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From the city to an open museum
KANAL-Centre Pompidou sees the museum as a shared and participatory territory. For nearly two years...
Radio
SIRENS: The resonating authority
18/09/2023
After the Siren performance, the SIRENS project continues its sound exploration and tackles the nuanced relationship between sound and power.
The radio broadcast, SIRENS: The resonating authority proposes to reveal the complex dynamics of the sound in the construction of our perceptions.
Together with artist Younes Baba Ali, the speakers will delve into the relationship between sound and power, how sonority influences and reflects authority, but also how it serves as a form of resistance.
Radio
SIRENS: The resonating authority
18/09/2023
After the Siren performance, the SIRENS project continues its sound exploration and tackles the nuanced relationship between sound and power.
The radio broadcast, SIRENS: The resonating authority proposes to reveal the complex dynamics of the sound in the construction of our perceptions.
Together with artist Younes Baba Ali, the speakers will delve into the relationship between sound and power, how sonority influences and reflects authority, but also how it serves as a form of resistance.
Rendez-vous
Museum Night Fever 2019
23/02/2019 — 25/02/2019
On Saturday 23 February 2019 from 19:00 to 1:00, during the 12th edition of Museum Night Fever – Brussels’ museum night – 1000 young creatives are given carte blanche in 30 Brussels’ museums.
To be expected are music, performances, dance, visual arts, film, animations, glitter, glamour and a big dose of creative madness. All of this aligned with our museums’ temporary exhibitions and riveting collections.
Program at Kanal - Centre Pompidou:
Performance
ULA SICKLE
Relay (Unplugged) - Brussels Days 21
24/09/2021 — 25/09/2021
A black flag floats in continuous motion. The black flag cannot be linked to one particular battle and hence defies easy interpretation. Drawing inspiration from the many recent protests taking place around the globe, a diverse group of performers relay one another in a fascinating test of endurance. Their movements pass back and forth between inertia and hope, resistance, and powerlessness.
Partners
Kanal-Centre Pompidou remercie l’ensemble de ses partenaires
Academic partners ERG, ESA St Luc, HISK, La Cambre (Arts Visuels), La Cambre Horta Architecture, St Luc Architecture, St Lucas Architecture, Universiteit Gent, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Vrije Universiteit Brussel CIVA & Kanal Foundation thank Tournevie...
KITES FLY ABOVE THE QUAYS
Exhibition of kites in Kanal-Centre Pompidou from Wednesday 19/9 till Sunday 23/9. First...
Performance
SIRENS
09/09/2023
The performance is the result of participatory workshops conducted in summer 2023 by the artist Younes Baba-Ali with an eclectic group of engaged citizens brought together by the platform Forsiti’A in collaboration with KANAL-Centre Pompidou. Exploring the sounds present in the public space of Brussels, the Sirens interrogate the mechanisms of power and authority to which we are exposed.
CHARLOTTE VANDEN EYNDE & NICOLAS ROMBOUTS - Hyphen
Day of the dance
27/04/2019
In their improvisation, choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde and double bass player Nicolas Rombouts explore the power and vulnerability of creating in the here and now. For Rombouts playing music is instant composition, for Vanden Eynde dancing is thinking. In Hyphen they become two parts of the same brain and explore the tension between intuition and mental control, between spontaneity and repetition.
Performance
GUY WOUETÉ
En Quête des marges fluctuantes - Brussels Days 21
22/09/2021 — 23/09/2021
23/09/2021 — 24/09/2021
24/09/2021 — 25/09/2021
During the three Brussels Days, the Cameroon artist Guy Woueté and performers Medina Tokalic and Bela Juttner, hold up banners in the public spaces. The banners that contain thoughts and texts, some of which were written by Woueté himself, fluctuate between poetic quotations and political claims/slogans. During En quête des marges fluctuantes, the bodies of performers are put to work in public spaces for eight hours a day, thus challenging how passers-by view work and working conditions.
Installation
BENJAMIN VANDEWALLE
Studio Cité - Brussels Days 21
22/09/2021 — 23/09/2021
23/09/2021 — 24/09/2021
24/09/2021 — 25/09/2021
Over the past seven years, Belgian choreographer and dancer Benjamin Vandewalle has continuously studied the perception and apprehension of reality by creating a series of interactive installations. Set up in a travelling fairground village, these installations equipped with mirrors guide and divert the spectator's eye to choreograph a different view of the city. A scene, an architectural detail, a perspective, lights suddenly illuminate this small urban theatre in a fascinating game of visual manipulation.
Performance
YOUYOU GROUP
MARS - Brussels Days 21
23/09/2021
23/09/2021
On April 24th, 2021, 18 performers of the YouYou group performed MARS in Brussels, inside KANAL-Centre Pompidou’s building while the audience were outside in the street. The performance was broadcast live into the street by loudspeakers on the upper floor of the building. Centre-Pompidou welcomes the group now for an adapted version that takes place in the museum and on the adjacent square on September 23rd, 2021, during the Brussels Days.
TalkRendez-vous
Music as a Space of Conquest & Domination
The Politics of Music
14/05/2022
15/05/2022
This two-day public discursive programme looks at how political dynamics permeate through and affect music and the spaces which it creates.
The opening day is devoted to discussions of music as a form of conquest. Speakers explore the role music plays in the formation of national identity, music as an instrument of torture, and the relationship between domination and appropriation in the practice of sampling.The day closes with a performative reading of Maan Abu Taleb’s The Congress, reimagining the first Congress of Arab Music, in Cairo in 1932.