We are delighted to announce the fourth edition of Beyond the Black Box Festival in Antwerp! Get ready for an immersive experience into the realm of the unknown and step our of the black box. This year’s programme is bold, experimental and diverse in topics so there’ll sure be something for you.

“Emerging from friendships that exist in overlapping cultural and political scenes, our collective is held together by a common investment in the sonic and the sensorial to establish connections with the spaces in which we find ourselves. In their haptic vibrations, their ability to animate and intensify flows between living and non-living things, sounds/senses constitute vibrant matter that plays an important part in forming the texture of everyday life. Sounds/senses can then be mobilised “as a structural base as well as a speculative guide for engaging arguments about social and political struggle” (from LaBelle’s Sonic Agency, 2018). From this, the concept of a faellowship took shape, centred on the medium of a radio programme.”

Faellowship is Jeanne Coppens, Lina Ejdaa, Anna Laganovska and Stine Sampers.

Analogue Campaign – maak en breng je eigen speech over democratie

The past month we welcomed Mestizo Arts Platform in the Gasstraat. Opening our space to become a temporary co-working space. Together with a few artists from their WIPCOOP network — Gökhan Kizilbuga, Farida, Joana Rossi, Saloua Hassani, Louai Hashem & Julia Färber Data — MAP took some time to rework, brainstorm, reflect, and experiment… in short, to step away from their routines.

Stef Assandri’s artistic practice involves textualities, costume design, cooking, and research-creation. In recent years, they have been exploring and investigating practices that connect topics such as migration, gender, and speciesism. Currently, they are working on a long-term research project that intertwines writing practices and plant-based cooking –as a way of rejecting speciesism by promoting ways of eating without non-human animal exploitation. Through this project, they are weaving an archive that takes various forms of expression, such as publications, performances, dinners, sound pieces, and more.

Fariborz Karimi (Tehran, 1990) is a theater maker, performer, and writer based in Amsterdam. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Theater Directing and Acting from Tehran University in 2013 and graduated with a master’s degree from DAS Theater (Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten) in 2023.

Ciao! We’re back with another wpZimmer pizza party! On 24 January at 4:30PM we will open our gate to celebrate a new beginning at wpZimmer. After a small introduction you will be invited to make your own pizza and enjoy the festivities. This is an open event (no registration needed) and pizza’s are free!

As the 2024 season has come to an end, we are closing our blue gate for a moment of hibernation. Sincerely thanking everyone who made this year transformative for us! We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on so stay tuned. But for now we wish you a good rest and a bubbly new year!

xoxo wpZimmer

This was At the Sight of Love by Elioa Steffen! Thank you all for coming en showing your enthusiasm. We hope you found it as insightful as we did!
Hereby we share the photos taken during the workshop, enjoy!