The Mottolese Archive is a research project focusing on a video archive never made public: the fifteen-years-long documentation of the local environmental struggles created by Piero Mottolese, a 70-years old former worker of Taranto’s ILVA. ...
OXOt vzw is an artists’ collective that runs on volunteers with a specific focus on socially integrating vulnerable people. Established in 2006, it runs spaces in Westerlo, Ghent, and Antwerp, pioneering the socialization of care, ...
Sigrid Bosmans wants to investigate how experimental practices and needs of artistic and heritage communities can give meaning to urban (Mechelen) cultural policies (participation, cooperation, and innovation). What can these experiments mean for the day ...
‘Pharmakos’ investigates jewellery and body adornments at times of social conflict. The symbolic and physical agenda of the wearable craft object is examined both historically and in contemporary times. Key focus is to explore the ...
Projects (as active citizen/commoner): Spilkiekes/community garden: www.spilkiekes.be A church as a common – www.fundament2060.be Community supported beekeeping Antwerp Coop of community food producers – www.coop2060.be Collective of ‘Oude Geuze’ lovers – www.bierboot.be Board member ‘Europahuis ...
Commons Lab is a grassroots, not for profit ‘socio-cultural’ organization, founded as ‘Commons Lab Antwerp’ at the end of 2017 in the city of Antwerp (Belgium). It’s an experimental lab investigating ‘commons transition’; new forms ...
Alexandra Tryanova’s curatorial interests are focused on the research of recreational practices and their transformation with contemporary art, gender, institutional critique, and Eastern European post-war avant-gardes. Currently, she is developing research on the role of ...
With the 2024 elections on the way, Katrien Reist is currently investigating the notion of the ‘representation’ of the Flemish art field in the political realm. Questioning the legitimacy of the classical organisation of the ...
I’m working on finishing my movie (…). This absurd non-linear and playful video diary tells the story of (and by) Ron, who has been living for 5 years with a Aquired Brain Injury (ABI), causing ...
The Commons as a Pathway to a New Institutional Dynamic is a PhD research that explores how Museums and Cultural Institutions could integrate concepts from the Theory of the Commons in order to shape a ...
