For the upcoming two weeks, Enrica Camporesi will be working on Oertaal: oefeningen, an artistic research in the form of texts, miniatures and theatre workshops that explores how sense arises from signs, how we do things with our words, how language(s) and mutual understanding are tangible creatures that inhabit the jungle of ambivalence.
Read more about the residency here!
During the week of November 1st, Biljana Rodanisla and Isobel Dryburgh are joining us in residency to work on their project “She can borrow my body if she needs”: a work centring the study of a single event and its aftermath in the context of sexual violence.
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Nieuw in residentie tijdens de week van 25 oktober zijn Marialena Marouda, Charlie Usher en Elpida Orfanidou als The Oceanographies Institue. TOI is een instituut in wording dat aandachtig de manier van zijn van de oceaan bestudeert en het instituut in wording laat leiden door de oceaan.
Lees hier meer over de residentie.
You are officially invited to be part of wpZimmer’s first session of LAST MONTH TONIGHT: A bi-monthly gathering joining residents and the wpZimmer community exploring a question, a practice, a problem or an inspiring text residents encountered during their stay.
It’s not a pitch, presentation or a showing, it’s a get-together where we sit around artistic questions in an informal setting, accompanied by drinks and snacks.
On Friday, October 29th: Michela dal Brolle & inés Ballesteros (Samenschool), Kevin Fay, Ted Oonk and The Oceanographies Institute will be joining us for the first LAST MONTH OF TONIGHT.
Will you as well? Join us at wpZimmer at 5pm on 29.10- there is no guestlist, come as you are and feel free to bring a friend or two.
This week we welcomed new resident Kevin Fay at wpZimmer, who will be in residency up until October 24th. During his stay he will be focussing on his latest work “Conversing with Masculinity” through which he researches the subjects of masculinity, feminism, language, and the body.
Read more about the residency here!
By introducing TOPOI, wpZimmer explores the possibility of transforming into a secret garden and a breeding space simply by opening its blue gates. It reshapes into a workplace that exceeds the focus on individual artistic practices but prioritizes reciprocity taking the form of an exchange of knowledge, of joy, of simply existing in the physical and emotional realm we are connected to.
With Topos 2: HOW TO BE TOGETHER, curator Chiara Organtini invited Julia Rubies, Philippe Van Wolputte, Lili Rampre, Justine Maxelon, Caroline Daish, Katinka De Jonge and Eszter Némethi to collectively ponder on a series of questions.
*How can we offer connectedness that could heal our social fabric?
*Can we restore a public sphere in which we feel more connected to each other?
*Can we explore the public space as a counter site for impossible encounters – as a space for the many?
Three weeks of sharing and immersing each other and themselves in collaborative processes lead to new stories, practices and voices. wpZimmer and the Topos 2 collective warmly invite you to be part of a public moment of sharing shaped like a temporary, fictional encounter on Saturday, October 16th from 16h-18 at the blue gates of wpZimmer at Gasstraat 90, 2060 Antwerp. It’s a moment where individual artistic practices make room for newly invented ones, ones that flowed from the time spent together at wpZimmer.
Topos 2 was made possible by The City of Antwerp and C-Takt
Are you an artist working in the fields of dance, performance and hybrid artistic practices? Then keep reading… wpZimmer is offering a residency program focused on artistic research and development. The application is open to artists from both Belgium and abroad!
The deadline of the call is 31/10/2021 at 23h59. The selection is made by our multi-voiced artistic team; Helga Baert, Gosie Vervloessem, Ingrid Vranken, joined by an external voice. This year that will be Baya Collective.
For the upcoming three weeks wpZimmer is home to a collective residency. Curator Chiara Organtini asked “HOW TO BE TOGETHER?” a question that is explored during an open and collaborative process in collaboration with a group of artists, researchers and dancers.
How does architecture intervene in public spaces to generate new attitudes and relationship. In what way does the practice of space design and construction reveal alternatives while promoting the conception of environments while allowing new voices and stories acces to the official discourse and spaces where they take place.
Chiara invited Caroline Daish and Justine Maxelon from vocal improvisation practice Oracle, theatre maker – researcher and curator Eszter Némethi – artist and researcher Katinka De Jonge – Choreographer and dancer Lili Rampre – visual and installation artist Philippe Van Wolputte – dancer, collaborator and maker Júlia Rúbies.
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*Topos 2 is supported by C-Takt & The City of Antwerp
Also joining us in residency for two weeks since September 13th are Brussels-based researcher Sina Seifee and Norway-based choreographer, performer, teacher, and sound artist Jassem Hindi.
During their residency they are working on Eschatos – through which they propose to experiment with eschatological reservoirs of imagination as one of the very early modes of ‘system-thinking’–the idea that there is a universal coherent scheme at work (for example visually conceived in the wheel of time or the world as a nine-headed snake).