Unleash your inner genius and build your own robot. You don’t have to be a technical wizard – you will get a long way with a little imagination and the expert guidance of the German artist Ralf Schreiber and his associate, the scientist Christian Faubel. Your robot will be brought to life on an overhead projector. And afterwards you can take it home. There is a workshop for children from 8 to 12 and an open workshop for older children and adults.

An event that focuses on the notion of the manifesto. With Frederik Leen (Museum of Modern Art in Brussels, on the avant-garde at the end of the sixties), Jan Lauwers (Needcompany, on turning points in the development of theatre), Jan Ritsema (director; on Jérôme Bel’s work), Eric Sleichim (BL!NDMAN, on contemporary music) and Maarten Seghers & OHNO COOPERATION's installation So Man. You can also watch videos by Lawrence Weiner (US), Adrian Paci (ALB) and Deimantas Narkevicius (LIT), and there’s music too!

In his video animations for Performatik, Luca Buvoli creates free associations on Futurist themes. He combines personal and historical stories: interviews with Marinetti’s daughters and adepts of Futurism, archive documents about political meetings and memories of the numerous air shows he visited in his youth. Buvoli questions the authoritarian and threatening side of our fascination with velocity and power.

In the late sixties the American Lawrence Weiner thoroughly renewed the definition of art and sculpture. He considers and describes his language pieces as sculptures. The language pieces can be fixed or mounted on any sort of support: using adhesive letters or paint, on stickers or badges, or as audio on a CD. For Performatik, Strombeek cultural centre is applying Lawrence Weiner’s work to the facades of the organisations taking part. This art can also literally be worn in the public space in the form of a specially-designed badge with the same work.

A colloquium on the carbon footprint of today’s performing arts. Can we change our profession without losing such crucial values as artistic freedom and mobility?