Monsters School is in volle gang!

Monsters School is een collectief en duratief experiment gedurende de hele maand juli. Een performatieve transformatie van “school” in een ruimte van co-creatie. Dit proces van anders worden is een praktijk van afleren en ongedaan maken terwijl je velen bent. Monsters School zet haar voet in het Middelheimpark, een partner in het anders worden.

We’re looking back on an amazingly fun and inspiring edition of Beyond the Black Box Festival 2024! Thank you to everyone who came to see and those who worked together to make this possible!

Now we jump into Summer and start working on the next edition, see you soon! Enjoy the aftermovie of the 2024 edition made by Myrto Grigoriou.

Last month Ahilan Ratnamohan graced wpZimmer with his language-obsessed artistic practice. During his stay Ahilan worked on a new project: The Institute for Anarchic and Artistic Language Learning, in the style of the Goethe Institut, Alliance Francaise or The British Council. But The Institute is created to make alternative and under-valued language-learning techniques and tactics more accessible. At the same time, The Institute raises questions in regards to language-learning pedagogy and what gets validated as such.

Kapinga Joséphine Muela Kabeya (born in 1995 in Ostend, living and working in Ghent) is engaged with spirituality, femininity, rituals, and exploring existence. Her work, playful and naive, reflects her quest for a connection with nature, claiming her own place, and justifying her right to exist as a queer woman of color. With a profound reflection on her roots and the call for grounding, she focuses on sharing her own story and healing the earth within the universe she inhabits.

wpZimmer proudly presents you Monsters School. Monsters School is a collective and durational experiment during the whole month of July. A performative transformation of “school” into a space of co-creation. This process of becoming other is a practice of unlearning and undoing while being many. Monsters School sets its foot in the Middelheim park, a partner in becoming other.

On Friday, May 17, we will host the eighth edition of Last Month Tonight!

With Last Month Tonight we create an informal setting where residents and the wider wpZimmer community sit together around a question, a text or an artistic practice that was central during the residency of the invited artists.

This edition features artists Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Arthur Decock, Augusto Pedraza, François Vincent and Anse Kuyl.

Organized in collaboration with Enrica Camporesi

With the support of Flanders – State of the art / Department of Culture, Youth and Media

Rodrigo’s ambition is to create theatre performances that function as unapologetic aesthetic statements addressed to geopolitical contexts. He achieves this through intense body/mind research made from impulses of iconoclasm, humor, indigestion, mutilation, blood, and explicitness. His goal is to create a palpable sense of political urgency and action in his audience, through theater pieces that were intertwined with large concepts such as the relationship between art and power, tragedy, Latin-American politics, strikes/insurrection, political explicitness, poverty pornography, gore-capitalism, propaganda, anti-colonialism as an event of violence, the operations and consequences behind the North-American Alt-Right Movement, among others.

Federico Protto’s artistic practice unfolds across and along performance, sound, installation, and research. Within the works, diverse practices such as choreography, music and mixtapes, fashion, sculpture, and text converge and intertwine with his South American background. At the heart of the artistic research lies an interest with sharing narratives surrounding migration and the colonial, and our individual and collective movements through the world(s).

Out of their own experience, François Vincent and Anse Kuyl, want to create ‘Archive des Petites Morts’, a space where their own acts of mourning and those of others can exist and be witnessed. In this archive they want to include themes like the friction in between presence/absence, losing/gaining, past/future, remembering/memory loss, object/objectified body, felt in the aftermath of sexual violence.