Today we have some very exciting updates from the Belgian part of our research team. The announcement is especially relevant to those of you who are in the vicinity of Antwerp in early May. Let us share the news with you:

Cooling towers shelter within them a unique and diverse world of microbes. Some permanent residents, others drifting fleetingly through vapour and clouds, lips and lungs, rivers, earth — and perhaps back to the tower again. Or so we imagine their circular existence: in, with and through everything, always together, always seemingly stable and unchanging.

We warmly invite you to the special screening of Koelleven short film that shares a tricky experiment in precisely that world: micro-organisms living in the cooling tower basin of SCK CEN nuclear research centre in Mol. It is presented for the first time with its Auro-3D sound version in the exclusive AuroTorium in the Galaxy Studios.

Dates

Friday 8 May — 20:00 (doors open 19:30)

Sunday 10 May — 11:00 & 14:00

📍 Galaxy Studios, Kievitstraat 42, 2400 Mol

🎟 €15, incl. welcome drink

👉 Doors: half hour before start – Session duration: 2hrs

Programme

→ Live sound improvisation by sound artist Christophe Albertijn;

→ A conversation between Wilfried Van Baelen (Galaxy Studios) and the Koelleven artists on the crossover between microbiology, philosophy and art;

→ Special welcoming by Greet Van Tiggelen, First Alder(wo)man for Culture, Library, Nature, Green Spaces & Events of Mol. (8.5)

👉 Kindly register here by Tue 5 May:  www.gemeentemol.be/koelleven

Koelleven is a collaboration between Bartaku Art_Research, UHasselt, UGent, UAntwerpen and Aalto (FI). Supported by the Flemish Authorities (Innovative Partner Projects). Technical support by Galaxy Studios. 

Koelleven is part of the postdoctoral (BHM Vandeput, FWO, UA) artistic research MicroTuning.

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Koelleven in Corpus @ BLIKFABRIEK

Koelleven installation and short film is part of the Corpus festival in De Blikfabriek, Hoboken (Antwerp) — 14 to 17 May. A group exhibition curated by Sofie Hanegreefs, weaving together film, performance, visual art and music into a total sensory experience around transience and life.

Full programme: blikfabriek.be/corpus