Worldbuilding Networks & tour with BARN

The Brussels Artist-Run Network core team invites you to join them in Antwerp for a day of conversations, visits, and informal exchanges.

Programme

13:30h – Conversation at MORPHO: Worldbuilding Networks

The conversation brings us together to reflect on how artist-run networks emerge and what they make possible. We will begin with a presentation by the Brussels Artist-Run Network, sharing how BARN operates, the tools they use, the website, the expanding team, and the different directions the network is taking.

Drawing from experiences in other cities and contexts, they will also open up a discussion on the possibility of international artist-run networks and what they could enable.

From there, BARN would like to move into a broader conversation around the Antwerp scene, including recent developments around M HKA, and reflect on the role of informal and self-organised structures. How do initiatives position themselves in relation to each other? Is there a desire to continue these exchanges and shape more sustainable forms of collaboration?

We will also look at BARN’s open-source website as a shared tool: could this digital infrastructure be extended to other contexts, allowing for shared maintenance, new functionalities, and future collaborations such as co-curating and collective gatherings?

15:30h – Visit WP Zimmer (still to be confirmed)
16:50h – Visit FAAR at the Seamen's Club
17:45h – Visit Samenschool + dinner (free contribution)

→ There is space for 15 people, sign up by filling in the form!