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Promoted by AS TIDE NETWORK,
curated by Love Difference
and the Dutch-Flemish House deBuren,
with the support of the European Commission,
the Dutch Government
and the Flemish Government.

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In the framework of As Tide, a European Network of cultural centres and operators) dedicated to conceive and question art projects as tools for intercultural dialogue and socio-economical development, Marthe Van Dessel and Lieven Paelinck who joined Unidee - Univeristy of the Ideas 2007, compiled a guided tour with a vision on Brussels

Both non-residents of the Capital of Europe, they prepared an exploration of known and unknown places in Brussels relating to initiatives, artists, experts, ... who are actively rethinking the city. In this historical and up to the minute tour through public spaces (squares, parks, public transport) community buildings, official institutions, and private stories, ... notions as illegality (sans papiers), legality (les citoyens), super legality (diplomats) are addressed from a tourist perspective. This meta perspective of the other, stranger, tourist gives us the space to deal with the precarity of existence in this postcolonial society.

Albertina square : statue Queen Elisabeth

meeting place /

9:00 > 6 mei 2008 - Brussels

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pencil,
notebook,
paper,
photo camera,
sun cream,
sun glasses or cap,
water

bring your own, picknick!

image material uploaded, after event > 6 mei 2008 - Brussels

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[http://astide.wikidot.com]
[http://www.deburen.eu]
[http://www.cittadellarte.it]
[http://www.hangar.org]
[http://www.nextkunst.at]
[http://www.ooooo.be]

PROGRAMMA

morning
afternoon
evening

9:30

Royal square

11:00

Royal Library of Belgium

screening /

Little Figures (2003)
experimental documentary by Sarah Vanagt
Three statues on the Mont des Arts in Brussels: a king, a queen and a medieval knight. Three newcomers to Brussels: a Philippino boy, a Rwandan refugee girl and a Moroccan boy; an imaginary conversation.

15 min., 35mm and mini-DV, color and B&W, English, French and Dutch spoken with English subtitles

11:30 - 11:45

11:45

Place Luxembourg

St-Air
There are many ways to look at a city, but usually, without knowing, we just don't look at all. Being new in a city, you consciously look around, look into things and look through it. And also when a city changes, we are temporarily aware of its context.

St.-Air is an installation by Sannah Belzer and Dries Verbruggen, originally conceived as part of an exhibition in the HessenHuis, this time installed in front of the comity of regions, Europe.

http://www.st-air.eu/

12:30 - 13:30

Europese Wijk - Parc Luxembourg

picknick

13:45

afternoon

14:00

' t klein kasteeltje - Petit Château

Passing by the center for asylum seekers and their procedures.

http://www.fedasil.be/en/

14:15

Welcome to Belgium
Charif Benhelima

Charif Benhelima currently lives and works in Berlin as well as in Antwerp. Consumed by a sense of incongruence, Benhelima embarked in a nine-year (1990-1999) photographic research on the feeling of being a foreigner, which later resulted in the tough yet poetic book Welcome to Belgium (2003).

15:45

16:15

citymine(d)

City Mine(d) is a production house for urban interventions, committed to the development of new forms of urban citizenship, the re-appropriation of public space -roads, airwaves, stations, estates, parks, squares, virtual space- and the creation of cutting edge public artwork.

http://www.citymined.be

cuisine interne

The Cuisine Interne Keuken project was initiated in 2004 at Jonctions/Verbindingen 7, a yearly festival around art, technology and ethics organised by Constantvzw, Brussels.

The selected 15 questions around the ingredients and recipes of cultural work. Some of these questions are quite straightforward, and some leave more space for interpretation or even evasion. The idea is to put practice, tools and conditions at the same level, so to question their interrelation.

http://www.constantvzw.org/cn_core/cuisine/sessionindexEN.php

RoToR

RoToR is not they, nor its what they are doing. It is a mechanism that is constantly evolving in relationships that they are creating. RoToR is a heart of an engine - it produces the movement and provides the action. RoToR is never concluding, but opening connections, constructing bridges, between the inner and outer, personal and collective along the slow itinerary through the fundamental environments: Land, Water and Air.

Loi loi loisir... is a game format developped during a C(d)residency in the festival Plein Open Air.
The game allows you to experiment and try out strategies and actions, which you can apply to the daily urban life.

http://www.rotorrr.org/loi-loi-loisir/

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Une Femme Entreprenante
Sven Augustijnen

Full synposis: http://www.bamart.be/works/detail/en/31

2005, video, 72 min, color, stereo sound, French spoken, English subtitle