We’re kicking off the month of August with a new residency here at wpZimmer.
These upcoming two weeks we are joined by Coupé Décalé. “Coupé Décalé is a laboratory, an experimental curation project. Coupé Décalé is a meeting between three people coming respectively from dance, cinema and anthropology in the first place.”
During their residency, the collective works on “Multiplier Les Mondes”: a work that proposes a documentary investigation where the accounts of neuroscientists, anthropologists, initiates and artists are crossed… making the places of speech cohabit without concern of exhaustiveness, not for the sake of defining it better but to let the disorder float. Coupé Décalé invites you to an immersive experience where sensory and intellectual knowledge merge, between listening, dreaming and contemplation.
Starting on July 19th, wpZimmer welcomes trajectory artist and theatre maker Salomé Mooij in residency.
During her stay, Salomé works on “Gathering Ground”, a work that she made in collaboration with Marie Groothof, Marieke Breyne, Lotte Stek, Sebastiaan van Kints, Julien McHardy and Germen Roding.
In Gathering Ground you are invited to a hands-on thought experiment, a physical drawing in a public space, a giant map on the scale of our own body. Salomé will be performing the work during this year’s Love at First Sight Festival.
For the entire month of July, wpZimmer welcomes three artists that were selected through the PRESS PLAY Open Call which was curated by BAYA Collective.
BAYA is a creative collective that feels born out of a necessity for a new tide within its surroundings and a desire to develop and mold an authentic realm that connects creative individuals through collaborative processes.
Artists Beljita Gurung, Markha Yushaeva and Rita Habib were in residency in preparation for their first art exhibition that would be taking place in August at OUT OF SIGHT. Keep an eye out on our social media channels for more glimpses behind the scenes!
Dansand is a festival that takes place in Ostend from July 2nd until July 4th. For the festival, artist and performer Dan Mussett created a new episode of The Dating Project: “Where do we go from here?”. Taking inspiration from the beach as a frontier space where the many narratives of leaving and arriving collide, this episode brings participants together in a light-hearted way to re-enact the many ways in which this space has been perceived, imagined, and defined. Read more about the episode here! Want to book a ticket? Head to the website of Dansand.
This Summer, The Guardian of Nature (Maria Lucia Cruz Correia) and The Sick Detective (Gosie Vervloessem) open up their Forensic Plant Lab once again to an audience. Since May 2020, they have been investigating crimes that involve more-than-humans – and during the open office they guide visitors through the mind map of an investigation, which has been broken up like a crazy wall. To visit the Open Office on Thursday, June 24th at wpZimmer, RSVP through this link!
The open office is made possible with the support of The Activiteitenpremie from Flemish Authorities.
On Monday, June 21st we welcome a new resident at wpZimmer. Artist and performer Tiran Willemse will be in residency for the upcoming two weeks – working on Trompoppies/blackmilk, where he looks at one of the main choreographic elements of the dances that Trompoppies or drum majorettes perform, focussing on the precise hand gestures.
Discover more about the work here.
We’re kicking off our Summer with NE MOSQUITO PAS (19) – A collective, ongoing project where artists get to reflect on their relationship to success and failure, by working with elements that they experience as “failure” within their own practice. Presenting a series of solo performances in which they perform a negative (adapted) ‘second-hand’ version of their artistic practice in which a distinction between good and bad taste is declared unusable.
wpZimmer will be hosting two showings on June 28th and July 3rd at 8PM – each with their unique solos – no showing will be the same!
To reserve your tickets and get more information on the solos that will take place on each day, head to this link
[PART 1: Rosie Sommers, Simon Baetens, Sophia Danae Vorvila, Nathan Ooms, Willem De Wolf]
[PART 2: Micha Goldberg, Musia Mwankumi, Jacopo Buccino, Dahlia Pessemiers, Anna F. Jäger]
Joining us at wpZimmer for a showing or performance? Please read our safety guidelines!
*Topos 1 is supported by C-Takt & The City of Antwerp
There’s a new residency in town! wpZimmer welcomes concept creator and performer Sophie Guisset who will be joined by performer Clara Conza and dramaturgist Lisa Vereertbrugghen to work on VTC (working title).
VTC ( abbreviation for Vautour Tennis Club), is a research on the notion of rules and playfulness in the practice of tennis and in the practice of sexuality in darkrooms.Sophie is interested in the way this sport is organized, in the three types of regulation that affect players. The geometric boundaries of the field, the rules of behavior to adopt towards one’s partner/adversary, and finally the rules of the game in themselves. She will physically research how these three forms of rule organize themselves, their impact on the player’s bodies and mental state in a match situation and how they could be applied to another system.
Duet for two string trios is a coming together of pure dance and music, full of intimacy and lyricism, intense and disruptive, like the times we live in.
From this week on, we’re joined by Claire Croizé and the two performers with whom “Duet for Two String Trios” was created with and danced by: Emmi Väisänen en Jason Respilieux.
Read more about Duet for two string trios here!