Aleppo
december 8th
8pm
Eyal weizman
In collaboration with Dissent! and erg (école de recherche graphique)
indoor
The preview days
december 13th
reading morning
Bring your own fiction-book, read a passage on interruption. at 11 AM
i nt err u pti o n
a strike preparation camp
8 - 18 december 2014
Ten days of meetings and reflections on the idea of strike, in the week of the general strike.
Is the strike an action or the interruption of an action? What do we produce when we stop to produce?
Well beyond the notion of performing arts, performance can perhaps simply be thought of as any act that can modify the coordinates of the given, an act that begins with the refusal to stay in one’s proper place, to go along with the normal flow of things. “Circulate”, we hear so often, “there’s nothing to see here”, which basically means: there is nothing to be done. Perhaps performance can be thought of as a way of breaking the circularity that drives the overhanging nihilistic narratives of incapacity and impossibility. If we imagine reality to be a surface, an texture interwoven of various times, spaces, gestures, words and objects, made of endless inclinations that determine movements and trajectories within it, then the proper task of performance is perhaps that of constructing the movements that can refigure the surface, releasing unimagined lines of flight, opening up gaps between the permitted and the possible. In a time of strikes, Aleppo opens for ten days a Strike preparation camp: ten days of workshops, encounters, screenings, readings on the power of interruptions.
All activities are in English, when not differently indicated.
All encounters are open and free, except for the two screenings of Ariella Azoulay taking place in Cinéma Galerie. Beside these two screenings, all activities take take place in 50, Rue de l'Ecuyer // Schildknaapstraat 50.
The workshop of Erdem Gündüz is open and free, please send an email to hello@aleppo.eu
december 12th
10am / 5pm
phd in one night
erdem gunduz
10AM. People coming from nowhere, Phd in one night project and ISAC (Académie Royale des Beaux Arts), "Emancipatory solos".
3PM. A workshop by Erdem Gunduz
december 12th
2pm
sarah and charles
Facade as representation of power. In the frame of the Public School for Architecture Brussels.
The program: a strike preparation camp
Saturday December 13th, 5PM.
State of the Arts, Brussels
Open Talk: What does it mean
rethinking and reacting the Art Strikes today?
december 13th
3pm-6pm
sometimes staying in place may require some movement
A two day free workshop on body as resistance by Erdem Gunduz
december 13th
5pm
december 13th
7pm
break the line
Francis Alÿs and Deligny: How to do politics with lines, by Aline Wiame (ULB), with screening of the works
december 10th
10am
10AM. The power of: User, memory, context.
workshop with Gideon Boie, Lieven De Cauter and Christophe Uytterhoeven.
december 13th
from 8pm
common dinner
Bring your own food, warm it here, share.
december 13th
from 10pm
temporary bar
december 14th
10am
People coming from nowhere: Rehearsing Interruption.
december 14th
3pm-6pm
sometimes staying in place may require some movement
A two day free workshop on body as resistance by Erdem Gunduz
december 14th
5pm: lieven de cauter: ‘Theatre of terror’
Lecture-performance
A conversation on the power of performance in the frame of a military court
december 14th
6pm
i n t e rru p ti o n
A conversation with Lieven de Cauter and Erdem Gunduz
december 15th
10am
warm up breakfast
Closed session: "Festivals as thinking entities" with Silvia Bottiroli (Santarcangelo Festival) and Berno Odo Polzer (Berliner Festspiele)
december 15th
11.30am
general strike
december 16th
fragments of power / design
democracy
A two day workshop held by Designing democracy, Sandberg Institute Amsterdam,
Organized within the framework of The Public School for Architecture Brussels
11:30 - 13:00 Roundtable discussion on Fragments of Power
14:00 - 15:30 Alessandro Mulieri - on Global Governance
december 16th
10am
being out of place
a conversation with Sarah Vanhee on her work, with master students photo & film Sint Lukas Brussels
december 16th
7pm. the dispossession
reading apero
On the text of Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou.
december 16th
8pm
santiago cirugeda
(Canceled) Lecture of the spanish architect Santiago Cirugeda (Recetas Urbanas), in collaboration with KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture campus Sint Lucas
december 17th
3pm-6pm
fleur courtois
Atelier de philosophie et d’expérimentation pratique
« Politiques du silence par quelques exemples dansants et
cinématographiques. De la dignité et du ralentissement »
december 17th
7pm. the dispossession
reading apero
On the text of Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou.
december 17th
8pm
jacques ranciere
In collaboration with Dissent!, 'Phd in one night' and Pôle de Recherche l’ArBAEsA
december 17th
from 10pm
temporary bar
december 18th
2pm-5pm
sonja lavaert
(VUB). Verlichting en Democratie. Quodlibet. In NL
december 18th
7pm. the dispossession
reading apero
On the text of Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou.
december 11th
2pm-3.30pm
sophie klimis
Une fin en forme d'interruption
Séminaire en Français. Dans les dialogues platoniciens, la fin d’un entretien correspond toujours à sa provisoire interruption. (avec le séminaire de lecture de textes philosophiques, FUSL Bruxelles). In collaboration with ISAC
Aleppo is in residency at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (ArBA-EsA), through which it has its space of activities within the last floor of 50 rue de l’Ecuyer/ Schildknaapstraat, Brussels.
december 15th
7pm
ariella azoulay
Screening at Cinema Galeries: Kasem Hawal, Return to Haifa (1982) & Michel Khleifi, Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction (1984)6’)
1PM. Participate, make, bake, speak, reflect and listen. Workshop with Karel Deckers, Lieven De Cauter and Thomas Mailaender
part of the Architecture and Power series
organized within the framework of The Public School for Architecture Brussels.
december 15th
4pm. on the legal aspect of drones
Freyja van den Boom. (KU Leuven / LAPSI)
In the frame of Designing democracy, Sandberg Institute Amsterdam,
Organized within the framework of The Public School for Architecture Brussels
december 18th
8pm
ariella azoulay
At Cinema Galeries Brussels. In collaboration with Dissent! and KU Leuven / Leuven University Press. Proceeded by a screening of ‘Khirbat’ Khize’ (Ram Loevy, 1978, 48’) and ‘Al-Midya’ (Dani Gal, 2014, 26’)
december 12th
4pm
Nico carpentier
An analysis of the relations between power, discourse and materiality in Cypriot commemoration sites. In the frame of the Public School for Architecture Brussels.
december 12th
10AM-12am
Samah Hijawi
‘Where are the Arabs?’
A performance in public space. In the vegetable part of Clemenceau Market in Brussels. In collaboration with A.pass and Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts