Meet the Residents
Meet the artists in residence during Open School3 on Saturday 20-11-2021 and learn about their work and practice as manifested in a generative programme with performance, lecture, screenings and studio encounters.
All events are free, registration per event (check below)
DAY SCHEDULE
Meet the Residents
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14:00 – 15:00
Michaela Schweighofer – Brussels - city of men. Notes on a new city and a sculptural practice
Lecture (EN)
> Auditorium, no registration necessary
15:00 – 17:00
Sandra Heremans – Are you familiar with Sovereignty?
Workshop for kids: ages 6-12 (FR/NL)
What if WIELS becomes a sovereign state? What if, this time, the sovereign power lies solely with the children? Through games, challenges and peeks into the artists' studios, kids can ponder together with us over the meaning of sovereignty.
> Kets Atelier, register here
16:00 – 17:00
Sara Manente – MOLDING
Performance
A series of gestures performing different situations: an unclaimed picnic, an unannounced catwalk, a collection of handbags, waffles, chimeric writing.
Concept, direction: Sara Manente
Performance: Marcos Simoes, Gitte Hendrikx, Sara Manente
Music: Christophe Albertijn
Dramaturgical assistant: Jaime Llopis
Thanks to Kunst/Werk, kcBuda, WPZimmer, XING and Hiros vzw
> Seminar, register here
19:00 – 19:30
Ingel Vaikla – World Expo 1942 / 1958
Screening & discussion (EN)
Screening of two new works shot at the sight of former World Exhibitions in Rome and in Brussels, followed by a conversation.
> Studio 5, no registration necessary, limited capacity
19:30 – 20:30
Sandra Heremans invites Valentin Luntumbue – When (Post-)Colonialism meets (Post-)Socialism
Book presentation & discussion (EN/FR)
Discussion and book presentation of Places in the Sun: Post-colonial dialogues in Europe and beyond, Valentin Luntumbue, 2021.
> Seminar, no registration necessary
20:00 – 21:30
Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas – So shall things kindle a light for others
Super-8 film programme + Q&A
An invitation to a tangible experience of a shared present through film projection. Space-time condensed in filmic matter will be lit up anew.
Programme:
Twelve Seasonal Films, Super-8 | color + b&w | silent | 18fps | 42’ | 2018-2020 + performative reading
Meihōdō, Super-8 | color | silent | 18fps | 10’ | 2019-2020
Excerpts I [Though I now depart…], Super-8 | b&w | magnetic sound | 18fps | 19’ | 2018-2021
> Auditorium, no registration necessary
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13:00 – 21:00 | Meet the Residents
Open Studios
Check availabilities on the spot, no registration necessary
Studio 1 > Gianna Surangkanjanajai
Studio 2 > Sara Manente
Studio 3 > Julien Englebert – Présentation d’un recueil de poèmes
Julien Englebert presents a collection of poems in his studio and welcomes visitors to read and/or discuss them with him (in FR)
Studio 4 > Emma Verhulst – Queen of my cattle
Emma Verhulst presents some of her works (in process and finished ones) in her studio and invites visitors to taste her self-baked cakes, shaped after elements in her paintings.
Studio 5 > Ingel Vaikla
Studio 6 > Maxime Le Bon
Studio 7 > Jasper van Aarle – Open Book
Jasper van Aarle will provide insight into his practice, as an open book; showing that a residency can also work as a beneficial process of reorientation.
Studio 8 > Michaela Schweighofer
Studio 9 > Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas
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Open School3
Check the lectures part of the 3rd iteration of Open School here