The bas-relief Les passions humaines by the sculptor Jef Lambeaux (1852-1908) created a commotion in royal circles and the church authorities who described it as ‘blasphemous’ and ‘pornographic’. Guy Cassiers uses the work of art as the main character in a Belgian docudrama with a bilingual cast and a text by Erwin Mortier.

PERFORMATIK 2015 - A poetic performance about the complex relationship between man and nature. And a meeting between the special language of movement of the Icelandic dancer Bára Sigfúsdóttir (P.A.R.T.S., 2011), the work of the French visual artist Noémie Goudal, who combines illusion, stage design and photography to create surreal landscapes, and the Icelandic musician Borko.

PERFORMATIK 2015 - Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Xavier Le Roy in conversation, moderated by Elena Filipovic.

PERFORMATIK 2015 - The French artist Béatrice Balcou has been working on a series called Untitled Ceremonies since 2013. In response to our fast-paced world, the ceremonies introduce a muted spotlight on art. By slowly revealing, looking at and contextualising one single artwork, the artist invites us to take our time.

PERFORMATIK 2015 - In Bozar Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker exhibits drawings: geometric basic patterns of her choreographic work, from Fase (1982) to Vortex Temporum (2013).

PERFORMATIK 2015 - Can a piece of choreography be executed in the same form, time, space and conditions of an exhibition? Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker reimagines Vortex Temporum for the radically different conditions of a museal space, i.e. WIELS. She rethinks the performance as a nine weeks long exhibition, continuously performed during regular opening hours. 

PERFORMATIK 2015 - For twelve days pianist and conductor Marino Formenti retreats into the Zsenne art lab. He lives and sleeps, eats and plays there the whole day, while music and silence alternate, and time and space flow into one.

Wim Vandekeybus and his dancers are going out into the streets. Just dancing, on the paving, without music: a one-off street collage showing extracts from twenty-five years of dance history.

Bouncing stones across the surface of water: it’s fun and its free. Come and take part in the world championship in Brussels, on the canal at twilight, using fluorescent stones for that extra wow effect!

The Canal represents the past and the future of Brussels. The new city is rising up on its banks. Welcome aboard the Cruise Canal. Our guide will show you the Canal as you have never seen it before.

The experience of Mark Brearley as an advisor of the Mayor of London has strengthened his belief that making and the city are inseparable. The talk will emphasise the importance of industry and manufacturing for the city, both in history and in present time.