The BARN core team invites you all to join us in Antwerp for a day of conversations, visits and fun! This special day starts at MORPHO with a conversation about artist-run networks. Then we go visit 3 initiatives in the city: Out of Sight, WP Zimmer, and Samenschool. After dinner at Samenschool, we go on a stroll during Borgernocturne, an evening when various initiatives for visual arts in Antwerp's Borgerhout neighbourhood open up. 

Programme

13:30h Conversation at MORPHO: Worldbuilding networks
Ploegstraat 25 Antwerpen

The conversation brings us together to talk about how artist-run networks emerge and what they make possible. First, there will be a presentation by the Brussels Artist-Run Network, showing how BARN operates, the tools they use, the website, the expanding team, and the different tentacles. Drawing from experiences in other cities and countries, we will also explore whether an international, artist-run network could take form, and what it could enable.

After the presentation, curator Tamara Beheyd initiates a conversation about the informal networks in Antwerp. In light of recent developments around M HKA, we reflect on the artistic infrastructure of Antwerp and the bottom-up organised exchanges that have gained urgency. Is there a desire to continue these conversations and shape them into a more sustainable network among artists and others? How do different initiatives organise themselves among each other? Beheyd is active in the Museum at Risk movement and the Antwerp scene in general. Recently relocated to Brussels, we invited her to join the conversation.

We will look at BARN’s open-source website as a shared tool: could this digital infrastructure be extended to other contexts, allowing for shared maintenance, new functionalities, and future collaborations such as co-curating and collective gatherings?

15h Visit Kiek collective´s installation at MORPHO

15:30h move to Out of Sight

15:45h BARN Artist-run Tour Antwerp, start at Out of Sight

16:45h Artist-run tour WP Zimmer

17:45h Artist-run tour Samenschool, with dinner
Everyone welcome, bring cash for contributions

Afterwards: Borger Nocturne

We go and have a look! Places to visit will be decided together  

(Times are indicative, get in contact through the telegram group if you want to know more precisely)

Trains

Train from Brussels North to Antwerp Central: 12:33h
Latest train back to Brussels: 23:25h, thank you SNCB. 

Please note that lunch is not provided, make sure to eat before arriving.

Do you want to stay the night?

For people not based in Antwerp, there are a few places to stay over at Samenschool. Please get in touch