Archipelago of Artistic Practices is a Research Summit organised by Jubilee and M HKA based on Eavatea, a digital infrastructure for mapping research-based and transdisciplinary practices. The programme and exhibition take place in conjunction with M HKA’s major exhibition The Geopolitics of Infrastructure. The programme of performances, presentations and conversations brings together artists and researchers for an ambitious programme of talks and activities in support of rethinking artistic infrastructure sustainably. It seeks to offer participants a convivial space for opening insights and opportunities into the possibilities of collaborative research, commoning of resources, and cooperative distribution for artistic practice. The exhibition takes place across M HKA’s Inbox space and 6th floor. It presents a number of artistic research narratives – objects, documents, protocols, etc – and imagines how these various art practices can be linked based on their singular research trajectories. As such it is conceived as a spatial transposition of the tool, with a strong emphasis on the relational and narrative potential that Eavatea currently embodies.
Artists Tekla Aslanishvili, Justin Bennett, Köken Ergun, Ciel Grommen, Assem Hendawi, Åsa Lie, Zheng Mahler, Vincent Meessen, Hélène Meyer, Scott William Raby, Pejvak, Shahana Rajani, Maximiliaan Royakkers, Mirwan Andan and Iswanto Hartone (ruangrupa), Merzedes Sturm-Lie, Jadran Sturm, Filip van Dingenen, Stijn van Dorpe, Clémentine Vaultier, Vermeir & Heiremans Art workers and researchers Ariadna Estalella Alba, Samira Alirezabeigi, Nick Axel, Evi Bert, Louise de Bethune, Sabeth Buchmann, Federico Ferretti, Johannes Grillet, Guy Gypens, Nav Haq, Loes Jacobs, Eleonoor Kenis, Sarah Késenne, Pierre Marchand, Raphaël Pirenne, Katrien Reist, Emily Rosamond, Julie Vanderhaeghen, Julie Van Elslande, Piet Van Hecke, Tobias van Royen, Jesse van Winden, Danielle van Zuijlen Organisations and collectives Agency, Atelier Cartographique, The BARN Core Team of the Brussels Artist-Run Network, Bureau of Analogies, f.eks., Jadran Sturm & Åsa Lie Private Foundation, Jubilee, Kanal, Kenniscentrum Coöperatief Ondernemen, Kunsthal Gent, M HKA, nadine, NICC, Re-Connect Festival, Seasonal Neighbours, State of the Arts (SOTA) (Participant)
Gesture: Archipelago of Artistic Practices