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Spring Drink
21 March 2025
with a.pass and nadine
March 21st at 18h30
rue de Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek
Let’s celebrate SPRING ! nadine and a.pass are very happy to invite you for another Spring Drink! This time our friends from nadine will launch a new cycle of WAB (Wandering Arts Bienniale) and they will celebrate with us the end of our time at Manchesterstraat 17.
PROGRAM
– 18:30: doors open
– 19:00: work in progress (performance) by Helena Dietrich
– 20:00: work in progress (installation) by Annika Katja Boll
– Launch of a new WAB cycle (Wandering Arts)
*** work in progress – Untitled (until it appears) 2025 by Helena Dietrich (30min)
Between gesture and voice, something emerges. Not yet meaning, not yet language, existing in a fragile interval—a crack where meaning seeps through. Before words solidify into definitions, before gestures become codified signs, there exists this shimmering potential.
In this unfolding, each moment expands into its own universe, terrifying in its nakedness. Traveling toward the center of the now—that impossible point where everything meets nothing. An improvisation of scores from the new research Tuning – Resonant Bodies Weaving Emergent Ecologies.
*** work in progress – installation by Annika Katja Bol
“I want to share during this year’s Spring Drink an exploratory combination of my video and digital-sculptural work. I intend to display looped animations, as Walking Simulator 1 or Simple Simulator 2, which are digital walks in artificial nature scenes. They propose a sort of cyber-flânerie which relates to my interest in ‘Walking as Method’, a concept that suggests walking creates a rhythm of thinking. Juxtaposed to the screens are sculptural pieces as please don’t water me I’m artificial 1 and 2, which are 3D printed plants being re-motioned over rotating jewellery displays, forming a carousel of lifeless plants. I playfully describe this work between nature and artificiality as digital gardening. Through the visual combination of both I will try to reflect on an upcoming work, windmills of shame/ in Bliss, which aims to reflect on renewable energies and their social image: objects used for decoration as toy windmills, Lazy Susans or traditional German Christmas pyramids will be placed in opposition to a screen displaying the landscape of Bliss, the default Windows XP wallpaper from 1998. The title quotes a statement by AfD politician Alice Weidel, who wants to end the use of “the ugly windmills of shame”, when in power.” A.K.B
*** launch of a new WAB cycle
WAB was founded in 2014 by nadine as a ‘wandering arts’ biennial, supporting nomadic art practices, and work in public space. This year, WAB will be streched in time, as a seasonal cycle. Each season starts with a (semi-)public event to bring WAB closer to how nadine works (as an arts laboratory), while reflecting on the future of ‘wandering arts’ (as a practice).
>>> Join us, together with our friends of nadine, for a free drink, sharing moments of work in progress and the WAB launch on Friday 21 March at 18h30, Manchesterstraat 17, Molenbeek !