WIPCOOP 2020
UPDATE! MAP switches to WIPCOOP PLAN #B(ehinddoors) without an audience! We don’t sit back and figure out alternatives with artists and partners to find the right match for continued support and make new work visible.
MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM welcomes you to a new edition of WIPCOOP!
Our cities are the habitat and breeding ground for artists who do not allow themselves to be labeled and feed off every imaginable influence.
WIPCOOP = Work In Progress Cooperative, a special model of cooperation with numerous partner organizations and artists in Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen and Ghent. Together we form an engaged network of small and large cultural houses, as yet unknown and established artists, and numerous people active in the arts sector. Each feeds into the network from their own expertise and strength. Together we mix and match the right support for emerging artists creating new work.
WIPCOOP = A developmental course all year round where artists from a Work In Progress (#WORKINPROGRESS) to interim show moments (#SESSIONS) and finished performances (#PLAYS) straightforwardly seek dialogue with a community of listeners: the public, other artists, programmers, dramaturgs, …
In short, WIPCOOP = making space for new voices, stories, forms and languages in the arts.
JOIN THE RIDE! In October, November and December a new series of #WORKINPROGRESS in Antwerp, Brussels, Mechelen and Ghent and #PLAYS in Brussels and Antwerp.
Overview Program 2020
#WORKINPROGRESS: = artists show 30 minutes: On October 28, 4 Work In Progress in KVS and October 29, 3 Work In Progress in Kaaistudios (Brussels), on November 12 and 13, 9 Work In Progress in Antwerp (Arenberg), on November 19, 3 Work In Progress in Mechelen (CC Mechelen), on December 3, 4 Work In Progress in Ghent (Campo Nieuwpoort).
#PLAYS = performances featured in previous WIPCOOP editions as Work In Progress, now in evening program as finished performances or show moments in Antwerp and Brussels: by Yipoon Chiem, Milo Slayers, Nadine Baboy, Mike De Ridder and Michel Kiyombo.
Some PLAYS highlighted (see CALENDAR for full program)
Yipoon Chiem + Milo Slayers – 29.10 – 8:30 p.m. @KVS: Yipoon Chiem takes you on a journey through the history of wounded women and tortured and dispossessed mothers in B****. And Milo Slayers, in Monstrare et/ou Monere, introduces you to a fictional monster that traverses various stages of monstrosity (tonal moment).
Désintégration Culturelle / Nadine Baboy – 26, 27 & 28.11 @KVS : A dazzling performance where poetry, music and dance interact.
