During a 6 week residency in wpZimmer , Antwerp (BE), the collective Affective_log invites to self-organize collectively by initiating work sessions, skill sharing, leisure time, reading sessions, sonic digressions and discussions on internal maintenance & care work of existing and aspiring feminist server projects . We will engage in physical performative body exercises, developing an audio interface/software/service with chatbots and prompt for collective meetings, install, configure feminist data practices, explore hard, soft & wet ware devices, do sound&video&data improvisations, …

Every Thursday
6pm – LIVE Radio centraal 
8pm – Film discussions

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The multidisciplinary collective NOON creates performative installations that stem from questions around other ways of being together. The collective is interested in events of entanglement between human and non-human actors. A recurring theme in their work is the creation of immersive spaces that function as ecosystems, with a big focus on scenography and materiality.

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.