Monty

OpenField is a five-day gathering dedicated to the possible futures and autonomies of artistic research.

What comes to mind when you hear the words autonomy and future in relation to artistic research?
Can you imagine them, or notice where they already unfolding?
What tools do you have, or need to develop, to practice them and make them sustainable, especially within collective practices?

Through these questions, a.pass invited three artistic collectives, One Field Fallow (BE), Topote de Acahual (MX), and Arquitectura Expandida (CO), to each identify an urgent topic at the end of their research residency. Their responses have become the titles of the first three days of the gathering: Scripts and Protocols for Collective Spaces, Foreshadowing Amid Turbulent Futures, Manifest Everyday Urban Utopias. Three topics to be explored collectively by a multiform constellation of research-based practices.

The program on the first day on May 4th will take place at Monty & De Singel.

MONDAY MAY 4: SCRIPTS AND RITUALS FOR COLLECTIVE SPACES – ANTWERP

• 10h00-13h30, Monty: open school by One Field Fallow with Back2SoilBasics
  10 am: open doors, 10.30 am: start of the open school session

One Field Fallow invites Back2SoilBasics (B2SB) for an open school on scripts & rituals for collectives & spaces, moderated by Kopano Maroga. Together with B2SB and the participants of the open school, they will dive into rituals that make collective work more sustainable, and scripts that make spaces and processes more accessible to those visiting or joining. After having organised five open schools within their a.pass residency on topics such as fallowing, conflict and in- and exclusivity, OFF and everyone interested come together for a sixth open school as a closing of this research period.

• One Field Fallow is a queer collective holding space for research and activities that are artistic, community-oriented and/or activist, in the centre of Brussels.
• B2SB is a collective nurturing practices of growing and grounding through permaculture and radical rituals. Focus on POC, local communities and minorities people from the Global Majority.
• Kopano Maroga, performance artis, writer and cultural worker

• 13h30-14h30, Monty: lunch

• 15h00-16h30, deSingel, kleine zaal: workshop with Sophie Sénécaut and Mouss

For the full program, check here the website of a-pass.