Artists

Every WIPCOOP edition there are new artists who participate. Here you will find an overview of all artists who have participated since 2009. Since 2019, each of them gets a page. On it you will find information about who they are and which performance they presented as a work in progress (and possibly further realized or will realize later), as well as photos of this. Do you want to know more about an artist, or do you need their contact information? Send us an email.

 

Nastasya Kharitonova

With monologue of angerNastasya Kharitonova presents a monologue of pain and anger, horror that her eyes saw. Every word counts. The performance consists of one text that she reads twice. In English and Ukrainian. Concept, text and performance: Nastasya Kharitonova – With the support of Globe Aroma and MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM/WIPCOOP. Nastasya Kharitonova (she/her) is […]

Milka Mbunga Kongi

In a universe torn apart by conflict, lost souls seek to reconnect with their ancestral beliefs. Guided by Mino, the supreme goddess, and the divine mothers, Milka Mbunga Kongi explores the vitality hidden in the past. Through a series of poetic scenes, she discovers the power of mortal existence, illuminated by the sacred essence of […]

Farida

What does identity consist of? How is it built up, broken down, preserved, changed and transferred? How do you form a new identity from a multitude of cultures, backgrounds and nationalities? What influence does the environment have on this? Seeking answers, Farida engaged in conversation with individuals from diverse (migration) backgrounds and different socioeconomic positions. […]

Joana Rossi

Textile Tales is the translation of Joana Rossi’s research into the social fabric. How are we connected to each other? What threads are stretched between the individual and the social context? What relationships, what vibrations are there between individual and society? Textiles are so intertwined with humanity that our relationship with them is natural. We […]

Omar Cortegana

Omar Cortegana is a social psychologist, musician and artist. He acts, is at home in storytelling and stand-up comedy but music has always been the core element in his own projects.

Sara Manubens & Ves Liberta

SARA MANUBENS is an artist, choreographer and transvestite in Barcelona. She has an MA in Performing Arts Practice and Visual Culture (Museo Reina Sofía, ARTEA). Her work moves between site-specific, performance and dance and focuses on trans-bodiedness and its impact on reality. She has been developing her own creative processes since 2015.

Yaye Daro

Yaye Daro, which means mother Daro in Wolof, is a multidisciplinary artist with Senegalese, Frisian and Belgian roots, whose practice revolves around frequencies and shaping them.
Although music and sound form the core of his creative output, he is deeply interested in – and influenced by – all kinds of frequencies, for example: light, colors, bodily frequencies, but also smells (does it also see frequencies?).
In his work, he tries to find out what they mean.
How they influence us.
How different kinds of frequencies influence each other, and mainly how they result in virtuous circles/cycles.

Lorena Spindler

Lorena Spindler (she) is a hybrid artist based in Brussels.
She conceptualizes artistic proposals in the form of text, choreography, performance, staging, clip for the rap scene, experimental film.
Her work focuses on questions about immediate sociological phenomena.

Yipoon Chiem

Brussels-based artist Yiphoon Chiem combines influences from martial arts or martial arts such as kung fu, classical Khmer dance, hip-hop and breakdance.

Younes van den Broeck

Younes van den Broeck (1991) aka Spitler/Spitlart is a word artist, performer and visual artist.
He transforms his social commitment into art, words and images.
His word art is usually socially critical.

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