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OpenField: first look at the program
4-8 May 2026 / bodeek, Birminghamstraat 30, 1080 Molenbeek
a gathering - May 4-8 2026
OpenField is a five-day gathering dedicated to the possible futures and autonomies of artistic research.
What comes to mind when you hear the words autonomy and future in relation to artistic research?
Can you imagine them, or notice where they already unfolding?
What tools do you have, or need to develop, to practice them and make them sustainable, especially within collective practices?
Through these questions, a.pass invited three artistic collectives, One Field Fallow (BE), Topote de Acahual (MX), and Arquitectura Expandida (CO), to each identify an urgent topic at the end of their research residency. Their responses have become the titles of the first three days of the gathering: Scripts and Protocols for Collective Spaces, Foreshadowing Amid Turbulent Futures, Manifest Everyday Urban Utopias. Three topics to be explored collectively by a multiform constellation of research-based practices.
The fourth day starts off on the right foot: Breakfast for Insatiable Researchers invites you to meet art workers in Brussels who have long supported artistic research, mostly without structural funding. Directly in the spaces where they usually work. Food for thought, for practices, and more! In the afternoon, the gathering documentation group will share traces from previous OpenField moments during a Memory-Making Session, and create space for contributions from everyone.
The fifth day is dedicated to a working session, Collabora(c)tion: Futuring Artistic Research, for organisations, educational institutions, and collectives who want to explore how to join forces and continue (or begin) creating shared spaces, time, and energy for artistic research.
First names
4 May, Scripts and Protocols for Collective Spaces: One Field Fallow @onefieldfallow / Kopano Maroga @kopano.maroga / Amari & Kajol Singh @uscpresents / Sophie Sénécaut & Mouss @mouss.timiss and others. >>> Antwerpen: Monty & DeSingel
5 May, Foreshadowing Amid Turbulent Futures: Topote de Acahual @vivero.de.tebanca / Mahmoud Alhaj @mahmoud.alhaj / Diego Echegoyen @echegoyendiego / Femke Snelting and Jara Rocha (The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest) and others. >>>Brussels: bodeek & WIELS
6 May, Manifest Everyday Urban Utopias: Arquitectura Expandida @arquitectura_expandida / Soumaya Phéline @soumayapheline / Marian van Bodegraven @marianvanbodegraven / Gary Farrelly @gary_farrelly / Lucia Palladino @luciapalladino / argos & Beursschouwburg : Inge Coolsaet @_ingoingo Quinten Wyns @quintenwyns/ radical_hope/Heike Langsdorf @radicalhope with Paula Almiron @p.a.u.l.a_almiron and others. >>>Brussels: Beursschouwburg
7 May, Breakfast for Insatiable Researches: The Green Corridor @thegreencorridor.brussels / radical_house @radicalhousebxl/ Agency/ One Field Fallow @onefieldfallow / BARN @brusselsartistrunnetwork and others + Memory-Making Session: Adrijana Gvozdenović, Raquel Santana de Morais @desirenhos_raquelmorais, Davide Tidoni @davidetidoni and others. >>>Brussels: danscentrumjette
8 May: Collabora(c)tion: Futuring Artistic Research: Philippine Hoegen @philippinehoegen / the OpenField partner collectives and organisations and others. >>>Brussels (place tbc)
Open Field gathers all these projects, processes and practices via the network of a.pass and its alumni, OpenField partner organisations and collectives.
More details and link for free registration coming soon!
**Artwork for OpenField communication by Chloë Janssens**