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Join us this Saturday, 11 January, from 13:00 to 20:00 for a programme of readings and conversations in the presence of the artists—a moment to reflect, exchange ideas, and say goodbye to the works. Don’t miss the new edition of Kitchen Stories. Full programme details below. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday and welcoming you back in 2025!
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There is plenty to read about the exhibitions, such as the review of Century Bingo on e-flux. Or you can watch the video where Bassem Saad talks about it herself. The exhibitions are also open on Sunday, from 13:00 to 18:00. Truly the very last day.
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In the Middle Ages, witches, heretics and convicted queer individuals were tragically used as firewood, leading to the derogatory epithet “faggots”. In Heavy Air, Tom Hallet presents a new series of works stemming from his research into that word. Jonas Roelens, in his new book, The Unspeakable Sin: Sodomy in the Southern Netherlands (1400-1700), focuses on sodomy, at the time considered a sin so reprehensible that the mere naming of it counted as a [removed];
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Besides a visual practice, Saad also has an extensive writing practice. She writes essays, reviews, prose and poetry. Fallon Mayanja is a composer, visual artist and performer. Their work centres on creating ‘listening environments’. Together, Saad and Mayanja read from their own texts, in many cases unpublished material.
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From 18:00, we will be serving dishes from the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine), prepared with local seasonal vegetables by Amina Al Absi from Idlib, Ebtissam Alaref from Aleppo, and Fedaa Al Saleh from Damascus. The dishes will be served by Mohammed Abutoha and Anas Alhajjar from Gaza. Our kitchen is more than a place to share meals: it’s a site of shared stories, political resistance, experimentation, and reflection on the geographies that shape our [removed];
The price is €12 per person (€6 for children aged 6-12)
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Sound plays a crucial role in Bassem Saad’s work. In Havana Sin Drone, Saad presents a cacophony of sounds marked by indeterminate loss or by defiant excess, from the jagged peripheries of the “American century”. Sampling poetry, speech, and film, the listening session and DJ set will traverse disparate and clashing genres, from industrial techno and droney ambient to Iraqi radeh and neoperreo.
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On Sunday 12 January, we have organised a reading by Bassem Saad & Persis Bekkering in cooperation with rile*, a Brussels-based performance space and bookstore specialising in poetry, theory, artist writing and experimental text. They will read from recent poetry, fiction and translated work.
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A new series of 3 exhibitions is being prepped as we speak!
JOY BOY, A TRIBUTE TO JULIUS EASTMAN
A three-room audiovisual installation by Collectif Faire-Part (Rob Jacobs, Anne Reijniers en Paul Shemisi), Victoire Karera Kampire, Fallon Mayanja and Mawena Yehouessi paying tribute to Eastman’s life and music, bringing together visual and sound interpretations
PROLOGUE, Ula Sickle
The first part of A Choreographic Exhibition—which in May will animate NW’s building with several live performances created between 2018 and 2024. Ula Sickle examines how ideologies manifest in the intimate sphere of the everyday, in our gestures and language; what could a possible countergesture be, in a system which incorporates all opposition?
INFO~ANGEL: OVER HET WATER
In 1863, the Dender River was straightened through the centre of Aalst, transforming the city’s mobility and industrial landscape. The first episode of the three-part series on ‘Aalst Rechteroever’ examines the neighbourhood’s development through the lens of the river and its [removed];
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