Holding Rehearsals by Robin Vanbesien
18 January - 7 April 2024, La Loge Brussels
As a visual artist and filmmaker, Robin Vanbesien explores modes of embodied knowledge and collective imagination engaged in social and political struggles. Through a series of audiovisual works, his exhibition Holding Rehearsals by Robin Vanbesien traces a lived social infrastructure of care, solidarity, and struggle that is addressing recent cases of police and state violence in the context of migration border controls in Belgium and France. Vanbesien has organized hearings on the case of Mawda Shawri and other deadly Channel crossings, assembling the stories and reflections of resident activists - both documented and undocumented.
Please note that the exhibition includes a 75-minute audiovisual installation.The screening starts at 13:15, 14:45, 16:15.
The exhibition’s public programme plays a central role in activating, contextualising, and bringing multiplicity to the exhibition. The programme allows for new gatherings of the project’s many collaborators within the activist network to which it is dedicated. It includes assemblies, workshops, readings, screenings, conversations, and other forms of collective (un)learning. The full programme is detailed here.