Tell a little more about yourselves. Doris: “I am a professional dancer in different styles, such as urban, hip hop and house. Simply, it all started in 2010 together with my sister, Nathalie. We are real adventurers and love to travel so we went to New York with a huge enthusiasm to check out the […]
Junior Akwety combines 3 researches in 1 residency program. From 07.02 in Rataplan he dives deeper into different disciplines and projects! He will work on a dance project, a historical music project and a participatory theater project for and by young people. MY HOUSE is a dance performance about house music and culture ism Zach […]
Jan. 24, wp Zimmer welcomes Alex Akuete and Nina Plantefève Castryck for a residency around an artistic research they started in the framework of Antwerp Bijou/Fameus with the working title ESSENCE. They presented a Work In Progress during Love at First Sight at HETPALEIS (Sept ’21). In 2022, they will continue this research – under […]
For the 5th year in a row, Thassos has partnered with Mestizo Arts Platform to help support the distribution of #WIPCOOP performances. Together we organized a prospecting day on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, featuring work that Thassos is including in its offerings this year, pitches of projects from the WIPCOOPpool and conversations with creators […]
Take a look at the work of the artists who presented a Work In Progress at the Kaaistudio’s, Arenberg and NTGent Minnemeers during WIPCOOP 2021. In March, we land in Mechelen for a spring edition with new Work In Progress! WIPCOOP = MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM + ARENBERG, KVS, KUNSTZ, CAMPO, KAAITHEATER, TONEELHUIS, RATAPLAN, MARTHA!TENTATIEF, PLAY, […]
A review of SUBALTERNAS, a shared residency at MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM and KVS The LASTESIS Collective (Chile) collaborated with artists: Maryam K. Hedayat, Lucila Guichón and Jennifer Baez Matos. Together they zoomed in on the theme of subalternity (a state of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic and/or […]
Nov. 18, the Lastesis Collective, Maryam Kamal Hedayat, Jennifer Baez Matos and Lucila Guichon launched an open call for the International Day to Combat Violence Against Women. The letters received in response to this call were read aloud (with the participation of other women/queers) and videotaped for the Beursschouwburg in Brussels and were processed into […]
The LASTESIS Collective (Chile) is doing a ‘shared’ residency at MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM as well as KVS and is collaborating with artists Jennifer Baez Matos & Kamal Hedayat (Belgium) and Lucila Guichon (Berlin). Together they zoom in on the theme of subalternity (a state of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, […]
On Nov. 18, together with LASTESIS, Maryam Kamal Hedayat and Lucila Guichon, I launched a call in which we invited women and queer people to write a short free paragraph (in the language of their choice) about the criminal alliance between gender-based violence and border politics. They then had the choice to sign it or […]
LASTESIS: Daffne Valdés Vargas and Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem, both from the performing arts area; Paula Cometa Stange, from the field of design and history, and Lea Cáceres, from costume design, organized and gave life to the interdisciplinary group of feminist artists colectivo LASTESIS. The name lies in the fact that the objective of these […]
Don’t miss THE CHANCE TO FIND YOURSELF by Benno Steinegger & Jovial Mbenga When Benno Steinegger and Jovial Mbenga began creating The Chance To Find Yourself, they did not know each other. The two have very different cultural and economic backgrounds: one is from Tyrol (Italy), the other from Congo. Today they both live and […]
Because of Corona, MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM (MAP), along with partners and artists, switched to WIPCOOP 2020 PLAN B(ehind doors). Work In Progress was screened without an audience and the evening program – WIPCOOP PLAYS – was canceled or postponed. MAP decided to make a documentary. To give additional visibility to the artists and the project […]
