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1. open call
   Open Call Open Call for collective research residency
   07 April 2024
   posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
   a.pass
   15 August 2024
   15 October 2024
   

    

   What could be lying fallow in the arts?

    

   It is no longer possible to submit your application for the 1st group.

   Thank you to all the 55 collectives that have submitted their application for this first round of our Open Call Lying Fallow in the Arts ! At this very moment the jury of the Open Call (Lilia Mestre, Heike Langsdorf & Hendrik De Smedt from a.pass together with external jury members Ash Bulayev and Kopano Maroga) is busy with reading all the applications and selecting the first group for the collective research residency. The final selection will be announced begin of July. 

   The call for the 2nd group will be launched August 15th. We have decided to take a little bit more time to re-write and finetune our 2nd call, based on the applications we received this 1st round. Also for us these residencies are a ‘learning-by-doing’ process and we want to take our time to do this process with all the care it needs.

   Deadline for applications will be mid-October.

   More news soon. In case you have questions, please contact the general coordinator of a.pass: kristof@apass.be

    

   “In a world in constant motion there is an ecological imperative to embrace the value of idleness” Michael Chieffalo and Julia Smachylo in Lying fallow: the value of idleness
2. information
   performative publishing
   project
   workshop
   AM I EVIL ? Open Call for writers
   29 February 2024
   posted by: Kristof Van Hoorde
   24 March 2024
   

   Am I Evil?* Brussels Edition 

   by Simone Basani and Alice Ciresola with Els Moors

   Can erotic writing become a place for decolonial and feminist exploration?How could one embrace the tools of erotic writing to unveil, investigate and question power processes of colonisation, discrimination, nanoracism, marginalization, exoticization, abuse and seduction from diverse perspectives?  
   
   These questions are at the core of Am I Evil? process writers of all sorts are invited to embark upon.
   On this journey the group of writers embrace erotic writing as a tool to investigate their own desire, and how this relates to the Other and the Unknown.
   
   For the duration of the whole journey they stay in dialogue through a peer-to-peer editing methodology. Actually such a methodology is not ‘just’ editing. It is rather an intimate and radical way of dialoguing through re-writing.
   
   Am I Evil? starts off with a-lecture introduction by Basani and Ciresola open to everyone about the legacy of Jeanne Walschot, the first white female dealer and collector of African art we know, active in Brussels from 1920s.
   
   The figure of Mrs. Walschot works efficiently as a site to explore the way Western European culture desires the Other, and the Unknown. With the research of Gloria Wekker, Audre Lorde, bell hooks and Robin diAngelo in mind, this exploration might reveal for instance how whiteness is constructed (culturally, socially, historically) through the look and the touch on the Other.
   
   The process of text writing and re-writing will take place between the end of April and July 2024, both in collective meetings in person and individual sessions at home.
   
   The texts created during this collective journey will be shared with the audience through a printed publication and will have a first presentation moment during the Art Book Fair at Wiels and at nadine, in October 2024.
   
   The Brussels edition of Am I Evil? welcomes as special guests the writers Gabriela Wiener and Cristina Ubah Ali Farah plus other artists to be confirmed.

   More info and how to apply click here.