archive « a.pass

end communication, event

24-25 January 2020

Location @ Needcompany

Precious indirection*

End-Communications of Deborah Birch, Diego Echegoyen and Lucia Palladino&Piero Ramella

The a.pass End-Communications of Deborah Birch, Diego Echegoyen and the duo Lucia Palladino & Piero Ramella will take place on the 24th and 25th of January 2020 at MILL / Needcompany. End-Communications invite the a.pass researchers to share their subject matters, modes of seeing, articulating and making artist research public after following the year-long program. Read more

research center

1 January-31 March 2020

RESEARCH CENTER CYCLE 2 BLOCK I

This January marks the beginning of the second one-year-cycle of the a.pass Research Center. Initiated out of a desire to be a shared platform of exchange, support and publicness for the Associate Researchers this year long initiative will continue to support and publish advanced research and investigate its trajectories within a.pass. The Associate Researchers will be hosted and supported during Cycle 2 by the Research Center curators: Vladimir Miller (Block I/20), Lilia Mestre (Block II/20) and Pierre Rubio (Block III/20). For the period of January to December 2020 we are happy to welcome following Associate Researchers to the a.pass Research Center:Breg Horemans, Davide Tidoni, Esteban Donoso, Pia Louwerens and Lili Rampre. During the upcoming block we will start and at the same time continue our work by imagining and negotiating the individual contracts between the researchers and the Research Center, which will speculate on the individual research process and the support needed during the year cycle.

recent past, workshop

9 October-7 November 2019

Location a.pass

Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek
Sounding Situations

The duo [SNDNG STTNS] Milena Kipfmüller & Klaus Janek, seeks for the reciprocity of the auditive and its staging. Semantics, appearing sounds and music elements form musical gestures and meaning, the composition is in tight correspondence with its staging. Challenging the line between discourse and aesthetics, the focus on conflicting situations animates interpretation and questions in a subtil and humble way. …Read more

end communication, event, recent past

27-28 September 2019

Location a.pass

PEACH BASKETS – THREE ANGLES ON BALANCING

End-Communications of Caterina Mora, Laura Pante and Maurice Meewisse

Funambulism is a "staying with the trouble" concept (in Donna Haraway´s words), that intertwines the a.pass End-Communications of Caterina Mora, Laura Pante and Maurice Meewisse. It all started with the idea of balancing oppositions, no matter which: theory and practice, high and low cultures, language and body, feminism and heteronormativity, bad and good, horizontal and vertical, north and south, truth and fake, here and there, real and virtual, peach baskets and shoes - What the hell?! The projects of Cate, Laura and Maurice, embody the crossings between antonymous positionalities and work with strategies that include negotiations, side effects, mistakes, shadows, confusion, plural views and overlapings as co-inhabitors of a research context attempting to think complex phenomena. Read more

project, recent past

2 September-1 December 2019

A looming score – we share your politics of damage

Block 2019/III curators Lilia Mestre and Sina Seiffee

Why loom? We were thinking about the loom’s invocation of the closeness of the textile sense, fabrics that bind our desires and bodies. The loom means also the threatening feeling of an inevitable terrible thing as it approaches. And the possibility of b-looming, from the rest, waste, residue, remainders of the storm. Furthermore, loom echoes a gendered practice of writing textile; in the making of fabric like Arachné, that talented mortal weaver who challenged the god of wisdom, as well as Penelope, who weaved and weaved (a mournful making and unmaking fabrics) to postpone her arranged marriage. The loom is a metaphor that invites us to think of reality as something deeply embedded within context, like “the weaver’s loom that is discerned within the cloth it weaves” (Veena Das). That means, modes of knowing constitute the objects of knowing in a manner that profoundly affects how one comes to inhabit a new reality. That is just the conceptual backdrop for us. In this block we want to focus on a support structure that will help each other research and continue what has been initiated in the past block, ‘Troubled Gardens.’ We transport what has been found out there and elsewhere into looming (transposed into weaving + feeling the darkness of it). That is to sustain being immersed in the subjects of ecology, feminism and their possible political agency in this unpredictable and precarious world we are living in. In the coming block, we’ll take these lines thought while going back “home” (we will land somewhere in a.pass studios hosting three scenographies from Laura, Maurice and Caterina for their End-Communication). We would take the movement of going inside as the one to prepare for winter: gather, digest, tell stories, imagine futures. As a curatorial approach we are not interested in obsessing on these concepts per se, but working in and through the particular challenges of our researches. …Read more

block, recent past, research center

1 September-30 November 2019

Cared by Nicolas Y Galeazzi
Research Center 19/III – Reviewing emergence

cleaning is just another approach to messing up

One year, six associates, three curators, several events and residencies, lots of contexts and thoughts, etc. - I think we can say, the research center was never as extensive as this new cycle. It was time for a.pass to come up to the promise of generating more publicly available content. The five associate researchers accompanied by three different curators have processed their contexts and brought them to a ripe state for publishing. Holding in, taking a breath, smelling the taste, enjoying the fill of the lungs, holding in again and softly pushing the air out - and so, the cycle can start again. What was here? What was nourished by the oxygen? What did come up by breathing the same air as five other researchers? Read more

companion, recent past

12-12 July 2019

Location Square des Libérateurs, 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

Einat Tuchman
Traveling through square liberateurs – Molenbeek

Taking a distinctive look at the divergent attitudes towards the environment and the social struggles in these different locations, we will learn about the prototypical difficulties and potentials of such culturally dense urban areas. For this I'm inviting you into my neighbourhood, to discover the "Quartier Liberateurs ". Read more

companion, project

9-10 July 2019

Becoming Water

Some workshops remain a fiction – yet a fiction can be embodied. For several reasons, the proposition of Marialena Marouda couldn’t take place at the intended ‘workshop’ – the Buratinas boat of Nadine, laboratory for contemporary art. However, her proposal to encounter water as a companion and to spend for that min. 24h on that boat let us float into the imagination of how to fundamentally shift our relation to that essential element of life. …Read more

companion

1 July-2 May 2019

Marialena Marouda
Waterways

As an additional tool of investigation for the troubled gardens, I propose to float on water. By exchanging the usual surface of this block – soil – for water, I would like to explore how this element and it’s set of conditions can leak into artistic researche(r)s – or even flood them? What does it mean to understand water as a workshop? How can this experience influence our practice in the workshops of this block?Asking these questions, we will spend at least 48h at the water and walk along the idea of ‘canal’. Will we accompany the water or is the water our companion? How does the current of the rivers enter the streams of our communication? How do we approach this hyper-object that finally floats in the ocean?

recent past, workshop

24 June-29 April 2019

Location Fribourg (CH)

Martin Schick / construct lab
Workshop 3 :: Unlearning Center / Terrestrial Building

crafting

For the cultural program of the blueFactory in Fribourg Martin Schick is developing a concept for an Unlearning Center - an open sphere for re-practice learning in times of climate change. The blueFactory is a new economic zone for circular and environmental business. The Unlearning Center aims to give space for a fundamental rethinking of the knowledge needed to face different and difficult visions of building for the future with all its personal, economic, political, technical and aesthetic implications. Read more

recent past, research center

24 June-14 July 2019

Location ZSenne ART Lab / Brussels

a.pass Research Center Associates in residence
victories over the suns

dissolving totalities, usurping orders, inventing new materials

In our residence, each process is designed individually and in common, in order to share a fiction of sharing. We aim our experimental tools at each other, ourselves and at you. They are directed at a viewer, curious-anxious about modes of reparation who can put together the research trajects that she finds in a process of performing-publishing of difficult-makings of different objects and positions. We are hungry and angry: at our bodies, at assemblages, at more stories for other histories, for different exhibits, for fresh cultures. It is an experiment in organizing and presenting what appears to be fundamentally unorganisable and unpresentable. When all is lost why not go for broke, victorious over the sun? Read more

recent past, research center

24 June-14 July 2019

Location ZSenne ART Lab / Brussels

a.pass Research Centre Associates in residence
victories over the suns

projects / events / agenda

get informations and agenda about the residence here Read more

end communication, event, recent past, research

31 May-1 June 2019

Location @ Hacktiris (6th floor) - Rue Paul Devauxstraat 3, 1000 Brussel

Body Virtual Institution

End-Communications - Nassia Fourtouni, Goda Palekaitė and Katinka Van Gorkum

@ Hacktiris (6th floor) – Rue Paul Devauxstraat 3, 1000 BrusselDoors open at 18:0019:00 GODA PALEKAITĖ – How to Infuriate a Historian21:00 NASSIA FOURTOUNI – Waiting Room Meditation22:00 KATINKA VAN GORKUM – Distance Learning in Close ProximityVirtual Body Institution is the coming together of the 3 concepts that intertwine in the End-Communications of Katinka Van Gorkum, Nassia Fourtouni and Goda Palekaitė.Their practices are very distinct from each other, in form as in content though they all engage with forms of sociability that enhance, propose and reveal the relation of the individual with the societal. Tackling this position from discursive, technological or body practices they invite the visitor to engage in thinking and embody modes of construction of the self.Through their current practices of research and exposure – that use the personification of historical characters in a public discussion, the entrance into virtual space as a extension of the ‘real’ and the body as a perception machine – we encounter some of the contexts and mechanisms we inhabit in current western society. …Read more

companion, recent past

22-22 May 2019

Location Start at Zenne Garden

Ecole Mondiale
Bruocsella

a resilient movement for room to secondary river valleies

ECOLE MONDIALE experiments and experiences walking in and with the Zenne Valley while researching an alternative political model for the Brussels region, - capital of Europe, as a metropolitan landscape. It's ambitions is to transform the dominant 19th-century political model of the Brussels-Capital Region into a 21st-century vision / version based on its specific hydrographic structure. The secondary river valleys of the Zenne can provide this metropolitan landscape specific characteristic features. Read more

companion, recent past

20-20 May 2019

Location Zenne Garden

Gosie Vervloessem
Horror Garden

One way to connect to other then humans is the horror genre. By thinking the unthinkable, we explore the limits of our ability to understand the world. But does the world lends itself to a meaningful relationship? Does increased access lead to decreased strangeness? In thinking about our relationship to the “other than humans”, what is the status of the notion of obscurity and darkness? What lingers at the edges of our experience? The Horror Garden is a tool that explores the idea of our profound dark relation to the World through our relationship with plants. …Read more

-, recent past

6 May-28 July 2019

Location Zenne Garden et al.

Nicolas Y Galeazzi
Making Kin

the adoption project

Experiencing us as and in ecosystems lays the basic ground for our investigations in the a.pass block 2019/II. To follow this incentive, Donna Haraway proposes to make kin with multiple things, species and ideas. We try it by adopting each other's dearest - or expelled - aspects of research and make it part of our sphere of respons-ability. Read more

block, recent past

29 April-28 July 2019

Nicolas Y Galeazzi
Troubled Gardens / Block 2019/II

ecologies of artistic research

The earth faces troubles of kind humanity never experienced before: climatic changes induced by humankind are dramatically destructive and - meanwhile unavoidable. This perspective fundamentally shifts our understanding of nature - and therefore it poses big questions to the arts as a source of cultural knowledge. The aim of this block is to challenge our individual research aims as living creatures and companions in and as ecosystems. Hyper related, affecting, and never singular, our researches are - however - made by their surrounding as much as their make it. Read more

recent past, research center

29 April-28 July 2019

Location a.pass/ ZSenne ArtLab

RESEARCH CENTER Cycle 18/19 – Block III

Co-Curated by Isabel Burr Raty / Antye Guenther / Adrijana Gvozdenović / Sara Manente / Rob Ritzen / Pierre Rubio / Sina Seifee

The a.pass Research Center is dedicated to supporting advanced research and to collecting and making public methodologies of artistic research developed at a.pass. This summer block marks the end of the first one-year-cycle of the a.pass Research Center. After being initiated as a platform for individual research trajectories, the Research Center shifted to welcoming a group of advanced researchers for an one-year period. This last block of the first cycle is co-curated by the whole group. Read more

event, recent past

22-23 March 2019

Location KANAL

UNSETTLED STUDY AT PERFORMATIK ’19

performative research environment

Unsettled Study will invite the audience to witness and join the multitude of research processes currently hosted by the a.pass platform for artistic research. For several years a.pass platform fo artistic research has periodically engaged with a research environment called Settlement proposed and facilitated by Vladimir Miller. This project continues to ask on which spatial, performative and institutional conditions is it possible to step into and share an artist’s research process as it is happening. …Read more

recent past, workshop

25-28 February 2019

The Choreography of Objects: Logistics vs. Entanglement

Workshop with Moritz Frischkorn

In recent years, theoreticians both from political sciences and cultural studies have become more and more interested in the business field of logistics. Besides finance (and new logics of extraction, some authors claim), logistics seems to be one of the key notions to understand global capitalism today. Today logistics considers itself the totalized management and governance of all flows of capital, labour and commodities. And more than ever, logistics is administered and steered by algorithms – auto-managed and automated, implementing a computational governance that subjects labour as much as all material resources of the globe to its regime. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, in their essay ‘Fantasy in the Hold’, thus write: ‘The rise of logistics is rapid. Indeed, to read today in the field of logistics is to read a booming field, a conquering field. In military science and in engineering of course, but also in business studies, in management research, logistics is everywhere. …Read more

recent past, workshop

4-8 February 2019

the Lecture, the Performance

workshop with philipp gehmacher

This week’s focus lies on the idea and genre of the lecture performance in the performing and visual arts. Speaking out will be looked at as a performative act of sharing thoughts and concerns about ones own research and work. The questions often arising are: Why speak out about things at all? Why not let the work speak for itself, the research be mapped out and available? Is the speaking an extra layer of added information, at times rendering the ‚shown’ and presented more informal, even personal? Whilst in fact pointing at its surrounding, as much as the institution, is there a self-referentiality involved in speaking that we cannot escape whether we speak about ourselves, our concerns or just matters seemingly ‚worldly‘ and not personal? Speaking is however also about utterance and the speech act, performative as such, in the now, whether scripted or not. Speaking points out, maps out, accompanies actions and discursifes often all at once. …Read more

end communication, event, recent past

1-2 February 2019

Location Hectolitre

Subtracted Seduction

End-Communications

On Friday 1 and Saturday 2 February 2019, from 18:00 to 22:00 Adrijana Gvozdenović, Pia Louwerens and Eleanor Ivory Weber present their artistic researches at the former swingers club, La Porte des Senses, today an art space called Hectolitre, to mark the end of their participation in the a.pass program. …Read more

archive, event

25-26 January 2019

Location Kunsthal, Ghent

by OFFoff, a.pass and Domes FM
Broadcasting RRadio Triton

During the opening weekend of Kunsthal,Ghent, ArtCinema OFFoff puts up a broadcast on Domes FM around RRadio Triton, a collective and experimental research project produced by a.pass. The broadcast circles around relations between artistic research and speculative fictions. What kinds of futures do artistic research practices imagine? Which fictions are needed? And what voices do we need to bring those fictions up? Read more

block information, recent past

7 January-31 March 2019

BLOCK 19/I UNSETTLED STUDY

curated by Vladimir Miller

Continuing the line of inquiry from Uninvited Research, Block 19/I will again come together around the questions of mobility, logistics and gestures of moving, settling and unsettling. All who research, work and support at apass including the Research Center, the administration, the curators and production support are invited to join the process. …Read more

common moment, gathering, intensive, recent past

7-26 January 2019

Location a.pass

Settlement 14

During the days of Jan 7th-26th 2019 a.pass will come together and host an open workspace called SETTLEMENT. In the course of these three weeks we will share our current work processes within an open collaborative workspace. We aim to create a poly-central gathering that is self-structured, self-organized and open to contributions from anyone. You are cordially invited to join this process by establishing your own space in the a.pass SETTLEMENT and sharing some of your ideas, practices or works with others. The materials and structures available at the a.pass main space will be a common resource for all who join to create whatever is needed to facilitate this process. The schedule for these three weeks will be developed on site by its participants and shared online on the a.pass website. …Read more

-, recent past

7 January-31 March 2019

Location a.pass

RESEARCH CENTER CYCLE 18/19 BLOCK II

CURATED BY ALEX ARTEAGA

The a.pass Research Center is dedicated to supporting advanced artistic research and to collecting and making public methodologies of artistic research developed at a.pass. The block II in the cycle 18/19 is focused on two intertwined fields of inquiry: aesthetic research practices in the medium of written language and architecture understood as intervention in the emergence of environments through construction and related practices. …Read more

end communication, recent past

14-16 September 2018

PIECE ME BACK TOGETHER (AGAIN)

End-Communications

On September 14, 15 and 16 Leo Kay, Elen Braga, Eszter Némethi, Geert Vaes and Hoda Siahtiri come together in concepts of identity, narratives of possible futures, liquidity and participation. The five artist researchers take over Elizabeth Park for the weekend presenting an undercover carnival of experiences. All of which welcome audience into tangible relationship with the material. …Read more

block, recent past, study day

10 September-30 November 2018

STUDY DAYS block 2018/III

A curatorial proposal by Adva ZAkai

PROGRAM AND SCHEDULEThis block is organized around a series of Study Days. Almost every Monday till the end of November, a.pass hosts artists, thinkers and researchers to contribute to the problematization of various issues that bring together love, art, school, improvisation and politics. …Read more

block information, recent past

3 September-30 November 2018

Location apass

apass
a.pass meets SOL / School Of Love

A curatorial proposition by Adva Zakai

From Sep till Nov 2018 a.pass and School Of Love will start a flirt with each other, develop a relationship and hopefully make (produce) love.SOL is a collective platform that was initiated some years ago*, inspired by the interest in both love and school as charged with potential to generate new politics and relations in the world. SOL is practiced through regular meetings, but follows no curriculum. Instead, it develops a spontaneous program through the presence and interest of its participants. SOL is basically an invitation to hang out. But to hang out deeply. To practice school as a place of free time – free to study things as they appear, separated from the dependency on the time and space of social order and production. And to practice love – Not the kind of love that is generated through affirmation of who we think we are, but love as an act of giving by allowing it to transform us. …Read more

a.pass concept, recent past, research center

3 September-30 November 2018

RESEARCH CENTER Cycle 18/19 Block I

Curated by Vladimir Miller

This September marks the beginning of the first one-year-cycle of the a.pass Research Center. After being initiated as a platform for the individual research trajectories of the a.pass Associate Researchers, starting this year the Research Center is shifting to welcoming a group of advanced researchers for a shared one-year period.The a.pass Research Center is dedicated to supporting advanced research and to collecting and making public methodologies of artistic research developed at a.pass. …Read more

archive, block information

18-29 June 2018

Location Zsenne ArtLab

The Way of the Anarchive

a residency with Erin Manning in the frame of parallel parasite

From the 18th till the 29th of June the a.pass Research center will engage with Erin Manning on the practice of the Anarchive developed in SenseLab. For the last weeks of June a group of a.pass researchers and guests will work during the day and will open up to public discussions almost every evening at 19:00. ************************** Some of the days during this period public encounters with Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Alex Arteaga, Nico Docks, Adva Zakai ... will take place. Please check schedule bellow!!!!! Read more

archive, reading session, research center

16 June 2018

Location Szenne Artlab, Anneessensstraat 2

Monday Readings
Streaming media

on demand, content-delivery, broadcast

This extra edition of the Monday reading actually takes place on a Saturday in Szenne artlab. In the context of Parallel-parasite, a residency of the a.pass Research Center, we will focus on the shape-shifting nature of streaming media. After sessions on text processing, local servers and key cards, we will continue with an exploration of streaming, a coverall term for the dominant way that audio and visual content is being delivered on the Internet today. We will read into the different technical protocols that are regulating those flows, and the diverging economies that software like Torrent trackers and companies like Youtube, Netflix construct. By considering how the continuous experience of streaming relies on various politics of separation, re-ordering discrete elements on delivery, we will observe how the production, sharing and consumption of media is radically changing. Session organised with Martino Morandi. …Read more

-, block information, gathering, research center

11 June-15 May 2018

Location Zsenne ArtLab

Lilia Mestre
Fragile Community Score + Score for entering a place / Lilia Mestre

SCORESCAPES: Thinking Scores as Pedagogical Tool is an ongoing research in the context of a.pass.For this occasion the score will serve the question of 'being in an (other) place' which is not home, which is semi-public, which will constitute a composite body and which will be in the 'here' of the public space and of the a.pass Research Center. Which tender social formation will take place? What will appear from the rubbing between institutional paradigms and the discourses that resist? The score wants to make appear narratives localized in that time/place frame work. We will work with writing and physical forms of presence and we'll go in between inside and outside, the individual and the group, in between the here and there, between being part of and being other. Read more

archive, recent past, research center

4-30 June 2018

Location Zsenne ArtLab

parallel-parasite

Research center 18/II curated by Lilia Mestre

A month residency at ZSenne ArtLab : On Anarchiving > On Love > On Score -ing > On the spot > On presenceGatherings of parallel parasite platforms for practice based research in the arts > If you want to know, come!From the 4th till the 30th of June the a.pass Research Centre (RC) will be in residency at ZSenne ArtLab and will constitute itself as people meet, as thematics emerge, as the environment conditions, as the weather manifests, as the bodies form, as toxicity persists, as we drive ourselves towards multiplying perspectives for thinking and experiencing phenomena emerging from artistic research practices. The RC will function as a meeting point for the convergence of concerns, interests and the pleasures of learning together. It will research itself and its modus operandi in terms of hospitality, dissensus and criticality through the various research practices proposed. …Read more

block information, gathering, research center

4 June-9 May 2018

Instead of Needing to Know

SOL/School Of Love in the frame of Parallel-Parasite

Residency at a.pass/ Zsenne gallery, Brussels 4 – 9 June (except for June 6th), 2018 If both Love and School engaged in the practice of being open to change through encounters with others, we might develop sensitivities to deal with unknown paths better. Maybe we would be better off improvising through, with and within the unknown, instead of needing to know. Maybe improvisation today can be approached as a mode of resistance to a life dedicated to an anticipated and defined future. Please inscribe here : https://bimestriel.framapad.org/p/VoV7C6HGQX Read more

project, recent past, research center

4 June-30 September 2018

Parallel Parasite

Research center 18/II curated by Lilia Mestre

From the 4th till the 30th of June the a.pass Research Centre (RC) will be in residency at ZSenne ArtLab and will constitute itself as people meet, as thematics emerge, as the environment conditions, as the weather manifests, as the bodies form, as toxicity persists, as we drive ourselves towards multiplying perspectives for thinking and experiencing phenomena emerging from artistic research practices. The RC will function as a meeting point for the convergence of concerns, interests and the pleasures of learning together. It will research itself and its modus operandi in terms of hospitality, dissensus and criticality through the various research practices proposed. Read more

end communication, recent past

24-26 May 2018

This is 1000 liter fuel. So – & book launch

End-Communications + a.pass publication

END-COMMUNICATIONS @ DecorAtelier 24 and 25 May from 17:30 till 22:30Rue de Liverpool 24, 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-JeanBOOK LAUNCH Medium Score -Tectonic Friendship & End Communications Writing Score @ Brew 26 May from 17:30 till 19:301 Rue du Pene, 1000 Brussels …Read more

conversation, recent past, research center, talk

5-5 May 2018

Location a.pass, 4th floor

Close Encounters series
Conditions for the work

Sofia Caesar / Femke Snelting

For this episode of Close encounters, Sofia Caesar and Femke Snelting have invited each other for an afternoon of conversation about contracts as propositions and elements as conditions. Both are involved in related but very different practices that they will present and bring into discussion with each other and the public. Read more

block information

30 April-2 September 2018

Location Brussels

BLOCK 18/II
Milieus, associations, sieves and other matters…

Composing a processual environment, the block consisted in a sequential ensemble of collective dispositives that were proposed to be appropriated, interpreted, developed and problematised by the artists and researchers. A metastable milieu in ‘crisis’ which evolved by shifting to new dimensions out of a series of analyses and temporary resolutions of problematics linked with the artists and researchers’ projects considered as technologies. Read more

reading session, research center

16 April 2018

Location a.pass, 3rd floor

Monday Readings
Databases

Stickyness, stopping points, consistency, routines, mnemosyne

This Monday Reading prepared with Sina Seifee will be dedicated to the intricate structures of the ubiquitous database. Browsing the tables and rows of this very website, we will try to graps the affordances and limits of organising the world as a collection of digital data. …Read more

reading session, research center

19 March 2018

Location a.pass, 3rd floor

Monday Readings
Keycards

Movement, security, smartness

For this Monday Reading we will follow the path of the keycard system that opens the outside doors at a.pass. What does it mean when opening a door becomes part of a data-flow? …Read more

forum, recent past

16-16 March 2018

Location a.pass / starting at 19:00

Alberto Cossu / Ronny Heiremans / Nicolas Galeazzi
Reclaiming economy – it’s art anyway

an evening on the self-governing of fairness

In the framework the current block in which we work on the making of condition, a.pass is inviting together with SOTA, Alberto Cossu and Ronny Heiremans to discuss the self-governing for cultural practices under the defaul of different surrounding systems. Alberto works as a researcher within the occupied theater MACAO in Milano, Ronny researches as an artist in Belgium labour conditions through the rewriting of the artist contract. Read more

forum, recent past

16-16 March 2018

Location a.pass 4th floor / 10:00 to 17:00

Alberto Cossu
crypting currency, etc.

Next to the event Reclaiming Economy – it’s art, Alberto Cossu provides a workshop for us during the day of the 16th March. He will give us a closer insight into his practical experience with the common coin crypto-currency he helped to developed at MACAO and his profound research into the self-governance of that place. …Read more

forum, seminar

9 March-9 February 2018

Location ARIA - Antwerp

Pieter Vermeulen
Performing knowledge.

Lecture-performances in perspective

Lecture-performances have gained increasing attention in recent years, in the wake of the ‘academic turn’, which frames artistic praxis as a form of research. Its genealogy can arguably be traced back to the emergence of performance art in the 1960s, with canonical examples such as Robert Morris, Dan Graham, Andrea Fraser and Joseph Beuys. Contemporary artists like Sharon Hayes, William Kentridge, Rabih Mroué, Hito Steyerl, Amalia Ulman, Walid Raad, Bruce High Quality Foundation and many others are now continuing this historical legacy. Sharpening the relation between art and knowledge, their work can be situated at the intersection of visual art, lecture and performance. …Read more

reading session, research center

26 February 2018

Location a.pass, 3rd floor

Monday Readings
Encoding and compression

Monday Readings

“Codecs perform encoding and decoding on a data stream or signal, usually in the interest of compressing video, speech, or music. […] Software such as codecs poses several analytical problems. Firstly they are monstrously complicated. […] Second, at a phenomenological level, they deeply influence the very texture, flow and materiality of sounds and images. […] …Read more

forum, recent past

26 February-2 March 2018

Florian Feigl
How do we do the things that we do? #2

a rewrite of twelve design principles

Two working periods in January and February to analyse, discuss and introduce strategies and methodological approaches as articulated in permaculture desgin practice (Mollison, Holmgren) in relation to the Pattern Theory (Alexander) towards an environ-mental & corpo-real understanding of artistic process and artistic research. Read more

reading session, research center

5 February 2018

Location a.pass, 3rd floor

Monday Readings
Local server

Servers and hosts

In the lexicon of networks, any computer connected to the Internet is called a host. This means that all computers have the ability to host content. But in the current paradigm of the Internet, some hosts are designated to be serving (servers), and other hosts are to be served (clients). …Read more

forum, recent past

30 January-3 February 2018

Location a.pass 4th floor

Kate Rich
Critical Administration

Shaking down the entrepreneur

This workshop takes place in the devastated landscape of the Creative Economy. Dipping cautiously into realms of business and economics (in which artists are generally and probably wilfully unschooled), we will take a pigeon’s-eye view (scrappy, opportunistic, only occasionally vicious) of worn-out tropes such as entrepreneurialism, human capital and cultural enterprise. …Read more

project

30 January-3 February 2018

Critical Administration Forum

Shaking down the entrepreneur

This page is a forum in it self! A forum to discuss, digest and document the content of the Critical Administration: Shaking down the Enterpreneur Froum with Kate Rich at a.pass. Please find the descriotion of the project here.The page is a froum in the sense of a working place for exchange and the building of relations. The posts placed here are to be understood as a conversation! …Read more

research center, talk

27 January 2018

Location Manchesterstraat 17 - 1080

Close Encounters series
A dialogue on Active Archives

Nicolas Malevé / Femke Snelting

As a case study and exemplary project/practice, Nicolas Malevé, Femke Snelting and Pierre Rubio will discuss the long history of Active Archive. What can the different iterations of Active Archives tell us about the condition of engaged artists-researchers-archivists? What were the historical conditions that stimulated its genesis? And after all these years -punctuated by profound technological, cultural and institutional changes- how is its evolution and relevance today? Read more

end communication, event, lecture, performance

25-27 January 2018

Location Manchesterstraat 17

SVEN DEHENS and ZOUMANA MEÏTÉ
If a question could lie

a.pass end-communications is a public event for the sharing of the one year trajectories of the a.pass researchers. It’s a moment to bring to a larger public the questions and methods that their practice of artistic research at a.pass entailed. The event focuses on the sharing of their processes and on the invitation to reflect on the emerging topics and concerns of their research question(s) in the context of artist practice today.‘If a question could lie’ brings forth or wants to insist on the agency of the question. It aims to raise the issue of the appearance of criticality and its location. It’s as much claiming the right to pose a question as opening its ability to gather around a multitude, a poly. It could be read as a dating strategy. Saying, I wouldn’t be here if I weren’t interested. The I being the issue and the subject, at the same time. …Read more

conversation, research center, talk

25 January 2018

Location Manchesterstraat 17 - 1080

Close Encounters series
A conversation-on-exhibition

Marcelo Rezende / Adrijana Gvozdenović

Marcelo Rezende and Adrijana Gvozdenović share their stories and experiences about their (critical) practice of exhibition making. How can you produce meaning and experience that matters? Why do we still believe in reality? Read more

forum, recent past

19 January-23 March 2018

Nicolas Galeazzi
pattern language for conditioning practices

weekly meetings

In order to explore MAKING / CONDITIONS we will try to create a Pattern Language for conditioning practices in the arts. With reference to the same named concept, proposed by the architect and philosopher Christopher Alexander in the late 1970's, we will investigate the patterns that help us to cretate the conditions for our artistic research through this very same research practices. Read more

forum, recent past

18-19 January 2018

Florian Feigl
How do we do the things that we do?

a rewrite of twelve design principles

reading session, research center

15 January-16 April 2018

Monday Readings

Reading across technical tools and theoretical devices

In cultural institutions like a.pass, digital tools are used for communication, archiving, administration and production. These computational infrastructures depend more often than not on the services of tech giants and are put to use without too much space for reflection on how they actually work. If we want to bring technology within reach of interrogation and critique, how to break the spell of those paralysing regimes? How to shift the relationship from efficiency to curiosity; from scarcity to multiplicity and from solution to possibility? …Read more

reading session, research center

15 January 2018

Location a.pass, 3rd floor

Monday Readings
Text processing

characters, language and code

This first Monday Reading will be dedicated to text processing. We will discuss concepts such as What You See Is What You Get (WISYWYG), the virtues of ascii, what the differences are between writing, language, code, formatting and markup, and how our keyboards perform. …Read more

forum

10-11 January 2018

Dra. Adriana la Selva
What are you training for?

On acting and performance techniques - Current directions for embodied research in the performing arts

Adriana La Selva is participant of the a.pass PhD research program and proposes the 2 day seminar "What are e training for?" in relation to her home universisty U-Ghent. The topic addresses the conditions of the body in relation to its performatifity. Starting the investigations of the self-creation of conditions at the body seems to comply with the intentions of the block MAKING / CONDITIONS perfectly. We therefore decided to join this seminar as part of Plenum I. The first round of the individual research presentations of each a.pass participant will though take place within this seminar and amongst the group of the other participants. Read more

block information, recent past

8 January-1 April 2018

making / conditions

block 18/I curated by Nicolas Galeazzi

This block combines institutional critique with a fundamental depiction of Performance in its various interpretations in economy, administration, performing arts, and sociology. Performance stands for productivity and efficiency as much as for presence, representation, and the transformative power of speech. Investigating the interdependency between our artistic research practice and its surrounding adinistrative and economic supportstructures, we will develop a pattern language for conditioning practices in the arts - a pattern language as a set of tools for finding the 'institute' behind our research. Read more

block information

8 January-1 April 2018

Nicolas Galeazzi
Block overview

plenum & forum

This post gives a sort overview over the organisation and schedule of the block 2018/I Read more

recent past, research center

1 January-30 April 2018

Boundaries do not sit still

Research centre 18/I curated by Femke Snelting

In Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter, feminist theorist Karen Barad examines how apparatuses stabilize and destabilize boundaries. “Apparatuses are dynamic (re)configurings of the world, specific agential practices/intra-actions/performances through which specific exclusionary boundaries are enacted.” she writes. …Read more

project

1 January-29 April 2018

BLOCK DIARY / SLOW, RANDOM & LINKED WRITING & THINKING

This is a day to day diary of the search, the research, the unsearch, the raveling and the unraveling. Thoughts, musings, pictures, clips, questions and answers. It started January 25th. Read more

excursion

17 November 2017

Marialena Marouda
Flemish Marine Institue: Marine Station Ostend (MSO)

The excursion is a first encounter with the Flemish Marine Institute and its work. It includes a tour of the Marine Station and the Research Vessel Simon Stervin in the port of Ostend. Our guide will be André Cattrijsee, who is the “research infrastructure manager” of the FMI.During this excursion, I propose for us to focus our attention on how the ocean is studied in a scientific context. What kind of language is used to describe it? And what kinds of instruments are used to measure it? What are the categories that result from those measurements? And what kind of ocean is produced as a result? As a score for this excursion, I therefore propose to shift slightly the way we listen and experience this tour of a marine research institution. Instead of simply following the content of what is said, could we also discern the knowledge dispositive within which this tour takes place? And how does this dispositive affect, finally, the “object” of its study? …Read more

excursion

3 November 2017

Eszter Némethi
War-/-Lace and Vertigo

An excursion is a military term to describe a short entry to enemy territory without formal announcement of war. This excursion is an invitation to explore the ways in which spaces and materials can become instructions and how this relates to participation in complex systems. What is the the agency of things, participants and also the host. Can we listen to things in order to decipher their fictions? And can we remain complicated to each other? You will visit the Kantcentrum in Brugge and the NATO Headquarters in Evere . I will do my best to host you. You will be largely following instructions, reading, making, observing, walking and looking for gaps. You will then return to a playground for discussion at a.pass. I will make you dinner. …Read more

excursion

2 November 2017

Luisa Fillitz
A collection of Impressions

Coming together in a place. Where and how do our perceptions, according to the surrounding/the place and the situation where we are, manifest themselves? Where and how can we locate them in our body? How is our intuitive reaction? Linked together in groups, we would then — following a score-proposal — try out how everybody`s own intuitional desire of where and how he/she wants to move is affecting the movement of the others in the group as well as their movement is affecting each one. Afterwards everybody is invited to create a zine in any form – according to ones wish – trying to remember the different impressions and the thoughts, feelings, that they provoked. …Read more

excursion

1 November 2017

Leo Kay
The time it takes to think

How can we think together? How can we make Space for deep reflection on complex issues? How can we come close enough without intruding? How can we engage in group dialogue and take the time that is needed to think before producing more, contributing more to the system we are locked within?A day of observing, listening, walking, kneading, thinking, talking and baking, as we navigate a critical socio/political issue that effects us all and will continue to affect us in the forceable future. …Read more

excursion

31 October 2017

Elen Braga
The masters meeting: A Journey to the unpromised land and the magic balls

“- You shine through my atmosphere. And when you show up, my mountains move like bushes in the wind, and the rocks are scattered on all sides. I hear you. I hear an amazing bang like a storm to come. I hear the noise of thunder, the voice of demons, the winds, the monsters. The whole earth rises, dilating like the waves of the sea and my surface breaks down. My own ground seems to subside and… we need to find another ground to walk by: the unpromised land and the magics balls… “ …Read more

excursion

30 October 2017

Shervin Kianersi
For to Know Nothing Is Nothing

Imagine natural daylight, the best kind of light to see things clearly. Then imagine the light getting brighter and brighter, until it becomes so blindingly white that you are filled with anxiety. The information overload that we experience in our everyday lives is similar to that blinding light. Its origins date to the early 90s, when computer networks attained critical speeds and scales. Today, each of us yearns to be informed 24/7. The dictatorship of information creates in us a desire for round-the-clock information. We have become the organic components of an integrated global data and information system. Yet this yearning we feel is about our search for the Real, which a never-ending stream of information, that informs us only of the reality of facts, can neither satisfy nor fulfil. Because information is always directed at you. Information informs but is no guarantee of getting any closer to the truth. In fact, information sometimes operates as an obstacle to the truth. Instead, what if we started to filter out what we could of the information, in order to better understand the truth? What if we ignored information about the given facts and instead tried learn about something or someone for ourselves? …Read more

excursion

27 October 2017

Sven Dehens
Untitled Excursion

Critical voicing, reading, enactment of Alien (1979). Process of audio-visual documentation. Generation of a subtext to the script. …Read more

excursion

26 October 2017

Geert Vaes
La Flandre Profonde / Into The Heart Of Flanders

‘Het Gezin Van Paemel’ (The Family Van Paemel) by Cyriel Buysse is a 114-year old theatre piece that’s still showing the flemish what it means to be flemish. The excursion will bring us to an amateur theatre company rehearsing the piece. Why are they, and with them lots of other amateur companies, still so interested in this piece? Why am I? My questioning will be mainly about one scene in particular: the son who goes to tell his father he’s leaving for America. An America he only knows through stories, an America that personifies a better life. How is this flemish identity created (the I) by the staying and the leaving? And how is America (the other) created? And isn’t all emigrating originating in ‘The America of the Soul’? How is this construction of I a mask/conditioning? How is history as a re-construction keeping all these notions in place? How will I go from here to using masks again? And how will I finally get out of Flanders? …Read more

excursion

25 October 2017

Hoda Siahtiri
If the past is really passed?!

An introduction to co-experincing the others’ trauma

The city of Brussels is holding a part of my past. I will take you to one of the most historical places of Brussels. Please bring headphones if you have. It would be nice to have a piece of paper and pen. thanks. …Read more

excursion

24 October 2017

Pia Louwerens
From I to we

Excavating reality together, at home

“From I to we” serves as an introduction into my practice inside its subjective core: my own home. After a performance the audience is invited to rewrite the script, rewarded with a warm meal cooked by the artist herself. …Read more

excursion

23 October 2017

Eleanor Weber
The World Today All In The Mind

“…a 100% probability of nothing happening, and that’s often when it’s more interesting…” – Peter Ryan, ABC Senior Business Correspondent, 2 October 2017On Monday 23 October 2017, several todays, today. An instruction-based, public yet solo, listening & reading exercise, derived from radiowaves. Thinking about the public mind and testing what is produced from chance and structure. How language functions on different registers, at once, in time, and beyond us. …Read more

research center, talk

21 October 2017

Location a.pass 4th floor studio

Close Encounters series
Semiotics of the Uncanny

Dr. Dalila Honorato / Isabel Burr Raty

Semiotics of the Uncanny will approach alternative bodies in art, sexuality and pop culture, that conjugate body alteration, medical fetish, disability aesthetics and creative ritualistic behavior. Hybrid Art contributes to hybrid narratives in performing arts and creates new alternative technological materials and objects for empowerment and resistance against high-tech capitalist imperialism. Read more

research center

21 October-5 May 2018

Close Encounters Series

Close Encounters is the name of a series of presentations and public conversations organized by the a.pass Research Centre, which takes place when researchers are invited, or feel the need to communicate publicly about their research. The series is curated by the associate researchers and the current research curator Pierre Rubio. Read more

workshop

24-25 July 2017

Location a.pass 4th floor

Sina Seifee
Little Fables of Practice Workshop

In this two days workshop I like to propose the notion of keyword seen as a site where one formulates concepts and narratives that reorient one within one's own research practices. We will (re)animate our keywords as fables, which are operational metaphors that shape subjects and objects of knowledge. How can we participate in (re)shaping our objects of knowledge in terms of little fables? Read more

workshop

10 July-14 June 2017

Jennifer Lacey
Dance Workshop

The base line of dance is perhaps understood as the body but mostly it is bodies ( minds implied) together someplace, deciding to work in a certain way . The how of the work, the process, is something that is always to be reinvented and renegotiated. Each dispositif of dance making already contains a nascent content, one that will inevitably be more influential than any idea or concept in the production of the form. So, in imagining how to design the making of a dance, the translation of the concept or content into a thing-which-can-be-done is a crucial, poetic and political task. The base line of dance is perhaps understood as the body but mostly it is bodies ( minds implied) together someplace, deciding to work in a certain way . The how of the work, the process, is something that is always to be reinvented and renegotiated. Each dispositif of dance making already contains a nascent content, one that will inevitably be more influential than any idea or concept in the production of the form. So, in imagining how to design the making of a dance, the translation of the concept or content into a thing-which-can-be-done is a crucial, poetic and political task. Read more

seminar, workshop

22-24 June 2017

Location La Bellone, Brussels

a.pass seminar and master classes: The Document Transformed + Book Launch Juan Dominguez

Curated by Sofia Caesar and Lilia Mestre, the public program “The Document Transformed” invites four practitioners that offer very distinct questions, methods, and proposals to problems related to documentation. Join Femke Snelting, Olga de Soto, Vincent Meessen, and Agency (Kobe Matthys), and others, for three days of presentations, screenings, performances and conversations. How does the document affect practices, bodies, histories, and experiences? The event brings together practices that not only give sight to the power relations engendered by apparatuses of documentation, but also move towards the transformation of the systems in which we produce history, law, art, and the body. Held in the context of The Problem of the Score, block curated by Lilia Mestre in the a.pass post-master research program and supported by a.pass.This seminar is organized in collaboration with La Bellone – BrusselsTo inscribe to the master-classes please send an email to production@apass.beJUNE 22-23-24 @ LA BELLONERue de Flandre 46BrusselsDetailed program: …Read more

project

15 May 2017

THE MEDIUM SCORE

MEDIUM SCORE follows on previous iterations of scores as tools to practice dialogue or intersubjective formats for exchange in artistic research. ScoreScapes is an investigation of how scores can facilitate the relation between artistic research, documentation and knowledge processing. Read more

night session, screening

20 March 2017

Location a.pass

YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS ?! 4/4

(revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova

YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS!? is a series of screenings revisting SF-Cinema with a focus on 'other' (non-)western SF. It aims to look critically at the genre as well as to reconsider the potential of the genre to look critically. The series includes films and shorts from the trenches of Soviet SF, the esoteric SF of Unarius, old, new and queer interpretations of SF, early works by Black Audio Film Collective, an opening to Russian cosmism, works by Chris Kraus, early Cronenberg, something called Betaville, trailers and more. Read more

reading session

17 March 2017

Location a.pass

Book Club #9 Language as Magic and the Language of Things

Book Club Series / Caroline Godart & Marialena Marouda

In the essay “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” Benjamin proposes a language metaphysics that extends to every thing. Every thing has a language: objects, animals, human beings but also immaterial things, like the Arts or Technology. For Benjamin language is therefore a medium going very much beyond human language and the communication through words. One could say language is the way in which some thing – indeed every thing – communicates itself to the world. Read more

seminar

16 March 2017

Location a.pass

BOOK CLUB #8 ACCELERA.PASS

Book Club Series / Michiel Vandevelde & Wouter De Raeve curated by Seba Hendrickx

In 2013 the Accelerationist Manifesto by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams emerged, aiming to question the traditional Left and to demarcate a renewed relation with capitalism, while its provocative aura generated a whirlwind of pros and cons. During this seminar we will not merely read excerpts of the manifesto. By means of a genealogy of the concept, we'll try to frame this tendency within the larger philosophical evolutions of the past decennia and nuance its “accelerating” characteristic. Read more

workshop

14-15 March 2017

Location a.pass

Helena Dietrich
The Tea Party

in search for an elastic alien self

We will use clothing like a pharmakon: what pollutes us can also clean us! By triggering the optical unconscious we can transform sensuously a commoditised visual world into a psychological cleansing process from cultural inherited aesthetics. Acknowledging the ability of three-dimensional images and materials as determinations of our perception of self is already an attempt to empower ourselves at changing our/the reality. Not only in words but also in materialising this reality into visible and tangible new object-beings. Read more

lecture, talk

10 March 2017

Location a.pass

Book Club #7 Politics of Speculative fabulation

Book Club Series / Fabrizio Terranova

"We need new types of narratives and techniques. Stories that reclaim the earth and the commons that capitalism has stolen from us. Stories that invite us to take up and create trans-species sensitivities, trans-matters vitalities and trans-cerebral unrests. And it’s not enough imagining them, these stories have to be made and experienced." In this talk/reading session, Fabrizio Terranova will revisit a recent text by Donna Haraway, “Sympoiesis - Symbiogenesis and the Lively Arts of Staying with the Trouble” and present the different projects he is involved in where activism, speculative fiction and pedagogy merge. Read more

performance

10 March 2017

Location a.pass

Book club #7bis An Animal Escape Case

Book club series special event / Sina Seifee

The essay-performance plays with some standards of cross-species identification according to an Indo-Iranian mode of subjectivity and my own animal-findings in contemporary Tehran. We zoom in what the idea of "wilderness" withholds in technologically mediated stories and rumors that populate domestic life and quotidian of middle ages of this neighborhood. Through fairy-tale associations the lecture investigates operative non-understandings in old and new threads of cosmology that formulate reciprocity and being-with of the mediated non-humanity and investigates the cases of failed collaboration between species. Read more

lecture, talk

9 March 2017

Location a.pass

Book Club #6 A STITCHED AND SPLIT HOSPITALITY

Book Club Series / Laurence Rassel

The a.pass Book Club welcomes “what if” expert-consultant Laurence Rassel. Long ago she diagnosed the vacuity of artistic practices when its formats of knowledge-production are not ‘situated’ in an ecology of art that encompasses social and psychological factors. Paradoxically she considers fiction, science-fiction, narratives and role plays as paramount tools to achieve that goal. Laurence Rassel will address the notion of ‘Radical Hospitality’ by revisiting Stitch and Split, and some of the curatorial operating principles and practices she developed in Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona as an engaged feminist curator. Read more

event, recent past

8 March 2017

Location a.pass

LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY

screening and presentation by Dr EDWARD GEORGE

The influential Black Audio Film Collective crafted this experimental blend of sci-fi parable and essay film, which also serves as an essential primer on the aesthetics and dynamics of contemporary Afrofuturism. Interviews with esteemed musicians, writers, and cultural critics are interwoven with the fictional story of the “data thief,” who must travel through time and space in search of the code that holds the key to his future. Dr Edward George, the writer, researcher, presenter of this ground breaking science fiction documentary, will present and discuss the film and its themes of music, Diaspora, science fiction, and its engagement with Afro futurism. Read more

night session, screening

6 March 2017

YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?! 3/4

(Revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova

workshop

27 February-3 March 2017

Location a.pass

Alice Chauchat
worlding from this world

this is not wishful thinking, it is speculating utopia from what is already there

Rather than lamenting the scarcity of agreeable situations in our present, we will wilfully engage in expanding through the force of our imagination these maybe fragile, uncertain, easily disposable snippets of communal life which are also part of the world as we know it. Taking these as sufficient evidence for the existence of a world we want to inhabit, we will turn the logic of exception into a logic of rule, and run the risk of building monstrous worlds. At least these might be differently interesting monstrosities. Read more

reading session, talk

16 February 2017

Location a.pass

Book Club #5 Sacred Drift, a journey into political consciousness of sound

Book Club Series / Peggy Pierrot

Is there something to hear between the 0 and the 1 of digitized compressed music? Is there something to de-cypher in our coded Nyabinghi drums? What is the message hidden between themes, rythms, intonations, improvisations, the samples, the drum, the bass, the cuts and the pastes? and what kind of mental space or imaginary frame allowed/constrained the emergence of a futuristic post-modern culture within the Black Atlantic ? We’ll build or we’ll destroy. We’ll learn about the Know-Ledge. Read more

night session, screening

16 February 2017

Location a.pass

YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?! 2/4

(Revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova

workshop

7-10 February 2017

Myriam Van Imschoot
TELESCOPING THE INTERVIEW

three day intensive

Myriam Van Imschoot will pass on her discoveries within her interest in the interview, the doors that led over time to appreciating speech for what it offers beyond meaning: significant aberrations, iterations, flux and rupture, modulation, and not in the least, different alterations of subjectivity. This three day intensive will combine artist talk, screenings, voice improvisations, score explorations, and other tele-scopic incursions into artistic practice and research. Read more

reading session

2-9 February 2017

Location a.pass

Book Clubs #3 & #4 Situated Knowledge

Book Club Series / Sina Seifee

Reading Sessions of Donna Haraway's essay 'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective'. This reading focuses on politics and epistemologies of location, positioning, and situating in our power-sensitive conversations, and what does it mean to become accountable and responsible for one's own noninnocent translations. Read more

night session, screening

30 January 2017

Location a.pass

YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?! 1/4

(Revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova

reading session

26 January 2017

Book Club #2 Black Atlantic & Speculative Fiction

Book Club Series

Revisiting Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic in relation with afro-american SF and in particular Octavia Butler's. Read more

atelier

23 January-6 February 2017

Location a.pass

Christian Hansen
F.Y.R.

Foley Your Research

How does/could my research sound like? Does your research have a direct auditory quality and content or would you like/need to create a fictional soundscape to give it a sound? Read more

end communication

20-21 January 2017

Location Morpho, Rue Gallaitstraat 80, 1030 Schaarbeek, Brussel

SOFIA CAESAR VARINIA CANTO VILA CHRISTIAN HANSEN BRENDAN MICHAL HESHKA ANOUK LLAURENS ARIANNA MARCOLINI AGNES SCHNEIDEWIND
LANDINGS

end presentation 2017

An invitation to us visitors to temporarily observe and intentionally touch that ground we continuously step on. Landings brings together 7 a.pass researchers that started and finished their Post Master program at the same time. Read more

publication

20-22 January 2017

Varinia Canto Vila; Sofia Gerheim Caesar; Christian Hansen; Brendan Heshka; Anouk Llaurens; Arianna Marcolini; Agnes Schneidewind
Landings

price: 8 euroMore information here.

reading session, talk

19 January 2017

Location a.pass

Book Club #1 COGNITIVE ESTRANGEMENT

BOOK CLUB SERIES / Sol Archer

Starting with Darko Suvin's ideas of Cognitive Estrangement, we will look at some of the mechanisms and functions of science fiction, and consider how the imagining of alternative realities operates is a critical gesture with which to view consensus reality Read more

block information

9 January-30 April 2017

BLOCK 17/I
TROUBLE ON RADIO TRITON_ ((((((( changing (the) world (s) ))))))

Which alternative worlds do our researches/practices contain and can immanently produce? How do we relate to the future via artistic-research? As artists, do we through our researches contribute to changes in contemporary culture? And if yes, then which cultures do our researches produce? Trouble on Radio Triton is a metaphoric multipolar dispositive. A discursive and practice-based ‘lure for feeling’ and thinking. An operative alibi strategically using ‘if’s’, ‘what if’s’, ‘as if’s’ to exercise critique and imagine alternatives. Read more

conference, performance

26 November 2016

Between what is no longer and what is not yet

Performance in the context of a.pass’ public meeting The Artist Commoner. (Self) Education of New SubjectivitiesDominguez wants to suspend events and create an interval of time in which he can try to integrate his past into his future. He will translate his visions and his desire to encounter the unknown through language. Dominguez is working alone for the first time in 14 years. Back then, he choreographed his work with labeled cards. Now, he’ll speak himself and give rise to a self-portrait that cites himself and some of his friends. Limited capacity! 8/10/12€. Tickets via Kaaitheater:

conference

25-26 November 2016

Location KaaiStudios - Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Vaakstraat 81 // 1000 Brussel.

a.pass, KaaiTheater
The Artist Commoner : Public Meeting

(self) Education of new subjectivities

During a two day event, a.pass welcomes a gathering of researchers, artists, a.pass program participants and public to engage with the struggle of being an artist commoner today, and the role of (educational) institutions in bringing this subject about. Two days of presentations, exchanges and commoning practices. Two days of ateliers, books launches, performances, workshops and discussions. Read more

input, workshop

14-14 November 2016

Location a.pass / KaaiTheater

Michael Bauwens / KaaiTheater
Ten New Practices of the Great Transition

The KaaiTheater kindly invites us to participate in a one day Workshop with of the most experienced activist, philosopher and commons advisor in Belgium. He is working as much with gras root movements as he advises e.g. Ecuador in reorganizing parts of their state structure as a commons. Read more

workshop

31 October-3 November 2016

Location VK (Vaarkapoen, Molenbeek)

Einat Tuchman & VK
COMMUNAL GARDENS

Vaarkapoen is a community center in the heart of Molenbeek, quite near of a.pass. One of their projects is to develop communal garden as an open space for a general public use in connection to an artistic residency place. During the workshop we will examine the existing and the future garden through each ones personal artistic researches. Read more

workshop

10-13 October 2016

Location a.pass

Agency
ASSEMBLY WITH THINGS

Thing 001390, and Thing 001652

For this workshop Agency proposes an Assembly with two Things that are directly connected to questions of the commons Commons. Discussing and unfolding the problematics of these cases we try to localize the gray zones in our own researches, our relationship to objects and the reality that create ‚us and them’. Read more

recent past

27-30 September 2016

Location Zsenne Artlab

Isabel Burr Raty; Thiago Antunes; Esteban Donoso
UNDER )o( MINING : end presentations

Three research will be presented: "Beauty kit focus group": Isabel Burr Raty will be presenting bio-products that she fabricates from a variety of substances collected from her womb. "Welcome and please do not turn the page": A reading game performance around authority, obedience and participation, inspired by civic integration programs. By Thiago Antunes. "Table Movie": Esteban Donoso hosts a moment of collective fiction; to create an imaginary film using our senses as recording devices. Read more

publication

27-30 September 2016

Isabel Burr Raty; Thiago Antunes; Esteban Donoso
Under)0(Mining

price: 2 euro …Read more

workshop

26-30 September 2016

Vladimir Miller
THEORIES UNDER THE COMMONS

This workshop will be an attempt to „come to terms“, to create shared reference points within the commons discourse among the workshop participants. We will read discuss and map a selection of texts which lay the groundwork for understanding the commons debate today and we will make ourselves familiar with a reader, which can be a further reference for discussions and in depth reading throughout the block. Read more

workshop

19 September-17 November 2016

Location a.pass

Mala Kline
“WITH I/II”: Communal Dreaming

In two complementary workshops at the beginning and towards the end of the block, we explore the practical and theoretical implications of working with the concept of the “With” (Nancy) with-in the affective relational space between singularities. In the process of co-articulation of singularities to be “with” is to be exposed, at the limit of oneself, entangled with another singularity and distinguished from it. Read more

workshop

16 September-25 November 2016

Location a.pass

Nicolas Galeazzi
Friday Open Space

Every Friday of this block - from 16th September till the Common Conference - we will come together for a concentrated commoning session. In oder to concretely practice and practically inquire the general question of the block - what is created in common? - we try to establish an open space practice that allows pursuing the individual research interests while focussing at the same time on interrelations amongst these researches and the common interests. Read more

project

14 September-4 December 2016

Change Log of Common Things

This page is a log board for tracing the canges and alternations of common things (or 'item') that has be brought in to the common space as a common research good. Read more

input, workshop

13-13 September 2016

Location Kate Rich

ECONOMY, AN INTRODUCTION

A one-day sortie into the darker macro arts of Economics, a field in which artists are regularly and perhaps wilfully unschooled. Read more

block information

5 September-4 December 2016

BLOCK 2016/III: COMMONS

This block investigates commons economies in the context of the arts. It invests in an experimental setup to expand the notion of economy and appropriate it as an artistic practice. For this reflection we will try to model with you our own specific commons economy for holding a shared responsibility of our individual researches - respectively that ‚common economy’, that emerges while we work together. Read more

workshop

5-14 September 2016

Location a.pass

Nicolas Galeazzi
Opening week 2016/III workshop: Gathering things

With this commoning workshop embedded in the opening week, we emphasise - and radicalize what normally the opening week is focussing on: we share our researches! Sharing this time, is not only a means to update each other about the actual state of our researches, but literally to make them to a common issue. Read more

excursion, workshop

16-17 July 2016

Location Station Haren Zuid

Christian Hansen
Hoarding and Hiding

Together we will walk from Station Haren Zuid towards Brussels along the railways.Underway we will exaggerate and share our urge to pick up and play with any things that trigger our curiosity and find temporary homes possible new belongings. After the walk we will set up a studio camp in a field between Gare de Schaerbeek and Gare du Nord where we can work with our findings and get some sleep.

excursion, workshop

13-13 July 2016

Location apass

Luiza Crosman
UNRAVELING INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS

A one day practice-based and experimental excursion-workshop that will focus on reflecting on Art Institutions - how they present themselves and how we, as artists,art workers or general public, would act upon them, given the power to make decisions. During the excursion-workshop we will visit an Art Institution and, through a staff’s guided tour, we will learn about the “non visible” work that maintains and moves it’s dynamics, making it possible for its structure to be ready to receive art shows, projects, presentations, etc. Read more

excursion, workshop

12-12 July 2016

Location apass

Sina Seifee
EXCURSION TO CEN

(in the direction of my research; hastily opening the ontological envelope that saves a heart full of "list of specifications"...) the visit will be to the 'European Committee for Standardization' (CEN, French: Comité Européen de Normalisation), one of the EU fostered nonprofit public institutions of the cutting-edge development regarding ambitious notion of 'data', 'systematic knowledge', and 'specifications'. the excursion will be oriented towards a meeting between the participants of APASS and the representatives of CEN; and encourages a run between the ontological demands of international economy and contemporary art, their disastrous split, and where their epistemological formations meet and intersect. Read more

excursion, workshop

11-11 July 2016

Location apass

Esta Matkovic
Place yourself to receive

My suggestion for excursion is to try perceive particular space, as still-non-defined-space. We will go to this kind of space, which has potential to stimulate different directions in conversation. We will stand in a waiting line with other participants and “receive” what this space gives to us. How do we perceive and measure this? What we are perceiving and how does this influence our behavior. Body position, relation, potential to become statement. Read more

excursion, workshop

8-9 July 2016

Location Barlok, 9pm

Gerald Kurdian
Hot bodies of the future <3

Hot bodies of the future <3 is a scored investigation of body states in parties and clubs contexts. Experienced one night through and under coloured lights, it consists in a very sensuous and playful exploration, with scores, of some or our physiologic, erotic and imaginative relationships to sounds, body movements and space while club dancing. Read more

workshop

5-7 July 2016

Location a.pass

Vladimir Miller / Peter Stamer
FORGED THEORY

„I remember this workshop where we were asked to write theory in support of our research. Not to go and read and quote existing work but to make it up, to quote from a fictional pile of books. What would be such a fictional body of writing to situate our work in? What kind of fanstasy discouse does our work exist in? To be honest: Is our work not already producing a potential yet unwritten discourse? We keep looking until we find that ghost in someone else’s writing, calling it research, no? Its divination, ghost hunting, séances. Can we go one step further and conjure up those voices we are looking for? In that workshop we looked at the many fragmented ways those voices appear in a piece of writing: blurbs on the back page, quotes from form other literary works, footnotes, citations, bibliography lists and lists for further reading. All the ways a supporting structure of precedents is woven into and around an academic text. Mere fragments in themselves, they point to whole architectures of thought. Their distinct style, their no-nonsense-brevity speak volumes. How does an archeologist distinguish between a shard and a piece of pottery made to look like one? He cant help but imagine the vase.“ Richard Crane „Territorial Discourses“, Michigan University Press, 1998 Read more

input, workshop

30-30 June 2016

Location a.pass

Peggy Pierrot / Femke Snelting
Modifying the universal

As an input to MOVING RESEARCH Femke will host a one day workshop, starting from the emoji modifiers case. We will discuss how and why mainstream communication infrastructures promote universalist values and at the same time provide means for separating users along fault lines of race, gender and age. Read more

excursion, workshop

29 June 2016

Location meeting at a.pass

Esteban Donoso
Mr. Ecuador

While swimming in the public pool at Jeu de Bal we will record sounds from the site, our conversations, and sounds sprout from talking practices I have been working on. When we are back in the apass studio, we will perform our swiming pool sound documentary. Read more

excursion, input, workshop

29-29 June 2016

Location a.pass

Einat Tuchman
A visit to the social cultural centers of Molenbeek

Wondering around the community of Molenbeek we will enter four different social cultural centres. In each one we will get to know their activities , their aims and their relation to the political economical conditions of a community like Molenbeek. Read more

excursion, workshop

16 June 2016

Séba Hendrickx
A silent group visit to my father’s house

+/- 15 a.pass-participants and others travel to the place where the initiator of the trip spent most of his youth. The visit forms the basis of a collective writing score, inspired by the architecture of collaboration of a ‘writers room’ (a group of scriptwriters working on a TV series, a.k.a. ‘a bigger brain’).

excursion, workshop

10 June 2016

Location meeting at a.pass

Sana Ghobbeh / Juan Duque
Excursion

We propose as an activity to gather at Gare du Midi market on Sunday and each of us, after finding a place, remain still in the same spot for about 45 minutes (or as much as the high activities of the context allow) before the finishing activity and dismantling of the market. A main question we want to explore: For how long can we remain? In which ways can our bodies be affected when we decide to take a position that is opposite to the majority of people surrounding us in such a busy place? Read more

end communication

26-28 May 2016

Location in the cellars of the Tour&Taxis sheds

TINNA OTTESEN
Generously forceful / The doubtful wild

THREE VIVARIUMS / a.pass research presentation

If a place has a memory, will it sense your absence? How do we respond to materials, and to the sensations, the memories they evoke? And how can inorganic, industrial materials like latex & nylon, respond to elementary things in us? What are the transformative effects of space and beauty? Is it possible that spatial experience can change ones perspective and interaction with the world? Read more

workshop

24-24 May 2016

Location a.pass

Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga
ON MOVEMENT

A proposition to think through the multiple understandings of the word 'movement' both as a change of physical location over time and in the sense of social or political 'movements' Read more

excursion, workshop

24-24 May 2016

Location apass

Maarten Van Den Bussche
PROTEST!

Next Tuesday, the 24th of may, the three biggest labour unions of Belgium are calling for a collective demonstration through Brussels. They march against austerity measurements that weigh heavy on the general public but refuse to demand a similar effort of the top percent. They march against a deregulation of the working hours that would push burn-out and stress statistics to all time highs. Read more

excursion, workshop

18 May 2016

Location meeting at a.apass

Thiago Antunes
Civic integration at Thermae Grimbergen

We are going to the Thermae Grinbergen, in Grimbergen, a municipality in the province of the Flemish Brabant. This spa is unissex and has two main parts, one naked area and another for people in swuimming suits. The participants can choose whichever area they prefer to start, but my invitation is for trying both. Read more

workshop

9-10 May 2016

Location a.pass

Epifania Amoo-Adare
(Un)thinking Research Practice

Decolonizing Theory, Mobilizing Methodologies, and Open-Ended Becoming(s)

The premise of this workshop is that a critical pedagogy on the space of research knowledge production, and its related forces of (re)production, is a necessary condition for any intervention in (and of) that space. Consequently, we propose to challenge widespread understandings of research space and knowledge production as a binary researcher-researched structure that is given and fixed, in other words: a structure that is developed for and not a context that is developed by the various actors in the research process. We contrast this convention with an understanding of research space as both, a manifestation as well as a vehicle of the productive relations of power-knowledge. …Read more

event

9 May 2016

Location a.pass

Dinner with Brussels

In order to simulate our ideas for specific and challenging trips we would like to gather some brussels ‘cracks’ – people who know Brussels form one or the other perspective by heart, know the hidden places and weird stories of this city – and invite them for a dinner at a.pass. …Read more

workshop

3-6 May 2016

Location a.pass

Elke van Campenhout / Vladimir Miller
FEEDBACK

Since a.pass is a shared environment, we depend a lot on each other as sparring partners in our researches. As part of the Opening Week this workshop addresses very diverse feedback techniques: spoken critique, non-negotiated critique, direct feedback, indirect feedback, written, walking, one-on-one or transformative feedback. Read more

common moment

2-11 May 2016

Location a.pass

Opening week Block II/2016

Open up your practice to the others! Read more

block information

2 May-28 August 2016

Location Brussels and beyond

Block 2016/II: Uninvited Research

Where do we practice our research? How to give a practice a new context? What can we do, think, read and try together when being on the move? This block is concerned with the processes and questions of a mobile, displaced, untethered research practice. As a collective practice for this block each a.pass participant will propose a trip, or an excursion to a place that resonates with the topics of her research. We understand these trips as mini workshops. They will be attended by the a.pass participants and will also be open to the genreal public on a sign-up basis. Read more

block information, project

1 May-31 July 2016

Block 2016/II: Uninvited research – Excursions

Where do we practice our research, and how does changing that affect what can be talked about and experimented with? How to give a practice a new context? What can we do, think, read and try together when being on the move? We will take this opportunity to re-examine mobility of research practices in the context of de-colonial and feminist discourse on space and its social production. How do notions of power and privilege figure into this academic exploration of the presupposed „outside“ of the institution? With our colonial histories, what does it mean today to go on an excursion, to go looking „elsewhere“ for knowledge? Which gestures of power and othering are we replicating by using these methods of (ad)venture in our research? This block will be guided by an attempt to apply de-colonial thinking to the very idea of research itself, to unlearn its innocence and to insist that coloniality and its critique apply as soon as we open our doors and step outside, and as soon as we think towards „other“ places and discourses. Read more

project

23-23 March 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #10

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workshop

14-18 March 2016

Anne Juren
Denuding

Following the notion of the division and the multiplicity of the subject, the workshops will deal with different choreographic strategies and body practices related to text present in the method Feldenkrais and will experiment within the relation between poetry and writing in examining the text of authors from the Ecriture Féminine. Read more

project

9 March 2016

BUBBEL SCORE SESSION # 9

PARTICIPANTSSofia, Sana, Chris, Agnes, Mala, Aela, Varinia, Arianna, Isabel, Lili, Robin, Lilia …Read more

workshop

7-11 March 2016

Location a.pass

Myriam Van Imschoot
VOCAL CIRCUITS

(working title for a workshop at Apass)

In this one-week workshop we will use various forms of voicing and singing to co-write thoughts, ideas and presence in the multiple spaces of social interaction, communication and their architectural and acoustic envelopes. Read more

project

2-2 March 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #8

PARTICIPANTS: Sana, Mala, Sofia, Christian, Agnes …Read more

project

24 February 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #7

PARTICIPANTS: Sofia, Christian, Aela, Gerald, Lilia, Lili, Sana, Nicolas, Luiza, Varínia, Robin, Brendan, Mala …Read more

event, project

19-20 February 2016

WARRIORS

workshop

15-19 February 2016

Location a.pass

Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer
VAN

VAN is a spacetime machine in which all medias and materials become speakers to question common dichotomies: subject / object, observers / observed, nature / culture, male / female, materiality / discourse, matter / meaning, past / future, space / time, something / nothing. Read more

project

12-12 February 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #5

PARTICIPANTSIsabel, Arianna, Lilia, Agnes, Sebastian, Sofia, Aela, Mala, Esteban, Robin …Read more

project

12-12 February 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #6

SESSION #6 PARTICIPANTS Luiza, Robin, Bredan, Lilia, Mala, Juan, Christian, Sofia, Arianna, Sana …Read more

project

3-3 February 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #4

workshop

1-5 February 2016

Location a.pass

Lilia Mestre & Bruno De Wachter
“An image says more than a thousand words, so why writing?”

What words start to echo in your mind when you close the visual input? And which words would you choose to replace an image being taken away? Read more

project

27-27 January 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #3

PARTICIPANTS:Nicolas, Sofia, Brendan, Nicolas, Christian, Sana, Arianna, Esteban, Thiago, Agnes, Juan, Seba, Anouk, Luiza, Pierre, Robin, Yaari, Aela, Lili, Lilia …Read more

project

20-20 January 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #2

workshop

18-22 January 2016

Location a.pass

Elke Van Campenhout
Who’s Afraid of the Subject?

In this theoretical and discussion workshop, we reconsider the notion of the subject today:why, after all the turn-arounds of becomings, vibrant objects and a decentralisation of the human perspective, do we need to reconsider the subject as an important player in our discourses and practice?well, to start with, because there is no personal agency or ethics without it. and also because there is a need for a consciousness of what it is that subjects us, what it is that turns us into speaking, experiencing and affecting human beings. but even more so, when and why these powers are denied to us, and why? …Read more

project

13-13 January 2016

BUBBLE SCORE SESSION #1

workshop

11 January-25 March 2016

Location a.pass

Lilia Mestre
Bubble Score for performance and writing

This is a score to explore the different notion of presence in performance and writing. It is acted out as a weekly meeting throughout the block between January and March 2016. The practices of the score alternate between performance and writing as modes of the performative. All people attending the score meetings have to share work. There is no audiance. Read more

block information

4 January-31 March 2016

Location a.pass

Lilia Mestre
Block Focus: Sub -(e)ject

The relation between writing and performance

The proposal for this block follows up on scores as a tool to organize dialogical or intersubjective formats for exchange in artistic practice and research. In the past two years I developed in the frame of a.pass a score for writing practice, ‘Writing Scores’ and a score for performance ‘Perform Back Score’, both as discursive tools. Both scores created a platform for the different researches to co-habitate and to reflect back the methods and strategies each of us use in the making and thinking of our practices. The main questions are: How do we compose materials and thoughts? What is the performativity at stake on the sharing of those? What’s the relation between subjectivity and collectivity in a collaborative environment? What does that do to our individual practices and to the collective itself? Read more

workshop

9-22 November 2015

Location Abbeye of Forest

Bureau d'Espoir / Elle
Mobile MNSTRY

The Mobile MNSTRY (Monastery, Ministery, Monster-y) is a collective location project, organised in and around the previous Abbeye of Forest. The MNSTRY will install a temporary (monastic) community that lives and works within a limited area, following a shared time score and accepting the rule of poverty for the duration of the workshop. During this time all activities of the MNSTRY will be organised within the public contexts of Forest, and developed as an open invitation to the neighbourhood and passers-by. During the workshop the time score of the MNSTRY will bit by bit start to change: the original 'monastic' score will be taken over by the members of the community, who will start to decide on what there is to be done, what we will spend our shared time on, and what is it that is needed today, here, and for whom. Read more

event

7 November 2015

FIRE SALE TOUR

24-24 October 2015

Veridiana Zurita
invitation research sharing

don’t eat the microphone / televizinho / mommy, daddy, me Veridiana zurita24/10/2015, 7-10pm, a.pass studio, de bottelarijIn 2014 I started working as an artistic researcher in a.pass. Since then I developed three different projects. ‘Don’t Eat the Microphone’: a weekly session developed together with the residents of the psychiatric hospital Dr. Guislain in Ghent, ‘Televizinho’: a series of re-enactments of Brazilian soap-operas with no-actors of a river community in the Amazon and ‘Mommy, Daddy, Me’: a letter trialogue about love relationships between me and my parents. Through these experimental set-ups I gathered a lot of materials of various kinds. Now I would like to share these video’s, texts, experiences and set-ups with you. I would be happy to host you during an evening-long sharing of materials from the research, and offer an idea of the contexts and imaginations that brought these ongoing projects to life.More information here

workshop

12-22 October 2015

Location a.pass studio

Juan Dominguez
dirty room

I will ask you a lot of questions, over and over. From the begining till the end. I will question you, you will question everybody, we will experience suspiciousness I guess. In which conspiracy are you involved at the moment? Angles, all the time different ones. We will trip for sure, all kind of trips or maybe not all kinds but different trips. Follow me through the rabbit hole and lets visit Wonderland. Read more

work group

5-9 October 2015

Mika Juusela/Adriana La Selva
The Bridge

This workshop is part of Adriana La Selva’s research on contemporary training methodologies for theatre. The beginning of the project concentrates on a deep understanding of physical practices which draw from the Theatre Anthropology vocabulary developed by Eugenio Barba, in order to question and push forward training principles devised by his group. Read more

work group

18-20 September 2015

OR SHALL WE USE THE STAIRS?

Brussels-based choreographer Adva Zakai and French curator Raphaële Jeune propose 3 days of lectures and exercises to collectively explore different aspects of the relationship between humans and machines. Together with special guests and anyone interested, we aim to share thoughts on the digitalization of our world, through introduction into concepts that developed in response to it: The challenging dialogue with algorithms, the splendor and misery of Transhumanism, recent developments in Donna Haraway’s thinking (author of 1985’s Cyborg Manifesto) and the theory of Accelerationism. …Read more

workshop

14 September-2 October 2015

Location a.pass studio

Vladimir Miller
Settlement VIII

TOWARDS FRAGILITY

Settlement is a space that tries very hard not to settle. Its instability naturally works against the establishing of clear boundaries between „your space“ and „my space“, what hopefully follows from that is that it is very difficult to establish boundaries between „your work“ and "my work". I believe that practice is bound by space, and if space gets shaky, unstable, shareable, so does the practice. Read more

article, project, workshop

1 September-31 December 2015

Location Abbeye de Forest

Bureau d'Espoir - Elle
SELF-INTERVIEW Elke – Elle

Elke (a.pass researcher): Elle, with the new project ‘Mobile MNSTRY’ you again tackle some of the issues you have been dealing with in your extended project Bureau d’Espoir already for some years: the recuperation and embrace of practices and terms that have been categorized, marginalized and recuperated by capital strategies. For example: you worked on the mobilization of the concept of ‘anorexia’ in the Hunger and Anorexic practices as tools for rethinking our relation to the consumption of food, and our own place in the ‘food chain’ of capitalism. You worked in ‘Battery’ on the embrace of circumstances that are considered detrimental to the ‘healthy’ development of the individual: 21 days of imprisonment, hunger and lack of private space as a spiritual-aesthetic machine for the production of hope and change. Now you propose the Mobile Monastery: a practice that is based on rethinking the monastic rule, the disciplining and deep experience of the everyday, introducing ‘poverty’ and social service (karma yoga) into the practice. Your proposals all seem to verge on the extreme, uncomfortable, and frankly, possibly moralistic. How do you plan to make this collective practice seem inviting to collaborators. Read more

event

24 July 2015

MAGIC NIGHT

This is the time to come together. To celebrate what we worked on. To transform our preconceptions of rituals, of magic, of transformation itself. A pilgrimage of the self into the common and back again. Read more

workshop

29 June-3 July 2015

Peter Stamer / Luanda Casella
SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION

In 1969, the American psychologist Stanley Milgram designed a study to explore if two randomly selected individuals, strangers to each other coming from different American states, are nevertheless connected by acquaintances in between. Starting the test in Kansas/Nebraska, linking people to one individual in Massachusetts, the experiment suggested that an individual knows of any target person only by six degrees of connecting steps: Mr X from Kansas knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Mrs Z, living in Massachusetts. …Read more

workshop

22-26 June 2015

Location a.pass

Oscar Parada
TOWARDS A COLLECTIVE RITUAL

The objective of re-knowing and re-producing the sacred in connection with a performative ritual space is to operate a transformation and that is what we can call medicine. Medicine is everything that transforms us. The workshop proposes techniques and practices to open the body not only as an artistic tool but also as a medicinal tool. We will question and challenge the limits of what ‘self’, ‘presence’ and ‘relation’ mean. Hence, the workshop will also a research into creating individual and collective rituals in different ways. Read more

workshop

8-12 June 2015

Abu Ali * Toni Serra
THE UNSEEN WORKSHOP

For this workshop Abu Ali offers a selection of footage from the video archive O.V.N.I (observatori de video no idenitficat) based in Barcelona, which deals with the ‘Unseen’. Based on these projections Abu Ali will experiment with us on practices of not seeing. Challenging the relation between the gaze and action, vision and perception, the imaginary and the experienced, we will cruise through a network of text, video, and physical practices that open the vision for the unseen and the un-seeing. Read more

workshop

1-5 June 2015

Location a.pass

Sara Manente / Marcos Simoes
THIS PLACE

The workshop unfold a series of extra sensorial practices as tools for collaboration in groups, couples or with objects. The dispositives used, for example the telepathic approach, offer the possibility to create a third existence which is “a self”, “an entity” other than us, with own quality and ability to perform. Like an “experimental magic”: there will be magic without magicians. Can we create the magic by creating the situation for the magic to happen? We create the rules therefore we create the magic. Is it possible to empower an object, a person, a situation through speculation? With the stubbornness of “the idiot”, we will practice and question again and again opening up the creative process to the immaterial and the immaterial. Read more

lecture

30-30 May 2015

Location aleppo

Patricia Reed
mobile orders

‘Order’ in and of itself, is a structural proposition in which sets of functions, behaviours, relations and norms can play out (while making other operations impossible or extremely difficult to carry out). Within the ‘social’, order is largely cultural, meaning productively artificial, subject to infinite mutability. So to demand ‘order’ is not (necessarily) to seek to submit oneself to relations of authoritarian dominance, but to seize upon structural possibilities as a project for construction. ‘Order’, in this way, is mobilised as an affirmative project – a freedom to construct new systems of cohabitation (rather than simply a freedom from something). …Read more

conference, event, workshop

30-30 May 2015

drawing askew / gonçalo pena

Master Class – Sat 12.30 to 3.30pmThe ProposalThe concept of the workshop is, after a careful reading of the text beneath, to devise a meaningful action focussing on the perceived gap in the flow of the current system politics and technics, which could lead to the premature extinction of life on this planet, our universe and every memory of it. This device should be thought as “meta-revolutionary”; i.e. attacking from within the revolutionary flow of the allied powers of technics and capital. This action, sabotage, construct, accusation is done as a dry run, a kind of dummy crash test. …Read more

event

29-30 May 2015

Location Aleppo

Samah Hijawi, Philippine Hoegen, Gosie Vervloessem, Sarah Santos, Silvia Pereira, and Cecilia Molano
Back to the order

Samah Hijawi, Philippine Hoegen, Gosie Vervloessem, Sarah Santos, Silvia Pereira, and Cecilia Molano will share their practices and perspectives of their research in form or a symposium and bring them in relation to those of guests and collaborators. A symposium that consists of performances, lectures, film screenings and workshops. …Read more

end communication

29-30 May 2015

Location aleppo.eu

VOLVER

In the frame of Aleppo's research project ‘Back to the Order’, six artistic researchers of a.pass will discuss, perform, exhibit and share their different takes on notions of ‘order’ and its simultaneous resonances of ease and discomfort, of political rigidity and potential, of aesthetic boredom and political reconsideration. Exploring the shifting territories of an order to be reconstructed, a.pass proposes ‘volver’ as an incentive to become involved, to revolve around recurring and shared interests, to recompose history in the aftermaths of an imploded revolution. Read more

publication

29-30 May 2015

Samah Hijawi, Philippine Hoegen, Cecilia Molano, Sara Santos, Gosie Vervloessem and Veridiana Zurita
Volver

This brochure contains texts and interviews by the presenting participants and the other contributors of the VOLVER conference that took place on the 29th and 30th of May 2015. Performances, film screenings, installations workshops were presented to share in the artistic research processes that participans followed during their year at a.pass, alongside with lectures and presentations by the guests of the researchers: Patricia Reed, Gonçalo Pena and Petra van Brabant. Read more

a.pass basics workshop

25-29 May 2015

Pierre Rubio / Geert Opsomer / Pierre Joachim
ECOLOGY OF AFFECTS

Every block, a.pass organizes ‘b-workshops’ that focus on the basic principles of a.pass as a collaborative artistic research environment. This b-workshop ‘Ecology of Affects’ wants to address critically the production of subjectivity. 'A revolution is as much a reorientation of our affective relations as it is of social relations and cannot be one without the other.' Jason Read, ‘Economies of Affect / Affective Economies’, 2013 Read more

block information, research

11 May-29 August 2015

Location a.pass

Reading Circle

As a red thread throughout the block the participants engage in a weekly communal reading practice of the book ‘Realist Magic – Object, Ontology, Causality’ by Timothy Morton.Reading and discussing in-depth this one central text allows for the development of a common ground of reference and connection that functions as a backdrop to the workshops and practices that shape the block. The Reading Circle happens on Monday evenings from 6pm to 10pm.

block information, research

10 May-24 July 2015

a.pass research centre
The House of Spirits

The House of Spirits is a common space for the (re)collection, digestion and transformation of the traces of the individual researches and workshops. The House opens up a space for the shamans/conservators of the Research Centre, as well as some of the participants. Every week another shaman practices in the House of Spirits, working with the case objects of the participants or with left-overs of the workshop, developing a shared ritual for the a.pass group. The strategies of the shaman include reordering, cataloguing, magical transformations, ritual alchemy, displacement and fictionalisation. …Read more

workshop

4-8 May 2015

Location a.pass

Nicolas Galeazzi
BRICOLAGE

a tool for opening the block

Diving into this concept, described in Claude Levi-Strauss' 'The Savage Mind', we develop a practice to present, discuss and discover the momentary objectives of our researches. With the help of found and constructed objects, objects of personal importance and desire, daily objects and precious ones, or objects of thought and discourse, we will try to define the actual quality of each one's research model and methodology. Read more

block information

1 May-29 August 2015

BLOCK 15/II
UNTOUCHABLE / UNACCEPTABLE / INTANGIBLE_ about the imaginative aesthetics of change

In defence of the power of aesthetics this block tries to pry open the difficult paradox between criticality and imagination, between the power of the subject and the passive resistance of the object, between political critique and artistic re-imagineering strategies. Animating objects to animate our agencies. Fictionalising the real as a critique to produce alternatives to ideology. Speculating on the impossible to construct a possible. Considering imagination not as escapism but as an operative vehicle for change. The unacceptable reveals the limitations of the acceptable. The untouchable foreshadows the adventurous discovery of difference. The intangible offers a speculative sense towards the radically other. Read more

26 March 2015

research process pool

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26 March 2015

PBS S#9 Mavi to Samah

S9.11 Mavi to Samah 8 from A.pass Perform Back Score on Vimeo.michrophone body shadow drafta.pass research march 2015

workshop

9-13 March 2015

Antonia Baehr
“When this you see remember me.” *

In this workshop, we will investigate how scores can function as a constitutive factor for kinship relations. We will write scores as gifts to each other, and I will share some of ‚ “make up productions‚” working methods with you. This workshop examines the boundaries between score/interpretation, rehearsal/performance, director/performer, and audience/presentation. This workshop’s focus is an investigation through praxis. Read more

workshop

2-6 March 2015

Daniel Blanga-Gubbay
Conditions for something to happen (latent performances)

How is it possible to go beyond the idea of creating something to suddenly create a space ready for the emergence of something unspecific to happen? By merging theory and practice - working both through interventions in given and constructed space - Daniel Blanga-Gubay let the participates of this workshop investigate not only the question "what are the condition for the emergence of an action", but eventually "what does it mean to create (and abandon) a space filled with unforeseen possible actions?" Read more

workshop

23-27 February 2015

Nikolaus Gansterer
Choreographic figures, deviations from the line

Choreo-graphic Figures - Deviations from the Line is an interdisciplinary collaboration involving artist Nikolaus Gansterer, choreographer Mariella Greil and writer-artist Emma Cocker. The project unfolds through two interconnected aims: we are interested in the nature of ‘thinking-feeling-knowing’ operative within artistic practice, and seek to develop systems of notation for sharing and reflecting on this often hidden or undisclosed aspect of the creative process. Read more

documentation

10 February 2015

Appendix to a Receipt

a justification of value

Through the simple act of translating the materiality of money in to an other consistency without chaining its monetary value but to discard with this it’s functional usability, the sum of 650€ becomes an artifact - a sculpture in it self. The provided receipt is in so far the proof not only of an act of ‘buying’ the essential artifact of this act, but is part of it’s social plastic. Money is used here to create art in the most possible direct way. Read more

workshop

2-6 February 2015

Ana Hoffner
Tools for artistic research – Beckett

The workshop starts from the assumption that the work of Samuel Beckett can offer a variety of tools for contemporary forms of artistic research. In the workshop we will focus on absurdity, melancholy, exhaustion, sense/nonsense and emptiness as main signifiers of Beckett’s work for stage, TV and film. We will watch and analyse selected scripts, dialogues, spatial set-ups and performances in order to transform them into our own experiments, exercises and techniques using body, space, camera and text. Read more

a.pass basics workshop

19-23 January 2015

Pierre Rubio, Elke Van Campenhout
Performance / Performativity / Objects / Subjects

Pierre Rubio and Elke Van Campenhout give will give time to discuss the basic concepts addressed in the block: Performance and Performativity. Read more

project

14 January-31 March 2015

Perform Back Score

how to document performance?

WEEKLY MEETING WORKSHOP: Proposed by Lilia Mestre for the Block 2015/I (January-March)This score was a proposal to communicate through performance throughout the block. It focuses on performance as a tool for the transformation of thought, intuition, desire, referentiality, practice into a communication medium. How to introduce exposure, playfulness, risk, generosity, exchange, fuck fear, contamination and precision in our way of communicating? How does this communication produce desire? To whom, where and how is this desire directed? What is the intensity/quality of it? What is the political agency of it? …Read more

workshop

5-9 January 2015

Eric Thielemans
REPERTOIRE

With the workshop on 'Repertoire', proposed by Eric Thielemans, will not only bring us close to the background of each our’s researches, but confront us with the question what the self-built conditions of our practices are. Read more

block information

5 January-30 April 2015

Lilia Mestre
BLOCK FOCUS 2015/I

CONDITIONS FOR THE EMERGENCE OF POETICS

The proposal is to plunge into the conditions for the emergence of poetics. Poetics used here as acts that transform our ways of perceiving, situations that invite another understanding of ‘things’. If we think performance as the coming-forth of those acts, as a framed re-actualization of what is there (a part of the world) we can give focus to the relations Read more

publication

28-30 November 2014

a.pass conference
Pharmakon

Edited by Elke Van Campenhout, Lilia Mestre Texts by Alexandre LePetit, Lilia Mestre, Flora Pilet, Veridiana Zurita, Mischa Twitchin, Michiel Reynaert, Elke Van Campenhout and others. To be published in autumn 2015.

performance, project

2 November-31 March 2016

BUREAU d’ESPOIR

Bureau d’Espoir is a long-term research project on hope, initiated by Elke Van Campenhout. Bureau d’Espoir researches the possibility for a new engagement with the concept of hope, both on a political, social, physical and spiritual level. …Read more

conference

1 October-30 November 2014

PHARMAKON

Pharmakon: whitch culture?

This Thematics project builds on the notion of ‘pharmakon’ as coined by the contemporary philosopher Bernard Stiegler. In ancient Greece, ‘pharmakon’ was understood both as ‘poison’ and ‘medicine’, and in some cases also as ‘scapegoat’. …Read more

project, workshop

29 September-3 October 2014

Occupy Democracy

Luigi Coppola and Christophe Meierhans propose a research workshop where most components of its activities will have to be decided commonly with the workshop participants. Just the very basic conditions are determined: The workshop occupies a public space with only one person at the time - 24h a day. The rest of the group develops, discusses and observes the occupation from a distance and takes the relevant decisions. Read more

documentation

29 September-3 October 2014

on the spot – occupy democracy

Some impressions of the Occupy Democracy workshop by Luigi Coppola and Christophe Meierhans.

publication

26-27 September 2014

Anna Sörsenson
Therapy Sessions

The Therapy Sessions, a performance piece in four parts exploring the emotional role of a bureaucrat using a video, a screenplay, an audio file and a collection of illustrations.The Therapy Sessions involves three characters, which are investigating patterns of bureaucratic behaviour, the compromising bureaucrat, the facilitating therapist and the classifying analyst.price: 5 euroDesigned by Miriam Hempel http://www.daretoknow.co.uk

publication

19 September 2014

Writing Scores / Lilia Mestre

a.pass publication

The book Writing Scores is the result of 3 months of written dialogues produced within the group of artistic researchers of a.pass. Read more

publication

15 September 2014

ANNA SÖRENSON, VICTORIA MYRONYUK AND CAMILA ASCHNER RESTREPO
THRESHOLDS

Anna Sörenson, Victoria Myronyuk and Camila Aschner Restrepo all linger in their own way on the thresholds between the hyper-real and everyday fictions, inviting the visitor to step into their research through the experience of its procedures. Read more

publication

23 May 2014

Maite Liébana Vena, Julia Clever, Daniel Kok, Gaja Karolczak, Carolina Goradesky
it’s not me, is it?

What is the relation between the researcher and his research, between the artist and the world, between the body and the body of work? Today’s ideology of contemporary arts condemns the narcissism of the artist-genius as as an old-fashioned marketing strategy that affirms rather than critiques the status quo.price: 2 euro …Read more

block information

1 May-31 July 2014

BLOCK 14/II
MILIEU(S)

Milieu(s) is a collective artistic research environment for the participants, mentors and other workers of the a.pass program. In a shared workspace we develop their practices in a collaborative context, on the basis of self-organisation and self-rule. Through individual actions Milieu(s) generates a dynamic territory for exchange, cooperation and (tacit) negotiation. A mutual creation of the individual and the common. We invite different guests to enter into this environment with us, to participate, open up the proposals and issues addressed in the collective work and/or to problematize the situation, fueling the ecology of ideas and practices in Milieu(s). Milieu(s) is taking place between the 28th of April to the 3rd of August 2014, in the common space of the 4th floor of the a.pass studio in de Bottelarij in Brussels. Read more

a.pass basics workshop

3-7 March 2014

Pierre Rubio / Elke van campenhout
“general intellect ? – it’s not about you, stupid !”

‘General Intellect? - it's not about you, stupid !’ will explore and question a basic parameter of the apass environment : the relation between the individual and the collective. Read more

project

18 December-21 September 2014

KunstAllmend

Art as commons

The KunstAllmend is a collective project experimenting with alternative artistic economies to redefine conditions for artistic production. Reflective of the commons active in the Swiss Alps for centuries, the KunstAllmend transposes this traditional model upon contemporary discussions concerning the management of common resources, authorship and copyright – a position standing in opposition to that of the artmarket. The Allmend model functions as a promising problematic rather than a ready-made solution. The KunstAllmend is a project of the Dampfzentrale in collaboration with the Transnational Art’s Commons for the Bern Biennial. Read more

publication

1 December 2013

Elke Van Campenhout
Tarot of Hope

If you wanted to come up with a language that could be understood by anyone, and that allows for different ways to adapt to the situation, but that still speaks about what concerns us all, the Tarot is the way to go. The Tarot is an ancient method to gain insight into your current situation. It is a way to bring different aspects of your life together, and relate them to an outside world that sometimes appears hostile or unconcerned by your sorrows or doubts. With the Tarot of Hope, Bureau d’Espoir tries to get a grip on our current situation. Read more

publication

20 September 2013

Luanda Casella, Helena Dietrich, Nibia Pastrana Santiago; Ed. by Elke Van Campenhout
Displacement

Please read the full publication here

a.pass basics workshop

24-28 June 2013

PIERRE RUBIO / PETER STAMER
HOW ABOUT CRITIQUE, CRITICALITY, CRISIS?

What does critique aim at, and how does it epistemologically operate? How can we deal with its problematic relation to judgment and truth? What’s the relevance of critique within a system of criticality to overcome the vicious circle of belief and denunciation? What’s the role of discourse and theory in one’s research and practice in order to go beyond backing up one’s work but rather challenging it, eroding it, posing problems to it? Is discourse solving the crisis of practice or should it rather impose a crisis on practice? Read more

documentation

8 May 2012

High Performance! Glossary

workshop day 1

The current economic crisis is not only a result of some major failures in speculating practices, but the outbreak of a constant crisis inherent to the system. Exploitation of the society and the environment through a reliance on constant growth, the possibility of infinite creation of money for some through the creation of debt for the majority, and the binding of most life-procedures to procedures of money are creating a precarious and dangerous economic climate. …Read more

project, workshop

7-18 May 2012

Higher Performance!

Some workshoping in economy for artists are due! At latest since 2008 it became clear, that the economic system we are living in and with is wacky, unjust and not sustainable. Many of its instruments are either exaggerated, or exhausted. The bubbles it produces in different markets are getting out of control, and deregulated fiscal constructions are dramatically failing. …Read more

publication

1 January 2012

Ed. by Adva Zakai and Elke Van Campenhout
Curating as Environmentalism

workshop

10-23 October 2011

Pierre Rubio
ARTIFICIAL REALITIES #2

Magical Materialism

The magical world is not a fascinating ethnographic object but “a mode of existence” to which individuals, as well as collectives, (and also artistic research projects...) can come back, if they endure the ordeal of disindividuation. “Disindividuation is a lack in structure” that happens when organisations that make us see, think and act break up, making us paradoxically available to invent other ways of seeing, thinking and acting. Welcome to the post-rational shamanistic academia! Read more

workshop

30 May-3 June 2011

Pierre Rubio
ARTIFICIAL REALITIES #1

Displacements and Attachments

The basic idea is that if one takes distance from one’s own project by ‘moving’ it in unexpected contexts or by ‘translating’ it in non familiar languages, this will allow the discovery of new components and new ‘attachments’ that will enrich and stimulate the ‘original’ project. Or, in other words: developing an otherness by experiencing and exploring “as if's” to get out the over-territorial and locked perception of “our” projects. Read more

publication

1 January 2011

texts by: Elke Van Campenhout, André Lepecki, Christophe van Gerrewey, Nele Wynants; ed. by Mokum, a.pass
It, Thingly Variations in Space

This book explores the position of the object in contemporary performance.price: 15 …Read more

publication

1 September 2010

Katrin Lohmann
On Some Things

workshop

1-6 March 2010

Tom Plischke & Kattrin Deufert
CONSEQUENCES II

The most important element of our working process is writing and transference Read more

publication

1 January 2010

Fanny Zaman
Song Mountain Area, The Centre Direction

publication

12 December 2009

Marcos Simoin
THE LAUGHING BODY

workshop

2-6 March 2009

Tom Plischke & Kattrin Deufert
CONSEQUENCES

The most important element of our working process is writing and transference Read more

1 January 2009

Ariane Loze
Môwn (movies on my own)

publication

1 January 2009

Jozef Wouters
What is it that I have done?

block information

1 September-31 December 2008

BLOCK 08/III

2008 PROGRAM'S SUMMARY proposals & workshops Read more

block information

1 May-31 August 2008

BLOCK 08/II

2008 PROGRAM'S SUMMARY proposals & workshops Read more

publication

1 January 2008

Ed. by Constanze Schellow
56 Ways (not) to

block information

1 January-30 April 2008

BLOCK 08/I

2008 PROGRAM'S SUMMARY proposals & workshops Read more