On the first day of Antwerp Art Weekend, for the opening of the Forest Encounters exhibition we welcome you for Where dreams bloom in silence: Future Forests and Tasks of Reverie, performative poetry reading byJelena Vukićević.

Within me, forests grow
that will one day sing
in tongues not yet born.
Silent forests,
cradled in the breath of wind.
The dream of a greenness still to come.
(Where dreams bloom in silence: Future Forests and Tasks of Reverie,  Jelena Vukićević)

A writer, poet, and literary theorist, Jelena Vukićević moves through the quiet confluence of inner stillness, reflective thought, and an imagination attuned to the subtle resistance of language – its quiet refusal to be merely useful. In her writing and workshops, language is not approached as a tool, but as a living, textured medium – an inner terrain where thought and emotion meet, gently woven together in forms that remain open, porous, and quietly unfolding.

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The Forest Encounters exhibition and parallel programme are part of the Forest Encounters project (2023–2025), co-funded by the European Union, Flanders – State of the Art, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. // Partner organisations: Association Igor Zabel for Culture and Theory (Slovenia), Graz University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Spatial Design (Austria), Out of Sight (Belgium)

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As part of the Forest Encounters exhibition, Out of Sight and MORPHO invite you to Cinema Sessions #2, an annual collaboration between the two organisations. Join us on Thursday, 26 June for Ruderalia — a film screening and guided walk through the neighbourhood with artist and filmmaker Joris De Rycke.

In Ruderalia, De Rycke subverts the familiar language of nature documentaries. He rejects the spectacular — no high-definition close-ups, dramatic soundtracks, or authoritative voice-overs. Instead, with quiet attentiveness and without embellishment, he turns his gaze toward, what he calls ‘banal’ nature found on the margins of highways, industrial zones, quarries, and slag heaps, places we rarely consider worthy of our attention.

Ruderalia becomes a compelling guided walk through the overlooked wilderness of Belgium, far from marked trails, information boards, or curated landscapes. It leads us across disturbed grounds and post-industrial sites, what the Latin root ruder (meaning ‘rubble’ or ‘waste’) alludes to, where nature emerges not as untouched or pure, but as an artefact shaped by past events and recent human activities. Here, plants become storytellers, revealing the chemical composition of the soil and the work of pollinators fostering hybrid species. De Rycke demonstrates that another kind of nature documentary is possible, one that is slow, grounded, and deeply reflective.

Following the screening, Joris De Rycke invites the audience to join him on a walk through the immediate surroundings of our organisations. This shared walk extends the film experience into real life, moving further away from spectacle and deeper into the layered, entangled nature that we are part of today.

Credits: Film by Joris De Rycke / Production: Kunstenplatform plan B / Sound recordings: Joris De Rycke, Gerard Herman, Hanne Geerinckx / Soundtrack: Jo Caimo, Jonathan Tetteh, Joris De Rycke, Gerard Herman, Ignace De Bruyn / Realised with the support of Flanders —  State of the Art

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The Forest Encounters exhibition and parallel programme are part of the Forest Encounters project (2023–2025), co-funded by the European Union, Flanders – State of the Art, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. // Partner organisations: Association Igor Zabel for Culture and Theory (Slovenia), Graz University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Spatial Design (Austria), Out of Sight (Belgium).

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After a short break, PAM (Platform for Audiovisual and Media Arts) is looking forward to our next gathering, this time focusing on hybrid practices, and the challenges in production and distribution we encounter along the way. This is an opportunity to come together again, and share questions, concerns, and inspiring examples, tapping into our collective knowledge and experience.

For this edition, PAM invites Alex Verhaest and Ischa Tallieu to share their knowledge and experience in navigating the art field.

Alex Verhaest is an artist whose work revolves around storytelling, drawing influence from expanded cinema and a youth steeped in video games. With each new project, she explores what it means to make films in a multi-screen, post-Nintendo society. Her narrative-driven practice speaks to the beautifully perverse paradox of human disconnection in an age of constant communication. Verhaest’s highly pictorial style emerges from a poetic interplay between film, animation, and video art, woven into an uncanny and evocative visual world. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at ZKM Karlsruhe, HKW Berlin, and Bozar. She is the recipient of the New Face Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival and the prestigious Golden Nica at Ars Electronica. In 2023, she was awarded The Ultima, the Flemish Cultural Prize, in recognition of her oeuvre.

Ischa Tallieu holds a Master’s degree in Art History and a Postgraduate Specialisation in Theatre Studies. From 1997 to 2014, she served as director of Galerie Fortlaan 17, and since 2014, she has led Tallieu Art Office. The office operates across diverse domains—visual, installation, and new media art; music and sound art; and performing arts—always with a strong emphasis on transdisciplinary practices. With a focus on selection, promotion, and communication, Tallieu Art Office is active in curating exhibitions, networking, consultancy, expertise sharing, and artist representation.

For this occasion, Out of Sight in Antwerp is hosting PAM members and anyone who is interested in this topic. The organisation was founded in 2018 by artists Dušica Dražić and Wim Janssen. Out of Sight is dedicated to supporting the development and presentation of experimental, audiovisual, and time-based practices beyond the logic of consumption and the market. It creates space for the ephemeral and the ambiguous, where the poetic and the political meet.

PAM p.m. 11
When: Thursday, 19.05.2025, from 10:00-13:00
Location: Out of Sight, Somersstraat 31, 2018 Antwerp

>> Schedule of the day

10:00: Welcome with breakfast, coffee & tea
10:30: General introduction, followed by a round of participants shortly introducing themselves
11:30: Conversation and sharing know-how to discuss topics raised by the participants
13:00: Enjoy the Forest Encounters exhibition!

Please make a reservation via FORM

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FULLY BOOKED.

The submission for the participation is now closed.

Out of Sight invites you to a two-day workshop Light, Language and Botanical Imagination during Antwerp Art Weekend, held as part of the Forest Encounters exhibition – an artistic gathering where the poetics of language meet the luminous matter of the image. The workshop is led by poet and literary theorist Jelena Vukićević and visual artist Ibis Ćerimagić, who works with cyanotypes. Participants are invited into a shared exploration of the boundaries of language, light, shadow, organic rhythm, and plant imagination.

This meeting of two artistic practices gently opens a space for inner landscapes, contemplation, playful creative silence, and imaginative exploration. In a silence that signifies not absence, but presence – we listen to the spaces from which images, words, colors, and light impressions emerge. Cyanotype as a trace of sun and water, poetry as a tender rebellion and a seed before speech – together they offer a space for a unique creative experience.

Learning slowness. Writing with light. Silence as method. Dreaming as an act.

…Through us fly
Birds in silence. Oh, I, who long to grow,
I look outward, and the tree within me grows.
(August 1914, Rainer Maria Rilke)

For all who wish to deepen their artistic processes, discover new forms of expression, and strengthen their imagination in dialogue with nature, the body, and language.

Please RSVP via link before 26 May (limited number of participants: 5 people)

• FREE participation, no previous experience needed 
• Language: English
• Vegan lunch is provided
• Wheelchair accessible event

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The Forest Encounters exhibition and parallel programme are part of the Forest Encounters project (2023–2025), co-funded by the European Union, Flanders – State of the Art, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. // Partner organisations: Association Igor Zabel for Culture and Theory (Slovenia), Graz University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Spatial Design (Austria), Out of Sight (Belgium)

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Join us on Friday, 30 May at 18:30 for Stratifying, a live improvisation performance co-created by Nayarí Castillo and Reni Hofmüller.

This immersive sound composition draws from recordings captured in forests across Austria, interwoven with poetic texts and spoken word. Sounds and words merge to bring the audience to the forest floor, an invitation to close your eyes, breathe in the scent of damp soil and humus, and listen to the hidden life of the underground. Stratifying is an acoustic intervention reflecting on the fragility, resistance, and fluidity of living beings. It invites listeners to navigate the subtle realms and dimensions of the earth. The words offer poetic cues, echoes of rhythms of wakefulness, latency, and pause. The forest speaks, and through this collective listening experience, we begin to transform—together becoming a new landscape of forests.

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The Forest Encounters exhibition and parallel programme are part of the Forest Encounters project (2023–2025), co-funded by the European Union (Creative Europe), Flanders – State of the Art, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. // Partner organisations: Association Igor Zabel for Culture and Theory (Slovenia), Graz University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Spatial Design (Austria), Out of Sight (Belgium)

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During Antwerp Art Weekend, Out of Sight opens Forest Encounters, a multidisciplinary group exhibition exploring diverse imaginaries, concepts, and practices related to the forest. Central to the exhibition are the questions: What can we learn from and through the forest? What are the actual and potential human encounters with it? How can we coexist more harmoniously with forest ecologies?

Bringing together perspectives from contemporary art, forestry, and the humanities, Forest Encounters approaches the forest as more than a site of ecological inquiry. It is framed as a complex socio-political terrain, shaped by conflicting policies, cultural narratives, and economic interests, while also remaining a vital, living biodiverse space.

Amid escalating climate, environmental, and political crises, the exhibition invites a critical rethinking of our relationship with forests. Acknowledging more than human perspective, Forest Encounters unfolds through artistic research projects, workshops, storytelling, and film screenings. Moving between real and imagined forests, it situates the forest as both a natural entity and a contested cultural landscape.

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>> THURSDAY, 29 May

19:00-22:00 | Opening, in presence of the artists

20:00-20:30 | Where dreams bloom in silence: Future Forests and Tasks of Reverie, Jelena Vukićević (performative poetry reading)
Read more…

>> FRIDAY, 30 May

12:00-15:00 | Light, Language and Botanical Imagination — 2 days workshop (Day 1)
Read more… // FULLY BOOKED. The submission for the participation is now closed.

18:30-19:00 | Stratifying, Nayarí Castillo and Reni Hofmüller (live improvisation performance)
Read more…

>> SATURDAY, 31 May

12:00-15:00 | Light, Language and Botanical Imagination — 2 days workshop (Day 2)
Read more…

>> THURSDAY, 19 June

10:00-13:00 | PAM p.m. 11 — Platform for audiovisual and Media arts encounter
Read more… // RSVP via link

>> THURSDAY, 26 June

19:00-21:00 | Cinema Session #2: Ruderalia — Film screening and walk with Joris De Rycke
Read more… // Realised in collaboration with MORPHO

The Forest Encounters exhibition and parallel programme are part of the Forest Encounters project (2023–2025), co-funded by the European Union (Creative Europe), Flanders – State of the Art, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels. // Partner organisations: Association Igor Zabel for Culture and Theory (Slovenia), Graz University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, Institute of Spatial Design (Austria), Out of Sight (Belgium)

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English (Nederlands ↓)

On Saturday, 26 April 2025, we invite you to Out of Sight for Visite #12 — SALACIOUS SHAME AND SURRENDERING SLUTS a day filled with films, performances, and talks.

Visite #12 is realised as part of CINEMA SESSIONS 2025, an annual collaboration between Out of Sight and Morpho. Cinema Sessions is a recurring programme of short film and video work, presented four times a year across the spaces of both organisations. Each session is curated by an invited guest, responding to the artistic interests of current Morpho residents and Out of Sight’s evolving programme.

Visite #12 — SALACIOUS SHAME AND SURRENDERING SLUTS is curated by Eva van Tongeren (de Imagerie), in collaboration with Out of Sight and Emily Walter & Max Ferguson (LuCi moving image collective).

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13:30-14:30 | Chapter 1. CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
Five student short films inviting the female body to express itself in all its vulgarity, softness, and familiarity.

Che Go Eun, THE TASTE OF TEA
Amber Dooms, MY LITTLE AMBI
Albina Gaitova, SOMEWHERE WE MEET IN THE BLUE LIGHT
Ella Schöning, A TOUCH OF SCHISM
Max Ferguson, YOU ARE THE TRUCK AND I AM THE DEER

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER is curated by: Emily Walter & Max Ferguson (LuCi moving image collective), in dialogue with Camille Van Meenen (Komplot)

15:00-16:20 | Chapter 2. WOMB WARRIORS
Celebrating and mourning the womb as a bearer of tears and fears. The womb as a site of receptivity, reflexivity, revolution, and resolution. Three short films sharing the pain and trauma of the female body within a patriarchal medical system, followed by a live Grunt performance by Diane Mahin.

Marie Bottois, LE PASSAGE DU COL
Carole Roussopoulos, Y’A QU’À PAS BAISER!
Tabita Rezaire, SUGAR WALLS TEADOM
Diane Mahín, GRUNT (performance)

17:00-18:30 | Chapter 3. UNIONISING
Revolución Puta is a political manifesto in the first person. Exploring the world of sex work from the perspective of the women portrayed, the film opens a debate on its taboos and precariousness. After the screening of the film there is a conversation with Utsopi and Boysproject. Utsopi is a Belgian community organization that defends the rights of sex workers, and Boysproject is an Antwerp-based social organisation for men, non-binary individuals and trans women who earn money from sex.

Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando, REVOLUCIÓN PUTA

19:00-22:00 | Chapter 4. UTOPIA
Let’s view the erotic as a teacher, be cautious of censorship, and grow collectively towards a destiny filled with love, surrender, and ecstasy. Let’s unleash the body, its wisdom, its power, its fury, and its fluids. In resistance, we dance; for resilience, we dance!

With Bloody Mary performance by Isabel Burr Raty and pole dance performances by Jezebel Studio.

Isabel Burr Raty, THE BLOODY MARY PERFORMANCE (participatory lecture)
Thilde, Spring Showers & Zora The Hooker, JEZEBEL STUDIO POLE PERFORMANCE

Tickets
Pay what you can! Choose a price that feels right for you. If the month is difficult, you’re welcome to enter for free. Tickets are available at the door — no need to book in advance.

Nederlands ↓

Op zaterdag 26 april 2025 nodigen we je uit in Out of Sight voor Visite #12 — SALACIOUS SHAME AND SURRENDERING SLUTS, een dag vol films, performances en lezingen.

Visite #12 wordt georganiseerd in het kader van CINEMA SESSIONS 2025, een jaarlijkse samenwerking tussen Out of Sight en Morpho. Cinema Sessions is een terugkerend programma met korte films en videowerken, dat vier keer per jaar plaatsvindt in de ruimtes van beide organisaties. Elke sessie wordt gecureerd door een gastcurator, die vertrekt vanuit de artistieke interesses van de huidige residenten van Morpho en het steeds evoluerende programma van Out of Sight.

Visite #12 — SALACIOUS SHAME AND SURRENDERING SLUTS wordt gecureerd door Eva van Tongeren (de Imagerie), in samenwerking met Out of Sight en Emily Walter & Max Ferguson (LuCi moving image collective).

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13:30-14:30 | Hoofdstuk 1. CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
Vijf korte studentenfilms die het vrouwelijk lichaam uitnodigen om zich te uiten in al zijn vulgariteit, zachtheid en vertrouwdheid.

Che Go Eun, THE TASTE OF TEA
Amber Dooms, MY LITTLE AMBI
Albina Gaitova, SOMEWHERE WE MEET IN THE BLUE LIGHT
Ella Schöning, A TOUCH OF SCHISM
Max Ferguson, YOU ARE THE TRUCK AND I AM THE DEER

Gecureerd door: Emily Walter & Max Ferguson (LuCi moving image collective), in dialoog met Camille Van Meenen (Komplot).

15:00-16:20 | Chapter 2. WOMB WARRIORS
Een viering en een rouwproces rond de baarmoeder als drager van tranen en angst. De baarmoeder als plaats van ontvankelijkheid, reflexiviteit, revolutie en resolutie. Drie korte films en live Grunt performance door Diane Mahín.

Marie Bottois, LE PASSAGE DU COL
Carole Roussopoulos, Y’A QU’À PAS BAISER!
Tabita Rezaire, SUGAR WALLS TEADOM
Diane Mahín, GRUNT (performance)

17:00-18:30 | Chapter 3. UNIONISING
Revolución Puta van Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando is een politiek manifest in de eerste persoon. De film verkent de wereld van sekswerk vanuit het perspectief van de geportretteerde vrouwen en opent een debat over de taboes rond en het precaire karakter van hun werk. Na de film is er een gemodereerd gesprek met Utsopi en Boysproject over de onlangs goedgekeurde arbeidswet voor sekswerkers in België.

Utsopi is een Belgische gemeenschapsorganisatie die opkomt voor de rechten van sekswerkers.
Boysproject is een Antwerpse sociale organisatie voor mannen, non-binaire personen en transvrouwen die geld verdienen met seks.

Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando, REVOLUCIÓN PUTA

19:00-22:00 | Chapter 4. UTOPIA
Laten we het erotische zien als een leraar, voorzichtig zijn met censuur en collectief groeien naar een bestemming vol liefde, overgave en extase! Met Bloody Mary performance door Isabel Burr Raty en paaldans performances door Jezebel Studio.

Isabel Burr Raty, THE BLOODY MARY PERFORMANCE (participatory lecture)
Thilde, Spring Showers & Zora The Hooker, JEZEBEL STUDIO POLE PERFORMANCE

Tickets
Betaal wat je kunt! Kies een prijs die voor jou goed voelt. Is het een moeilijke maand? Geen zorgen – dan mag je gratis naar binnen. Tickets zijn verkrijgbaar aan de deur. Vooraf reserveren is niet nodig.

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Join us for the opening to mark this important occasion. Please save the date in your calendars, and we look forward to welcoming you in Antwerp! 

The ON MOBILISATION project (2023-2025) ignites a process that connects and engages individuals to participate in positive change towards greater social justice and equality through cultural participation.

We respond to the need for transnational creation and circulation of knowledge and capacity building. In our practices we do not use our nation states to define us. But rather we work transnationally, queering and diminishing the importance of national borders by placing the similarities and differences elsewhere than in national identity. One world, same struggle.

The artists that take part in the exhibition are: Kalle Brolin, Siniša Ilić, Psychedelic Choir, The Agency of Singular Investigations, Danae Theodoridou,  Davide Tidoni, Zorka Wollny.

The ON MOBILISATION timeline is presented as an archive of video-interviews with: Danae Theodoridou, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Marika Smreková, Kalle Brolin, Elisabetta Consonni and Daniele Ninarello, reflecting on their artistic processes, and the Mobilising Words card game is available for the visitors to play.

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:: PROGRAMME OF THE OPENING ::
Friday, 28.02.2025
Out of Sight, Somersstraat 31, 2018 Antwerp

19:00 – Doors open

19:30 – Welcome speech

21:00 – 21:30 SABOTAGE MANUAL by Psychedelic Choir 
Concert dedicated to the current state of the world affairs, composed for Out of Sight opening

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:: ARTWORKS ON VIEW ::

THE BOTANICAL-POLITICAL DICTIONARY is part of an ongoing project by the Agency of Singular Investigations, researching the notion of expanded documentality. It introduces a secret language of flowers devised for coded communication on political subjects. What are the connections between orange blossoms and civil disobedience? Does exposure to mint oil make one more liberal-minded? Can a fragrant orchid persuade soldiers to lay down their weapons? The dictionary presents a collection of more than thirty flowers, each linked to a political concept of significance in the 20th century and potentially beyond. All entries, written by the artists, include historical notes describing instances of past political uses and effects associated with each flower.

Kalle Brolin, together with Baltic Art Center in Visby, worked for two years on the image of the peace movement in Gotland. The work began with visits and talks with people from Gotland who could be included in a broad definition of what constitutes a peace movement. Then a series of Peace Talks was arranged, bringing together all the people Kalle had previously come into contact with. Together, they discussed the image of the peace movement, while getting to know each other. The movement began observing itself. Finally, Kalle compiled a film which discusses the thematic questions developed over the course of his time on Gotland: How do we make a concrete image of an abstract concept such as peace? Which individuals and groups could be included in a broad definition of a peace movement? If form were to follow content, should a film be made with a dramaturgy not based on conflict? The name of the film is PEACE ON GOTLAND. It is in large parts built on collected image material from various sources. 

ORIENTATION IN 100 REVOLUTIONS by Siniša Ilić is a picture on a textile, one hundred square meters large, a tool to imagine the totality of the world and to comprehend its revolutionary potential. How to think totality, how to materialise it as a spatial fact in an art space? As a hypothesis, an oversized picture is placed in the art or public space, covering the floor or walls, street, facade, demanding interactions with the people who share the space with it. Picture on textile ORIENTATION IN 100 REVOLUTIONS can also be seen as the performative structure, developed with theatre maker Bojan Djordjev in which it functions as a performative object with its potential of covering other objects in the space and trigger live action. Such action can be further followed by the fragments from the novel The Poem (1952) by Oskar Davičo, Yugoslav author and communist, in which the author lists various groups, identities and entities whose critical thought and action are needed to rebel. This text will be available in the space.

Following a performance score, LANGUAGES OF THE UNHEARD by Danae Theodoridou construct an online visual and auditory manifesto based on the language of signs and slogans coming from important protests in different European countries from the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) or ‘Common Market’ in 1957 to 2020. Playing with the performativity of zoom’s feature to ‘rename’ ourselves, we changed constantly our names using the language of those signs, producing a written dialogue in the language of protest. During this dialogue, parts of our words were audio processed and fed back into the dialogue in different ways, creating a soundscape of languages of the unheard. This ‘silent’ conversation aims to reveal the materiality of the language of protest in order to create an embodied experience of its social force. What stays from our common fights in public space when we don’t have the proximity of our bodies? How can we turn immaterial language into a material ‘action’ in the way Arendt defined the term as the human ability to initiate something in public space that addresses the many without being able to control its outcome in advance? 

THE BEST OF NoTAV by Davide Tidoni is a songbook that includes lyrics, contextual notes and reinterpretations of fifteen songs from the No-TAV struggle. Conceived as an historical documentation of the struggle, narrated through its own songs, the work also functions on a performative level. The ironic and seductive character of the musical rearrangements easily infiltrates the listeners’ attention, inviting them to sing aloud on their own. The publication of the songbook is accompanied by the music video THE GOLDEN YEARS OF SAN DIDERO. The video includes footage shot by the political police on December 8, 2011, during a demonstration against the newly installed TAV construction site. The footage was filed in the records of the trial for those events.

The participatory project EVICTION SONGS by Zorka Wollny consists of songs composed and recorded by musicians Arurmukha, Nadja, Schwund, The Inserts, Geigerzaehler, Rosa Mercedes, Persé & C. C. Estrés, who are actively involved in fighting the dramatic change of the Berlin landscape.The songs are based on personal experiences, newspaper texts, critical essays, opinions and slogans of activist groups; such as wagen communities, squatters, left-wing cultural animators. The songs created the sound installation that was presented for the first time at Skulpturenpark Berlin-Zentrum in 2021. 

Check out ON MOBILISATION brochure HERE

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wpZimmer, in collaboration with Out of Sight, is hosting the final ON MOBILISATION Symposium on Thursday, February 27,  bringing together artists, thinkers, and collaborators to explore the themes and outcomes of the project, offering a space for reflection, discussion, and exchange in the form of workshops, performances, sharing meals and stories, working together towards better future for all of us.

Within the ON MOBILISATION cooperation project (2023-2025) processes of micro-community mobilisation, led by six artists: Danae Theodoridou, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Marika Smreková, Kalle Brolin, Elisabetta Consonni and Daniele Ninarello, facilitated by the partner organisations: wpZimmer (Antwerp), Baltic Art Center (Gotland), Studio ALTA (Prague) and Lavanderia a Vapore (Turin), together with two associated partners, ARIA (Antwerp) and GRASS (Gotland) began.

Geopolitical rapid changes have been asking from us to become more sensitive to mobilisation of micro-communities, while keep bringing up questions such as why, how and with whom these processes are happening today. The ON MOBILISATION project is interested in connecting to micro-communities that are emerging in order to reject, refuse and rise against violence and oppression. Micro-communities that grow into transnational alliances. Because we know that nobody is free, until everybody is free!

Symposium is FREE. Participatory performances, workshops, shared meals need to be RSVP through the online FORM, due to the limited number of places and to avoid food waste.

:: SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME ::

9:00-11:00
RISING UP with de Kompaan 
Welcome to the neighbourhood bakery where we make bread together!

De Kompaan’s Neighbourhood Bakery is for this day moving to wpZimmer. Together we will prepare a new batch of dough (measuring, mixing, rising, shaping, resting) that will be baked on Friday and shared with the community. The Neighbourhood Bakery is full of surprises and is open to everyone. You go home with new experience, knowledge and a (piece of) bread. The most important thing is the pleasure of sharing knowledge and connection in society. That is what de Kompaan stands for!

* Vegetarian & vegan breakfast provided / RSVP to be able to provide food for everyone.

11:00-12:00 
PARENT-FRIENDLY CULTURE with Marika Smreková and Petr Dlouhý
Workshop and storytelling about Inclusive Mobilisation

PARENT-FRIENDLY CULTURE is a self-transformative process of Studio ALTA (Prague) toward a more inclusive environment of cultural institutions for parents or guardians and children. Within the workshop, Marika and Petr navigate the participants through the landscapes of their research, sharing their perspectives on the need to consider accessibility tools for parents and guardians, practical hints on how to break the barrier that prevents many from being part of cultural life and address the benefits of holding spaces for all the adults and kids. 

* The session is aimed for people working in culture, accessibility managers, parents and guardians who lost their touch with cultural life as well as people who are keen to explore the possibilities of multigenerational spaces. 
** Kids of all ages are warmly invited to be part of the session.

12:30-13:30 
LUNCH BOX IN A PAPERBACK with Kalle Brolin and Ana Kutleša
Storytelling about artistic and political practices 

During the ON MOBILISATION project, artist Kalle Brolin, together with the Baltic Art Center in Visby, has worked for two years on the image of the peace movement in Gotland. The work began with visits and conversations with people from Gotland who could be included in a broad definition of what constitutes a peace movement. 

Ana Kutleša is a curator and researcher and occasionally works as an independent writer in the field of art, culture, and short fiction. Since 2009, she has been part of the curatorial collective BLOK in Zagreb, dedicated to socially engaged art practices. In 2019, she co-initiated BLOK’s long-term project “Trešnjevka Neighbourhood Museum”.

Together, Kalle and Ana will share their stories about the writing of their choice, intertwining fictional and non-fictional readings of the text, followed by the conversation with the audience.

* Vegan lunch included. RSVP to be able to provide food for everyone.

14:00-15:45 

HOW TO BECOME A PLATYPUS by Elisabetta Consonni
Participatory performance

“When this animal was discovered in the late 18th century, a skin was sent to Britain for examination by the scientific community. At first, scientists were convinced that the at first sight bizarre set of physical features must have been a fake, produced by some embalming process. Instead, it was the platypus.”  (Wikipedia)

HOW TO BECOME A PLATYPUS is a constellation of playful practices and exercises. The audience enters the environment with several stations, following a dramaturgical score – a set of directions that differs for each participant and is divided into sequences. Each person joins different constellations of people while engaging in a plausible negotiation of meanings. The stations invite a derailment from logic; they are, rather, pleasant impossible missions that intercept personal aspects of knowledge while avoiding functionality. In the vertigo of not knowing, possibilities open up and worlds are created: even the platypus becomes possible.

* Limited number of participants, please RSVP

14:00-15:45 
!CANCELED! SILENT PROTEST — CALL FOR ACTION with Daniele Ninarello !CANCELED!
Workshop leading towards public performance during dinner

You are invited to participate in a free workshop led by choreographer and dancer Daniele Ninarello. During the ON MOBILISATION project, Daniele, in collaboration with Lavanderia a Vapore, has been working with different groups of citizens, primarily young adults, collectively investigating the memories and traces left on the body by the culture of control, bullying, toxic masculinity, violence, and offence. SILENT PROTEST explores the correlation between spoken/written word and the “protest body”. At the end of the workshop, the group will be guided in creating a collective protest in the form of a flash mob, which will be performed in the evening for the audience.

* A volunteer fee is provided for the participants.
** No previous experience is required. The workshop will take place in a safe environment facilitated by the artist. You should have a desire to get to know other groups of citizens, to share the desire to mobilise, and feel comfortable to perform in front of the audience. 
*** Limited number of participants, please RSVP

16:00-16:45 
MOBILISING WORDS 
On Mobilisation publication launch

MOBILISING WORDS is the publication developed as part of the ON MOBILISATION project (2023-2025). Mobilising Words is a card game that uses the “On Mobilisation Vocabulary”, a collection of words gathered as testimonies from the process of researching, facilitating, mobilising and learning from local communities in Antwerp, Gotland, Prague and Turin. Is it possible to play with the shared experience of how words and their meanings can change through a collective process? Mobilising Words is an attempt to open up the Vocabulary’s potential by contemplating definitions and arriving at unexpected interpretations. Join us for the afternoon game!

17:00-18:45 
THE PRACTICE OF DEMOCRACY — THE ADVERSARIES by Danae Theodoridou
Participatory performance

THE ADVERSARIES is a participatory performance installation. Two small groups are brought into conflict with each other in a playful manner. A third group, the witnesses, follows the discussion and shares its perspective on the conflict. This allows the participants to think about conflict as a vital part of democracy. Following different instructions, participants explore and negotiate on an existing conflict in ways that play up the possibilities and limitations of this practice. Together they try to create a new, third space based on a synthesis of the different points of view.

* Limited number of participants, please RSVP

17:00-18:45 
THE INSTITUTE FOR ANARCHIC AND ARTISTIC LANGUAGE LEARNING by Ahilan Ratnamohan 
Lecture-performance

Ahilan Ratnamohan is an artist, but also an obsessive language learner, busy with a number of languages on a daily basis. In his work he researches language learning as a form of performance. During the ON MOBILISATION project, THE INSTITUTE FOR ANARCHIC AND ARTISTIC LANGUAGE LEARNING was created to make alternative and under-valued language-learning techniques and tactics more accessible. At the same time, The Institute raises questions in regards to language-learning pedagogy and what gets validated as such.

Are you a language student, language teacher or a language enthusiast, interpreter, translator and intercultural mediator, or are simply curious about language philosophy and pedagogy? Then we welcome you to The Institute!

* Limited number of participants, please RSVP

19:30-21:00 
DINNER AND STORYTELLING

> SILENT PROTEST with Daniele Ninarello, performed by the participants of the afternoon workshop

> ISLAND STORIES ON PEACE AND WAR with Anamarija Batista (MOZARTEUM)

The sound of waves blends with the scent of pine trees, and the echoes of military boots merge with the voices of tourists from hotel terraces.

The art-based research project Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism: The Adriatic Coast as a Leisure and Defence Paradise led by Anamarija Batista and Antonia Dika examines the phenomena of military and tourist urbanisation, as well as their impact on the Adriatic coast and the local population’s way of life.

> DEMANDING JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY with Milutin Milošević (Faculty of dramatic Arts, Film director master studies, Belgrade), one of the students of the ongoing student protests in Serbia

We are hundreds of thousands of young people from Serbia, united by grief and a desire for justice.

Serbian students represent the voice of a society demanding change after an unprecedented tragedy. On November 1st, 2024, fifteen lives were lost when a canopy collapsed at a newly renovated train station in Novi Sad, a consequence of negligence and systemic corruption. No one has yet been held accountable for these deaths. After a violent attack on students and professors at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade during a commemoration for the victims, we decided to speak up. A wave of uprisings spread across Serbia, with over 60 faculties in full blockade. Our goals have been clear from day one – justice for the victims, sanctioning those responsible for the violence, and a society where human rights are guaranteed. 

We’ve witnessed the power of unconditional love from countless people, reminding us that unity is key to progress. At the same time, the outrage we feel resonates across Serbia, proving that this is not a moment, but a movement. What you see in us is a generation refusing to yield to a broken system. Together, we are building a future where accountability is the rule, not the exception. We are the voices of change.

* Limited number of seats, please RSVP

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To make this day enjoyable, we provide: 

> Free babysitting for kids from 2 to 6 years old from 11:00-19:00 / RSVP

> Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bar opens at 16:00. It’s based on a pay-what-you-can principle (please bring cash). Coffee, tea, and water are free and available all day / RSVP

> There is a quiet prayer room with a praying mat, available for prayer all day.

> We’ve prepared a calm space, where you can find rest and peace during the full-day event. It is suitable for breastfeeding, if you or your baby prefer a calm space.

> The programme is in English, however we hope that together we can find a way to offer personal (whispering  translation when needed.

Here you can find more info about the ON MOBILISATION project.

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Art Pavilion in Zagreb and Out of Sight are temporary moving to the Ethnographic museum in Zagreb with the group exhibition SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER that examines the representational, aesthetic, and tactile qualities of materials as visible imprints of invisible or less visible human interventions into the life of matter and nature. They manifest in a range from political hegemonies to ecological disasters, and speak of extractivist policies and (neo)colonialism. Employing archival methods of collection, indexing and selection, the works emulate museum displays and correlate with the concept of the Ethnographic Museum where they are exhibited. By linking human customs, both past and present extractivist practices and daily life, they pave the way for an ethnology viewed through the lens of human exploitation of natural resources. The industries of paint, oil, electromagnetic research, stone extraction, and bauxite processing have long navigated the tension between notions of progress, wealth accumulation, exploitation, and dominance. The exhibition weaves together mythology, folklore, history, magic, and scientific viewpoints, drawing attention to the destructive imprint of the humanity’s relationship with non-human nature.

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SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER is organised and produced by: Art Pavilion in Zagreb and Out of Sight, Antwerp

Supported by: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb — City Office for Culture and Civil Society, Zagreb Tourist Board, Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, Flanders — State of the Art, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb, MU.Zee Oostende, Performing Arts Hub – Norway, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Thank you: Zvjezdana Antoš, Marija Živković, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb, Centar KNAP, Anja Planinčić, Jan(us) Boudewijns, Barbara de Jong

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De tentoonstelling Six Samples of Disaster onderzoekt de representatieve, esthetische en tactiele kwaliteiten van materialen als zichtbare afdrukken van onzichtbare of minder zichtbare menselijke interventies in het leven van materie en de natuur. Ze manifesteren zich in een reeks van politieke hegemonieën tot ecologische rampen, en spreken van extractivistisch beleid en (neo)kolonialisme. Gebruikmakend van archief methoden van verzamelen, indexeren en selectie, emuleren de werken museale displays en correleren met het concept van het Etnografisch Museum waar ze tentoongesteld worden. Door menselijke gewoonten, zowel vroeger als nu,  extractivistische praktijken en het dagelijks leven maken ze de weg vrij voor een etnologie door de lens van menselijke exploitatie van natuurlijke hulpbronnen.

De verf- en olie-industrie, elektromagnetisch onderzoek, steen winning en bauxiet verwerking hebben lange tijd de spanning genavigeerd tussen begrippen als vooruitgang, rijkdom, accumulatie, uitbuiting en dominantie. De tentoonstelling verweeft mythologie, folklore, geschiedenis, magie en wetenschappelijke standpunten, en vestigt de aandacht op de destructieve afdruk van de relatie van de mensheid met de niet-menselijke natuur.

RED MUD van Davor Konjikušić toont een nasleep van een van de grootste milieurampen in de geschiedenis van Hongarije die plaatsvond op 4 oktober 2010, toen tank 10 van de aluminiumfabriek MAL in de stad Ajka een miljoen kubieke meter “rode modder” lekte. Tien mensen kwamen om, honderden huizen werden verwoest en meer dan tweehonderd mensen raakten ernstig gewond. De rode modder was het resultaat van een proces om bauxiet om te zetten in aluminium. Het bevat zware metalen zoals cadmium, chroom, arsenicum en kwik die het landschap rood kleurden. 

In zijn werk SAMMLUNG BAU UND SCHMUCKSTEIN ALTES ROM toont Hannes Böck ons 55 steenmonsters uit een collectie oude Romeinse bouwmaterialen. Gefilmd op 16mm kleurmateriaal, lijken het fragmenten van een abstracte compositie.

De 17 minuten durende film overlapt drie imperiale voorstellingen: de koloniale toe-eigening van natuurlijke hulpbronnen in veroverde gebieden door het Romeinse Rijk, de legitimering van het Europese imperialisme door terug te grijpen op een geïdealiseerd Grieks-Romeins verleden, en de- institutionalisering/discursieve constructie van fotografie als een objectiverend middel in dienst van moderne wetenschap.

Het tweede werk van Marjolijn Dijkman, RADIANT MATTER, is een bewerkt picturaal essay dat bestaat uit meer dan 250 beelden uit verschillende disciplines, zoals astronomie, kosmologie, geneeskunde, technologie en antropologie. De kleurcompositie van deze beelden is niet willekeurig, maar gebaseerd op het kleurverloop dat te zien is in wetenschappelijke observaties van de kosmische achtergrondstraling.

Het essay verbindt vrijelijk beelden uit diverse vakgebieden, waaronder astronomie, kosmologie, geneeskunde, technologie, antropologie en ruimteverkenning. Het werk onderzoekt de invloed van elektromagnetische golven en verschillende vormen van kosmische energie op het menselijk lichaam, de aarde en andere hemellichamen. De beelden leggen associatieve verbanden die de invloed van kosmische golven en energie benadrukken, zoals die door de tijd en in verschillende culturen is weergegeven.

De sculpturale installatie CLOUD TO GROUND (#1) van Marjolijn Dijkman verwijst naar fulgurieten, een fenomeen dat vaak wordt aangeduid als “gefossiliseerd bliksem”. Deze formaties ontstaan wanneer een elektrische ontlading de grond raakt en organisch materiaal verglast.

In samenwerking met een elektrotechnicus creëerde Dijkman kunstmatige fulgurieten door elektriciteit te ontladen in aarde die was verzameld van mijnbouwlocaties in België en de Democratische Republiek Congo. Deze gevormde structuren installeerden ze vervolgens in een vloerinstallatie.

SUN EATERS van Sina Seifee & Jassem Hindi is een hedendaagse volksdans en installatie over de onverenigbare tegenstelling tussen petro-politiek en petro-demonologie. Olie is de intieme taal van onze toegang tot de wereld, de betoverende tovenaar, en kan worden uitgespeeld als een lyrisch, mythisch-poëtisch, geïncarneerd object. Olie is een fascinerend, complex en gruwelijk verhaal, doordrenkt met bloed, oude goden en revolutionaire daden. Benzine schept onmogelijke landschappen en pestilente wezens.

SUN EATERS, een dansvoorstelling van Jassem Hindi en Sina Seifee, met de deelname van Charlott Utzig, Paolo de Venecia Gile, Alexandra Tveit en Harald Beharie, vond plaats op zaterdag 14 december 2024 om 18:00 uur, als onderdeel van de opening van de tentoonstelling SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER.

[…] STAIN […] van Ana Torfs is zorgvuldig samengesteld uit gevonden beelden en teksten, een collage of montage. Het vertrekpunt voor deze installatie zijn synthetische kleurstoffen. De explosie van kleuren die we sinds 1856 kennen, werd mogelijk door het commercieel gebruik van afvalproducten van cokesproductie, zoals steenkoolteer.

In 1856 patenteerde de 18-jarige Engelse scheikundestudent William Henry Perkin een paarse kleurstof, mauve, die hij destilleerde uit steenkoolteer. Perkin ontdekte deze kleurstof bij toeval, terwijl hij zocht naar een synthetische variant van kinine in de strijd tegen malaria. Mauve werd de eerste synthetische kleurstof die op grote schaal werd geproduceerd.

De creatie van mauve leidde tot de opkomst van grote chemische bedrijven. Bayer, BASF en AGFA begonnen in de tweede helft van de 19e eeuw als fabrikanten van kleurstoffen. Het onderzoek naar synthetische kleurstoffen uit steenkoolteer leidde tot tal van andere ontdekkingen en was cruciaal voor de ontwikkeling van explosieven, geneesmiddelen en pesticiden.

Torfs selecteerde 20 representatieve synthetische kleurstoffen met tot de verbeelding sprekende namen zoals Congo Red, Bismarck Brown, Paris Violet en Uranin, en zocht daarbij passende beelden, elk met een uniek nummer. De “bijschriften” die naar deze genummerde beelden verwijzen, lijken te ontbreken, maar de kunstenaar integreerde ze in de geluidsopname die deel uitmaakt van de installatie. Een vrouwenstem leest op kunstmatige toon de namen van de 20 geselecteerde kleuren en de 182 genummerde bijschriften voor, in willekeurige volgorde en met lange stiltes ertussen, aangestuurd door een computerprogramma.

In het Engels hebben het zelfstandig naamwoord STAIN en het werkwoord TO STAIN verschillende betekenissen. STAIN verwijst naar kleur, maar ook naar “vlekken” of “vuil”, en figuurlijk naar een “smet”, zoals in: “a stained reputation”.

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Out of Sight organiseerde SIX SAMPLES OF DISASTER in samenwerking met Art Pavilion in Zagreb. 

Met ondersteuning van: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb — City Office for Culture and Civil Society, Zagreb Tourist Board, Ethnographisch Museum van Zagreb, Vlaamse Overheid, Austrian Cultural Forum Zagreb, MU.Zee Oostende, Performing Arts Hub – Norway, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dank aan: Zvjezdana Antoš, Marija Živković, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Zagreb, Centar KNAP, Anja Planinčić, Jan(us) Boudewijns, Barbara de Jong

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