Performance

Einat Tuchman

Urban Ritual

20/09/2024

A celebration of our uniqueness and our relationship with others

 

Performance

Danae Theodoridou

The Practice of Democracy / The adversaries

21/09/2024

22/09/2024

22/09/2024

What is the link between the current crisis of democracy and the fact that Western societies are banning conflict and discussion from the public sphere? How can we make our different opinions visible and debate them? And how do we make sure it won’t end in polarization?

 

Performance

Sammy Baloji

Missa Utica

29/05/2024

30/05/2024

31/05/2024

01/06/2024

The first Black bishop to be appointed by the Catholic Church was supposed to settle in Utica, Tunisia but never reached his final destination. His story was the inspiration for Sammy Baloji’s new performance. Missa Utica retraces the priest’s journey and explores the history of the Kongo Kingdom in the 15th century and the evangelisation of Africa. We witness the initial contact and first diplomatic exchanges, alliances built and broken.

TalkPerformance

Dream City: A different festival

07/04/2024

In this panel discussion, we invite the founders of the festival, along with some participating artists to reflect on the raison d'être and methodology of this unique festival.
This panel discussion can be combined with the performances of Filipe Lourenço and Jozef Wouters.

Performance

Jozef Wouters

The Soft Layer

07/04/2024

Can renovation also add layers rather than just remove them?

Performance

Selma and Sofiane Ouissi

BIRD

11/04/2024

12/04/2024

13/04/2024

A quiet plea to take care of all living things.

Air Pressure, Lawrence Abu Hamdan. Performance at the Flying Saucer, March 2022.

PerformanceReading

Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Daght Jawi

06/04/2024

Listening to a soundtrack of violence on a daily basis.

PerformanceDance

Samaa Wakim and Samar Haddad King

Losing it

04/04/2024

05/04/2024

What if you grew up in a war zone? How does that impact your identity?

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.