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Study Days: Mapping Otherwise

Wendy Van Wynsberghe — 2026-04-30T12:56:53Z

A workshop, followed by a talk and a conversation

How can mapping and spatial analysis be used to record and respond to urban conflict?

In the context of the recent arrival of Frontex in Brussels-Midi station, we will consider how mapping can be used to record and resist the militarization of urban space and how it can be used to support collective practices. We will consider mapping as a form of artistic research, activist practice, and a method that creates spatial encounters. Mapping otherwise is a participatory process that uses visual spatial language to analyse the workings of power with those who are subject to it. It is a way of questioning the conventions of standard cartography that sees from one point only (above) and removes experience. In this workshop we will consider how to create maps that are situated and that convey an everyday and lived knowledge of space from the point of view of those who are marginalised. The workshop will take these premises as its starting point: what to map, why and with whom.

Places are limited. Please register for the workshop before 11/05/2026 by sending an e-mail to: wendy(at)constantvzw.org

After a break, there will be a talk on Topological Atlas, a poetic research project by Nishat Awan* that visualises migration through digital, sensory and human perspectives, followed by a discussion. You can come to the talk without having followed the workshop, and vice versa.

Workshop: 15:00-18:00
Lecture on Topological Atlas: 19:00-20:00

*Bio
Nishat Awan's research focuses on the intersection of geopolitics and space, particularly on issues related to diasporas, migration and border regimes. She explores modes of representation in space, especially in the digital context, and the limits of testimony as a form of ethical engagement with distant places.
https://www.topologicalatlas.net/about/people

Spoken language: English.
The room and toilets are accessible for wheelchair users.

Constant_V: Q.A.B.U. Quantic Antics of the Borderless Underground

imane — 2026-04-29T09:45:20Z

Programme Thursday 21 May 2026:

Workshop: from 14:30 to 16:30
Opening installation: from 18:00 to 21:00

About the installation
Violence and resistance exist side by side. For violence to reproduce and go undetected, it must be justified and normalized, and for resistance to bloom, it must be groomed out of sight. Yet, making something invisible and becoming invisible tells two completely different stories.

Quantics Antics of the Borderless Underground (QABU) is a fictional exploration of resistance from humans and more-than-humans to the (in)visible forms of violence that we call 'borders'. Borders are everywhere, grow in all directions, and so does resistance, spreading through city networks beneath our feet, hidden in plain sight, and materialzing in the most unexpected creatures and places.

Through drawings and field recordings, this installation in Constant's window depicts possible elsewheres and elsewhens to denounce the colonial legacy of border narratives and instigate the social imagination against technofascism. Underground routes, mutant moles, and journeys across queer spacetime situate QABU and its authors within the deadly fiction of borders, made of surveillance, incarcerations, and displacements of discriminated-against bodies. Far from being an escape from structural inequality and systemic oppression, QABU's imaginary is a call for using existing tools to break the continuum of violence collectively.

About the workshop
Before the opening, we will organize a workshop to craft a shared urban language with special powers. We will create stencils that overlap with soundscapes and turn walls into dimensional portals between cities. What kind of places would you choose or imagine in a city to be part of QABU interdimensional resistance?

Practical information

Places are limited. Please register to the workshop by sending an email to imane@constantvzw.org
Spoken language: English
Accessibility : Constant's office does not have an accessible toilet. You can find more info about the accessibility of our space here.

OpenField: A gathering

Elodie — 2026-04-22T16:03:03Z

Constant is invited to participate at the program OpenField as a long time research collaborator of a.pass.

OpenField is a five-day gathering dedicated to the possible futures and autonomies of artistic research.

a.pass invited three artistic collectives,One Field Fallow (BE), Topote de Acahual (MX), and Arquitectura Expandida (CO), to each identify an urgent topic at the end of their research residency. Their responses have become the titles of the first three days of the gathering: Scripts and Protocols for Collective Spaces, Foreshadowing Amid Turbulent Futures, Manifest Everyday Urban Utopias. Three topics to be explored collectively by a multiform constellation of research-based practices.

The fourth day starts off on the right foot: Breakfast for Insatiable Researchers and invites you to meet art workers in Brussels who have long supported artistic research, mostly without structural funding. Directly in the spaces where they usually work. Food for thought, for practices, and more! In the afternoon, the gathering documentation group will share traces from previous OpenField moments during a Memory-Making Session, and create space for contributions from everyone.

The fifth day Constant will host at its studio Collabora(c)tion: Futuring Artistic Research, a session for organisations, educational institutions, and collectives who want to explore how to join forces and continue (or begin) creating shared spaces, time, and energy for artistic research.

Find out more about the OpenField program here
Spoken language: English. Registration for some activities is required.

View online : https://apass.be/openfield/

Constant Studio @ Plan Atelier in Beeld Brussel

Donatella — 2026-04-21T09:31:07Z

For the second year, Constant's Studio a.k.a. Figs, Pears & Euphorbias is taking part in the Atelier in beeld open days!

Constant's Studio is also part of a network of Brussels artists spaces supported by the Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, such as Mona, Level 5, koook, paraplufabrique, Max, Decor Atelier, Globe Aroma, Werkplaats Walter.

These open days are a perfect opportunity to visit these venues and meet the artists who bring them to life.

You can find more info about Constant's Studio here.

Poster designed by Open Source Publishing (Gijs De Heij & Ludivine Loiseau). Illustrations by Sarah Illouz.

View online : https://planatelier.vgc.be/

!! POSTPONED!! - Gathering with the tricksters

imane — 2026-04-06T10:15:22Z

!! POSTPONED (new date tbc) !!

We would like to invite you for a session to take a look at the Trickster as the embodiment of the smuggler figure. An occulture process. Together we will work on invisibility, disappearing in the ultra technological system, and how to stop fearing boundaries.

In the Mexican coyote cartography, the fire was kept by a circle of unreachable flies, the world outside of the circle was left in the darkness. The coyote ran inside and put its tail on fire and then she burned the forest around; by this act the fire was set free and became accessible for everyone again.
By this holistic figure, we will explore counter knowledge. We will play together with the camouflage of our inner self, and looking for strategy to confront the surveillance technologies. This technopaganism workshop, will involve our body as a weapon, shapeshifting, discomfort, grey zone. Developing a language without words, as they listen to our whispers, we play with how the information we transmit can only become visible between the ones we trust.

When: Saturday 18 April from 11:00 to 17:00
Where: Constant Studio, Chaussée de Jette 388 Koekelberg
Accessibility : The Studio is fully accessible for wheelchairs. You can find more info about accessibility here.

You can subscribe to the workshop via cyberwitching@constantvzw.org.
You can bring your laptop and something to add to the food/snack table.
Let us know if you have any dietary restrictions as we will be providing lunch.

You are welcome to send us a few lines about yourself, or to share a poem, images, materials, etc., as a way of introducing yourself, without any obligation, simply to help prepare the group's energy.

Bio:

I'm Barb from "barbare" the one that don't speak the langage. Or Tipoe, Brad Pity, Maislusine, Barbaricade … other algorithms that i use inside the system to adapt . I'm a gatherer, a hopecore, a trans being, a spiritual anarchist. Living in the neuro_divergent pleasure world , with ptsd forces , that often drag me into the void. From this void I'm making swamps relying on radical resistance.

This session is part of a research trajectory initiated in collaboration with Constant's "cobwebs". This research is supported through the framework of one of Constant's artistic commission of 2026.

Artistic Commission #2: Invasive Species Study Group

Donatella — 2026-03-30T13:21:54Z

For the second artistic commission in 2025 Constant invited The Invasive Species Study Group, a relatively new international collective comprising Monika Gabriela Dorniak, Hwa Young Jung and Yi Zhang, who met during the worksession Otherworldly Communications organised in June by Constant. The commission began at the end of 2025 and will conclude with a public presentation in mid-2026. For the commission, this collective gathers and activates various practices that range from community work to performance, writing and game design, in collaboration with the Brussels art space Au Jus.

Seonmin's Weft on Care, Pigeons, and the unseen

imane — 2026-03-06T13:15:17Z

In the context of the yearly theme Otherworldly communications we have invited Antwerp-based visual artist Seonmin Park, whose practice engages with socio-political themes and the lives of marginalized beings, to share her experiences in a weft*.

In recent years, her focus has turned toward urban pigeons, animals often dismissed as pests, but deeply entangled in the life of the city. After a pivotal experience in 2024, when she rescued and cared for an injured pigeon harmed by plastic waste, It shaped her perspective and through this intimate act of care, questions of visibility, responsibility, and coexistence came into sharper focus.

In this weft, Seonmin reflects on transforming the unseen into presence and invites us to reconsider how we value the lives that exist alongside us.

The weft will be published on Constant's website in 2026.

*A weft is a thematic article written by guest artist(s) for Constant's website.

Artistic commission #1: Hormonobotanik.wiki

Elodie — 2026-03-04T15:33:34Z

In 2025, Contant supported the work of Flo*Souad Benaddi, Leo Ren O'faigain and Doriane Timmermans within Hormonobotanik.

Hormonobotanik is a project focusing on medicinal plants, their phytohormonal properties and their uses in transition processes. This long-term artistic research, initially begun out of necessity, has taken the form of visual installations as well as textile objects and publications, which have circulated in queer circles.

It started with Leo Ren and Flo*Souad cooking for and with people who like to mess around with their hormones and gender. The recipes came from their self-taught research on phytohormones and their Moroccan and Japanese cultural influences. In order to share these recipes, they organised participatory workshops and public events.
Together, they compiled a corpus which stimulated the desire to create a wiki; to document and preserve what was happening and what they wanted to happen. Doriane Timmermans joined the project in 2023 as a friend and collaborator to discuss the first temporary web platform and then to work on the creation of the wiki, supported by Constant.

This wiki is part archive, part working tool, but also a recipe book. It is a space that allows them to name and bring to life their work and that of others, in a simple and viable way.

Zine/publication launch: Otherworldly Communications

Donatella — 2026-02-27T11:26:21Z

Constant is very happy to invite you to the launch of its third publication under the SPLINT research trajectory: Otherworldly Communications!

In 2025 Constant's research focused on how different forms of life co/exist and circulate in the midst of damage and toxicity and how we could critically engage with different conceptions of the 'other' (as in: other than human, otherworldly and otherings). This publication tells a subjective and multi-voiced story about discoveries and encounters that happened during the unfolding of our activities.

It was compiled during a three day sprint by Constant's team, guided by graphic designer Sarah Magnan*, and printed at chez rosi* in Brussels using the software Octomode by Creative Crowds.

It will soon be available in print format as well as in web format/pdf on Constant Calibre library.

During the event, we'll have live contributions by some of the artists that accompanied us in this trajectory, such as Joke Caimo, Blise Orr, Varia*.

You are very welcome to join us for this festive launch. Snacks and drinks will be provided in this early evening hour.

*Bios

Joke Caimo is an undisciplined artivist, media artist, and inventor of objects and instruments.
(https://jocaimo.blogspot.com/)

Blise Orr's practice critically breaks through the boundaries of architecture as a discipline and reconsiders how spatial design influences ideologies of ecology in relation to our post-natural environment.
(https://bliseorr.com/)

Varia is a collective based in Rotterdam that experiments with creating and maintaining physical and digital infrastructures needed for collective, cultural work.
(https://varia.zone)

Sarah Magnan is graphic designer who's interested by collaborative work and hybrid publishing. Since 2012 she is part of the collective Open Source Publishing and co-founded the feminist group Just For The Record and the cooperative, independent magazine Médor.
(http://osp.kitchen/ https://medor.coop/)

Chez rosi is a Brussels-based risographic workspace initiated by the organisation Plus tôt te Laat.
(https://chezrosi.wordpress.com)

In collaboration with iMAL.

ACCESSIBILITY INFO
You can find them here: https://www.imal.org/en/visit
Persons with reduced mobility: the ground floor is accessible but the building does not provide direct access to all floors. Please do not hesitate to contact iMAL for any specific request: info@imal.org

Image: Dari Gatti

Cauldron for conspiracy gathering

imane — 2026-02-27T09:45:20Z

For the first session of the cyberwitching gatherings series, we invite you to come together in a collective moment of sharing and speculation around experimental tactics rooted in magickal practices and hacking legacies.

If witches are seen as energy benders, can we read programmers, guided by code, functions and the currents flowing through circuits as spell casters or magick potions? Can we create counter spells to infiltrate Ethernet cables, corporate server farms and shield ourselves from surveillance systems like biometric tracking, predictive policing algorithms, etc.? How do we lift the veil to get out of the spell that entraps us in cyber and techno dependencies to reclaim alternative technologies against technofascism?

We are organising a moment to meet on the 23rd of march 2026 at Constant studio, Chaussée de Jette 388 for a first get together. Bring your homemade spells, hacking stories and technodisobedient tactics to see how we can form a shared practice of cyberwitching.

This session is part of a research trajectory initiated in collaboration with constant's cobwebs. This research is supported through the framework of one of Constant's commission of 2026.

Practical:
When: Monday 23 March 2026 from 16:00 – 18:30
Where: Constant Studio, Jetsesteenweg 388 Chaussée de Jette, 1081 Koekelberg, Brussels
Accessibility : The Studio is fully accessible for wheelchairs. More info about accessibility
Registration: Please email imane@constantvzw.org