A photo report, by Victoriano Moreno. In collaboration with Rataplan, KVS, Nau Ivanow, Walpurgis, Ultima Vez, Monty, C o r s o and detheatermaker and with the support of Bovenlokaal Cultuurproject Kunstendecreet Vlaanderen, Stad Antwerpen and Arenberg, Mestizo Arts Platform was able to organize 3 years of residencies with Enrica Camporesi, Rona Kennedy, Ester Nadal, Les Mybalés, Junior Akwety, Maryam K. Hedayat, Lucila Guichón, Jennifer Baez Matos, Colectivo Lastesis, Tamayo Okano, Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Marthe Koning, Lila Magnin.
Afterwards the guests could experience fragments from their artistic research in the SHARING PRACTICES PERFORMANCES with a look at the research of Enrica Camporesi & Rona Kennedy, Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Marthe Koning ánd … we celebrated that we have an operating grant for the next 5 years ánd that we are working at a new location ánd that we just love to bring all our friends together again. 
Tuesday we welcomed Benedetta Parisi —all the way from Turin— in (hot hot hot) Antwerp to share some snippets of her WIP project. We got to know this enthusiastic artist at Proximamente. When she told us she wanted to do a residency in Belgium, we felt it was very meaningful and so we were happy […]
Last week we were invited to spend a lovely day at Metarage in Brussels. We were joined by the whole Metarage team, Karen from Ultima Vez, Thomas from le BAMP and a cool bunch of artists associated with Metarage… We talked about “collaboration” in the performing arts field: our needs & desires, as artists, as […]
Woooohoow! It’s that time of year again…. Last month, we met with the artists who will present their Work in Progress during WIPCOOP 2026. We explained what the next few months will look like and what they can expect from us. So quite a chunk of information… Fortunately, there were snacks & prrrrima vibes 🙂 […]
