Casual/Tease: Opening weekend
The Memorial for Those Who Did Not Fall in War, a nomadic lab developed by Columbia University’s Global Center for Peace Innovation, arrives in Brussels with the exhibition Casual/Tease.
Blame by Shilpa Gupta. Copyright: Fred Dott. Exhibition view from Kunst in der Kunsthalle St.Annen, Lübeck, 2025, courtesy neugerriemschneider.
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RSVPA quiet view from a window onto a flowering boulevard, a ladder leaning within reach, a handmade ceramic vessel: each work in Casual/Tease first appears as a small, innocent fragment of everyday life, caught in a fleeting moment of ease. Linger a little longer, however, and that ease begins to fracture. The window view borrows the gaze of a military drone; the ladder becomes the impossible reach for food amid genocide; the delicate vessel reveals the form of a grenade, handmade in wartime Japan. What first appears casual begins to expose the systems beneath it: histories of conquest absorbed into the ordinary, technologies travelling from battlefield to home, pleasures sustained by economies that arm wars elsewhere, and intimate objects through which violence persists long after it has been consigned to the past. Casual/Tease inhabits this uneasy proximity between the casual and the casualty, resisting the transformation of war’s casualties into yet another casual part of our everyday life.
Save the dates of our opening weekend:
Thursday 10 September 14:00-21:00 Pre-Opening
14:00-18:00 Participatory Performance:
Sêva Mêxekrêj by Meltem Yildiz
The Right to Repair by Julieta Aranda
*If you want to take an active part in the performance, you can bring a broken item with you.
14:00-21:00 Projection: Slow Violence by Studio Lemercier (Juliette Bibasse & Joanie Lemercier)
17:00–18:30 Round Table: Casual/Use
Participants: Jean Pierre Müller · Aimé Mpane · Shareef Sarhan · Laure Tixier · Barbara Polla, moderated by Prof. Guido Furci, Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University
*Registration is required for the round table.
Friday 11 September 11:00-21:00 Opening
14:00-18:00 Participatory Performance:
Sêva Mêxekrêj by Meltem Yildiz
The Right to Repair by Julieta Aranda
18:00-21:00 Mediation by artists in the exhibition space, followed by drinks at the Cloud Bar
Saturday 12 September 11:00-23:00 RendezVous Brussels Art Week: Downtown Focus Day
14:00-18:00 Participatory Performance:
Sêva Mêxekrêj by Meltem Yildiz
The Right to Repair by Julieta Aranda
19:00-23:00 Muslimgauze: Chasing the Shadows of Bryn Jones
DJ set by Bader Shashit and Lennart Thienpont in collaboration with Ruq’ah art space
Sunday 13 September 11:00–18:00 RendezVous: Brussels Art Week
14:00-18:00 Participatory Performance:
Sêva Mêxekrêj by Meltem Yildiz
The Right to Repair by Julieta Aranda
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