Burning Ice - Assembly (Burning Ice #7) – Thing 001384 (Nohe) concerns a conflict about a stained glass artwork entitled Nohe, between Kim Taylor Reece, a professional photographer, and Marylee Colucci.

Burning Ice - For Burning Ice #7, Agency is selecting a number of ‘things’ and speculates on how the idea of ‘commons’ can be included in art and science practices, with a special focus on folklore and traditional knowledge.

Burning Ice - The five artifacts presented in this exhibit describe postnatural history beginning with the earliest domesticated animals and plants, to the dawn of genetic engineering and synthetic biology.

Kaaitheater will be participating to the Open Monument Weekend with an exhibition on the history of the Kaaitheater building and the surrounding area. The exhibition shows remarkable material on the old harbour area, the construction of Square Sainctelette and the construction of the Lunatheater.

PERFORMATIK2013 - Summer 2012. Berlinde de Bruyckere presents a selection of her sculptures and drawings in Istanbul. Vincent Dunoyer ‘lends’ his body for a performance that lasts two months. Now, the dancer has invited the artist to present an exhibition-performance in a theatre. A new meeting of ‘live’ art and ‘visual’ art, conceived for the Kaaistudio’s in rue Notre-Dame-du-Sommeil.

It’s the latest trend: producing food in the middle of the city. The aim of Voorraad BRXL Réserve is to demonstrate that urban farming in Brussels is alive and has potential. Each day one of several existing initiatives will introduce itself and offer products to taste.

‘Africaliennes’ refers to a series of awareness raising activities in Belgium that will shed light on the work by the Africalia partners in Africa. This Africalia evening presents a ‘sneak preview’ of two documentary films on contemporary South African artists.

Wiels brings together a young generation of artists who use a situation, event or action as their central medium. Unannounced events and actions, artefacts, documents, installations, films, props and other objects, these are the artists’ contribution to this experimental exhibition, which tries to identify what an other tradition of art might be.

The American group The Yes Men puts the big shots of this world to shame (the World Trade Organisation, McDonald’s, Dow Chemical, etc.). They create fake websites, publish fake newspapers, speak at conferences, make guest appearances on TV shows and so on. We present their editions of the New York Post and the New York Times and the video The Yes Men Fix The World.

In Burning Ice #1, the Paris photographers’ collective Argos presented their work on climate refugees. Today they will be presenting nine photo-collages compiled around nine locations on our planet where the effects of climate change are already clearly visible: Pankhali/Bangladesh, Funafuti/Tuvalu, Blarigui/Lake Chad, New Orleans/USA, Shishmaref/USA, Khumbu Valley/Nepal, Hallingen/Germany, the Maldive Islands, Longbaoshan/China.

The work of the Chinese multimedia and video artist Cao Fei (1978) comments on the rapid and chaotic changes in Chinese society. Cao Fei, in the guise of her avatar China Tracy, is building RMB City, a virtual city on the Second Life online platform, a reflection on the recent urban and cultural explosion in China. In Performatik we shall be showing a new video that Cao Fei will make during the official opening of RMB City in early January 2009. Feel free to make your own avatar and visit RMB City on Second Life.