01 May 2018

31 July 2018

Maurice Meewisse Documentation First Block - m.a.s.o.m.

"Milieus, associations, sieves and other matters."

"Ensemble of problematisations composing a processual environment. A metastable milieu in crisis, which evolves by shifting to new dimensions out of a series of confrontations with and temporary resolutions of problems. The basic grid is one of a series of self organised interactive events intersecting with a series of theoretical study days and a series of advanced forms of feedback." (May-August 2018, curated by Pierre Rubio)

During my first block I spend most time trying to understand in what kind of environment I ended up and to learn the lingo. Besides that, it was urgent to reformulate my research question that come out of my practise.

C.R.I. I

The block was activated by C.R.I.'s (critical research interfaces) which raised questions about what does your research open up or makes you see and how does it function as a dispositif (from Foucault). For the first C.R.I. I stacked all the materials, from coffee cups and wall segments to research objects from other participants on one big pile in the middle of the room. I invited all my colleague to come the next day with a very simple task, walk around the pile with me sitting on top. Every time somebody completed a full circle I would read up one 'act' that composed the pile, and if somebody activated the horn, I would start over again from the beginning. After more 90 minutes they managed to walk all the 123 circles around me without stepping on the horn.

C.R.I. II - A 40kg likable object to carry around

During a day at ZSenne artlab we were invited to make a small scale C.R.I. for which I introduced my likable object that was filled with 40kg of sand. My request for the group and visitors was simple, please carry the thing and don't put it down!

block 2018/II

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1st block - ... starting to speak in English
10 August 2019
posted by: Caterina Mora

case of: Caterina Mora

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(this gift is made with images of the block)

Before to start: Excerpts from my application // Investigation purpose (2017)

Title: Derivatives around the construction of “the Latin imaginary” in Brussels context

Abstract

This work takes the reflection as a topic concerning “the Latin imaginary”[1] in Brussels context. As a starting point, it considers “the Latin imaginary” as a construction which is imagined by people who perceive themselves like “Latin people”, in terms of Imagined Communities. The aim is to study how this imaginary is composed of images, desires and motivations depositories that move around in the plot of signs in semio-capitalism.

The questions that give rise to this project are: how is “the Latin imaginary” constructed? Which signs are reproduced by this construction? How are Latin bodies perceived in Brussels context? And how is it possible to make artistic operation on this imaginary?

Description

(...) First block: field work and theoretical tools

Regarding theoretical tools, it is worth mentioning that “the Latin issue” is analysed taking into account the concept of Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson. As a matter of fact, his work pays attention to the concept of nation, his definition is used here to talk about the “Latin Imaginary Community”. In relation to that, Anderson propounds that “it is imagined as a community, because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship” (1983: 7). This description is useful to think about the imaginary shared with others in terms of community.

Considering this, the field work relative to “the Latin imaginary” is focused on sign production in the current context of semio-capitalism. In this way, a study of the concept by Franco Berardi (known as Bifo) is carried out; he defined semio-capitalism “when informational technologies make possible a full integration of linguistic labour with capital valorisation” (2009: 149). In other words, when all acts of transformation could be substituted by information and the work process is based on signs combination. Bifo says that economy incorporates factors like instability and indefiniteness when valorisation depended on language, and “in turn language incorporates economic rules of competition, shortage, and overproduction” (2009: 149). Therefore, semiotic overproduction has consequences in the economy and in the psycho-sphere, due to acceleration of perception, which generates a dis-sensitization in bodies, and becomes pathologies and psychotropic drugs dependence. One of the possible ways for facing these symptoms is to go back to the question about body perception on others. In relation to this, the author proposes that “in order to experience the other as a sensorial body, you need time, time to caress and smell. The time for empathy is lacking, because stimulation has become too intense” (2009: 85).

Finally, as a theoretical mention, contributions that promote and accompany these questions are taken into account transversely in relation to "the Latin imaginary”. On the one hand, the perspective of "internal colonialism", which refers to the reproduction of the colonialism towards the interior of the ex-colonies and which takes as a reference the centres of power in the North-Hemisphere (Gonzalez Casanova: 2015). On the other hand, the heteronormativity existing in the perception of the sexed bodies and the stability of the gender, which depends on the alignment among sex and gender (Butler: 1990).

[1] Due to the absence of a more appropriate terminology to translate “lo latino”, it was chosen the phrase “the Latin imaginary” owing to its relevance in relation to the imaginaries.

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1st Block, curated by Pierre Rubio called MILIEUS, ASSOCIATIONS, SIEVES AND OTHER MATTERS…, here the link

Openning week

It was the first time I explained this project in English, I learned by heart most of my presentation. As you can see in my application, I started looking at the stereotype construction of Latin-imaginary through two concepts: semio-capitalism and imaginary communities. I was busy with how reggaeton videos and specially Despacito framed a stereotyped way of look at "latiness".

Half way days --> LONGER CRI and POCKET CRI

-- Half an hour of latiness, or... or...

Longer CRI
Session I

A.pass people were invited to be in front of yours computer, anywhere in order to do comments at 15h of Monday 18th June.

That day they received a mail with a link to a first video in the platform Youtube.

CRI 1.1 - START

The video showed the short plane of Caterina with an analogic voice. The voice invited people to follow a second video and set up the lyrics of a reggeaton, through comments of the video of "Gasoline", one of the first most famous reggetons. The “real” voice of Caterina is only heard when she sings the chorus of the song. And the is translated by the analogical voice:
She likes gasoline (give me more gas),

How she loves gasoline (give me more gas),

She likes gasoline (give me more gas),

How she loves gasoline (give me more gas)

And then the voice invited people to think in imaginary related to Latin people and latiness.

But the second video consisted of a white image for 2 minutes, then a plane of Caterina dancing and then a black image.

This comments were used for set up the lyrics of a song: Reggeaton 1.

Pocket CRI - Zsenne GALLERY
1 min to arrive at the location (Place Jardin des fleurs near to Szenne Gallery)

4 min to propose / choose / set up

Invitation 2 people to reproduce as much as possible one of the screenshot of Despacito. They chose between 4 options.

If people don't want to appear, there were many options to be far away of the camera. It will not be public.

Caterina bring some stuff in order to help in the reproduction and makes them indicate consent to publish photos of the participants .

THOSE PHOTOS are only public for documentation.

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Longer CRI
Session II

Invitation à The only proposition was bring Latin clothes.

Morning brunch at my home in Ixelles. Invitation to do this parallel activities -->

People were at the garden of where I live.

It was a sunny day.

They marked in maps different places related to latin culture.

Here some pics

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In my room:

- I showed the song that I did and the lyrics. Here you can listen here [audio mp3="https:///www.apass.be/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Reggaeton-I.mp3"][/audio]

Here you can follow the lyrics

Reggaeton 1 - My EDITION
Hello ton ton ton reggae ton ton ton This is a monologue, Mono mono monolo
Gasoline Gasoline We like don't like gasolineeeee

I see dark hair I see gold jewelry I see sun olive oil I see shiny skin I see barbecue I see god

And so far from god x3 I am so stuck in this Latin body My hips

Everything is dark now x2 its blank its blank You can comment
This is the video Responder sexy body Sexy body RESPONDER

short skirts skin shorts short skirts skin shorts large breasts shake shake

short skirts skin shortsshort skirts skin shorts flat belly the motorcycle

subjects objects x5

or you just don't care

Maradonna was fantastic but I love Messi love Messi Messi"Arriba arriba andele andele"

Sexy ultimate sexy sexy ultimatelatino/latina
gasoline spreads

i find your spanish difficult to understand x2

I like being latina I enjoy the fantasy of it.Is coolIs not coolIs Colonialists...ooooh

Give me more gas x2This doesn't work, to be or to be, no sound, confused by the media acteur!Yes yes yes yeaaaaah
I don't know about reggaeton
I don't know about lyrics

order insubordination submission I think the second video has some problemsnow I understand sorry KI can see it only in white without any images,is it the same for the others? x3

- After, I asked apass people to choose a part of the lyrics and make a short video with that. They could recognize the lyrics that they wrote, or to choose one prhase. They had to create a movement for that. They shotted each other with the explanation and they could include the clothes. They gave me permission for internal use.

From those videos I did another song. People were strefull because of the task of the camera. They name an anxious problem in my research and in the way that I was producing.

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End presentation - PAF

I explained the CRI. I sang both songs and exposed my problems. I said that I was doing a circular mouvement, because I was stereotyping all my view. At that moment, I was trying to understand who I am in the research. That´s why I presented the animal "Yaguateré". I presented the Reggaeton 2 with a an edited a video which has images of apass participants. I prefer to not pubic this video and the lyrics of the Reggaeton 2.

Lyrics of Reggaeton 2

The body is a problem. We are busy with its problems // make sure that we have all the details // she flies // magical realism of South-America

Fly movement

Through imitating movement that I think they are latin but I can not really continue doing like this // I have a serious lack of knowledge of latin culture // I don't know anything that is latin-american

I guess. Start // she give me this hat // C´est ca? C´est ca?

You are completely disarm, freedom, you don't need to protect your body. // You feel good in it, you feel bbq. Leisure time. // body is so a costume, is difficult to get rid of. // to lie down I chose and try to move without moving.

Latino stereotype,I think is not. // Not only because of the latino people //

“The hand of God” is Maradona scored against England. // I bought in Mexico, it has Jesus on it. //

catholicism and the imagery // To me is super latin // Shiny and synthetic.

Over commodify presentation of latino culture. // I am not sure.

Gaze is on the back, someone enjoying it. // knees are flexed, the pelvis is moving back and forward quite fast, // Breast, shoulders, from the left to right, fors coming movements. // Looking in the eyes // is active, seduces. // excites // excites // sexual desire

I could recognize this big problem in my first Block. In Adva´s words: ‘ you stereotype me by asking me to stereotype you’. That´s mean that I was stereotying others.

Somehow, I fell into my own trap.

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I recognize this potentialities of this block, that are potentialities as inputs for transformation:

The "trauma" → caused by necessity to answer, give, produce → the "conditions" of the experiments

Obscenity: how to show the body (connected to media)

In which sense do I want to talk? → stereotype way or not?

Problems of images: how can I expand more, open, and not restrict them?

What is Latin for me, NOW? → SUPER excellent question to continue

What is doing the "the art of super identification"?

The power role of being able to see and be seen --> what is producing the objectification?

Reggaeton genealogy: resistance rythm from Puerto Rico. "Reggae in SPANISH" (important) / perreo is coming from Afro-descendient dispora (persecuted, silencED, acallada). --> how this can appear in the research?

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Important readings: the book about Reggaeton (Rivera and others, Duke Press University); BDSM approach (Freud; Barthes; Pat Califia; Foucault), decolonial theory (Silvia River Cusicanki).

Newsletter January 2019 13 January 2019
posted by: Steven Jouwersma

Rue delaunay 58 - 1080 - Brussel, Molenbeek

Agenda: 24-25 May: THIS IS 1000 LITERS FUEL SO... @ Decoratelier 26 May: SCORESCAPES booklaunch @ BREW 4 till 30 June : PARALLEL-PARASITE @ Zsenne ArtLab. 30 April till 2 September: Block II 2018 - MILIEUS, ASSOCIATIONS, SIEVES AND OTHER MATTERS…
THIS IS 1000 liter fuel so... 24 and 25 May, @ Decoratelier. Rue de Liverpool 24. 1080 Brussels Doors: 17:30, first performance 18:30, end: 22:00. a.pass end-communications of: Luisa Fillitz, Esther Rodriguez-Barbero Granado, Eunkyung Jeong, Marialena Marouda, Ekaterina Kaplunova, Shervin Kiarnesi Haghighi For this End-Communications, the six researches come together in concepts of absence, invisibility, history and knowledge. They research in various ways to bring what seems to be ungraspable in the construction of subjectivities to the fore. Subjectivity here, not as an individual subjectivity, but one that collectively builds and positions (in transformation) outside of oneself. Subjectivities as constituted by cultural, economical, social and other interactions and seen as complex narratives that mediate our perception(s) of the world. How do we make sense of what is pertained as ‘real’ and how through the generalization of such a standpoint one is unable to connect with the singular, and its inherent complexities? What ethical utterances can appear from this way of addressing the world? Following up on the idea of co-making worlds a.pass positions itself as a collaborative environment for the investigation and expression of artistic research. The media of the research are multiple and often combined. The cross disciplines and their interaction forces each specific (or even disciplinary) methodology to break down and instigate the construction of singular ways of doing/ thinking. This approach orients artistic research out of a categorical way of understanding knowledge production in the arts as much as it opens up distinctive and particular forms of addressing relationality, we could call undisciplined. The work of the six researchers entails combined forms of research on what can be called transdisciplinary research in order to open up the complexity of the objects of study through combining experiential approaches. Luisa Fillitz's research positions itself on the relationship between physical and metaphysical realities and questions the predetermined borders of an effect we take as ‘real’. Esther Rodriguez-Barbero Granado* works in the domains of architecture and body as constructors of space. Eunkyung Jeong, through a daily drawing practice, researches the idea of time within diverse forms of existence as the stone and the self. Marialena Marouda’s research on the ocean problematizes scientic knowledge as the single epistemology of nature. Ekaterina Kaplunova develops a systematic approach to family relations and cultural lineage in relation to the multifunctional artist. Shervin Kiarnesi Haghighi addresses the undocumented performance of everyday life as an invisible event produced within the confines of Art. *Decoratelier is an ongoing and constantly evolving project by autonomous artist in residence, Jozef Wouters. Scorescapes 26 May @ BREW, Schoolstraat 1 Rue de Pene, 1000 Brussels From 17:30 till 19:00. BOOKLAUNCH Another iteration of the ScoreScapes research by curator Lilia Mestre took place in block 2017/II The problem of the score. The publication Medium Score - Tectonic Friendships is a reflection of that iteration. Together with the six a.pass researchers finishing the post-master program we decided to do a combined publication for the Medium Score and the End- Communications. Come to the book launch and have a chocolate cocktail with Shervin Kianersi Haghighi. BREW is a new space in Brussels which organizes and hosts events and activities in the field of contemporary art. Initiators: Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker PARALLEL PARRASITES 4 till 30 of June @ Zsenne ArtLab 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. a.pass is constantly questioning the positionality and share-ability of what we learn and interrogating the political implications of the research practices. In response to those problematics, as RC curator, Lilia Mestre's proposition is the dislocation of the RC to a semi-public environment and to locate it temporary in a gallery space, one of the per-se spaces for the exhibition. The question driving this movement (from the inside to the outside) is: can the a.pass RC in dis-location generate a hub for the study of some of its practices? can this movement instigate other forms of share-ability and access that are informal and porous? We’ll be addressing the agency of such publicness and how it will be giving perspective to the critical doing and the critical thinking in artistic research and what forms of sociability will be generated. The three main proposals are: SOL (School of Love) proposed by Adva Zakai, The way of the Anarchive proposed by Erin Manning (SenseLAb) and ScoreScapes proposed by Lilia Mestre (a.pass). PROGRAM To Be Announced... More...


MILIEUS, ASSOCIATIONS, SIEVES AND OTHER MATTERS… 2 April - 2 September 2018 BLOCK II 2018 - summer program Milieu An ensemble of problems as an environment. A metastable milieu in crisis, which evolves and changes by shifting to new dimensions out of confrontation to and resolution of problems. More...




a.pass Rue delaunay 58 - 1080 - Brussel, Molenbeek tel: +32 (0)2 411.49.16 email: office@apass.be web: www.apass.be

Newsletter January 2019 13 January 2019
posted by: Steven Jouwersma

Rue delaunay 58 - 1080 - Brussel, Molenbeek

Agenda: 24-25 May: THIS IS 1000 LITERS FUEL SO... @ Decoratelier 26 May: SCORESCAPES booklaunch @ BREW 4 till 30 June : PARALLEL-PARASITE @ Zsenne ArtLab. 30 April till 2 September: Block II 2018 - MILIEUS, ASSOCIATIONS, SIEVES AND OTHER MATTERS…
THIS IS 1000 liter fuel so... 24 and 25 May, @ Decoratelier. Rue de Liverpool 24. 1080 Brussels Doors: 17:30, first performance 18:30, end: 22:00. a.pass end-communications of: Luisa Fillitz, Esther Rodriguez-Barbero Granado, Eunkyung Jeong, Marialena Marouda, Ekaterina Kaplunova, Shervin Kiarnesi Haghighi For this End-Communications, the six researches come together in concepts of absence, invisibility, history and knowledge. They research in various ways to bring what seems to be ungraspable in the construction of subjectivities to the fore. Subjectivity here, not as an individual subjectivity, but one that collectively builds and positions (in transformation) outside of oneself. Subjectivities as constituted by cultural, economical, social and other interactions and seen as complex narratives that mediate our perception(s) of the world. How do we make sense of what is pertained as ‘real’ and how through the generalization of such a standpoint one is unable to connect with the singular, and its inherent complexities? What ethical utterances can appear from this way of addressing the world? Following up on the idea of co-making worlds a.pass positions itself as a collaborative environment for the investigation and expression of artistic research. The media of the research are multiple and often combined. The cross disciplines and their interaction forces each specific (or even disciplinary) methodology to break down and instigate the construction of singular ways of doing/ thinking. This approach orients artistic research out of a categorical way of understanding knowledge production in the arts as much as it opens up distinctive and particular forms of addressing relationality, we could call undisciplined. The work of the six researchers entails combined forms of research on what can be called transdisciplinary research in order to open up the complexity of the objects of study through combining experiential approaches. Luisa Fillitz's research positions itself on the relationship between physical and metaphysical realities and questions the predetermined borders of an effect we take as ‘real’. Esther Rodriguez-Barbero Granado* works in the domains of architecture and body as constructors of space. Eunkyung Jeong, through a daily drawing practice, researches the idea of time within diverse forms of existence as the stone and the self. Marialena Marouda’s research on the ocean problematizes scientic knowledge as the single epistemology of nature. Ekaterina Kaplunova develops a systematic approach to family relations and cultural lineage in relation to the multifunctional artist. Shervin Kiarnesi Haghighi addresses the undocumented performance of everyday life as an invisible event produced within the confines of Art. *Decoratelier is an ongoing and constantly evolving project by autonomous artist in residence, Jozef Wouters. Scorescapes 26 May @ BREW, Schoolstraat 1 Rue de Pene, 1000 Brussels From 17:30 till 19:00. BOOKLAUNCH Another iteration of the ScoreScapes research by curator Lilia Mestre took place in block 2017/II The problem of the score. The publication Medium Score - Tectonic Friendships is a reflection of that iteration. Together with the six a.pass researchers finishing the post-master program we decided to do a combined publication for the Medium Score and the End- Communications. Come to the book launch and have a chocolate cocktail with Shervin Kianersi Haghighi. BREW is a new space in Brussels which organizes and hosts events and activities in the field of contemporary art. Initiators: Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker PARALLEL PARRASITES 4 till 30 of June @ Zsenne ArtLab 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. a.pass is constantly questioning the positionality and share-ability of what we learn and interrogating the political implications of the research practices. In response to those problematics, as RC curator, Lilia Mestre's proposition is the dislocation of the RC to a semi-public environment and to locate it temporary in a gallery space, one of the per-se spaces for the exhibition. The question driving this movement (from the inside to the outside) is: can the a.pass RC in dis-location generate a hub for the study of some of its practices? can this movement instigate other forms of share-ability and access that are informal and porous? We’ll be addressing the agency of such publicness and how it will be giving perspective to the critical doing and the critical thinking in artistic research and what forms of sociability will be generated. The three main proposals are: SOL (School of Love) proposed by Adva Zakai, The way of the Anarchive proposed by Erin Manning (SenseLAb) and ScoreScapes proposed by Lilia Mestre (a.pass). PROGRAM To Be Announced... More...


MILIEUS, ASSOCIATIONS, SIEVES AND OTHER MATTERS… 2 April - 2 September 2018 BLOCK II 2018 - summer program Milieu An ensemble of problems as an environment. A metastable milieu in crisis, which evolves and changes by shifting to new dimensions out of confrontation to and resolution of problems. More...




a.pass Rue delaunay 58 - 1080 - Brussel, Molenbeek tel: +32 (0)2 411.49.16 email: office@apass.be web: www.apass.be

Newsletter May 2018 13 May 2018
posted by: Steven Jouwersma

Rue delaunay 58 - 1080 - Brussel, Molenbeek

Agenda: 24-25 May: THIS IS 1000 LITERS FUEL SO... @ Decoratelier 26 May: SCORESCAPES booklaunch @ BREW 4 till 30 June : PARALLEL-PARASITE @ Zsenne ArtLab. 30 April till 2 September: Block II 2018 - MILIEUS, ASSOCIATIONS, SIEVES AND OTHER MATTERS…
THIS IS 1000 liter fuel so... 24 and 25 May, @ Decoratelier. Rue de Liverpool 24. 1080 Brussels Doors: 17:30, first performance 18:30, end: 22:00. a.pass end-communications of: Luisa Fillitz, Esther Rodriguez-Barbero Granado, Eunkyung Jeong, Marialena Marouda, Ekaterina Kaplunova, Shervin Kiarnesi Haghighi For this End-Communications, the six researches come together in concepts of absence, invisibility, history and knowledge. They research in various ways to bring what seems to be ungraspable in the construction of subjectivities to the fore. Subjectivity here, not as an individual subjectivity, but one that collectively builds and positions (in transformation) outside of oneself. Subjectivities as constituted by cultural, economical, social and other interactions and seen as complex narratives that mediate our perception(s) of the world. How do we make sense of what is pertained as ‘real’ and how through the generalization of such a standpoint one is unable to connect with the singular, and its inherent complexities? What ethical utterances can appear from this way of addressing the world? Following up on the idea of co-making worlds a.pass positions itself as a collaborative environment for the investigation and expression of artistic research. The media of the research are multiple and often combined. The cross disciplines and their interaction forces each specific (or even disciplinary) methodology to break down and instigate the construction of singular ways of doing/ thinking. This approach orients artistic research out of a categorical way of understanding knowledge production in the arts as much as it opens up distinctive and particular forms of addressing relationality, we could call undisciplined. The work of the six researchers entails combined forms of research on what can be called transdisciplinary research in order to open up the complexity of the objects of study through combining experiential approaches. Luisa Fillitz's research positions itself on the relationship between physical and metaphysical realities and questions the predetermined borders of an effect we take as ‘real’. Esther Rodriguez-Barbero Granado* works in the domains of architecture and body as constructors of space. Eunkyung Jeong, through a daily drawing practice, researches the idea of time within diverse forms of existence as the stone and the self. Marialena Marouda’s research on the ocean problematizes scientic knowledge as the single epistemology of nature. Ekaterina Kaplunova develops a systematic approach to family relations and cultural lineage in relation to the multifunctional artist. Shervin Kiarnesi Haghighi addresses the undocumented performance of everyday life as an invisible event produced within the confines of Art. *Decoratelier is an ongoing and constantly evolving project by autonomous artist in residence, Jozef Wouters. Scorescapes 26 May @ BREW, Schoolstraat 1 Rue de Pene, 1000 Brussels From 17:30 till 19:00. BOOKLAUNCH Another iteration of the ScoreScapes research by curator Lilia Mestre took place in block 2017/II The problem of the score. The publication Medium Score - Tectonic Friendships is a reflection of that iteration. Together with the six a.pass researchers finishing the post-master program we decided to do a combined publication for the Medium Score and the End- Communications. Come to the book launch and have a chocolate cocktail with Shervin Kianersi Haghighi. BREW is a new space in Brussels which organizes and hosts events and activities in the field of contemporary art. Initiators: Philippine Hoegen and Carolien Stikker PARALLEL PARRASITES 4 till 30 of June @ Zsenne ArtLab 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. a.pass is constantly questioning the positionality and share-ability of what we learn and interrogating the political implications of the research practices. In response to those problematics, as RC curator, Lilia Mestre's proposition is the dislocation of the RC to a semi-public environment and to locate it temporary in a gallery space, one of the per-se spaces for the exhibition. The question driving this movement (from the inside to the outside) is: can the a.pass RC in dis-location generate a hub for the study of some of its practices? can this movement instigate other forms of share-ability and access that are informal and porous? We’ll be addressing the agency of such publicness and how it will be giving perspective to the critical doing and the critical thinking in artistic research and what forms of sociability will be generated. The three main proposals are: SOL (School of Love) proposed by Adva Zakai, The way of the Anarchive proposed by Erin Manning (SenseLAb) and ScoreScapes proposed by Lilia Mestre (a.pass). PROGRAM To Be Announced... More...


MILIEUS, ASSOCIATIONS, SIEVES AND OTHER MATTERS… 2 April - 2 September 2018 BLOCK II 2018 - summer program Milieu An ensemble of problems as an environment. A metastable milieu in crisis, which evolves and changes by shifting to new dimensions out of confrontation to and resolution of problems. More...




a.pass Rue delaunay 58 - 1080 - Brussel, Molenbeek tel: +32 (0)2 411.49.16 email: office@apass.be web: www.apass.be

apass Reminder and Newsletter 13 May 2018
posted by: Steven Jouwersma

Rue delaunay 58 - 1080 - Brussel, Molenbeek

REMINDER:

Thursday 24th and
Friday 25th of May

THIS IS 1000 LITER FUEL SO…

a.pass end communications 
@ Decoratelier 
Rue de Liverpool 24. 1080 Brussels

PROGRAM for both days

17:30 Doors open
18:00 Introduction
19:00 Esther Rodriguez-Barbero Granado (25 people max)
20:15 Marialena Marouda
21:00 Marialena Marouda
23:00 end.

Ongoing: Luisa Fillitz, Eunkyung Jeong,Ekaterina Kaplunova, Shervin Kiarnesi Haghighi.

Catering on the spot by Sara ten Westenend.

More info

PS:
Saturday 26th of May book launch "Scorescapes"
17:30 @ Brew schoolstraat 1 Rue de Pene
with a dialogue facilitated by Philippine Hoegen and chocolate cocktails by Shervin Kiarnesi Haghighi!

PARALLEL PARASITE, a month residency at ZSenne ArtLab : On Anarchiving > On Love > On Score -ing > On the spot > On presence

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 at ZSenne, 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.

These invited quasi – institutional set ups affiliated in one way or another with the academic environment are experimental formats of learning processes that are critically challenging modes of knowledge production in artistic research. All these ‘parallel-parasite platforms’ or ‘ways of doing’ are engaged in thinking-doing practices that converge theoretical and artistic research practices approach in the arts.

The three main proposals for the a.pass Research Center in dislocation are:

Week 1 > 4 till 9 June
SOL - School of Love - Instead of Needing to know

This working session needs inscription please follow this link https:///www.apass.be/instead-of-needing-to-know/ SOL (School of Love) proposed by Adva Zakai

Week 2 > 11 till 15 June
SCORESCAPES > Fragile Community Score proposed by Lilia Mestre

This working session needs inscription please follow this link https:///www.apass.be/fragile-community-score-score-for-entering-a-place/

Week 3 and 4 > 16 till 30 June
THE WAY OF THE ANARCHIVE proposed by Erin Manning

This working session is under invitation. For public discussions check schedule. https:///www.apass.be/the-way-of-the-anarchive/

and

More info on Parallel Parasite https:///www.apass.be/parallel-parasite-platform-for-practice-based-research-in-the-arts/

The RC is mainly working with alumni, associated researchers and guests linked with the a.pass Research Centre.

For Parallel Parasite we are: Alex Arteaga, Silvia Pinto Coelho, Bojana Cvejic, Nikolaus Gansterer, Nicolas Galeazzi, Adrijana Gvozdenovic, Nico Dockx, Steven Jouwersma, Halbe Kuipers, Pia Louwerens, Sara Manente, Marialena Merouda, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Lilia Mestre, Martino Morandi, Xiri Noir, Pierre Rubio, Sina Seifee, Eric Thielemans, Femke Snelting, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Adva Zakai, Veridiana Zurita with Petra Van Dyck and Lea Dietschmann

and the post-master researchers:

Elen Braga, Nasia Fourtouni, Leo Kay, Laura Pante, Geert Vaes, Maurice Meewisse, Caterina Mora, Ezther Nemethi, Hoda Siahtiri, Goda Palekaitė , Katinka Van Gorkum.

PUBLIC EVENTS:

WEEK 1 - PUBLIC TALKS:
Monday 4 > 19h :00 > Introduction of the School Of Love
Thursday 8 > 19h30 > SOL interview by Lauren Grusenmeyer for the WORKOUT publication

WEEK 2 - PUBLIC TALKS:
Monday 11 > 20:30 > Concert with Eric Thielemans “Bata Baba Loka: Extacy and overflow.”
Saturday 16 > 11:00 till 16:00 > Monday readings > Femke Snelting and Martino Morandi (more information soon)

WEEK 3 and 4 - PUBLIC TALKS:
Tuesday 19 > 19:00 > Encounter with Erin Manning on the Anarchive
Thursday 21 > 19:00 > Encounter with Nico Dockx: Every Archive Hides Another Archive
Tuesday 26 > 19:00 > Encounter between SenseLab and SOL
Wednesday 27 > 19:00 > Encounter with Alex Arteaga; Embodied Architecture/ Aesthetic Experience
Thursday 28 > 19:00 > Encounter Erin Manning and Brian Massumi – Crypto Economy of Affect
Saturday 30 > AFTERNOON > Nikolaus Gansterer (Translecture)

MILIEUS, ASSOCIATIONS, SIEVES AND OTHER MATTERS…

2 April - 2 September 2018

BLOCK II 2018 - summer program

Milieu

An ensemble of problems as an environment. A metastable milieu in crisis, which evolves and changes by shifting to new dimensions out of confrontation to and resolution of problems.

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Milieus, Associations, Sieves and other Matters

Milieus, associations, sieves and other matters... 24 April 2018
posted by: Pierre Rubio

BLOCK 18/II

Brussels

30 April 2018

02 September 2018

case of: Pierre Rubio

Milieus, Associations, Sieves and other matters

some orientation guidelines

Today, to the question ‘what is technoscience?’ the answer is: it is the medium of knowledge. Just as technology is not the instrument of science but its epistemological framework, so it is not the instrument of our communication, but our medium of meaning. Everyone seems to admit today that we are inhabited by our habitat, built by our niche, processed by our technical environment, which is neither external nor peripheral, but inherent to our being and to all meaning. Now it seems obvious that it is one and the same milieu that surrounds and separates us, and that which crosses and connects us, but this environment has become technical. The co-birth of humans and technology means that the latter is both our medium (the midpoint through which individuals maintain each other) and our environment (our space-time). The technical environment perfectly illustrates the idea that our environment or what surrounds us is actually in our midst (au milieu de nous). That technology is both our exteriority and our interiority, our cage and what takes us away from it. How, in an artistic research environment, do these ontological, ethical and political contemporary concerns resonate?

Proposal

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.

The basic structure was an arrangement of 1-self organised interactive events intersecting with 2-a series of three theoretical study days and 3-a series of advanced forms of feedback.

Organisation / Trajectory

1. Twenty two self-organised interactive events of different dimensions : the C.R.I.’s
(from May 31st to July 19th)

The acronym C.R.I. stands for Collective Research Interface. The researchers were invited to compose and propose participatory events that one could identify as shareable practices out of/around/through their individual researches. Instead of qualifying -and reducing- simply the object by ‘collective practice’ or ‘workshop’, the name ‘Collective Research Interface’ produced momentary shared interstitial spaces between different scales (private, public, cultural, social, personal, artistic, aesthetic, political and so on…) and enabled and supported a certain mode of attention, the one of technical mentality. Experiencing with this mentality was possible as the mode of production of the C.R.I.’s followed a principle of compositionality. The performativity and meaning of the C.R.I’s, as complex technical ensembles, were determined by the meanings of their constituent parts and the modes of relating/assembling used to combine them. A structuring loop was formulated : invent, invite, do, participate, share, document, discuss, reflect, problematisatise… and back again. The researches were not only presented but organised into shareable dispositives, that then were described, analysed, filtered driving the attention to their resonances in term of constructions and modes of assemblages. Their technological qualities.

2. Three theoretical study days

a/ The diagram and the residual (June 12th)
The program visited the artist residency project ‘Villa Blanche’ within the Solvay Parc in Brussels with Martino Morendi (philosopher-hacker-activist) and Pietro Fortuna (philosopher-artist). The day was articulated around the tension between two conceptual outlines, two proposals that sketched complementary or opposite modes of understanding reality. The diagram, as the systematic representation of a set of relations between elements, where logics, organicism and industrial engineering converge in the effort to govern and organize these relations and the residual, as the irreducible part that remains beyond one's hunger to explain and describe, that recedes and escapes any attempt of organization and rationalization.
United if only by their distance from the subject-object mode of disclosure, Martino Morandi and Pietro Fortuna oriented us through a series of ‘objects’ like an elegy by Rilke, passages from von Uexküll and Agamben, a bourgeois villa, a tree, a giant Olmec head made of stone, the Solvay ammonia-soda process ... and a series of readings of objects related to every researcher’s art and research.

b/ on Participation (June 17th)
The program visited the project ‘Precarious Pavillon #1 - Don’t eat the microphone’ -an artistic project initiated by Veridiana Zurita and Petra Van Dyck, curated by Michael Vandevelde and co-produced by Vooruit- happening in the garden of the Psychiatric Hospital Dr. Guislain in Ghent.
The study day was dedicated to the critique of participatory art and ideas of participation. Don’t Eat the Microphone represented for us a grey zone where we could think but also be challenged in our certainties about the nature and function of participation. Currently focused on the development of the Collective Research Interfaces and exploring the value of several modes of participation, we wanted to problematise the issue(s) in a problematic environment.
What is participatory art? What does it mean to participate?
What are the relations between participatory art and utopia?
Which kind of public space and social fabric participatory practices do (and do not) produce? What are the relations between participatory art and communicative capitalism?
What is participation-as-injunction the diagram of? Is it still possible not to participate? Is it still possible even to imagine non-participation? How to foster (non) participatory arts and (un) communicative thus militantly collective aesthetic educations of possibilities? After a phase of various reservations expressed about the optimistic rhetoric accompanying collaboration and participation, could we now be entering a new phase of a practical re-invention of participation?
This tentative list of problems and questions guided our study day displaced in the frame of Don’t Eat the Microphone. We read some Hal Foster , Chat Rooms / some Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells / some Yves Citton, Ecology of Attention / some Derek R. Ford and Tyson E. Lewis, On the freedom to be opaque monsters, and discuss in various ways our doubts on participative art with the curators of ‘Don’t eat the microphone’ project and the patients of the psychiatric hospital.

c/ Poieien (July 14th)
Invited by the summer program to structure a day around concerns traversing researchers and artists when thinking about methodologies and their politics, Bojana Cvejic, then-curator of the research program at p.a.r.t.s., guided the group of researchers and artists through a critical reflection that she currently conducts on methodologies, opposing practice and action to poiesis. During the encounter with the researchers of a.pass, she proposed two points of entry: how poetry pierces through other mediums than text and poiein, as in how to make, compose, form... more than do and act... a kind of thought that arises from within, or close to, artistic practice that in turn becomes an instrument of looking past art. She accounts for it by “poetics”, using the term to emphasise the productive power of thought as opposed to the genre of interpretation that classifies specimens of kinds. Bojana Cvejic shared that poetics entails engagement with art in imaginary and speculative senses that ‘theory’, tout court – in the way that it has become the superstructural element of art production in capitalism – no longer enables.
The participants did map out their imaginary around their matters of concern, read some texts and discussed with Bojana.

3. Three 'Sieves' proposed by three human 'analogous algorithms'

The aim of these three advanced modes of feedback named ‘Sieves’ -performed by three ex-a.pass researchers identified as 'analogous algorithms'- were to create conditions that could define practices of creative feedback experimentations on artistic researches envisaged as technical dispositives to investigate how each rhetoric of presentation and its digestive techniques could be expressed in terms of data model (Sina Seifee in May), in terms of recipes and cook books (Gosie Vervloessem in June) and in terms of idiotic practice (Vanja Smilianic in July)

a/ Sina Seifee / Filters
The basic question of 'Filter' was : what happens when linking the symbolic space of data-model to the (relational, procedural, emotional) qualities of the researches of participants? The work started with working on/with the feedback material produced during the block’s opening week and processing this material in diagrams. The proposal centred on the notion (and practice) of topological analysis to investigate questions of connectivity and boundaries, in order to find out what remains invariant as a result of transformation. This did direct us to construct ‘transversal objects’ actualising what connects and joins, what delinks and disconnects in the culture of each participant researches.

some documentation of the process here

b/ Gosie Vervloessem / Vision and Digestion
The protocol was to bring one’s research and start to think about the taste of it, the way it could move through one’s intestines and try to visualise the tools and methods one would use to transform one’s questions into a dish. How to boil down questions, how to crystallise the background dramaturgy of researches? As a way of documenting the symposium, Gosie proposed to write the recipes of the ‘dishes’ and to edit the cookbook out of the ‘digested’ researches.

c/ Vanja Smilianic / Idiotic Mandala attacked by a parasitic octopus
The Idiotic Mandala -indicating a weird circular configuration with a centre that radiates outward into compartmentalised areas deranged by the unvited presence of a creeping octopus- asked to switch off one's rational thinking and opened it up to wandering and wondering. The practitioners were invited to introspectively transform the Vicious Circle ( sad passions at work disguised as set of tools and technologies that became behaviour patterns in one's research) into the Virtuous Circle (creating a universe in which idiots are able to act)

Milieus, Associations, Sieves and other matters

some justifications

Thematics, Research questions, approaches, potentials, methodologies, relevance

In response to a proposed frame given by a.pass coordinator and research center curator Lilia Mestre to structure the block in relation to the Senselab concepts and practices, postmaster program curator Pierre Rubio choose to design entry points to different set of practices and theoretical notions accessing a central theme for Senselab and him, the one of technical mentality. A few years ago SenseLab published a special issue of Inflexions ‘Simondon : Milieux, Techniques, Aesthetics’ and Brian Massumi’s lenghtly interview ‘Technical mentality revisited’ was published in Parrhesia. Rubio, since 2010, regularly revisits Simondon’s texts in relation to his practice as artist/dramaturge and observes the growing interest for the french philosopher's ideas in the academic and artistic fields. He curated an a.pass block in 2014 -'Milieu(s)'- that problematised some aspects of technical mentality within a collectively constructed ephemeral public school dispositive. The possibility of considering artistic researches trajects and projects as technical objects and experimenting with technical mentality seemed to be relevant for this block especially in the vicinity of Senselab's residence invited by a.pass Research Centre within the 'Parallel/Parasite' project.

-A poly semantic space to activate problematisations and progressive resolutions through concretisation

-The individual CRI’s as case studies of non-autonomous technological open objects

-Constructivism, technical mentality and artistic research

-Simondon and artistic research : a promising diffractive equation

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... to be continued...

index

REMINDER:

Thursday 24th andFriday 25th of May THIS IS 1000 LITER FUEL SO…

PROGRAM for both days

PARALLEL PARASITE, a month residency at ZSenne ArtLab : On Anarchiving > On Love > On Score -ing > On the spot > On presence

PUBLIC EVENTS:

Open Call

Thursday 24th and
Friday 25th of May

THIS IS 1000 LITER FUEL SO…