerformanceMusic
with Customs & Borders
Finissage - Kinshasa (N)tóngá
20/11/2022
Customs & Borders is a Brussels based project focusing on visual art and performance with an Afrocentric vision. In order to do so, Customs & Borders collaborates with local and international artists to realize events that reflect the singularity of their artists and partners. For the finissage of Kinshasa (N)tóngá, Customs & Borders organizes an afternoon with a selection of live acts in a setting in the continuity of the exhibition with neo-vernacular references.