RESIDENCY

WHAT WE WILL is a collective of artists who use public space for learning through interaction and production.

‘What we will’ was a slogan used by various 19th century labour movements as part of the social struggle to reduce working hours. One specific proposal consisted of the partitioning of days into 3 equal parts of 8 hours: designated for work, for rest and for ‘free time’ or indeed “time to do what we will”. The collective adopted this motto as they aim to collectively re-evaluate the meaning of work in the current socio-economic conditions.

WWW’s current focus is on the process of felting and the possibilities for felted rugs to serve as a platform to generate activities, stories or ideas. The nature of such rugs, both produced and subsequently used on the ground, underlines our horizontal organisational structure. The slow processes stimulate conversation and working in public space allows for coincidental encounters. Group-learning, skill-sharing and other types of informal exchange were the foundations of their collective.

What We Will currently are Sigurrós Bjornsdottir, Anisa El Margai, Marianne Borremans, Tine Colen, Leander Sebrechts, Jan van Goethem, Inès Ballesteros, Nele Tas, Wouter Van der Hallen, Bernadette Zdrazil and Michela Dal Brollo.