Performance

Performance

Trouble Festival

15/04/2025 — 19/04/2025

The new edition aims to broaden its horizon and scope, breaking free from well-worn Western aesthetics and embracing the perspectives of artists in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Mexico. Invocations, evocations, magical or even shamanic gestures, political actions in public spaces and dialogues with the invisible. Performance as clairvoyance?

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AFIELD Forum 2025

Transitional justice by Artists

27/05/2025 — 30/05/2025

After its first successful run in 2024, the AFIELD Forum returns to Brussels to explore the ways artists can help drive societal transformation. Following last year’s focus on systemic change, the 2025 forum invites participants to engage with the work and processes of transitional justice. This term refers to the processes that are used to address injustice and human rights violations, for instance after a war or the fall of a repressive regime. This can be achieved through court cases, truth commissions, reparations programmes, institutional reforms … and art.

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

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.