Andrée Chapatte — Dependency by design: Cultural institutions in the age of meta
Social media should be run by the post office.
Twenty-five years of online life have left cultural institutions dependent on platforms that were never built for them. Artist and cultural researcher Andrée Chapatte traces how we got here, from broadcast media to AI slop, and presents Bye Bye Meta, a coordinated roadmap for Brussels' cultural institutions to leave Meta together by 2028.
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Andrée Chapatte is a performance artist and cultural researcher working across images, music, dance, and collaborative meaning-making. His recent work has examined our relationship with contemporary camera technologies, explored speculative masculinities, and developed workshops centered on physical touch. At Liminal, Andrée has facilitated connections among diverse initiatives engaging masculinities in Brussels and beyond. His research on communication technologies is closely tied to his interest in how the body perceives and makes sense of the world through images. Over the years he has been following the ways media infrastructures, algorithmic feeds, and AI-generated content shape political imagination and cultural participation, with a focus on how images act as both neural constructs and instruments of influence.
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Liminal deconstructs patriarchal norms and gendered expectations in community by holding each other accountable. We believe that everyone can—and men in particular must—contribute to gender justice by reflecting on how patriarchy influences their identity, behavior, and relationships. Liminal provides spaces for exchange, (un)learning, healing, and growth, facilitating transformation through personal development supported by feminist theory.
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