ROT Garden
Black Garden
Choreographer and researcher Sara Manente has since 2018 focused on the intersection between live art and living cultures and in ROT, these two worlds come together. For this editorial (ROT magazine) and curatorial (ROT Garden) project, she draws inspiration from fermentation techniques and the world of fungi.
At the Kaaistudios, Manente is setting up Black Garden, the third part of ROT Garden. Each ROT Garden is a landscape installation consisting of sounds, smells, texts, textures and dance. This Black Garden focuses on the dark world of infections and 'immunitarianism' (the political control of the immune system) full of sci-fi, horror and doom.
Together with befriended Brussels creators, Sara Manente will activate the garden for two days. Philippe Janssens shows his installation The Commerce of Relationships there, Carolina Mendonça presents a new version of her sci-fi speculative project Zones of resplendence, and Sina Seifee's brings the lecture performance Loose Analogies of Dirt and Clean. Fellow artists/researchers are welcome to Adrijana Gvozdenović and Sina Seifee's workshop Contingent Weirdness, and Michelle Anay Woods will provide the culinary setting over the two days.
PROGRAMME
Friday 3/05
Ongoing: Michelle Anay Woods - Live Collaborations
food & drinks | free
14:00 Philip Janssens - The Commerce of Relationships
installation + library & bar | free
14:00 Sina Seifee & Adrijana Gvozdenović - Contingent Weirdness
workshop | free
18:00 Sina Seifee & Adrijana Gvozdenović - Contingent Weirdness
installation | free
18:30 Sina Seifee & Adrijana Gvozdenović - Contingent Weirdness
public presentation | free
20:30 Carolina Mendonça - Something is Approaching (work in progress)
performance | get your ticket
Saturday 4/05
Ongoing: Michelle Anay Woods - Live Collaborations
food & drinks | free
14:00 Philip Janssens - The Commerce of Relationships
installation + library & bar | free
14:00 Sina Seifee & Adrijana Gvozdenović - Contingent Weirdness
workshop | free
18:00 Sina Seifee & Adrijana Gvozdenović - Contingent Weirdness
installation | free
20:30 Sina Seifee - Loose Analogies of Dirt and Clean
lecture performance + after talk | get your ticket
22:30 Party with Roberta Miss aka Nur/Se | free
Along with this programme, you can visit Manente, Tripod & Robbiano their expo Towards a Ruined Theater - as part of A Series of More-than-Human Encounters - in Pilar.
concept, research, production Sara Manente | performance Carolina Mendonça | lecture Sina Seifee | workshop Adrijana Gvozdenović and Sina Seifee | installation Philip Janssens | culinary settings Michelle Anay Woods
