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Agenda: Soon ?

→ Exhibition
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27 — 29.09.24

Opening Weekend: Clara Spilliaert — My Sister Is Pregnant

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→ Manoeuvre
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Friday 27.09.24

Manoeuvre:

Opening Refuge

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→ Book launch
→ 16:00

Sunday 29.09.24

Prem Krishnamurthy: Past Words

→ Book launch
→ 16:00

→ 20:00

Friday 04.10.24

Vrijdagavonden:

(Fair) Kin Arts Almanac: On Parenthood

→ Talk
→ 20:00

Friday 11.10.24

Vrijdagavonden:

Clara Spilliaert: Night Before Morning After

→ Talk
→ 20:00

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Friday 18.10.24

Vrijdagavonden:

Art Cinema OFFoff: Maximilien Luc Proctor & Two Nice Catholic Boys

→ Democrazy
→ concert
→ 20:00

Saturday 19.10.24

Democrazy:

Eefje De Visser — Unplugged

→ Democrazy
→ concert
→ 20:00

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Friday 25.10.24

Vrijdagavonden:

manoeuvre deelt SUIKER

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01 — 02.11.24

Vrijdagavonden:

Midnight Marsh: Night Walk Wondelgemse Meersen

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Friday 08.11.24

Vrijdagavonden:

3 Publications: Plan B, Seasonal Neighbours & Kathrin Böhm

→ Talk
→ 20:00

Friday 15.11.24

Vrijdagavonden:

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain: An Experiment With Time

→ Talk
→ 20:00

Friday 22.11.24

Vrijdagavonden:

Mark Požlep: Everything Under (with a film by Jonas Mekas)

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Friday 29.11.24

Vrijdagavonden:

Eye On Palestine

→ 20:00

Saturday 07.12.24

Vrijdagavonden:

Koba De Meutter: 2018 — 2023

Full Archive

Agenda: Archive

→ Debat
→ 19:30

Tuesday 10.09.24

The Ghent LGBTI+ election debate

→ Debat
→ 19:30

→ Guided tour
→ 12:00

Sunday 08.09.24

Open Monuments Day: historical guided tour

→ Guided tour
→ 12:00

Sahjan Kooner — dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage

Sahjan Kooner is an amalgamation of inherited worlds and speculative futures. Working freelance to support their practice, Sahjan owes much to their family; Sahjan is a student of the dream state. Using video and installation, Sahjan creates expansive worlds, exploring the traces of love, hope and imagination that make our lives possible, from a series of questions picked up from the rubble around technological, social and racial structures that enrich life. Who lives and works in Wolverhampton, UK.

With dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage, artist Sahjan Kooner has created a multiverse encompassing ideas and processes around migration. The exhibition is constructed as a complex environmental installation with stories, migrants, materials, houses, biologies, technologies, mycologies and futures. Using the language of science fiction, from film to video games, the artist not only evokes an oppressive feeling, but also creates an imaginative, multiple reality defined by hope and love.

The artist draws on personal experiences: from family relationships to friendships to the origins of communities that move and arrive. The installation depicts the land of their ancestors in Punjab as a nomadic commons. Visitors are introduced to the villagers there and the economic and environmental forces they are subjected to. Zones are demarcated with metal inner walls that guide visitors to the exhibition through an interwoven timeline of events.

There are many paths, heroes, anti-heroes and collaborators in this multiverse created in collaboration with an entire village of artists, children, family members and a community in northern India.

The visitor to the exhibition becomes an alien exploring the multiverse, a character escaping to new worlds. As technology evolves, science fiction becomes reality. Science fiction, at its core, is about escape. It is an ideal way to explore current realities such as migration and people seeking a better, fairer life.

dankEconogy1_ALIENVillage came about in collaboration with Eastside Projects in Birmingham and UP Projects in London. The exhibition has since been on show online and in Eastside Projects’ main gallery, moving to Kunsthal Gent in February 2024.