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
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).
Since Monday, September 13th we are joined by actor, theatre-maker, and autodidact sound experimenter Nahuel Cano who will be working on “Mapping the Interior” during his residency at wpZimmer.
During his residency Nahuel plans to map interior spaces, domestic and inner subjective spaces. Mapping these spaces, their non-human and human geography, their ghostly presences and the different temporalities that collapse in different localities. He does not yet know how a spectral sound map would unfold in time and space. Finding ways to approach the design of such maps is the goal of his research.
With Gathering Ground Salomé Mooij invites us to try and fit the entire Earth into the Sint Jans square. She asks us to imagine the world without nation states – a re-mapping of the world from the landscapes it consists of. What is our Earth made of at this moment, and how could we imagine what the world might be?
You’re invited to a participatory performance this weekend at Sint Jansplein in Antwerp as part of this edition of Love at first Sight Get your ticket for Saturday 18/9 or Sunday 19/9 through this link.
Last week we were joined by Vincent Van Dijck as he worked on WHAT I FEEL I BELIEVE IN MY DREAMS during his residency.
From September 6th until 12th he worked on a formative examination of the potentialities of AR/VR as tools for cyber performance.
From September 6th until 12th we were joined by Michela Dal Brollo and Inés Ballesteros who were working on “Living Equipment” – they both create and demonstrate portable equipment as a set of transportable, practical and conceptual devices, which they name “Living Equipment”. Through the Living Equipment, they research how to generate temporary spaces that favour more heterogeneous and diverse forms of urbanism, in contrast to a tendency towards privatization and control in public space.
During his residency, artist and curator Yanis Stefanou will be working on “Shame-Less” (working title) from September 3rd until September 12th.
“Shame-Less calls for structuring a different sense of self through shame, for subverting shaming through a performative metamorphosis. It proposes experimental forms of thematizing and celebrating the experience of being looked, overlooked and shamed. It opens up new ways of imagining and reimagining identities, relations and modes for inhabiting the existing space of power.”
The starting point of “Shame-Less” is the murder on Zak Kostopoulos – one that unravelled a prevailing culture of queer-shaming in Greece.