Brussels

During this year’s festival, we are hosting a WIPCOOP-day on November 21 with works in progress and/or conversations with: Lucia Giannoni (Argentina), Ana Luz Ormazábal (Chile), Rodrigo Batista (Belgium/Brazil) and Désirée 0100 (Belgium/Mexico).

When “Girl on Fire” is no longer just a pop song but a marching tune for soldiers going to war, Ping-Hsiang Wang wonders, will his fragile memories then be destroyed by the fire of war? Retina Maneuver is a solo lecture-performance that springs from Ping’s inexplicable obsession with Alicia Keys’ pop song “Girl On Fire”

KIDNAPPED is a work in progress for a speculative metaphor: in our illusory world of neoliberal “freedom,” we are all, in a sense, kidnapped.

In Retina Maneuver, Ping-Hsiang Wang explores how Taiwanese millennials’ perspectives on conscription and military violence have evolved over the past decade – all through a queer lens.

Yousra, 33, looks back with humor and tenderness on the upbringing her father gave her.
An education grafted onto another equally important school of learning: Drarism, the mentality of young people from working-class neighborhoods, the Draris.

Have a Safe Travel tells the story of a train ride.
That ride could be banal.
Until three policemen stop Eli Mathieu-Bustos and ask for his passport.

In 2024 we are already noting the 9th edition of WIPCOOP, the Work In Progress cooperative of MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, in Brussels! WIPCOOP is a great opportunity for the arts sector and the public to get a glimpse of what is brewing and developing in new artistic creations in the performing arts!

TO WRITE MY LIFE reveals forgotten history stories with sincerity and humor. Two actresses, Hafsa Aqqal and Oumoul Kairy Diallo share both real and invented stories.
They highlight the story of Omar Ibn Saïd, a scholar from Futa Toro in present-day Senegal who was enslaved in the United States in the 18th century.

A hip-hop ritual that creates space for the anger, fear, mourning, celebration and hope that comes with the loss of an old world and the welcoming of an unknown future. A bizarre musical mix of hip-hop mantras, slam choruses, screeching guitars, banging drums and freestyle prophecies.