OpenField Gathering, Day 3: Manifest Everyday Urban Utopias

OpenField is a 5-day gathering dedicated to the possible futures and autonomies of artistic research, initiated by a.pass, in collaboration with many other art organisations.
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Beursschouwburg and the surrounding public spaces host day 3 of OpenField, titled Manifest Everyday Urban Utopias, co-curated by a.pass and Arquitectura Expandida.

programme

09:30 - 15:00 Everyday Urban Utopias session
13:00 - 14:00 lunch
15:00 - 16:00 Resonances films
16:30 - 18:00 Operational Surfaces walk
16:30 - 18:00 Callisto’s walk

+ ongoing 14:30 - 18:30: performative interventions in public space
+ ongoing 10:00 - 18:30: archival screening in the cinema

Everyday Urban Utopias session
w/ Arquitectura Expandida + Soumaya Phéline

“What do we need to come together in public space as a collective body?” This is the question that Arquitectura Expandida invites anyone interested to explore with them. The Bogotá-based collective, in dialogue with Soumaya Pheline and with facilitation and translation support from Marian van Bodegraven, invites you to participate in an assembly, a process of negotiation to imagine, and potentially bring to life, a manifestation of collective bodies in public spaces.

Resonances
w/ Inge Coolsaet (Argos) & Quinten Wyns (Beursschouwburg)
Inge is responsible for editorial projects at Argos, Quinten is Beursschouwburg's film programmer. Together they composed a film selection for today.

Operational Surfaces
w/ Gary Farrelly
A guided walk structured around a sequence of found scenographic points where short, spoken transmissions are delivered. Each transmission proposes an intensified interpretation of urban materials and operative conditions, treating surfaces, thresholds, and pressure points as sensorial hardware within an expanded system of directives and latent operations.
instagram.com/gary_farrelly/

Callisto’s walk
w/ Lucia Palladino + Matilda Cobanli
After an introduction to Callisto’s mythical power of hybridising inner and outside spaces, we go for a walk while listening to an audio file made of sounds and words that question the notion of architecture as separation from the world. It suggests metaphysics as practice, and metaphor as the last anticapitalist barricade of language.
instagram.com/matildacc/
instagram.com/luciapalladino123/

performative interventions in public space
w/ radical_hope + Heike Langsdorf + Paula Almirón + Juan Duque + Marko Gutić Mižimakov + Miriam Rohde + more
Three performative interventions in public space (in the centre of Brussels around Beursschouwburg) of a new work by radical_hope in its research-phase.
instagram.com/radicalhope/

archival screening
A selection of film materials from the AXP archive will be playing in the black box cinema.

about

Arquitectura Expandida (CO/ES/BE) is a Bogotá-based collective composed of activists, two architects, a visual artist, a lawyer, and others. Since 2010 they collaborate with grassroots movements in the research, exploration and creation of alternative spaces for experimental governance, citizen participation and self-management in peripheral urban areas. The focus is on the right to the city, urban commons and rebalancing power asymmetries in public space. Their repertoire of actions ranges from urban planning research to collective self-construction, data visualisation and different forms of activist art.
instagram.com/arquitectura_expandida/
arquitecturaexpandida.org/

Soumaya Phéline is an artist, activist, and initiator of the committee Justice pour Sourour, named after her sister who died as a
result of police violence.
instagram.com/soumayapheline/
instagram.com/justicepoursourour_/

Marian Rosa van Bodegraven is a Dutch-Brazilian researcher, artist and translator, based in Amsterdam. With a BA in Architecture and Urban Planning, she is now completing an MA in Moving Images. Her body of research orbits around sexuality and its intertwining with architecture and digital culture.
instagram.com/marianvanbodegraven/

a.pass is an artistic and educational research environment that welcomes research practitioners in an international collaborative and trans-disciplinary program. Until the end of 2023 a.pass included two complementary structures that operate in parallel and in dialogue: the Postgraduate Program and the Research Center.
instagram.com/a.pass_artistic_research/
apass.be/