(Action)

A Movement of Apples

K1: Rue Picard / Havenlaan, Brussels, BE

A cloud of apples floats into the belly of Brussels upon a majestic wooden boat. Arriving from Pajottenland, these apples come with farmers and stories of strange weather.

A Movement of Apples invokes a chain of people to move a mountain of apples in a (short) chain of people. Passed from hand to hand these apples will move from K1 to Groot Eiland where they will be pressed into juice to flow through our bodies and into bottles to move further on...

This is a call to action to Brussels' inhabitants, Co-ops, Good Food Brussels, Good Move Regional Mobility Plan and policy makers to intensify and support agroecological production in Brussels and its surrounding areas. This requires a structural shift in mobility. Let our moving bodies cast a tranformative spell upon our food system towards a model that respects humans and other species, regenerates biodiversity and supports a just economy.

Music: Francesca Chiacchio & Mott flyf Mobile Apple Press: Fruitdas Bicycle Transport: Recyclo + Groot Eiland

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(Workshop)

A Reed Awakening

Herlegemstraat 66 Destelbergen Gent

https://bc-as.org/studies/trainings-workshops/reed-week

Join us in Gent for the final stage of finishing the boat before we launch in the Brussels-Charleroi canal. Together with reed craft specialist, Dennis Raggers, this work session will introduce the craft of roof thatching.

August 22+23, from 10am to 5:00pm REED Workshop, thatch a roof

Organized with BC Materials, Brussels Language: English

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(Action)

Becoming Boat

Atelier Mose: Herlegemstraat 66, 9040 Sint-Amandsberg, Gent

The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned from Crete had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their places, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.

— Plutarch, Life of Theseus 23.1

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(Research)

Levitation 1

Gent, Belgium

We went into the garden, & drank tea under the shade of some apple trees; only he, & my self. Amidst other discourse, he told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. "Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground?" thought he to himself; occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood. "Why should it not go sideways, or upwards? but constantly to the earths center? Assuredly, the reason is, that the earth draws it. There must be a drawing power in matter. & the sum of the drawing power in the matter of the earth must be in the earths center, not in any side of the earth. therefore does this apple fall perpendicularly, or toward the center. If matter thus draws matter; it must be in proportion of its quantity. Therefore the apple draws the earth, as well as the earth draws the apple.

— Excerpt from Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life, William Stukeley

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(Debate)

INGREDIENTS FOR LISTENING

CIVA, BRUSSELS Rue de l’Ermitage 55, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

A performative cooking session and lunch in the framework of Unworlding CUBEX, by Anna Puigjaner MAIO at CIVA with Merve Bedir, Care, Zahra Khatri Cassonade, Mai Ling & Anna Myjak-Pycia.

Futurefarmers invites sound artist Caroline Profanter to introduce our new canal habitat, the Brussels-Charleroi canal. An opaque meander of shades, fluctuating tones, circular patterns, granular textures, juxtaposed streams and drones -an amalgam of proximity and distance, of immersion and observation. To hear the resonances, echoes and traces of the underwater sound recordings morphing with the surrounding space, speakers, resonators (the body?), speaking through different materials, striving, mirroring/reflecting the transit of a city's environment.

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(Debate)

New European Bauhaus Festival

Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels

In the Belly presented amidst a gathering of voices: ARCHIPELAGO OF POSSIBLE FUTURES: 10 Visions for an Alternative Everyday: A Gathering of Voices from the World of Artistic Research.

On How to grow better futures: Anab Jain, Superflux A Solar Utopia: Juliette Bibasse and Joanie Lemercier, Studio Lemercier A Climavore Foodways for the New Seasons of the Climate Crisis: Alon Schwabe & Daniel Fernández Pascual, Cooking Sections Weaving the Urban and the Rural: Amy Franceschini, Futurefarmers A New Material Culture for Domestic Environments: Maarten Gielen Le Jardin d’Eden: Peter de Cupere Explorations into the Limits of the Visible: Evelina Domnitch & Dmitri Gelfan A Social Imaginary for Artificial Intelligence: Hito Steyerl Cartography of the New Empires: Vladan Joler Augmenting Xenakis's Piano Music: Arts - Science & Technology from an Ecological Point of View: Pavlos Antoniadis

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