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RITCS Winter School 2019
The annual event brings together artists and arts students from across Europe around a central theme for a two and a half-week interdisciplinary research module. This years edition of the RITCS Winter School will focus on the topic 'Any Change Calls for Resistance'. In the course of the Winter School workshops and an evening program with discussions and lectures will be held at various locations in Brussels. Discover more information on the workshops, the collaborating artists and the public events.
Theme: Any Change Calls for Resistance
This years edition of the RITCS Winter School will focus on the topic Any Change Calls for Resistance. During almost three weeks, we will investigate how we, as individuals and collectives respond to the changes which take place in and around us: the changes we fear, those we dream of, the changes we stimulate, those we try to resist, or those we intend to initiate ourselves…
What can artistic practices do in the face of the unprecedented scale and speed of the present cultural, political, technological and geological transformations? Is there a role for art to play in a situation where so many seem to feel so powerless? Should art at all hold itself busy with such questions? The Winter School will engage with these issues in a very hands-on fashion, following the paths and strategies proposed by three experienced arts practicioners.
Public program
The RITCS Winter School will be introduced by 'The Thing' - an automatic workshop developed by Ant Hampton and Christophe Meierhans. The evening program, organized at Viavia Café, involves guest speakers and collective discussions around a large pot of soup. Each evening opens up the topic of one of the Winter School's workshops to a broader conversation.
Participation to the public program is free of charge, but registration is required for THE THING (write to: tim.martens@ehb.be ).
The THING
The THING is an automatic workshop in four episodes, a hybrid performance that explores the overlap between things which matter to the world, and a thing each of us could set into motion at any moment. Doing The THING is about creating the best possible conditions to take a leap of both faith and imagination, daring to enact another possible version of oneself. Participation to the public program is free of charge, but registration is required for THE THING (write to: tim.martens@ehb.be ).
The THING
by Ant Hampton & Christophe Meierhans
Discussing the School of Love
Adva Zakai is a participant in the School of Love, a collective platform initiated in 2016 at KASK, which practices a totally different understanding of what a school can be. It is an invitation to hang out. But to hang out deeply. To practice school as a place of free time – free to study things as they appear, separated from the dependency on the time and space of social order and production.
Discussing the School of Love
an evening with Adva Zakai & guests
Monday 14.01.18 - 18h30
Viavia Café, 1st floor
Discussing 'Hacker Pedagogy'
Hacker pedagogy is an active attitude to change the behaviours promoting automatisms - thus restricting freedom of choice. It is focused on the effects, assumptions and practices of technical interactions. “Hacker pedagogy” trainings and workshops formulate a coherent set of tactics for becoming aware of our personal/collective mind/bodies.
Discussing 'Hacker Pedagogy'
an evening with C.I.R.C.E.
Tuesday 15.01.18 - 18h30
Viavia Café, 1st floor
Discussing the end of the world
How to prepare for a possible collapse of civilisation as we know it today? Far from any doomsday prophecy or Hollywood zombie fictions, the Happy Transitioner Society is a group of people meeting weekly in Brussels in order to collectively tackle the denial and hopelessness that might arise when confronted with climate change and other ecological limits, and imagine what our societies could look like after the end of industrial production and consumption.
Discussing the end of the world
An evening with The Happy Transitioner Society
Wednesday 16.01.18 - 18h30
Viavia Café, 1st floor
Decolonialisation is not a metaphore!
An inflation in the use and the demand for decolonisation in the arts pushes for clarification. What can decolonisation mean beyond its metaforical use? What various forms does the demand of decolonisation take in its plurality in the arts? Following some of its historical lineages, this evening will address the challenges of this bottom-up movement and what it would take to face them in the arts in Belgium and beyond today?
Decolonialisation is not a metaphore!
An evening with Laura Nsengiyumva, Omar Jabary Salamanca and Joachim Ben Yakoub
Wednesday 17.01.18 - 18h30
Viavia Café, 1st floor
In collaboration with Kaaitheater & That Might Be Right
Bron : RITCS School of Arts
