Idle Hours

One thing has ended. There are some hours in between. The next hasn’t begun. Dessert is about to arrive at the table, and it’s too early to go to bed. There’s nothing to do–only time is left, stretching. We’ve free time, drinking with friends, and lingering around. The night is open, what about playing a game or a song? Starting a story or a conversation? Come and spend those idle hours with us. 

The meaning of idle includes: pointless, lazy, without purpose or effect, disconnected, frivolous, foolish, petty, vain, and so on. Basically, to spend time, battery saving mode. The evening involves a programme of dessert, performances, music, games, and more. Think of it as the performance of your nephew at the family function. Come chill, think, watch, and sit with it.

Picar will gather for four days in Kaaistudios—and a little longer—to piece together a programme that drifts between practices, desires, and questions of making and friendship. A fleeting evening, just enough to warm up the future, played in the hands of the present.

Full programme coming soon.

• Picar is a shared studio between artists from different disciplines in Schaarbeek. A common need and desire for working space, and the potential for cross-contamination of our various artistic practices, together form the base of this collective studio. This multipurpose space is built based on trial and error, created together by a changing group. A space to work on craft, to experiment and to share. At the moment Picar is inhabited by Stef Assandri, Cathrin Jarema, Iris Donders, Lara Ferrari tummma, Leonie, Ferre Vuye, Carly Rae Heathcote and Jana De Kockere.