Faunalia Artificiosa (EN)
Drawing inspiration from Faunus—the Roman god of forests, dreams, and wild things—this two-day convening at WIELS launches a series of libations to ferality through art, performance, conversation, food, and ritual. Faunalia Artificiosa is curated by Juliana Fausto, Sofia Lemos, and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.
Friday I Feral Encounters - a day of workshops I Free with registration
Saturday I Faunalia Artificiosa - a day of performances, music, cooking, and rituals I € 15 / 20
Full programme below.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Juliana Fausto, La pensée Férale, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
PROGRAMME
Faunalia Artificiosa - a day of performances, music, cooking, and rituals.
Saturday, 27 September, 18:00—22:00
Registration for the whole evening: € 15 / 20
Welcome Remarks I Sofia Dati, Sofia Lemos, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Invocation I Faunalia Artificiosa, Juliana Fausto & Pedro Taam
Multisensory performance and installation I Soft Burn & Fauno Effect, Chaveli Sifre
Musical performance I Animacy or a Breath Manifest, Vica Pacheco
Dinner-play I Flora Incognita, Caique Tizzi
Cocktail & DJ Set by Vica Pacheco
Saturday, 22:00—00:00 I Free
& a Cocktail that Doesn’t Exist
Feral Encounters - a day of workshops
Friday, 10:00—19:30 I Free with registration
Registration for the entire weekend is recommended
Communal Lunch included.
With: Sofia Dati, Sofia Lemos, Juliana Fausto, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Chaveli Sifre, Vica Pacheco, Caique Tizzi
MORE INFO
This two-day gathering brings together artists, thinkers, dancers, musicians, and chefs in an immersive programme that unfolds throughout WIELS’ architecture. Together, they explore what arises in the aftermath of rupture, the breach of a pact, an agreement unmade: as philosopher Juliana Fausto proposes, ferality is not a return to an origin—the wild—but what emerges after domestication unravels.
The weekend programme reflects on how we adapt, persist, and reimagine life in the wake of broken systems. Like the ancient festivals that once honoured Faunus, this is a space of transformation—where nature, culture, and supernature converge, and boundaries between humans and more-than-humans, the visible and the invisible, begin to blur. It is a feast of remnants and reinvention—an invitation to rehearse new ways of being together.
Organised in collaboration with Sofia Dati, Grégory Castéra, Dessislava Dimova and Silvana Fiorese.
This programme is made possible thanks to the generous support of Lafayette Anticipations — Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin and AC/E.