In March, MAP will move to wpZimmer for one month. Together with artists from the WIPCOOP-network – Gökhan Kizilbuga, Farida, Joana Rossi, Saloua Hassani, Louai Hashem & Julia Färber Data – we are going there as an organization in residence. To work, brainstorm, commemorate, puzzle … to take a complete break from our routine.
Meet Joana Rossi 👋
Joana (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in sociology and education. She has been part of the MAP community since day one and we have continued to stay close – her studio is literally next door to our current office!
Over the years, Joana has deepened her artistic practice, with textiles becoming her main medium to explore, visualize and connect the many threads of society and its communities.
After as many as 20 years as a friend of MAP, she presented her very first performance at WIPCOOP 2024: Textile Tales. While balancing family life with being a full-time independent artist, Joana embraced the week in residence at wpZimmer as time to reflect, regroup and re-energize.
We love to see it and we are so happy to continue following her trajectory from the front row!
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Meet Julia Färber Data 👋
Julia (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer and social anthropologist born and raised in Mexico. Over the years, she has collaborated with choreographers, musicians, visual artists and filmmakers, balancing effortlessly between the theatrical and performance worlds. Eight years ago, she made Brussels her second home, where she continues to deepen her dance practice – a practice strongly rooted in research.
At WIPCOOP 2024, Julia SOBRAN (Leftover. Surplus. Plenty), choreography inspired by the Sonidero – a Mexican, self-organized space for cumbia street dance.
Her week at wpZimmer revolved around further exploration of the Sonidero: How can it be a medium for storytelling? How can we apply its principles to collective healing? How can we look at our cracks – our places of pain and trauma – not as wounds, but as spaces where rivers can flow … and healing can occur?
Thank you, Julia, for sharing your wonderful insights. We greatly look forward to seeing, hearing and feeling more of your work!
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Meet Louai Hashem 👋
Louai (he/him) moved from Syria to Belgium in 2015 and immediately made the Flemish art scene his own. He began as an actor at kunstZ and now works full-time as a programmer at the Red Star Line Museum.
In 2022, Louai participated in WIPCOOP with IT’S (NEVER) FUCKED UP, a semi-autobiographical performance based on the personal experiences – both uplifting and challenging – of himself and his collective as newcomers to Belgium.
Now Louai feels ready to take his work to the stage again! During his residency at wpZimmer, he took time to rethink, reinvent and refine his piece. We are so happy to see him take the stage again and can’t wait to experience the next phase of this powerful work!
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