Dancers, actors, musicians, set, lighting and costume designers enter into dialogue with one another as equals. One powerful image succeeds another. In Sketches/Notebook, you are repeatedly swept along by the image, movement and music, and are inevitably drawn into this bizarre and intimate ritual.

After the successful I have a dream (with youngsters, in 2011), we are now giving the opportunity to Brussels people of all ages and from all corners of the city and the world to have their say. Each writes a speech on their view of today’s Brussels and their dreams for the city in the future.

Christophe Meierhans fundamentally questions our democratic system. The script of his performance is nothing but a new constitution for a radically different democratic state. Meierhans developed it in collaboration with specialists at various Belgian universities.

In A Speculation the Turkish choreographer Begüm Erciyas wants to chart money and all its movements. How do you create a choreography for something that can always be exchanged for something else? How can you make something dance when it has no body? Can the dynamics of the market be shown on stage?

Are we just bystanders of ephemeral performances that wither away in the public space? What can art do, when it refuses the ethical purpose that government delegates its with, and stages disagreement that repoliticizes the public space? With a keynote lecture by Claire Bishop, author of the acclaimed book Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship.

De Warme Winkel has a great love of history and a fascination with our era, which is both complex and polymorphous. In We are your friends it tests Europe’s use-by date. In a struggle that is playful, witty and tough, they try to convey the essence and beauty of the subject to the audience.

Nadia Tsulukidze is fascinated by Stalin as a dictator and as the director of the USSR Gesamtkunstwerk. She mixes live camera and images by Mikheil Chiaureli from The Great Farewell, among other things, with the story of her family during the Soviet era and present-day Georgia. Stef van Alsenoy creates soundscapes. Dirk Verstockt is co-writer and director.

If your time seems scarce, if you're unsure how to juggle your own availability, if you dream of slow days or maybe faster ones, 'Imagine Work' proposes an opportunity to reflect, discuss and imagine what other kinds of working time might be possible. Prepare to meet, to think, to listen and argue together with the guests invited by SPIN.