OpenField - a gathering

Name: OpenField - a gathering
Start: 2026-05-04T10:00:00+02:00
Location: Birminghamstraat 30, 1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium

Schedule

Mon, 04 May, 2026 at 10:00 am

UTC+02:00

Location

Birminghamstraat 30, 1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium | Sint-jans-molenbeek, BU

OpenField is a five-day gathering dedicated to the possible futures and autonomies of artistic research.
What comes to mind when you hear the words autonomy and future in relation to artistic research?
Can you imagine them, or notice where they already unfolding?
What tools do you have, or need to develop, to practice them and make them sustainable, especially within collective practices?
Through these questions, a.pass invited three artistic collectives, One Field Fallow (BE), Topote de Acahual (MX), and Arquitectura Expandida (CO), to each identify an urgent topic at the end of their research residency. Their responses have become the titles of the first three days of the gathering: Scripts and Protocols for Collective Spaces, Foreshadowing Amid Turbulent Futures, Manifest Everyday Urban Utopias. Three topics to be explored collectively by a multiform constellation of research-based practices.
The fourth day starts off on the right foot: Breakfast for Insatiable Researchers invites you to meet art workers in Brussels who have long supported artistic research, mostly without structural funding. Directly in the spaces where they usually work. Food for thought, for practices, and more! In the afternoon, the gathering documentation group will share traces from previous OpenField moments during a Memory-Making Session, and create space for contributions from everyone.
The fifth day is dedicated to a working session, Collabora(c)tion: Futuring Artistic Research, for organisations, educational institutions, and collectives who want to explore how to join forces and continue (or begin) creating shared spaces, time, and energy for artistic research.

PROGRAM:
MONDAY MAY 4: SCRIPTS AND RITUALS FOR COLLECTIVE SPACES – ANTWERP
* 10h00-13h30, Monty: open school by One Field Fallow with Back2SoilBasics
* 13h30-14h30, Monty: lunch
* 15h00-16h30, deSingel: sharing moment focused on the creation and maintenance of spaces for collectivity, with Sophie Sénécaut and Mouss Timiss
* 17h00 – 18h30, deSingel: Unlimited Strip Club (USC) workshop
TUESDAY MAY 5: FORESHADOWING AMID TURBULENT FUTURES – BRUSSELS
* 09h30-13h00, bodeek, hosted by a.pass: Mapa session by Topote de Acahual
* 13h00-14h00: lunch at bodeek
* 14h00-15h00 meeting point at bodeek: Walk with Diego Echegoyen
* 15h00-16h00, WIELS, project room: sharing moment with The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest represented by Femke Snelting & Jara Rocha
* 16h30-18, WIELS, screening room: Mahmoud Alhaj interviewed by Topote de Acahual
WEDNESDAY MAY 6: MANIFEST EVERYDAY URBAN UTOPIAS – BRUSSELS
* 09h30-15h00, Beursschouwburg, Zilveren Zaal: Everyday Urban Utopias session by Arquitectura Expandida with Soumaya Phéline
* 13h00 to 14h00: lunch at Beursschouwburg
* 15h00-16h00, Beursschouwburg, Gouden Zaal: Film selection screening by argos & Beursschouwburg
* 16h30-18h00, meeting point at the entrance of Beursschouwburg: Walk with Gary Farrelly
* 16h30-18h00, meeting point at the entrance of Beursschouwburg: callisto’s Walk by Lucia Palladino with Matilda Cobanli
* from 14h30 to 18h30: performative interventions in the public space by radical_hope
* from 10h00 to 18h30, black box at Beursscchouwburg: screenings of film materials from Arquitectura Expandida archive.
THURSDAY MAY 7: BREAKFAST SESSIONS + MEMORY MAKING – BRUSSELS
* 09h30-12h30 Brussels different locations: Breakfast for Insatiable Researchers
* 14h00-17h00, Danscentrumjette: Memory Making Session
FRIDAY 8 MAY: COLLABORA(C)TION: FUTURING ARTISTIC RESEARCH – BRUSSELS
*09h30-14h30 Constant Studio, Jette: Collabora(c)tion: Futuring Artistic Research
>>> MORE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION LINK ON www.apass.be/openfield
**Artwork for OpenField communication by Chloë Janssens**