After three exciting weeks, our 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱, 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓼 residence comes to an end. Beautiful photo essay by Karolina Maruszak 🙂 During this period, Colette Goossens stepped into Britney’s shoes for the first time, Rubin Ajlouni wrote and rewrote his text, and Gökhan Kizilbuga refined his installation and video montages. On Friday, Feb. 28, the […]
Half the art of telling a story well is a good story. The other half is not so much empathy, but just distance. Especially when that story, as with David Labi in “Pieces of a Man,” is about your own father. Or is Labi himself the man in pieces from the title? True storytelling lies […]
‘Intellectual terror’ – Aïcha Mouhamou on Kidnapped by Rodrigo Batista and Mariana Senne. “I would like to see this much guts more often,” writes Aïcha Mouhamou in her review of Kidnapped, the performance by playwrights Rodrigo Batista and Mariana Senne. In her piece, titled Intellectual Terror, she praises Batista’s uncompromising and confrontational style: “The white […]
In February, our shared residency Shared Research, Shared Practices will kick off! During this third edition, Gökhan Kizilbuga, Rubin Ajlouni and Colette Goossens will delve into their research and share their experiments in three cultural houses: Monty, Rataplan and c o r s o. Each week they move on to a different house to continue […]
Every year (more or less ;-)) MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM and Thassos join forces for PROSPECTIEDAG for programmers – a day packed with showcases and pitches designed to further disseminate performances by artists from the WIPCOOP network. This edition took place at the cozy Borgerhout wpZimmer, with the following lineup: Showcases: Sefora “Sesa” Sam | Tamayo […]
With pride and – already – a touch of nostalgia, we look back at our ninth edition WIPCOOP Brussels, @KVS – a pictorial report by the amazing Victoriano Moreno. On Oct. 16, Julia Färber Data, Kongi Milka Mbunga, Alphonse Eklou Uwantege, Souhaïla Amri and Nastasya Kharitonova each showed 30 minutes of their performances-in-progress. The KVS […]
The WIPCOOP 2024-artists, along with the Roel Verniers Prize candidates, attended the Pitch & Feedback workshop led by Aïcha Cissé. During the workshop, the artists were given valuable tools to engage with audiences and arts professionals both during the creative process and after a performance. How do you pitch a project? What makes your […]
Augusto Pedraza presented 30 minutes from his work in progress: Hello Schatje, Adios Amour, during WIPCOOP 2023 in STUK and KVS. In Brussels, he met WIPCOOP partners from Barcelona, including the colleagues of Nau Ivanow. This acquaintance developed into one of the opportunities to take further steps in the development of the work. This was […]
So, what about the further development of Rubin Ajlouni’s monologue Jasser? Rubin Ajlouni shared at WIPCOOP 2023 in Kambala* a preview of the first stages of his very first creation of his own, and gave the monologue Jasser, to a text by Abdelkader Benali, a breath of fresh air. During the follow-up discussion with some […]
3 artists, 3 locations, 3 weeks. During the Shared Practices & Research Residency, Marios Bellas, Pablo Correa (via MAP) and Tibau Beirnaert (via detheatermaker) each delved into their research from Feb. 19 to March 8. Research and knowledge sharing took center stage. They met weekly on Mondays to exchange about their research and artistic practice. […]
We are happy to host a residency of Ping-Hsiang Wang and Artistic Consultant Kang-Hua Chang at wpZimmer from March 4 to 16. Through partner Tatwerk in Berlin, Ping showed a Work In Progress of his Retina Maneuver at KVS, Brussels in WIPCOOP 2023. This led to more collaboration. In these 2 weeks he will work […]
3 artists, 3 locations, 3 weeks. During the Shared Practices Research Residency, Marios Bellas, Pablo Correa (via MAP) and Tibau Beirnaert (via detheatermaker) each delve into their research from Feb. 19 to March 8. Research and knowledge sharing are central. They meet weekly on Mondays to exchange about their research and artistic practice. Each week, […]
