Swamp Sacrifices
This event ran on 04.10.2025. But wait, there's always more at Kanal! Check out the calendar.
An immersion in the cracks, the non-productive and the supersensory of the Brussels underground; a gathering around water, eroticism and the (un)controlled.
- Date
- 16:00 — 23:00
- Location
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- K1, Avenue du Port-Havenlaan 1, 1000 Brussels
The second edition of Swamp Sacrifices focuses on water and eroticism (hydro-eroticism) and on (un)controlled spaces as a counterbalance to the strict ways of dealing with the Brussels soil.
The erotic is seen here as the sharing of a deep joy, whether it is physical, emotional, psychic or intellectual. Swamp Sacrifices investigates the link between water, eroticism and the spiritual realm. Moving beyond conventional ideas about productivity and reproduction, spaces are opened up to allow for a more deeply felt intimacy with our surroundings. In this perspective, water itself becomes a sensual, fluid companion in the search for connection beyond control.
At breakneck speed, our society has evolved into a mechanism that exerts control over humans and spaces alike. But what would those spaces look like if that control was relinquished? What new relationships might arise with – and from – the Brussels substrate, the swamp?
Over the course of one weekend, the swamp and the waters of Brussels become a site of shared pleasure, intimacy and eroticism, making room for that which grows (and withers) beyond production and control.
The second edition of Swamp Sacrifices takes place both indoors and outdoors, by the canal and in K1 (Kanal Centre-Pompidou), and in the marsh of Neder-Over-Heembeek. The programme includes performances, presentations, workshops and films.
Programme
Saturday 04.10.25
- v e s s e l, a performance by Catalina Insignares
- Sweet Darkness, a performance by Sophía Rodriguez & Simon Van Schuylenbergh & Vincent Focquet & Freinetscholen Keerpunt
- v e s s e l, a performance by Catalina Insignares
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TRAY TRAY KO (Big Waterfall), a video performance by Seba Calfuqueo
Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure, by Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Artemys revival by Mar* Szydłowska & Anna LugmeierFollowed by Ear Balm, a DJ set by Hannah Todt
A bar and soup corner is open throughout the whole program
Sunday 05.10.25
- — this world is full of monsters — storytelling as a sensual practice, by Gosie Vervloessem & Simon Asencio & ISAC
- Thus Burped the Bog Body, a reading by Jori Galama
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