14:00 - Registration to the workshops

14:30 > 17:30 - Workshops

1) Quantic Antics of the Borderless Underground (Q.A.B.U.) - Dari Gatti (IT/BE), Antonio Sforna (IT/BE) & Imane B.K. (ES/BE)

in French

Imane B.K., a membre of Constant, invites Quantics Antics of the Borderless Underground (Q.A.B.U.), a fictional exploration of resistance from humans and more-than-humans to the (in)visible forms of violence that we call “borders”. 

Borders grow in all directions, and so does resistance, spreading through city networks beneath our feet, hidden in plain sight, and materialising in the most unexpected creatures and places.

During this workshop, the aim will be to craft a language made of signs, symbols and sonic traces through the making of stencils that will then be used to turn urban surfaces into dimensional portals.

Dari Gatti (IT/BE)

Dari Gatti is an illustrator and comic author. He draws journal entries and illustrations for fantasy novels, magazines, films, podcasts, theatre pieces, and small comics for DIY zines. He likes etching and printing techniques and believes in the magic of stories.

Antonio Sforna (IT/BE)

Antonio Sforna researched migration and digital borders during his PhD. He is interested in technology-led transformation and urban anthropology, with a focus on sound and art-based methodologies.

Imane B.K. (ES/BE)

Imane B. K. is an artist that teaches at Sint Lucas Antwerp. She is also part of Constant (Brussels), where she likes to research different subjects that stand at the intersections of technology, art, and the socio-political sensitivities that arise. 

2) Tactic Radio - Leonard Leyens (DE/BE) & Fiona Panziera (FR)

in English and in French

Fiona and Leonard invite you to delve into the world of pirate radio. Together, you’ll explore the technology that enables us to reclaim this medium.

From small FM transmitters to high-power transmitters: what is a radio transmitter? How does it work? Is an antenna really just a piece of metal? And what role do pirate radio stations and independent radio stations play today?

Spoiler: you won’t be leaving empty-handed!

Leonard Leyens (DE/BE)

Leonard Leyens develops communication tools and platforms, promoting technical empowerment through open source and free software, focusing particularly on interventionist radio. With the PL4TFORM.ORG collective, he seeks to establish ways of dodging the centralisation and capitalisation of communication channels. In performative settings, he creates interactive digital works and site-specific sound pieces. Having grown up in West Germany, he is committed to the fight against capitalist extractivism that benefits the Global North, as well as against mining projects in Germany itself. 

Fiona Panziera (FR)

Fiona Panziera works on creative experiments that blend storytelling, ethnography and technical exploration. Through an auto-media approach, she takes radio out of the studio and combines speculative fiction, field research and exploratory installations. Her research is rooted in the politicisation of science and technology through cyberfeminist and decolonial critiques. She is currently involved in hackerspaces, self-managed collectives and technocritical struggles in France, Italy and Belgium.

3) Singing stories - She Shanties (BE)

in English and in French

The She Shanties will offer workshops on sound and vocal exploration.

They will share their practice of “singing stories”: the composition of polyphonic maritime narrative songs, reimagined in the style of the Belgian canals. We’ll also experiment with the concepts of resonance and sound loops.

Participants will be invited to join in on certain songs during the performance She Shanties and Other Water Stories on Saturday, September 26.

No singing experience is required. 

She Shanties (BE)

She Shanties are Caroline Daish, Emma Harder and Mathilde Maillard. Together they navigate along the canal and rivers of Belgium aboard the boats Buratinas and the Rubens. With She Shanties, they tell and sing ordinary as well as extraordinary stories about their experiences on the waterways with human and non-human entities, developing a new genre of sea shanty (originally a traditional work song that could accompany rhythmic labor aboard large sailing ships. Only 2% of these universal songs are made by women and about 99% of these songs tell stories of drunken sailors, glamorous “exotic” prostitutes and women waiting for their husbands to be back on land). 

Listen to their songs.

4) Here be dragons - Atelier Cartographique (BE)

in French

Atelier Cartographique will be presenting their cartofixer project, which offers mapping support to local actors in the non-profit, public, educational, activist and cultural sectors.

They will facilitate a collective review of mapping tools and strategies suited to activist practices whilst sharing resources from the cartofixer project. Participants will be able to explore various tools and methods to begin mapping issues that concern them.

At the end of the workshop, the maps created will be presented and discussed. Participants will have the option to further develop them during future cartofixer sessions.

Atelier Cartographique (BE)

Atelier Cartographique is a Brussels-based co-operative that focuses on the cultural aspects of cartography and the social dimensions of spatial representations and technologies related to information systems. Its team has a range of interdisciplinary skills, spanning from graphic design to open-source software development and urban research. They collaborate with regional, academic and cultural institutions on projects exploring modes of representation and the use of data relating to urban issues such as walking, migration, housing challenges, and water or energy communities.

5) rough weather network, a countercartography for pirating the institutions - b. bordoni (IT) & nat skoczylas (DE/EE)

in English

In this workshop critical theory will meet speculative praxis, and sci-fi scenarios the commons, to materialise utopias.

The group will explore strategies of leaking, unsealing, turning upside down, cracking open, parasiting existing infra/structures, resources and accesses.

Participants will undercommon what they already have, and radicalise what needs clarity, grounding and direction. The group will start from situated experiences, positioning themselves within the socio-cultural ecology they are urgently called to act within, using the “treasure map” as a tool for conspiracy.

How do we build strategies of solidarity to survive the precarious times we are in? What scales do we operate on? 

b. bordoni (IT)

b. bordoni is an artist and researcher based in Turin, working at the intersection of art, ecology and pedagogy. Through site-specific installations, participatory processes and relational practices, their research investigates present-day power asymmetries and the ecologies of the future. They develop new postures of proximity and listening between bodies, rooted in degrowth, reclaimed materials, and DIY methodologies.

nat skoczylas (DE/EE)

nat skoczylas is a gender queer Slavic witch living between Berlin and Massiaru (Estonia). As an artist, they’re interested in food and alternative economies: the ways beer making can transport us back into the taverns filled with gossiping womnx; how pickled cucumbers ground us into the ancestral and anti-colonial dimensions of where we come from; how we can anchor ideas into seasonal rituals. As an activist, they are building various collective structures, with a strong faith in interdependence, mutual aid, and the communal. 

6) On call session of the MASP - Chris-Armel Iradukunda (BI/BE) & la Mutuelle Autogérée des Sans Papiers à Bruxelles (BE)

in French

In the near future, the Mutuelle des Sans-Papiers (Health Care Mutual of the Undocumented) will open its doors in Brussels.

People who have been neglected by the healthcare system for years will have their medical bills reimbursed and will independently manage a mutual insurance that supplements the emergency medical aid too rarely provided by the Belgian state.

What if the future became the present? That is the aim of this theatrical simulation, inviting you to take part in this role-play.

To health!

Chris-Armel Iradukunda (BI/BE)

A versatile, self-taught artist, Chris-Armel’s practice combines audiovisual media, software, textiles, and the performing arts. After escaping the clutches of the Chinese and Burundian governments in 2016, following a politicized incident involving a presidential photo on the grounds of a Beijing university campus, he spent eight years leading the awalkaday.art project in Belgium and in cyberspace. Chris has carved out a path for his undocumented art on the Ethereum blockchain, within a financial system independent of the Belgian government, which denied him asylum and his rights. He is also a playwright, actor, and co-organizer of a festival of performances on bicycles.

Mutuelle Autogérée des Sans Papiers à Bruxelles (BE)

In Belgium, being undocumented means living without guaranteed access to basic social rights, including healthcare. Since 1996, the Emergency Medical Assistance (AMU) procedure has, in theory, been designed to meet these needs, but in practice, there are numerous obstacles. In light of this, a project is taking shape in Brussels, initiated by documented and undocumented individuals, to create a mutual health insurance scheme run by and for undocumented people. This project aims to address the deficiencies of AMU and affirms a political vision of health as a fundamental right of every human being, echoing the UN’s third Sustainable Development Goal, “Good Health and Well-being”.

7) Collective reading of SPY_spinning pirate yarns_booklet - bruna bonanno (IT)

in French with multilingual texts

Collective reading of the body of texte SPY_spinning pirate yarns_booklet offered by bruna bonanno.

“A yarn”, at sea, is the name for a thread, a rope, a cord, a net ; it is a story told whilst at sea – collective and solitary, disjointed, reinvented each time. At every knot, the threads pull, carry away, steal, invent.

Between these knots, this booklet takes shape: a dramaturgical perspective that dips its feet – and its head – into the salt water, and which, in the shadow of a flag belonging to neither state nor nation, begins to spy, watch, keep vigil and spin… to persist in the middle of the sea. 

bruna bonanno (IT)

bruna bonanno (Catania, 1997) is a playwright and PhD student at the University of Milan, with a research project focusing on dramaturgical practices engaged with radical democracy and salt water. She is a co-founder of salmastra, an interdisciplinary collective working with the fishing community in Sicily, and a member of PerLa – Performance Epistemologies Research Lab at the IUAV University of Venice, where she is a teaching assistant in dramaturgy. Her latest dramaturgical project recently won an award at the 2025 Venice Theatre Biennale and premiered in June 2026 under the direction of Motus.