*PERSEVERANCE LAB 1* Four days of performances and live sets in dialogue with a space and an artwork Curated by Stefan Pollak Text (available during the event) by Joséphine Wagnier In the amazing location of the MERCERIE, in the very heart of Brussels, W.I.P. COLLECTIVE will create an augmented version of “Cascade”, an installation presented during their exhibition at Le Pavillon in Namur and during the KIKK Festival. It is inspired by Vilém Flusser’s book “Pour une philosophie de la photographie”. The philosopher questions our relationship with the image. Although images are still equated with the representation of reality, they are in fact nothing more than a limited capture or construction of the world in which we live. Here, limited by the resolution of the screens, the quality of the...
*PERSEVERANCE LAB 1* Four days of performances and live sets in dialogue with a space and an artwork Curated by Stefan Pollak Text (available during the event) by Joséphine Wagnier In the amazing location of the MERCERIE, in the very heart of Brussels, W.I.P. COLLECTIVE will create an augmented version of “Cascade”, an installation presented during their exhibition at Le Pavillon in Namur and during the KIKK Festival. It is inspired by Vilém Flusser’s book “Pour une philosophie de la photographie”. The philosopher questions our relationship with the image. Although images are still equated with the representation of reality, they are in fact nothing more than a limited capture or construction of the world in which we live. Here, limited by the resolution of the screens, the quality of the lenses, the colour parameters and their digital encoding, the images in Cascade bear witness to a distortion of concrete reality. By daisy-chaining the lenses, the environment filmed by the first camera is altered by a moiré effect that intensifies with each step. Performers, musicians, DJ’s and you will be invited to interact with the art installation. THURSDAY 07.12.23 5 PM inaugurating W.I.P. COLLECTIVE’s installation 8 PM Piet Dierickx Live Set Doors close 10 PM FRIDAY 08.12.23 6 PM - 10 PM Performances by Inès Guffroy Parvin Saljoughi Mallaury Scala SATURDAY 09.12.23 6 PM - 10 PM Warm Up Sets by Vvip PIC000 ALØHA SUNDAY 10.12.23 6 PM - 10 PM Live Set by Lampis Performances by Rania Barhoumi Osamu Shikichi ////////////ARTISTS//////////// WIP COLLECTIVE is made up of Jérôme Boulanger and Thibaut Drouillon. Together, they’re using digital technologies to make visual choices, they analyse reality as a set of fictions and attempt to deconstruct the constituent aspects of artistic production. To question collective imagery and see the symbols of a shared culture from a different angle, their work often uses language-based graphic forms and cartographic representations. On the other hand, digital programming allows them to move away from a total control over the finality of the forms they propose, and to leave room for chance in the creation. In this sense, the images, devices and installations they present highlight a generative and physical process that is constantly evolving. Their artistic practice tries not to be fixed in a stable, definitive form. PIET DIERICKX is well known in the Belgian music scene. Having been the drummer of among others Soulwax, Drums are for Parades and Future Old People Are Wizards, cemented his name in the Belgian music history books. In 2015 he felt the need to change direction, having been a performing artist for over 25 years, Dierickx started on a different musical journey. Embracing his home studio, Dierickx set off on composing what he calls ‘musical storytelling’. Dierickx lets us have look into his inner self, a musical journey that triggers the visual. “A soundtrack to displace everyday life” as he puts it. INES GUFFROY's work focuses on look-alikes, painted copies and even film remakes. Sometimes, she slips into the skin of characters who embody authority in the eyes of the public. By playing the exhibition curator, the gallery owner, the mediator or the restaurant waitress, she makes the false and the true waver and provokes questions. She uses identity theft to play with notions of originality, deception and mediocrity. PARVIN SALJOUGHI, whose artistic career encompasses choreography, dance, and performance art, continually explores the boundaries of her artistic expression. Her work delves into the essence of the political body, vulnerability, power dynamics, uncertain presence, and societal invisibility. Her pursuit involves unveiling the hidden forces within the visible, transcending mere external appearances. Choreographer, dancer and photographer, MALLAURY SCALA has developed a choreographic vocabulary, called “toolbox”. Freely inspired by different somatic and choreographic practices, this tool summons through oral and sensory speculation, the different anatomical structures: bones, muscles, cells , liquids. Leading to reinvent new mythologies of the body, more joyful, more powerful, more restorative. Fabulation as the act of remaking oneself a body through gesture. RANIA BARHOUMI, an Artist, Dancer, and emerging Choreographer, hails from the vibrant city of Tunis, Tunisia. Her journey through the realms of dance and choreography is a testament to her evolving passion and delight for "the body". She did Karate, but meanwhile the interest towards movements and body starts shifting from martial art perspective to the field of art. Rania's artistic philosophy centers on creating distinct environments for each performance, with a dedication to pushing the boundaries of the term and act of performing. She is currently doing a STUDIO Program at P.A.R.T.S. to pursue a Master's degree in choreography. While it is impossible to see oneself objectively from the outside, OSAMU SHIKICHI tries to capture the reality of oneself through another human being that is composed of the closest materials. Shikichi is interested in identifying and blurring the boundaries of the human body in the process. Born in Japan and started making the performances while doing sculpture and mixed media. And as the performance shifted more focusing on the physical movements and body qualities, Shikichi began working on dance and also became more active in the performing arts fields. LAMPIS practice focuses on consciousness in the area of sensory experience and intuition, emphasising in particular the relationship between aural and visual perception. He explores this theme through various means like performative actions, workshops, music productions, and sculptures. He employs a method of excluding one element to delve deeper into understanding the other, like visually analysing sound or examining visual perception acoustically. With his project Before the Eyes he produces audio descriptions of contemporary art exhibitions developed for the visually impaired. By combining laser scanning, biosonar, facial vision and sound diffusion he develop three-dimensional sound representations of spaces and objects in what he calls ‘acoustic notional ekphrasis’.| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 18:00 - 22:00 |
| Friday | 18:00 - 22:00 |
| Saturday | 18:00 - 22:00 |
| Sunday | 18:00 - 22:00 |
*PERSEVERANCE LAB 1* Four days of performances and live sets in dialogue with a space and an artwork Curated by Stefan Pollak Text (available during the event) by Joséphine Wagnier In the amazing location of the MERCERIE, in the very heart of Brussels, W.I.P. COLLECTIVE will create an augmented version of “Cascade”, an installation presented during their exhibition at Le Pavillon in Namur and during the KIKK Festival. It is inspired by Vilém Flusser’s book “Pour une philosophie de la photographie”. The philosopher questions our relationship with the image. Although images are still equated with the representation of reality, they are in fact nothing more than a limited capture or construction of the world in which we live. Here, limited by the resolution of the screens, the quality of the...
*PERSEVERANCE LAB 1* Four days of performances and live sets in dialogue with a space and an artwork Curated by Stefan Pollak Text (available during the event) by Joséphine Wagnier In the amazing location of the MERCERIE, in the very heart of Brussels, W.I.P. COLLECTIVE will create an augmented version of “Cascade”, an installation presented during their exhibition at Le Pavillon in Namur and during the KIKK Festival. It is inspired by Vilém Flusser’s book “Pour une philosophie de la photographie”. The philosopher questions our relationship with the image. Although images are still equated with the representation of reality, they are in fact nothing more than a limited capture or construction of the world in which we live. Here, limited by the resolution of the screens, the quality of the lenses, the colour parameters and their digital encoding, the images in Cascade bear witness to a distortion of concrete reality. By daisy-chaining the lenses, the environment filmed by the first camera is altered by a moiré effect that intensifies with each step. Performers, musicians, DJ’s and you will be invited to interact with the art installation. THURSDAY 07.12.23 5 PM inaugurating W.I.P. COLLECTIVE’s installation 8 PM Piet Dierickx Live Set Doors close 10 PM FRIDAY 08.12.23 6 PM - 10 PM Performances by Inès Guffroy Parvin Saljoughi Mallaury Scala SATURDAY 09.12.23 6 PM - 10 PM Warm Up Sets by Vvip PIC000 ALØHA SUNDAY 10.12.23 6 PM - 10 PM Live Set by Lampis Performances by Rania Barhoumi Osamu Shikichi ////////////ARTISTS//////////// WIP COLLECTIVE is made up of Jérôme Boulanger and Thibaut Drouillon. Together, they’re using digital technologies to make visual choices, they analyse reality as a set of fictions and attempt to deconstruct the constituent aspects of artistic production. To question collective imagery and see the symbols of a shared culture from a different angle, their work often uses language-based graphic forms and cartographic representations. On the other hand, digital programming allows them to move away from a total control over the finality of the forms they propose, and to leave room for chance in the creation. In this sense, the images, devices and installations they present highlight a generative and physical process that is constantly evolving. Their artistic practice tries not to be fixed in a stable, definitive form. PIET DIERICKX is well known in the Belgian music scene. Having been the drummer of among others Soulwax, Drums are for Parades and Future Old People Are Wizards, cemented his name in the Belgian music history books. In 2015 he felt the need to change direction, having been a performing artist for over 25 years, Dierickx started on a different musical journey. Embracing his home studio, Dierickx set off on composing what he calls ‘musical storytelling’. Dierickx lets us have look into his inner self, a musical journey that triggers the visual. “A soundtrack to displace everyday life” as he puts it. INES GUFFROY's work focuses on look-alikes, painted copies and even film remakes. Sometimes, she slips into the skin of characters who embody authority in the eyes of the public. By playing the exhibition curator, the gallery owner, the mediator or the restaurant waitress, she makes the false and the true waver and provokes questions. She uses identity theft to play with notions of originality, deception and mediocrity. PARVIN SALJOUGHI, whose artistic career encompasses choreography, dance, and performance art, continually explores the boundaries of her artistic expression. Her work delves into the essence of the political body, vulnerability, power dynamics, uncertain presence, and societal invisibility. Her pursuit involves unveiling the hidden forces within the visible, transcending mere external appearances. Choreographer, dancer and photographer, MALLAURY SCALA has developed a choreographic vocabulary, called “toolbox”. Freely inspired by different somatic and choreographic practices, this tool summons through oral and sensory speculation, the different anatomical structures: bones, muscles, cells , liquids. Leading to reinvent new mythologies of the body, more joyful, more powerful, more restorative. Fabulation as the act of remaking oneself a body through gesture. RANIA BARHOUMI, an Artist, Dancer, and emerging Choreographer, hails from the vibrant city of Tunis, Tunisia. Her journey through the realms of dance and choreography is a testament to her evolving passion and delight for "the body". She did Karate, but meanwhile the interest towards movements and body starts shifting from martial art perspective to the field of art. Rania's artistic philosophy centers on creating distinct environments for each performance, with a dedication to pushing the boundaries of the term and act of performing. She is currently doing a STUDIO Program at P.A.R.T.S. to pursue a Master's degree in choreography. While it is impossible to see oneself objectively from the outside, OSAMU SHIKICHI tries to capture the reality of oneself through another human being that is composed of the closest materials. Shikichi is interested in identifying and blurring the boundaries of the human body in the process. Born in Japan and started making the performances while doing sculpture and mixed media. And as the performance shifted more focusing on the physical movements and body qualities, Shikichi began working on dance and also became more active in the performing arts fields. LAMPIS practice focuses on consciousness in the area of sensory experience and intuition, emphasising in particular the relationship between aural and visual perception. He explores this theme through various means like performative actions, workshops, music productions, and sculptures. He employs a method of excluding one element to delve deeper into understanding the other, like visually analysing sound or examining visual perception acoustically. With his project Before the Eyes he produces audio descriptions of contemporary art exhibitions developed for the visually impaired. By combining laser scanning, biosonar, facial vision and sound diffusion he develop three-dimensional sound representations of spaces and objects in what he calls ‘acoustic notional ekphrasis’.| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 18:00 - 22:00 |
| Friday | 18:00 - 22:00 |
| Saturday | 18:00 - 22:00 |
| Sunday | 18:00 - 22:00 |