Sarma is launching a digital publication about the life and work of dancer/video artist Lisa Nelson. In the company of Nelson herself, we are offering you a glimpse of the result, which also features a series of interviews. There will first be a workshop and then a presentation. 

Is there a connection between creative sensibility and psychiatric vulnerability? Are fruitful minds also fragile minds? Psychiatrist Erik Thys gives a keynote lecture, after which he will debate with the vacuum cleaner and Hannah Hull (MadLove) and Inne Goris (Huis).

The young architect Hind Oudhriri is building an installation in the concert studio along with visual and sound artist Abdallah Rchidi. Haouma (literally ‘walk-about’) takes you on a tour of Casablanca. It is a journey from the past to the present, between urban structures, and with a desire for chaos.

What does it mean to abandon yourself to sleep in a society which considers it to be an inevitable illness? Patrícia Portela invites you to an installation of four rooms, which you walk through one by one. Chef Annick Gernaey prepares a 'sleeping supper' and Antarctica researcher Nathalie Pattyn (VUB) discusses the influence of light and dark on the quality of sleep.

T.J. Demos examines creative models of cultural practice modeling alternatives to the human exceptionalism, anthropocentrism, and technoscientific rationality of the Anthropocene thesis.

Christoph De Boeck (artistic director of Overtoon) explains how blind people perceive their environment by interpreting subtle acoustic changes. Thanks to little echoes, they are literally able to imag(e)ine the space. He also discusses several examples of artists who have also employed sounds and echolocation to create spaces. Afterwards, Christoph will sit down with Anke Van Meer and Saïd Gharbi.