LODGERS #14 ARIA
The LODGERS programme is a collaboration between AIR Antwerpen and the M HKA. Together, they invite some of the most imaginative artistic initiatives to occupy the exhibition spaces on the 6th floor of the M HKA. The programme offers organisations and initiatives that specifically focus on production and commission assignments, but do not have their own presentation space, i.e., a unique opportunity to address the public. LODGERS can be publishers, commission agencies, research initiatives, labels, collectives, discussion platforms or other initiatives that experiment with artistic practice and are interested in living, working or performing in Antwerp.
ARIA (Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts) develops and supervises research in, about and with the arts. For LODGERS, the institute unfolds activities and presentations that demonstrate both the specificity of research and its wide range. Between March 31 and June 24, performances, lectures, discussions and public lectures are held in an artistic context that highlights the rather 'speculative scholarly' activities of artists. Fiction and imagination are crucial research tools to understand reality. Research in the arts shows that reality can not only be examined, but is also made using research. Art, fiction and imagination are at any rate indispensable to look at reality. Without fiction, there is no non-fiction, without art no reality.
All LODGERS are based in the 'Eurocore', the combined Benelux and Rhineland region. Free access to visit our LODGERS. Drop by!
The LODGERS programme is curated by Nav Haq, Senior Curator in the M HKA and Alan Quireyns, artistic director at AIR Antwerpen.
31.03 – 21.04 Royal Conservatory Antwerp
23.04 – 28.04 Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerp
30.04 – 20.05 Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
21.05 – 9.06 Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerp
10.06 – 24.06 C.C.Q.O.
ROYAL CONSERVATORY ANTWERP
Tone Brulin (1926) is a unique figure in Flemish theatre. Carefully selected archival documents sketch a picture of his striking career, which stretches out over 70 years and four continents. An exhibition by T-books, Royal Conservatory Antwerp | AP University College and Het firmament, in collaboration with AMVK, Letterenhuis, Kunstenpunt and Het TheaterFestival. Many thanks to Kaaitheater.
The Space Between is a transmedia installation/performance about how meaning is created in the interspace. Between three media. Between people. Based on personal anecdotes, family stories and memories, a story about an amateur photographer and a girl develops, taking place during WWII on a lake in a small town in Poland. A transmedia installation/performance by Katharina Smets, Inne Eysermans and Ingrid Leonard, in collaboration with Royal Conservatory Antwerp | AP University College, framed in Katharina Smets's research project 'The Auditive Imagination. Research into the Audio Story as an Art Form on the Border of Media, Drama and Literature'. Katharina Smets is a doctoral student in Artistic Research.
SINT LUCAS SCHOOL OR ARTS ANTWERP
Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerp brings together contributions from a number of researchers, research groups, as well as the Master of Research in Art and Design. Students, alumni and external artists are involved as well. Leitmotif is the experimentation with retranslations to other carriers and mediums, as well as the questioning of presenting, representing and visualising research(-related) projects. The artistic approach is suggestive, groping, process-inclined, hypothetical, shifting, dialogical. In a unique way, the exhibition space is hereby activated into 'conversation space'.
ROYAL ACADEMY FOR FINE ARTS ANTWERP
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp offers a stimulating, international biotope within which this artistic research can optimally develop. With currently approximately 50 research projects conducted (of which about 10 doctoral degrees), a critical and innovative framework is guaranteed. For LODGERS, artist, teacher and researcher Nico Dockx selected three current Artistic Research PhD Projects at the Royal Academy. Geert Goiris, Mashid Mohadjerin and Vijai Patchineelam offer a fascinating insight into (part of) their research processes. Each artist conducts research into a different reality, which, during that process, gives rise to an alternative reality. In all three doctoral projects, the relationship between reality and perception on the one hand, and fiction and imagination on the other, plays an important role. With this presentation and programme, specifically devised for LODGERS, you can check for yourself whether art can offer a different perspective on your reality.
C.C.Q.O.
Wellness Center Future Proof – How to see the multi headed dragon at the palace of mirrors?
Wellness Center Future Proof is a research project that runs parallel to – and infiltrates into – the academic research of C.C.Q.O. (Cultural Commons Quest Office) at the University of Antwerp. It is an inherently artistic project, located both in reality and in fiction. This creates the possibility to function in an artistic and a non-artistic environment. Wellness Center Future Proof strives to add extra dimensions to the concept of 'common sustainability' in our Anthropocene. The reciprocity between artistic and academic research forms the continuation of the so-called 'Garland Strategy', with which the Wellness Center will be explored as a 'common ground' during LODGERS. Wellness Center Future Proof is a collaboration with Arne Herman, Giuliana Ciancio, Hanka Otte, Juan Canela Claver, Karina Beumer, Katinka de Jonge, Lara Garcia Diaz, Liesje De Laet, Louis Volont, Pascal Gielen, Thijs Lijster, and Walter van Andel.
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LODGERS
C.C.Q.O.
14.06 – 24.06
Wellness Centre Future Proof - How to tame the Multi-headed dragon in the palace of mirrors?
FUTURE PROOF
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The above is a timeline of post-war Europe. In the 1950s, a number of European countries built a safety net of social services for their citizens. Social security, good and affordable healthcare, democratic education, public transport, and easily accessible cultural facilities all became concerns of the welfare state. This safety net of a caring, motherly state was slowly but surely unravelled in the 1980s and 1990s through the privatization of all kinds of government services. People were encouraged to put aside extra funds for their retirement and to take out additional health insurance, but many people cannot afford this. People are still longing for physical and mental well-being, as witnessed by the trend of wellness centres. These also provide welfare, albeit at a price.
After more than 40 years of myth-building around the free market, the system by now has shown to be impotent and not capable of providing even the most basic social services. However, today’s governments often refuse to acknowledge this impotence, which explains the renewed interest in the commons. Citizens attempt to take back control of basic social and natural services—such as neighbourly help or the distribution of water—and make them common again. These commoners apply open-source principles that we are familiar with from Wikipedia and Creative Commons.
In Wellness Centre Future Proof artists Karina Beumer, Katinka de Jonge, and Liesje De Laet give their interpretation of the study conducted by the Culture Commons Quest Office (ARIA – University of Antwerp). This study is an open scientific and artistic exploration of the role of the commons in making creative labour sustainable.
Public program
Thursday, June 14
18h00 – 21h00 Opening Wellness Centre Future Proof
19h00 Introduction Pascal Gielen
Tuesday, June 19
15h00 Open Quest: Silent Discussion on Commons & Sustainability
Invitation to join in a discussion on and with the Culture Commons Quest Office. The exercise is silent.
Visitors are invited to participate in the production/drawing of the C.C.Q.O.-diagram together with the research group members. It is a form of a game according to the following principle: the words 'Culture Commons Quest Office' are written on a board and everybody is welcome to get involved; add, change, draw, connect, erase, question, and shape the content of the diagram/mindmap.
Wednesday, June 20
11h00 Open Book Discussion about Massimo De Angelis’ All in Common
"In this weaving of radical political economy, Omnia Sunt Communia sets out the steps to post-capitalism. By conceptualising the commons not just as common goods but as a set of social systems, Massimo De Angelis shows their pervasive presence in everyday life, mapping out a strategy for total social transformation. From the micro to the macro, De Angelis unveils the commons as fields of power relations - shared space, objects, subjects - that explode the limits of daily life under capitalism. He exposes attempts to co-opt the commons, through the use of code words such as 'participation' and 'governance', and reveals the potential for radical transformation rooted in the reproduction of our communities, of life, of work and of society as a whole.”
Massimo De Angelis’ book All in Common will be discussed publicly by the C.C.Q.O. members. Feel free to join and participate.
Thursday June 21
16h00 - 21h00 The Open Narrations
The Open Narrations is a sequence of presentations from the Culture Commons Quest Office. With contributions by Arne Herman, Lara Garcia Diaz, and Juan Canela. Introduction on C.C.Q.O. by Louis Volont.
16h00 Introduction by Louis Volont
16h30 ‘E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Undine, or how the water granted the artwork its soul’ by Arne Herman
17h30 ‘A Field of Equivocations - Embodied Uncommons’ by Lara Garcia Diaz and Juan Canela
19h00 Screening of Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival, a film by Fabricio Terranova.
The presentations will be followed by a screening of Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival a film by Fabricio Terranova.