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Photo album Work In Progress Antwerp 2018

MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM presents #WIPCOOP 2018 Antwerp     Work In Progress by: Aminata Demba, Duraid Abbas Ghaieb, Makbeth Mahdi, Hassan Khayoon, Adel Saady, Britt Ryckebosch Female Takeover, Mano Amaro, Carolina Maciel de França, Moving Ground & Seasonal Sounds Pitch breaks: Rabba Kinkela, Mike ‘Pro’ De Ridder, Adams Mensah & Jozefien Stevens, Daisy Wouters Photos: […]

Photo album show moment Osei Bantu residence

Osei Bantu & Collective Dope dance performances with interludes by Kammeniboemski & Frederik Selini + DJ Lito Silva   Photos: Karolina Maruszak /// Ihkv artistic residencies by MAP ism Rataplan. With support from Province of Antwerp.

Video ‘Gdansk – A jump into history’ by Enrique Noviello

MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM (Fiëbre vzw) & Rataplan gave musician-performer Enrique Noviello 10 days of space at theater house Rataplan to work on a musical theater research project “Gdansk – A jump into history. Art & Culture Mediation students from Kdg Hogeschool Antwerp made an aftermovie of the show moment.   A musician, producer and playwright, […]

Spread day Wachten op Gorro and Pelican Street 20

Starting in 2018, MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM is going next level. Every year we push forward a few performances from WIPCOOP’s stable that are ready to conquer Flanders’ stages. We started with a first spread day in cooperation with Thassos and Xavier College and with technical support from Rataplan. At the request of NoMoBS and Aminata […]

Video ‘Ratakwaad’ from Loods des Doods

Fokovism is a new art movement, derived from the English expression fuck off. Artists Spitlart/Spitler, Dimi, Rex and Redouan are known as the underground layers and have their Shed of Death as their base of operations. It is a free port with its own rules and forms for the development of new repertoire. MESTIZO ARTS […]

WIPCOOP #MAF17: Photo album Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels

The following row of artists participated in W I P C O O P in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent in 2017. They presented a Work In Progress (30′ max) and then sat down with about 10 people from the industry to talk about the work and their needs. W I P C O O P […]

WORK IN PROGRESS 2016

WIP16: Liz Carrazco Alex Cordova with Black Waltz (video, dance, performance and live music), Manu Moreau Karel Michiels with Land van Wiet en Honing (caption: DaCannaNi) (text theater), Paola Madrid Citlalli Avalos with As long as I am… I’m not… (working title) (dance), Fleur Khani with Homework (text theater), Mathieu Charles with Fanon?!!! (text theater), […]

#MAF16 Dream the arts – videos

Opening #MAF16 The Rules of the Game: “What does your ideal art world look like?” Dream the arts: that was the question Mestizo Arts Festival posed to some 30 speakers from all backgrounds. At the opening of #MAF16, they brought their utopian vision. In this compilation video, hear the statements of Benjamin Vandewalle, Adam Mensah, […]

4 projects on Opening #MAF16

An awareness campaign growing out of a photo project … A transdisciplinary experiment leading to a performance and expo… An artist who sight as a citizen feels obliged to apologize to us…. A documentary that still needs funding for completion 1 in 4 Antwerp residents live below poverty line www.1op4.be Kristien is 54 and poor. […]

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