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Performance
Jozef Wouters
The Soft Layer
07/04/2024
Can renovation also add layers rather than just remove them?
TalkScreening
Day of Encounters: Constructed Histories, Conflicted Memories
03/09/2022
A day of encounters, presentations and screenings on the historic & contemporary entanglements b/w architecture urban history & colonialism
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
Benjamin Muzart
Love Dynamics: Hold
10/09/2022
Love Dynamics: Hold is about the difficulty of setting boundaries in the right place when you are made vulnerable by a budding love. At those moments when the desire to please the other person and our own needs collide, how far are we willing to follow the dynamics of the loved one?
Rendez-vous
OpenStreets 22
24/06/2022 — 18/09/2022
How to imagine alternative uses for our streets and public space? This summer, OpenStreets will bring free concerts, dance performances and workshops to the quartier Maritime in Molenbeek. Together with many cultural and local partners, KANAL has developed an outdoor programme for six summer streets with performances by Seppe Baeyens and Ultima Vez a.o. but also alternative photobooths, textile and future workshops.
Exhibition
FAÇADE: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
02/09/2023 — 25/02/2024
For the second edition of FAÇADE, a series of monumental works in the public space taking over the scaffolding at the site of the future KANAL-Centre Pompidou museum, artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) pays homage to the city. On the huge tarpaulin, she creates what she calls "a stage for Brussels". Through her colorful, layered style and feminist, socially engaged critique, AMVK presents us with paintings and characters that constitute the artist's intuitive image of the capital and its history.
Performance
Seppe Baeyens & Ultima Vez
Birds
18/09/2022
Following the success of Tornar (2015) and INVITED (2018), dancer and choreographer Seppe Baeyens builds upon his exploration of shaping a temporary community in Birds. For this new creation, he steps outside the theatre walls and ventures into the public space with a group of performers and musicians. There the normal course of events is interrupted – sometimes invisibly and sometimes plainly.
Exhibition
Between Future and Dust
Kinshasa (N)tóngá
23/09/2022 — 20/11/2022
Kinshasa (N)tóngá presents a unique vision of the Congolese capital, its development, and its urban structure. (N)tóngá means “needle” or “construction site” in Lingala and therefore refers to the informal course that characterises Kinshasa's evolution to date. The impact of colonialism and the influence it has had on the architecture of the third largest city on the African continent are the focus of the exhibition.