Words Take No Prisoners, a storytelling night at Becue
Friday 06/03, 19h
With: Boris The Cat & kivanc Ines Marita Schärer Héléne Meyer & Stephanie Quirola Jesse “anthology” Van Winden
Words Take No Prisoners is a series of open, exploratory encounters where language is incarnated as a material to work with, stretch, and transform. Spoken word may stand on its own, but will also be interwoven with other artistic forms such as music, film, two-or three dimensional images, or practices yet to be discovered. Rather than fixed formats, each evening invites experimentation, allowing different rhythms, voices and collaborations to emerge.
What we do is tell stories. They can be non-linear, nonsensical, non-fiction, notes, nocturnal, noisy, novel fragments, not funny, not your cup of tea, noble, nourishing, no no limit, naughty, no holds barred, they can be everything. They can even rhyme. Because telling stories means reinventing what we know, they can rewire our ways. Stories can be powerful if the teller wants to be. But they can also, just, tell a story.
As with everything at the Becue, this project grows out of curiosity and being together. It is an invitation to poets, writers, performers, musicians, audiences and other artists to gather, listen, and take part in shaping what these evenings can become together.
Date & time: 6 March, doors 19h
Location: Becue top floor (no elevator) Chaussee de Forest 138, 1060
Please bring cash for artists and bar Poster by Boris the Cat
Archipelago of Artistic Practices - A Jubilee and M HKA Research Summit
In collaboration with CKV and nadine
@mhkamuseum INBOX and 6th floor, and extra muros at @out___of___sight , Antwerp
Performances, presentations and conversations: 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21 June 2025
Exhibition: 13 June – 13 July 2025
Archipelago of Artistic Practices is a Research Summit organised by @jubilee and M HKA based on Eavatea, a digital infrastructure for mapping research-based and transdisciplinary practices. The programme and exhibition take place in conjunction with M HKA’s major exhibition The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and includes the participation of many of its exhibiting artists.
The programme of performances, presentations and conversations brings together artists and researchers for an ambitious programme of talks and activities in support of rethinking artistic infrastructure sustainably. It seeks to offer participants a convivial space for opening insights and opportunities into the possibilities of collaborative research, commoning of resources, and cooperative distribution for artistic practice.
The exhibition takes place across M HKA’s Inbox space and 6th floor. It presents a number of artistic research narratives – objects, documents, protocols, etc – and imagines how these various art practices can be linked based on their singular research trajectories. As such it is conceived as a spatial transposition of the tool, with a strong emphasis on the relational and narrative potential that Eavatea embodies.
In the context of this Research Summit, Vincent Meessen has written From institutional critique to infrastructural critique? This short critical text articulates the rise of artistic awareness of infrastructure in terms of a de-proletarianisation of artistic work.
@maximiliaanroyakkers@justinbennett_nl@meessenv@louise_debethune@cielgrommen@dorpestijnvan@helene_meyer@filipvandingenen@jessevanwinden@clementinevaultier@f.eks.platform@jadran_sturm_asa_lie@merzzedes21@nadine_n0dine_dina@artists_nicc@reconnectfestival@stateofthearts_
Great times in LA last June for the Fred Dewey residence…
Between 30 000 books, Santa Monica walks, Berkeley archive visit, harvesting seaweed following the path of Isabella Abbot in the pacific groove.
Dewey residence - Fred Dewey had a fierce commitment to creating public spaces for intellectual and political engagement. His home base was Los Angeles. Writer, teacher, publisher, editor extraordinaire, and former director of Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Los Angeles, Dewey has been engaged with the creation of plural human, physical, and textual space for a long time. “People are more willing to talk … when they’re sharing something deeply meaningful with each other. That’s why poetry becomes the foundation of a new kind of dialogue.” Dewey passed away in 2021. To ensure the continuation of his legacy, the Fred Dewey Legacy Project was initiated, aiming to set up initiatives that extend Dewey’s work, as well as preserve his considerable library.
with @filipvandingenen & @marion_aeby walking, we picked up plants along the river that will meet the sea. These plants are fermented to taste with the harvested seaweed, the landscape that flows from a source to the sea. We taste this as a bread, that organically deforms, sharing microbiote.
Many thanks to Doro Klaus @odyssee.ostufer (Seedose/Odysee, St. Pölten) that inspired the culinary traditions with the touch of the sea and shared her place and time to create bridges of new senses.
https://www.tangente-st-poelten.at/en/kunstparcours/Filip-Van-Dingenen-Helene-Meyer
#thewayofthewater #tangentestpoelten
Throwback to this inspiring project for the exhibition "The way of the water" @tangentestpoelten
Together with @filipvandingenen and in collaboration of @marion_aeby we created "Riverbed Species Seaweed Banquet"
An invitation for a brunch served in ceramic sculptures that have been made for and are embedded in the values and ecosystem of the Sonnenpark. These have been prepared, together with local chefs (Doro Klaus), for sharing seaweed and algae dishes mixed with narrations from seaweed communities around the world.
curated by @jowa_hkhk & @loreeena
#thewayofthewater #tangentestpoelten
The Way of the Water 💧✨
Public Program - Summer Solstice
21-22 June
@tangentestpoelten
22 June / 13:00
Riverbed Sensorial Walk + Algae Snacks with Filip Van Dingenen @filipvandingenen
📍Meeting Point: Under the Ash Tree at Sonnenpark, Spratzerner Kirchenweg 81-83
Language: English
This act of walking and sensing a riverbed is framed as a pedagogical setting. Trying to understand what we, humans, can learn from the riverbed, its plants, its flow and energy starting from the source and the memory it holds to the stream between our toes.
Free entry!
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The Way of the Water. An art parcours in conversation with the River Traisen and the Mühlbach.
Artists / Künstler:innen:
Amanda Piña, Clara Laila Abid Alsstar, Cecylia Malik, Christina Gruber, Edgar Calel, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Eva Grubinger & Werner Feiersinger, Filip van Dingenen & Hélène Meyer, Javier Téllez, Jimena Croceri, Katarina Pirak Sikku, Klara Hobza, Lisa Tan, Lisa Truttmann, Kollektiv neonpink, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado, Rainer Prohaska, Regina Hügli, Rita Fischer, Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Sissel Tolaas, Slavs and Tatars, Sophie Utikal und Ursula K. Le Guin.
Curator: Joanna Warsza @jowa_hkhk / Associate curator: Lorena Moreno Vera @loreeena
Photo: @simonveres_aeph
3 February we came together with #onesafeguardpromise @secondroom_antwerp to present new works and a new printed serie.
Here some views of the preparation and expo.
Serie of collages, Lino and new gouache aquarelle work.
Psssst their are still prints box avaible DM if interest
Begin of June opened the exhibition @damichele_chezmichel in the smoking room, also with work of @stipeijohnson
Make sure you taste the spaghetti of Michele if you pass by.
Their are still few special edition of the michele spaghetti bowl - mp if interested
The new Touquet
Chaussée de Waterloo 8, 1060
