rare vogels // 24 residents weekend

Doorlopend te bezoeken
vrijdag 6 december, 19 tot 22 uur
zaterdag 7 december, 18 tot 22 uur
zondag 8 december, 17 tot 22 uur (in aanwezigheid van de kunstenaars/artists will be present)

infinitif / à reclasser

Across from Werkplaats Walter stands another building undergoing renovation: The Brussels Museum of Resistance. During the renovations, its archive has been relocated to the basement of the civil affairs department. Over several visits, Jelle Martens and Tim Bruggeman (INFINITIF) explored the archive’s contents, gradually creating a shadow archive in their shared digital storage. They organized the material and sought ways to bring it to light. What began as plans for a publication evolved into a film, and then back into a publication. During the residency weekend, they will present À Reclasser alongside eight other recent artist publications from INFINITIF.

extant / there might be birds

In There Might Be Birds sound artists Maarten Buyl and Raphael Malfliet engage in a long-term dialogue with Werkplaats Walter 2.0. This location, which undergoes a year-long transition of demolition and renovation, is unraveled and dissected through an artistic practice of field recordings and conversations. Through sonic layers, we hear how sound, time, and space intertwine and create a dynamic portrait of a place and community.
During the residency weekend, Maarten and Raphael will share a selection of their recordings. A sound installation where snapshots sketch a sonic image of the renovations.

haring books / stadslichaam/corps de ville

Onder de naam Haring Books ontwikkelt Sarah Michielsen een veelzijdige kunstpraktijk waarmee ze bruggen slaat tussen kunst, zorg en mentaal welbevinden. Haring Books zet zich in om mensen met elkaar in verbinding te brengen en hanteert daarbij een doordachte, cocreatieve aanpak.
In 2024 was Haring Books artist in residence op Bizet Bizar, een voormalige parking in Anderlecht die werd omgevormd tot buurttuin. Tijdens haar residentie onderzoekt Michielsen hoe het menselijk lichaam als onderdeel van een groter stadslichaam beschouwd kan worden. Buurtbewoners en organisaties worden uitgenodigd om de plek zintuiglijk te exploreren en lichamelijke gewaarwordingen beeldend te vertalen. Haring Books toont een tussentijds verslag van dit onderzoek.

Jean-Paul Estiévenart - tpt
Nicola Andrioli - piano
Manolo Cabras - bass, compositions
Marek Patrman - drums

Adventurous as it is, the Manolo Cabras Quartet exists of four unique musicians that share their roots in traditional jazz.
Jean-Paul Estiévenart, Nicola Andrioli and Marek Patrman, belong definitely to the finest of the Belgian actual jazz scene. In Cabras' compositions they’re invited to a continuous research within the structure. The residency at Walter was an invitation to create a fluid crossover between improvised and written music. Therefore, Manolo injected alternative parameters of improvisation in the metrical and harmonical aspects of jazz tradition. The result is a new repertoire for the quartet, based on these parameters.

Samen met kunstenaar Carole Vanderlinden, S.M.A.K. en AP Hogeschool nodigen we Joëlle Léandre uit. Léandre zal een intense muzikale connectie zoeken met de werken van Vanderlinden in diens eigen atelier. De dagen voorafgaand brengt ze door in Werkplaats Walter: ze speelt er een soloconcert op zondagavond en deelt er twee dagen lang haar universum met getalenteerde studenten van de AP Hogeschool.

I can play in front of two people or 5,000 people. I know I touch people. I have energy. I am a strong musician and I have this responsibility, when I arrive on stage, to touch people or to provoke. It’s good if you don’t like it. Then at least you go home to think, to say, “Why didn’t I like that musician last week?”

If you enter a museum or a gallery, you have to come back home and think, “Why did this painter just make two lines like this and two or three red dashes? Why? I don’t understand. What did he or she want to express?” Maybe to arrive and make two lines and three red dashes, maybe he worked forty years to select, select, select, and select, his two lines and three dashes, to talk about and express the world, the space, the blood, and the human war around us. Maybe one line expresses the difficulty of the human being, of not being free. The other, in front, is in resonance. It’s not by chance. It’s not a fantasy. It’s a work. It’s a long work.

Joëlle Léandre in een interview met Whitney Curry Wimbish voor BOMB Magazine.