![]() ![]() Her practice is inspired by the methodologies of athletics, speculative narrative and organic farming, her favourite subjects being the relationship between the body, the intimate and the political. ![]() Welsh artist with an international career, Phoebe Davies’s work ranges from performance to video, posters and sound installations. ![]() She lives with a chronic illness that gives her a specific experience of both pain and the unquestioned validism of our Western societies, the fact that everything is organised around«fit» bodies. She also grows flowers and potatoes, fights against nuclear power and patriarchal capitalism in general. An author and performer, her main form of expression is the spoken word, which she articulates in spoken essay and creative non-fiction. Pamina refers to the Alps and the Rhone River to define where she comes from and where she is. Still, the invitation to Feral made her realise how her two different lives exist on top of each other, and this is what she will try toarticulate for us. Things are of course murkier and multi-dimensional. ![]() Three years later, she realises that she has split everything: that her life in the country is made up of a lot of farming, peasant struggles and driving, while she returns to the city to pursue her work as a performer and take public transport. Then she finally settled in the countryside, without really realising it fully right away. Pamina de Coulon (CH) left the big city she used to live in, to live nowhere really - driven by the great movement of writing residencies and tours, she followed her work and her outdoor desires. What: Knowledge and tactics, shared stories Morning at La Bellone: sharing experiences and artistic practicesĪfternoon at the urban farm Le Début des Haricots: collective reflections on the issues raised in the morningġ0:00 Introduction by Marine Thévenet (CIFAS)ġ1:15 Discussions with Phoebe Davies, Pamina de Coulon and Sam Trotman.ġ2:15 Departure on foot towards the waterbus stop (Quai des Péniches 5)ġ3:38 Arrival of Waterbus + walk towards the Urban Farmġ4:30 Introduction of artistic project by Zoë Palmer and Amy Franceschiniġ5:30 Open source forum - discussions and provocationsġ9:30 Presentation of the film La Restanza by Alessandra Coppola Let's gather, cross experiences, wander and explore, go for a getaway, let’s mingle. With: Pamina de Coulon (CH), Phoebe Davies (UK), Sam Trotman (UK), Amy Franceschini / Future Farmers (BE-US), Zoë Palmer (UK), Alessandra Coppola (IT), Kinch for Super Terram (BE), Chloé Deligne (BE), Wapke Feenstra/ Myvillages (NL), Oscar Cassamajor & Valérie Maione (BE), La Semeuse / Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (FR), Gosie Vervloessem (BE), Alicja Rogalska (PL), Bram Van Cauwenberghe & Amy Franceschini/Open Akker (BE), Common Dreams School/MOSSS (BE) Starting from rue de Flandre (La Bellone) then moving towards the edges of the city, to the fields of Neder-over-Heembeek (Le Début des Haricots urban farm) and even beyond (Open Akker) in Dilbeek, in order to tread the different soils where new imaginaries are slowly aggregating. We will confront the politics of food production, distribution and consumption by visiting the shelves of our local supermarket We will question the gentrification of the countryside On the agenda: knowledge and tactics (stories of experience, conversation and workshops), artistic interventions in public space (performances, screening, rituals, walks) with even a ride on the Waterbus on the canal. Is the traditional binary opposition between urban and rural about to be overcome? What if our relationship with nature was also being reinvented within the city? Artists and activists create works that are more in solidarity with neighbours, sparrows, eagles, fern and the forget-me-nots. Meanwhile, in the city and on its edges, eco-poetics and wilderness are also making their way. New forms and fruitful imaginaries are born from these contexts. Some leave the city, others create new circulations. Of course, artists were caught up in this movement. People left the city to take care of the land and experiment other possible ways of living. The city has long been considered the space of artistic freedom par excellence, but the deprivation of space during the epidemic peaks and the threat of an uninhabitable land have accelerated the great rural revival. Sensitive provocations, changes of perspective and a little dirt under your fingernails are on the programme. Interventions in public space / knowledges / tactics during 3 days in Brusselsīarefoot in the grass, Feral invites you to observe the mutations of art in public space. ![]()
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