Tools For Action & Bambí Benkö

Signals 5.0

For the opening night of CurieuCity#3 Marolles, art and activist collective Tools for Action, led by visual artist Bambí Benkö in collaboration with Anton Markov is invited with their work Signals 5.0. “Signals 5.0” is a participatory and experimental performance using red inflatable wearable light sculptures, that participants can switch ‘on’ and ‘off’. The performance is the result of a workshop with students from the master Dance (Insas) in collaboration with citizens & performers from the Place Jeu du Balle, creating poetic metaphors and activating collective memories of Place Jeu du Balle that appear and disappear from sight. The performance also allows us to observe scientific concepts like emergence: how people, space and light relate to each other and patterns and rhythms between spontaneity and order unfold.

Signals was originally developed as a performance in Berlin to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the the German Revolution of 1918/19. After this new performance versions appeared in various places around the world.

Tools for Action / Bambí Benkö

Bambí Benkö is a queer non-binary artist with a focus on ceramics, sculpture, participatory performance and political intervention. Within their sculptural work, they are interested in creating intimate liminal sci-fi environments and intimate ritualistic spaces. In 2012 they founded Tools for Action, under which collaborations are realized with artists, activists, hackers, choreographers, shifting between activist, cultural and educational contexts with the aim of developing new forms of assembly and political action. For three years they are invested in dream work as a collective healing practice and to open the radical imagination.

Anton Markov is a sound artist and engineer from Bellarus collaborating with Tools for Action since 2023.

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Héloïse Colrat, Alicia Van Ham-Meert

METHODS, le verre à l’époque médiévale

Come watch a glassblowing demonstration by Héloïse Colrat! Scientist Alicia Van Ham-Meert will be present to answer your questions and offer insights into the history and chemistry behind glassmaking.

METHODS explores the techniques, materials, and cultural context of medieval glassblowing. This project is a collaboration between scientist Alicia and glass artist Héloïse, where they experiment with various glass recipes based on the composition of stained glass windows from the abbey of Stavelot – the focus of Alicia’s research. Héloïse tests the properties of the glass, such as viscosity and elasticity, by blowing it with a torch.

Héloïse Colrat (1992, Lyon) is a French artist living and working in Brussels. She is also the scientific glassblower at the chemistry department of the University of Liège.

Alicia Van Ham-Meert is a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, working on the characterization of raw materials and the reverse engineering of medieval stained glass recipes for the abbey of Stavelot at ULB.

François Gaspard & Boris Wilmot

Sine

Come onto the stage to learn, step by step, how to create your own electronic music!

Sine is an audiovisual lecture-performance that, from both a physicist’s and a musician’s perspective, explores how electronic music producers design sound and compose music. Starting with a simple sine wave, this experience playfully and interactively delves into the physics of sound, synthesis, and electronic music production.

The performance begins with a sine wave to demonstrate how, by adding, filtering, and manipulating these waves, we can create the three essential sounds of electronic music: the kick, snare, and hi-hat. Then, the show takes on a more musical tone, inviting you to participate in a Guitar Hero-style game to apply effects and contribute to the collective creation of a final musical composition.

Created by François Gaspard, engineer and musician, and Boris Wilmot, graphic designer and digital artist, Sine offers a unique opportunity to discover, play with, and understand electronic music in a new light.

Friday 29/11:

19:00 – 20:00

Saturday 30/11 – Sine, 2 performances scheduled as follows:

14:00 – 15:00
16:00 – 17:00

Sunday 1/12:

16:00 – 17:00

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Ohme & Roméo Poirier

Tales of Entropy

Ohme and Roméo Poirier present Tales of Entropy, an audiovisual performance that combines live polarised light microscopy, computer vision and generative music.

A stage-mounted microscope scans through organic samples, revealing transitional states of matter and its fluctuating patterns, which are projected live on stage. Roméo Poirier receives different signals from the live analysis of the images and transforms them into a sensitive musical exploration of the structures of organic matter, merging analog and digital tools.

The music of performance aims at reflecting the contrasts and the textures of the different samples, oscillating between atmospheric landscapes, heavily processed vocal samples, warm orchestral fragments, thunderstorms and passing shadows of dissonance.

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Experimentarium Physique/Chimie - ULB & Inforsciences

Espace & Vous

In recent years, sending people into space has become increasingly commonplace. But sometimes you’re sent to a space station, and you don’t know when you’ll be able to come back down. On stage, three actors try to come up with solutions to help astronauts stuck on the International Space Station. Using whatever means available, they experiment and explain some of the basic principles that make these journeys possible.

Duration of the spectacle: 30 min

Start Time: 13h30 , 14h30

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

The Rubberbodies Collective

One More Drop

How much can a person contain? Working in a laboratory day in and day out. Between glass tubes, vials and refrigerators, organising blood. While pandemics spread and wars are fought. Disaster approaches from a distance. Strange reflections, desires and visions leak into the regulated routines of a bloodless environment made of seemingly hermetic walls and vessels.

With One More Drop, Ira Melkonyan and Jimmy Grima continue their research into the performativity of liquids from a transnational feminist perspective, venturing into what is probably the most metaphorically loaded bodily fluid. Centring blood and other biological substances as performative agents, this transdisciplinary performance explores fantasy and mysticism surrounding leaking bodies, political borders and a sense of connection.

Friday 29 nov. 19:00 – 19:45.
Saturday 30 nov. 19:00 – 19:45, followed by an After Talk with Ira Melkonayn, led by Arshia Ali Azmat from 20:00 – 20:40

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-marolles

Daniel Linehan

Iris

In his solo “Iris”, Linehan considers how movement and words can be a form of magic, a way to cast new spells. His dance and his poetry aim to give voice to the invisible connections that join us together with our fellow living beings near and far – the plants and the birds, the insects and mushrooms, the sky and the living Earth. In ancient Greek mythology, Iris was the goddess of the rainbow and a messenger of hope. Linehan sees hope in the process of learning to see our inherent relatedness with the colorful spectrum of planetary life that we are a part of.

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-forest

ANAGRAM ASBL

Fungi Night / Anagram – Culinary Performance

Immerse yourself in a sensory journey where art and ecology come together around a table. For Fungi Night, Anagram invites you to a one-of-a-kind performance dinner, where every bite connects you to the artists’ works and the secrets of mycelium. A rare and intense moment, to be savoured without moderation.

Anagram, the Brussels-based association that reinvents environmental awareness through contemporary art, is offering you an exceptional opportunity to share in the experience. During this dinner, the creations of the artists present are transformed into an immersive culinary experience, inviting each guest to explore the subtle links between nature, art and gastronomy.

Practical information:

Registration required (places limited).
Participation free of charge.

Join us for an evening where flavours, ideas and emotions weave together like the threads of a mycelium.

To register click here: https://www.billetweb.fr/curieucity-forest

The Way Back – Film concert

Xavier Gazon

TaboOTaboO

Immerse yourself in this immersive musical experience with electrokinetic instruments and sound synthesis.

‘TabooTaboo’ is a musical project orchestrated by sound artist Xavier Gazon, creator of unique instruments powered by electromechanical elements and sensors interacting with a modular synthesizer.

Each instrument in ‘TabooTaboo’ is a work of art in its own right, capable of generating unheard-of sounds. But the magic happens when these mechanisms come to life, triggering automated instruments and creating a captivating and poetic symphony. In each performance, Xavier Gazon improvises an enchanting story, transporting the audience on a sensory journey through exotic lands and imaginary soundscapes.

TabooTaboo explores concepts such as ‘sound synthesis,’ ‘sound physics,’ ‘acoustics,’ ‘electromechanics,’ and ‘do-it-yourself.’ It thus offers a captivating performance both for music and science enthusiasts.

Xavier Gazon is a composer, sound artist, and performer who pushes the boundaries of sound art by exploring electromechanics and sound synthesis. Let yourself be surprised by a world where music and technology meet, where vibrations and sound waves are the raw materials of a fascinating artistic performance.