Gif

GKO Café: A new role for art houses | Shaping changing places

REFLECTION

Manoeuvre & Palestine Café: Onzichtbaar Werk

Reflection

Basel Zaraa 'Dear Laila'

Memories of a Home: An Intimate Journey Through Loss and Resistance of a Palestinian Family

[cancelled] BREAKFASTCLUB #6

REFLECTIE

WERKER COLLECTIVE: Study Group AGAINST WORK

REFLECTION 'On Artistic Strategies of Unproductivity'

Sana Ghobbeh 'This Wall Grows At Its Root'

Performance

POC POC Manifesto

Reflection: talks and interventions

Tot in de stad! Work in Progress

Reflection: open studios, dinner conversation, performance, whine & wine

Playtime

reflectie

Endless Exhibition

Slowly changing exhibition without end date questions the autonomy of individual artworks

Tarek Atoui 'the Shore / a place I'd like to be'

exhibition

Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat 'Là'

exhibition

Building Castles in the Sky

Art trail: Ghent is transformed through the imagination of its youth

Frederico Araujo & Julie Mughunda 'SHARK'

Abattoir Fermé & Compagnie Cecilia 'GENESIS'

A turbulent and baroque spectacle

Pascal Gielen 'Vertrouwen'

Reflection

DEEWEE, LIPPSTICK DJ's, Lieselot Siddiki & Pol Heyvaert 'Countdown'

Dancing all night with a countdown clock as the master of ceremonies

Lisa Vereertbrugghen 'While We Are Here'

Powerful crossover between techno and folk dance

Katy Baird 'Get off'

A raw and unfiltered glimpse into the human desire for connection

Benny Claessens 'White Flag'

Surrender as a form of resistance

Laurence Roothooft, Suze Milius 'SHE'

The role of a lifetime

Anna Vercammen & Joeri Cnapelinckx 'The Pale Baron'

Felix and Felka’s revolutionary Singalong 😉 Bingbong!

Rosie Sommers & Micha Goldberg 'GERMAN STAATSTHEATER'

Slapstick and self-mockery versus overstressed bodies and burn-outs

CANCELLED: Mette Ingvartsen 'Skatepark'

Contemporary dance on wheels

Brian Lobel with Gweneth-Ann Rand '24 Italian Songs & Arias'

A hilarious opera recital to celebrate failure

Milo Rau 'Medea's Children'

The blood-drenched tragedies of adult life seen through the eyes of children

Double bill: Francesca Grilli 'Record' & Sesa 'Spoken Word'

Performance on adolescence, between courage and isolation & spoken word performance

WERKER COLLECTIVE: Study Group AGAINST WORK

REFLECTION 'On Artistic Strategies of Unproductivity'

Werker reflectie
  • Tue 16.04 – 14:00 – S.M.A.K.
    Gratis

WERKER COLLECTIVE, artist-in-resi­den­ce at S.M.A.K. in 2024, is orga­ni­zing a spe­ci­al stu­dy group during GIF. With AGAINST WORK they aim to del­ve into the effects of post-indu­stri­al work on our bodies, minds, com­mu­ni­ties, and the bio­sp­he­re, whi­le envi­si­o­ning a futu­re wit­hout work, as we know it. AGAINST WORK oppo­ses the cur­rent exploi­ta­ti­ve insti­tu­ti­on of labour and aligns with the abo­li­ti­o­nist tra­di­ti­on, which ack­now­led­ges work as a (not-only) human acti­vi­ty of self-devel­op­ment for the com­mon good.


The stu­dy group is arti­cu­la­ted through the col­lec­ti­ve task of gathering con­tent for a series of rea­ders Against Work. In the ses­si­on at GIF par­ti­ci­pants can pro­po­se to read their own mate­ri­als of choi­ce — a snap­shot of some pages of a book you are rea­ding, a text you wro­te, a refe­ren­ce that should be inclu­ded, a docu­ment, ima­ge or dra­wing — or read the con­tent that has been gat­he­red so far in the stu­dy group. Texts will be kept in their ori­gi­nal lan­gu­a­ge, left untrans­la­ted. We invi­te you to con­tri­bu­te wit­hout any extra effort.

  • Tuesday 16.Apr.2024, 14:00 – 16:00
  • In English & Dutch
  • Free, reser­va­ti­ons through reservation@​smak.​be