14.10
16:00-18:00: Bittersweet - Moussem Studios
free of charge - register here
18:00: food & drinks - Moussem Studios
Bittersweet is an informal gathering for artists and the public to reflect together on the artist’s conditions – the precariousness, the rewarding but sometimes sugar-coated moments, the creative survival solutions – and how all this comes together as one. Drawing on the notion of the personal as political, this discussion starts out from conversations with feminist and queer artists about structural forms of exclusion, negotiations with imposed social and professional roles, and artistic forms of determination.
Phyto Bar will serve as an activating point for discussion with bitter, sweet and bittersweet drinks served during the event, inviting participants to share their personal stories with the help of metaphorical cards. Created by artist Ekaterina Kaplunova on different occasions and in different contexts, Phyto Bar is a nomadic pop-up bar and hosting ritual with natural, enchanting infusions based on herbs, roots, spices, flowers, berries, lichens and mushrooms offered to the public. The act of infusing and serving the beverages is a performative act, reversing the relationship between guest and host and opening a space for togetherness, sharing, communication and contemplation.
Angyvir Padilla (b. 1987, Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Brussels) creates immersive installations and performances that use a variety of materials and media to distil the concept of ‘home’ as an intimate space while addressing notions of memory, identity and nature.
Anna Raimondo is a visual and sound artist living in Brussels. Interested in the practice of listening and its relationship to public space, she considers her work a medium of encounter and exchange. Her method, rooted in a feminist intersectional perspective, is flexible and changeable, accepting the accidental and the unforeseeable. Anna is a PhD student at ARBA and ULB.
Dounia Mahammed (she/they) graduated in 2015 from the drama course at KASK. Dounia's work often plays with language and sound in search of ways of (mis)communicating. It attempts to say something about being human, looking for connection, moving between astonishment and despair.
Ekaterina Kaplunova (°1983, BE/RUS) lives and works in Brussels. She refers to her practice as ‘composite’. She has performed multiple roles in various cultural domains combining the artistic with the curatorial, the alternative with the institutionalized. Kaplunova has reflected upon the notions of self-instituting, transdisciplinarity and ‘togetherness’ while interweaving performative, participatory and research-based artistic practice.
Moussem Studios - Zeemtouwersstraat 6, 1070 Anderlecht
14.10
16:00-18:00: Bittersweet - Moussem Studios
free of charge - register here
18:00: food & drinks - Moussem Studios
Bittersweet is an informal gathering for artists and the public to reflect together on the artist’s conditions – the precariousness, the rewarding but sometimes sugar-coated moments, the creative survival solutions – and how all this comes together as one. Drawing on the notion of the personal as political, this discussion starts out from conversations with feminist and queer artists about structural forms of exclusion, negotiations with imposed social and professional roles, and artistic forms of determination.
Phyto Bar will serve as an activating point for discussion with bitter, sweet and bittersweet drinks served during the event, inviting participants to share their personal stories with the help of metaphorical cards. Created by artist Ekaterina Kaplunova on different occasions and in different contexts, Phyto Bar is a nomadic pop-up bar and hosting ritual with natural, enchanting infusions based on herbs, roots, spices, flowers, berries, lichens and mushrooms offered to the public. The act of infusing and serving the beverages is a performative act, reversing the relationship between guest and host and opening a space for togetherness, sharing, communication and contemplation.
Angyvir Padilla (b. 1987, Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Brussels) creates immersive installations and performances that use a variety of materials and media to distil the concept of ‘home’ as an intimate space while addressing notions of memory, identity and nature.
Anna Raimondo is a visual and sound artist living in Brussels. Interested in the practice of listening and its relationship to public space, she considers her work a medium of encounter and exchange. Her method, rooted in a feminist intersectional perspective, is flexible and changeable, accepting the accidental and the unforeseeable. Anna is a PhD student at ARBA and ULB.
Dounia Mahammed (she/they) graduated in 2015 from the drama course at KASK. Dounia's work often plays with language and sound in search of ways of (mis)communicating. It attempts to say something about being human, looking for connection, moving between astonishment and despair.
Ekaterina Kaplunova (°1983, BE/RUS) lives and works in Brussels. She refers to her practice as ‘composite’. She has performed multiple roles in various cultural domains combining the artistic with the curatorial, the alternative with the institutionalized. Kaplunova has reflected upon the notions of self-instituting, transdisciplinarity and ‘togetherness’ while interweaving performative, participatory and research-based artistic practice.
Moussem Studios - Zeemtouwersstraat 6, 1070 Anderlecht
