Talk

Brussels Academy

Working in Brussels: labor in the shadow of the city

10/11/2022

Often perceived as characteristics of the cities of the South, informal dynamics also unfold in the European capitals, such as Brussels. During the visits and lectures, experts and will discuss the variety of processes, squats, alternative access to jobs, etc. that co-construct the urban fabric and attempt to implement the right to the city. 

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.

Brussels Ass Book Fair

Save the date!

Living traces, a bridging project between Brussels and Kinshasa

Press release 18.03.2022

Rendez-vous

Brussels Spring Record Fair

28/04/2019

After three succesful editions of our record fair at the Faucon bar, the Brussels Spring Record Fair is exceptionally moving to Kanal - Centre Pompidou for this fourth edition.

Expect friendly atmosphere to dig the crates and share your passion for Music with friends.
Vinyl only, mainly focused around "Black Music" (Soul, Funk, Blues, Jazz, Afro, Latino, Hip Hop, House,...) with some detours trough Pop and Rock by some sellers.

Come for a sunday brunch, to discover the exhibitions, and enjoy a beautiful Sunday at Kanal!

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.

'Kontexte', a project by the Brussels collective LAb[au].

Artistic intervention on the new footbridge Loredana Marchi

Performance

David Helbich

Scores for the body, the building & the soul for KANAL Brussels

24/09/2020 — 25/04/2021

24/04/2021

25/04/2021

"Perform the pieces in any order,
but do them all for best results.
Don't be put off by the historical references.
It is all about you and your actual experience.
If you enjoy this, do it twice." (from the scores)

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.

La Compagnie du Zerep

The Mariachis of Brussels

05/05/2018

This performance is part of a program of 3 weekends of La Compagnie du Zerep for the prefiguration of Kanal – Centre Pompidou.

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.

New exhibition at the ING Art Center: Hahaha. The Humor of Art

Press release 15.06.2021

Presentation of the project’s main actors

From the city to an open museum

TalkWalk

Brussels Academy

Urban struggles and the right to the city

06/10/2022

Brussels Academy is an urban educational platform to share Brussels knowledge for and by its inhabitants. To accompany Kinshasa (N)tóngá, Brussels Academy organizes a series of thematic city walks. The first event, titled “Urban struggles and the right to the city” is an introduction to the cycle of walks and conferences on the informal city.

InstallationScreening

Film premiere

The Models & The Porters

19/01/2024

20/01/2024

21/01/2024

In The Porters, young people in Brussels, with many different backgrounds and horizons, watch the oldest preserved film footage of the Congo: silent documentary images shot by a Belgian military attaché, Armand Hutereau, during a colonial expedition in the northeast of Congo between 1911 and 1913.
The Models gathers intimate conversations about the place that work holds in the lives of the young people involved. It’s about expectations and ambitions, role patterns and models. About personal visions of the future and a society that is changing rapidly.

Installation

Rita Hoofwijk

Without Us

22/04/2021

23/04/2021

24/04/2021

25/04/2021

Without Us is an audio-performance you can listen to via your smartphone in the COVID closed tearoom of KANAL. We hear the voice of artist Rita Hoofwijk who takes us on a journey through time.

Dream Droom Rêve

25.04.2021

It Never Ends - Closing Weekend

22.04.2021 - 25.04.2021