founded, together with Hadas Cna’ani, in 2009 a kitchen-collective named Otark. Otark cooks in various contexts and with varying line-ups responding to film, sound, words, the weather. Otark has a strong preference for Handwork / Close-ups (the near) / Off-beat (the far-out) / Slow-mo / Slapstick / Roots and Leaves and works according to the vershki i koreshki principle: foundation versus the way the wind blows, home-cooking on the move, and- as cooks do- works within a framework of a timeline, rhythm, repetition, seasonality and impermanence.

Rossana Miele is a cultural worker experienced in research, production, and management. Her approach focuses on the process before the artwork's formalization and the various social interactions generated during this phase. She has always felt an absolute commitment to the artist's vision and deep-felt responsibility towards completing their projects, mastering all steps of art production, from concept through realization, research, and installation.

is born in 1979 in Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo) and based in Belgium, Baloji (not to be confused with the visual artist Sammy Baloji) is an award-winning musician, filmmaker, a polymath artist, he’s working as art director, costume designer for fashion and other visual art forms.

Emanuele Coccia is an Italian philosopher known worldwide for his thinking on the metaphysics of plants and their centrality in the theory of knowledge. He has been exploring the concept of metamorphosis in fields like zoology, philosophy, biology, linguistics, botany and literature. The result is a vision in which the human being is the expression of a larger and more interconnected form of life, in a new relationship between humanity and nature. Among his publications, “Metamorphosys” (Einaudi, 2022), “Philosophy of the house” (Einaudi, 2021),”The life of plants. A metaphysics of mixture (Il Mulino, 2018).Since 2011 he has been teaching at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). He is also a columnist for “Libération” and collaborates with “Le Monde” and “Repubblica”.

is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers-Newark University in the United States and curator-at-large at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels. Holding a doctorate from Columbia University, she is a historian of African, modern and contemporary arts, as well as a historian of photography. Her research has been published internationally and supported by grants from the Musée du Quai Branly, the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, the Ford Foundation and by the Getty/ACLS for his book project on the history of photography in the colonial Congo. Among others, Sandrine Colard curated the 6th Biennale of Lubumbashi in 2019; The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture. Photographs from The Walther Collection (Ryerson Image Center, Toronto, 2019); Congoville (Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2021) for which she co-edited Congoville: African Presence and Colonial Traces in Belgium (Leuven University Press, 2021); and Recaptioning Congo (FOMU, Antwerp) whose book companion received the Aperture/Paris Photo Jurors’ Mention in the category Photo Catalogue of the Year 2023.

Brandon Wen is the creative director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp Fashion Department.  is both a fashion designer and a performance artist. He studied at Cornell University in New York and at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. He worked in Paris, designing for Rick Owens, Michèle Lamy and Maison Lemarié/Chanel, among others. In addition he was an organizer and teacher at the international Arts of Fashion Foundation. 

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist working with sound culture, voice, and questions of agency. Guided by situated and collaborative methodologies, he develops and presents artistic projects and performances within a range of international contexts, mostly working in public and with others. This leads to performative installations, poetic theater, storytelling, and research actions aimed at forms of experimental community making, as well as extra-institutional initiatives, including The Listening Biennial and Academy (2021-ongoing). From gestures of intimacy and listening to critical festivity and experimental pedagogy, his practice aligns itself with a politics and poetics of radical hospitality

Fran Edgerley is an initiator of the new interdisciplinary action research network ab__; a decentralised organisation of people practising more equitable worlds. Through this, they are trying to build knowledge around the invisible structures and dispositions that produce and are reproduced by our social and physical architectures. This includes projects investigating the means and possibilities of land redistribution, the reorientation of power through the delivery of capital projects, improvisation in housing and the hostile UK asylum system.

Prior to working as ab__ Fran was a founding partner of the architecture and design collective Assemble, with whom they worked for 12 years to look critically at the processes producing our built environment. Through work with Assemble, an interest in how the physical world is made evolved into a commitment to build projects with communities, expanding that experience of making and remaking the world. This motivation has been a driving force behind many projects, including Otoprojects, Baltic Street Adventure Playground, Granby Workshop, Transnational Interstate Art Agency, Pioneering Places and House of Annetta. Fran’s practice includes work with democratic education, collective somatic explorations of space and filmmaking. Over the past decade, they have worked on a range of projects—both material and relational—alongside communities in Scotland, England, Portugal, Iceland, Germany, the USA, Holland, Peru, Denmark, and Estonia. Fran intermittently teaches at international academic institutions on the intersection of architecture and adjacent subjects. Fran is a trustee at Baltic Street Adventure Playground.

Globe Aroma is an artistic work and meeting place that offers space, time and a network to artists, co-creators and art lovers with a background as a newcomer. Globe Aroma supports people who, due to their precarious citizenship status, often experience specific challenges in accessing the arts sector and developing artistic practices. Globe Aroma is therefore building, in alliance with the Flemish, Brussels and international cultural, educational and migration sectors, on a mental and infrastructural intermediate space in which a community can create, discover and share art with a wide audience

Sophia Holst is a Dutch architect researcher, active within the architecture fields of Belgium and the Netherlands. She obtained a Master’s degree in Visual Arts at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and a Master's in Architecture at the KU Leuven in Brussels. She has collaborated with architecture offices such as Studio Anne Holtrop (NL), Nu architectuuratelier (BE) and CRIT architects (BE). In 2021 she completed her residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, she currently works on the foundations of an independent architecture and research practice, with projects such as Cité de la Philanthropie/Stad van Menslievendheid (BE), Geleefde Monumenten (NL, collaboration with Andre Cramer) and Housing Pain, Healing Strategies (NL).

Johan Pas is dean of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, School of Arts of the AP University College. Pas holds a PhD in art history and is a lecturer, author and curator. His research focuses on exhibition and publication history of 20th century avant-gardes. He also collects and studies artists' publications. In 2015 he founded CRAP, the Collection for Research on Artists' Publications. In 2017 his most recent book, Artists' Publications: The Belgian Contribution (Koenig Books, London) was published.

Publiek Park is a nomadic contemporary art project which takes public city parks and gardens as its exhibition grounds.  We invite international artists to create newly commissioned works that draw inspiration from and shed light on the surroundings of the location in a site-sensitive manner. Each edition is accompanied by a rich public programme, including music concerts, film screenings, performances, lectures, workshops, guided tours and more. The historical and artistic research, contextualizing the location and the programme, is published in the form of a Walking Guide, issued upon each edition of Publiek Park. The project aims to establish unique collaborations with artists and local organizations, activating the cultural ecologies of a city within a natural and architectural environment. Publiek Park is initiated and curated by Jef Declercq, Anna Laganovska, Koi Persyn & Adriënne van der Werf

Mathias Mu is a multidisciplinary artist from Antwerp. In his practice, Mu embraces digital cultures, techno romanticism and hyperspace, as well as emerging technologies and media, exploring their potential for artistic expression within the context of contemporary art. Mathias Mu creates objects, performances, sound works and installations. His work questions the increasingly blurry boundaries between the physical and digital, as well as the organic and artificial. In their creation, Mu’s sculptural objects transform from two-dimensional sketches to three-dimensional renders, to AI-generated forms, into digitally fabricated physical objects. Additionally, the artist takes a critical look at various issues linked to sustainability that digital production insinuates, exploring the use of 3D printing in biomaterials.

Vincent Van Meessen lives and works in Brussels. Meessen’s work has been presented at WIELS (Brussels, 2016), BOZAR (Brussels, 2017), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, 2018), the Power Plant (Toronto, 2019), and in numerous biennials including those in Venice (2015), Taipei (2016), Shanghai (2018), Chicago (2019), Lubumbashi (2019), São Paulo (2021), Dakar (2022), and Berlin (2022). He is a co-founder of various organizations and alliances: Universal Embassy (2001–2005), Potential Estate (2005–2010), Jubilee – platform for artistic research (2013–ongoing).

Adva Zakai combines her background in dance and performance with the creation of participative, educational, and life practices. She develops those formats together with the collectives she is a part of, each engages with art and commoning practices as an attitude and a relational practice in different life fields: Common Wallet (finances), The Potatoes (urban – nature ), Co Post (housing) and School Of Love (pedagogy). She is a regular teacher at KASK school of arts in Gent. She approaches teaching as an artistic practice, collectivity as a lab and a learning space, and art as a mode of being that takes no reality for granted. She is trying to never work alone and to never work too much.

Judith Wielander and Nico Dockx collaborated for the first time in 2001 at Cittadellarte - Pistoletto Foundation in Italy. The dialogue and exchange over the years take now the shape of THE EXPANDING ACADEMY. It’s a school in the school, a pedagogical space extending outside of the classroom- which could also be read as a need to 'expand' beyond the exhibition-based space into situations where and when one is working with contexts as a whole, where to raise social understandings, where to encourage new forms of solidarity and to improve our living conditions.

is invited to present the artistic long-term project Trampoline house ( co-founded with Tone Olaf Nielsen) at the public debate Radical Hospitalities, Radical Pedagogies in the frame of ARTICULATE Research Week 2022.

is presenting her artistic long-term project Al Madhafah-The Living Room at the public debate Radical Hospitalities, Radical Pedagogies in the frame of ARTICULATE Research Week 2022.

is invited to participate at the public debate Radical Hospitalities, Radical Pedagogies in the frame of ARTICULATE Research Week 2022 and write an essay about Sandi Hilal’s artistic long-term project Al Madhafah-The Living Room in the publication Radical Hospitalities, Radical Pedagogies.

is invited to participate at the public debate Radical Hospitalities, Radical Pedagogies in the frame of ARTICULATE Research Week 2022 and is author of a conversation on the artistic long-term project Trampoline House (founded by Tone Olaf Nielsen and Morten Goll) in the publication Radical Hospitalities, Radical Pedagogies.