PerformanceScreening
Paula Almiron and Wouter De Raeve
Swamp Sacrifices
24/02/2024
Since 2021, artists Paula Almiron and Wouter De Raeve have been working in Brussels’ Northern Quarter to investigate the impact of urban planning on local communities. The neighbourhood, like many others in the city, is located in a large swampy area, which was drained to provide space for the growing city. The swamp buried under the asphalt streets of Brussels serves as a starting point of Swamp Sacrifices, a two-day programme of performances, a concert, screenings, and talks.
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.
Performance
Studio Dries Verhoeven
The NarcoSexuals
07/09/2023 — 11/09/2023
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. In the frame of het TheaterFestival.
Performance
Kunstenfestivaldesarts & newpolyphonies
NOCTURNES FOR A SOCIETY: SESSIONS
26/04/2023 — 12/05/2023
Myriam Van Imschoot and Lucas van Haesbroek invite you to participate in a series of open sessions leading up to the performance Nocturnes for a Society.
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.