Meet The Residents
Meet the residents in the exhibition space on the 2nd floor and the auditorium of WIELS where they will offer insights into their practices through screenings, performances, talks and the presentation of existing and newly created work.
Participating artists: Henry Andersen (b. 1992, AU), Damir Avdagic (b. 1987, BA/NO), Alexis Gautier (b. 1990, FR), Mashid Mohadjerin (b. 1976, IR/BE), Krista Mölder (b. 1972, EE), María José Murillo (b. 1989, PE), Citra Sasmita (b. 1990, ID)
All events are free, registration per event (check below)
DAY SCHEDULE
Meet the Residents
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Ongoing (13:00-21:00), Alexis Gautier (b. 1990, FR/BE), Krista Mölder (b. 1972, EE), Mashid Mohadjerin (b. 1976, IR/BE) & Citra Sasmita (b. 1990, ID)
Drawings & sculptures
> 2nd floor
13:00 – 14:00, María José Murillo (b. 1989, PE) - A Return through the Origins of Modernity
Lecture
María José Murillo will discuss her research into the diaspora of textiles from Peru to Western institutions. She will reflect on how the colonial system has perpetuated the dominant western culture against the indigenous, and will talk about how weaving functions as a tool for reclaiming her cultural identity.
> Auditorium
16:00 – 16:30, Citra Sasmita (b. 1990, ID) - Timur Merah Project VIII; Pilgrim, How You Journey
Installation
Guided tour, EN
In 2019, Citra Sasmita started a series of works named The Timur Merah Project (The East Is Red Project) in which she provides a re-reading of the history and legacy of narratives that exist in the archipelago of Indonesia. During her stay in Brussels, Sasmita worked on the eighth iteration of this series named: Timur Merah Project VIII; Pilgrim, How You Journey.
> 2nd floor
16:30 – 17:00, Mashid Mohadjerin (b. 1976, IR/BE) - Schroud
Video, installation
Guided tour, EN
Delve into the research and creation process of Mashid Mohadjerin as she will display various materials from her studio and present the video work Shroud (2018).
> 2nd floor
17:00 - 17:15, Krista Mölder (b. 1972, EE)
Guided tour, EN
> 2nd floor
19:30 – 20:30, Damir Avdagic (b. 1987, BA/NO) - Prevodenje
Lecture & screening, EN
The act of bearing witness is central to the work of Damir Avdagic, whose performative film works are testaments to the microhistories of migration, generational relationships, and diasporic experience set against the historical backdrop of conflict in the former Yugoslavia. At the Meet the Residents event Damir Avdagic will introduce his artistic practice and methods by presenting samples of works, research and recently filmed footage. The event will conclude with a screening of the work Prevodenje (Translation) from 2015, (16 mins).
> Auditorium
21:00 - 00:00, Henry Andersen (b. 1992, AU/BE) & Bryana Fritz (b. 1989, US/FR) - Slow Reading Club
Performative reading, EN
Slow Reading Club is a semi-fictional reading group initiated in 2016 by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen. They deal in constructed situations for collective and individual reading. Central to their collective practice is a question about how meaning passes between bodies in the act of reading. If reading is an action that is "performed", might it also be choreographed? And might such choreographies provide an escape from dominant patterns of reading-as-communication? SRC seeks to occupy and eroticise the space of transmission between text and reader, reader and reader, text and text.
> 2nd floor
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