Programme

The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet consists of a radio programme (June 10 – September 30, 2025), a 3-day festival (June 20 – June 22, 2025) with installations, screenings, performances and concerts, and a closing event (September 29-30, 2025) with talks and spatial interventions (in collaboration with Kanal Centre Pompidou, in the framework of The World History of the Commons programme).

The radio programme, organised through the newly established Buda radio station Radio Fantôme, consists of various live and recorded broadcasts, that retake and continue the research done by Border Buda in the past three years, including on its heritage. The programme starts with a first live broadcast on June 10th, conceived by radio students of RITCS School of Arts who will work for 7 weeks in and on Buda. The radio programme continues during the 3-day festival at the end of June and the closing event, end of September.

The 3-day festival will take place on a series of pockets of lands, open and built upon, in Buda’s historical heart, and will include installations, screenings, performances and concerts, as well as live radio broadcasts of Radio Fantôme.

The closing event, conceived together with Laura Muyldermans, is centred on the former factory of the Fonderies Bruxelloises at the Schaarbeeklei in Buda, partially owned by the Province of Flemish Brabant. Here the project closes in a mode of prefiguration: what is the biography of this publicly owned building and from there, what can it become? Radio Fantôme will be around again.