Programme

Friday 5 December 2025
Doubled double door – Border Buda closure
Ongoing 4pm-10 pm
Fobrux

Ongoing 4pm-10 pm:
Spatial interventions Laura Muyldermans, Bert Gellynck, Pieterjan Ginckels, Verena Lenna and Inge Vinck, with Fabienne Girsberger.
Film Cie Radix created with teenagers from Vilvoorde & Haren. 
Installation ‘Moving Image’ (2025) Lucile Desamory.
ProperTea, performance Jean-Loup Cools.

4-7 pm: work in progress Sarah Smolders

From 6 pm on: dinner Nick Von Kleist. Smoky sweet potato, pumpkin & potato gnocchi with a charred broccoli rabe sauce and a salsa macha on the side. Likely some extra smoky vegetables on the sidewalk BBQ. Vegetarian. Enrolling via this link helps us anticipate, but you’re also welcome to just show up. Pay what you can.

5:30-6:30 pm: Radio Fantôme live in Fobrux and on radio-fantome.be. Doubled double front door: ‘Developing’ Buda – on development, optimisation and the ghosts behind the factory walls. 

A roundtable conversation with Frederik Ceulemans, Bert Gellynck, Pieterjan Ginckels, Els Silvrants-Barclay, Jan Zaman, Andreas de Boer & Didier Cortois. (In Dutch)

7-8 pm: Radio Fantôme live in Fobrux and on radio-fantome.be. Doubled double back door: ‘Developing’ Fobrux – on opacity, normativity and the building speaking back. 

A roundtable conversation with Roeland Dudal, Bert Gellynck, Pieterjan Ginckels,  Inge Vinck, Laura Muyldermans and 1-2 more TBD. (In English)

The tile shop will be heated, but not the rest of Fobrux, so bring warm clothes.

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Weekend 20-22 June 2025
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet

We invite you to stay a bit longer in four locations: an open field in the heart of Buda, two former facto-ries the Fonderies Bruxelloises (Fobrux) and Buda Bxl, and local cafe The Corner. Find all details of the programme below.

Friday 20 June

We open with speeches, spoken word by Kübra Avci, a live contribution of the Border Buda youth project, and a listening session on art and radio, compiled and hosted by Nick Aikens, Silke Gordon and Els Silvrants-Barclay. In Dutch and English.

Invisible presences and forgotten memories lingering in a liminal field are evoked through the ephemeral mediums of breath and wind. Subtle sounds—voices, insect calls, bells, chanting and instruments made from the site’s soil and wind — unfold as a ritual to summon what once was, or may soon vanish.

With their band TRANSPORT, musician Carola Caggiano & artist, singer and filmmaker Lucile Desamory sing well known melodies as vessels for emotion and levitation, wandering between cabaret, variété and schlager ballads. Folk songs, Lieder, Della Bosier’s Fleur de Buda and original compositions, in Dutch, Arabic, French, Armenian, Italian, English and Yiddish, invite you inside an exhilarating lament, towards a delirious state of communion.

The Cabinet transforms a live electronics performance into a dialogue with the (un)dead. Drawing inspiration from the art and curiosity cabinets of Rabelais’s era and the long Baroque, The Cabinet is an eerie, steampunk auditive landscape where past, present, and future collapse into one another.

Ongoing

  • 18u-21u Exhibition with MSC Het Spoor & Het Be(h)lang van Buda @ Buda BXL

Saturday 21 June

  • 10u30 – 11.30 Audio walk on Buda’s heritage by Het Be(h)lang van Buda start @ Fobrux

Discover the many stories of Buda today and yesterday in a guided tour with various audio clips. The route is 2 kilometer, and wheelchair accessible, though the condition of the sidewalk in Buda is rough. The tour is available in Dutch and French.

Using writings by Jean Tousseul and Léon Wanson, Gregorian chants, field recordings, testimonials from former workers of the Wanson factory and more recent echoes of the Haren mega-prison that replaced Wanson, Lionel Galand and his guests engage in a session of radiophonic spiritualism to recall the tormented memory of a neighborhood with multiple lives. The broadcast ends with the audio work Nonante-neuf Fragments Harenois of Flavien Gillié. In Dutch and French.

Join the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Buda Bridge with The Brussels Concertband. During the concert, there will be children’s animation by GC De Linde at Buda BXL. 

In The Radio Show, Nick Aikens explores how artists use radio, as both source material and medium, to assemble and transmit political ideas. In English. The Cabinet transforms a live electronics performance into a dialogue with the (un)dead. Drawing inspiration from the art and curiosity cabinets of Rabelais’s era and the long Baroque, The Cabinet is an eerie, steampunk auditive landscape where past, present, and future collapse into one another.

Invisible presences and forgotten memories lingering in a liminal field are evoked through the ephemeral mediums of breath and wind. Subtle sounds—voices, insect calls, bells, chanting and instruments made from the site’s soil and wind — unfold as a ritual to summon what once was, or may soon vanish.

In this lecture performance, Ola Hassanain highlights how a state of uninhabitability has been propped and maintained as a continuous cycle of catastrophe across Sudan and The Netherlands. A sonic and visual score, embodied by the character of The Watcher in motion, proposes ‘watching’ as a possible space to inhabit, to circumvent the foreclosure on our relationships to material environment, compromised under conditions of ecological erasures and evictions. In English. 

Kitchen Broadcast is an ongoing online conversation, listening to different voices, rhythms and sounds that reflect present situations in Brussels. For Radio Fantôme, Kitchen Broadcast airs a live programme, drawing from a series of closed listening sessions amongst friends, introducing excerpts from Radio El Wafa (The Trustworthy) and Sawt al Muhajir (The Voice of the Migrant), two radios founded in Brussels in the 1980s when there was an explosion of pirate radios in the city. The live broadcast, with guests Mustapha Bentaleb, Rachida Lamrabet and Mustapha Bandini, will explore possible ways to re-distribute solidarities activated among the then still free radio stations. These sessions are part of the research project re:Sol, Redistributing Solidarities by Joachim Ben Yakoub and Reem Shilleh and will be developed into further Kitchen Broadcasts later in the year. In English, French and Arabic. 

  • 19u30-20u30 Swamp dinner @ Field 
  • 20u30-22u30 Film Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) (2022) Bouba Touré & Raphael Grisey @ Fobrux

Using rare cinematic, photographic and sound archives, Crossing Voices recounts the story of Somankidi Coura, an agricultural cooperative created in Mali in 1977 by a group of West Africans that used to live as migrant workers in France. The story of their improbable, utopic panafrican return to the land follows a winding path that travels through the ecological challenges, conflicts, and struggles of peasants and migrant workers in France and West Africa from the 1970s till today, told by Bouba Touré, one of its principal actors. English subtitles.

Ongoing

  • 10u-21u Exhibition with MSC Het Spoor & Het Be(h)lang van Buda @ Buda BXL

Sunday 22 June

  • 08u30-10u HIC . EST . TUUM . HORA, A Reading, or An Invitation to Avoid Clock Time before, at and after 9 o’clock by Katja Mater start @ Fobrux

We gather near one of Katja Mater’s sundials to collectively read texts that invite us to rethink time. We will foresee breakfast. In English.

  • 10h30-11h30 Audio walk on Buda’s heritage by Het Be(h)lang van Buda start @ Fobrux

Discover the many stories of Buda today and yesterday in a guided tour with various audio clips. The route is 2 kilometer, and wheelchair accessible, though the condition of the sidewalks in Buda is rough. The tour is available in Dutch and French.

Kübra Avci and Annelore Van Gool lead the debate with policy makers and experts on Buda’s future. For whom should we develop this part of the city? What role will Buda’s marshy land, its ecology and hidden rivers play? In Dutch.

 Invisible presences and forgotten memories lingering in a liminal field are evoked through the ephemeral mediums of breath and wind. Subtle sounds—voices, insect calls, bells, chanting and instruments made from the site’s soil and wind — unfold as a ritual to summon what once was, or may soon vanish.

On December 31 1997, the Chico Mendez Mural Garden, a community garden created by inhabitants and artists in the memory of the murdered Brazilian eco-activist Chico Mendez, was bulldozed under real estate pressure. In order to protect the garden from destruction, the community had launched a defense procedure arguing that the garden should be considered as a work of art. In Buda, the map of the bulldozed garden will be laid out on a 1 to 1 scale on a fallow field, in which an assembly will be organized to gather people for a fabulation from and around the controversy. In Dutch, English and French.

In HIKER, the boundaries between body, landscape and hiking gear blur through negotiation with an 18m² map. Inspired by writer Robert Macfarlanes’ notion of “deep time”, the map shows the landscape as we know it, but also glances at the folds of the past and the belches of the future.

  • 18u- Closing drinks @ Field

Ongoing 

  • 10u-18u Exhibition with MSC Het Spoor & Het Be(h)lang van Buda @ Buda BXL

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