SPIN is an independent support and research platform for arts practices, currently carried by Hans Bryssinck, Kate McIntosh, Diederik Peeters, Anna Rispoli and Marnie Slater. SPIN is a Brussels-based organisation established in 2011, with collaborators also active internationally.

SPIN sprouted and flourished because of the work of many individuals over it's history, including key collaborators Sarah Parolin, Laura Deschepper, Ingrid Vranken, and Els Silvrants...

These values are guides that help us clarify our working methods and our decision making, and in this sense they will always mark the horizon of any process within SPIN. We are aware that there will be moments when we fully embody these values, and at other times our failure to do so will lead us to pause, reflect and try to do things differently.

SPIN is structurally funded by the Flemish Government (2015-2016, 2017-2022 and 2023-2027). This support does not include artistic budgets for the work of Hans Bryssinck, Diederik Peeters, Kate McIntosh, Anna Rispoli or Marnie Slater. To fund the artistic projects we entirely rely on co-production support and other grants, such as VAF, VGC, and project grants of the Flemish Government.
SPIN was also structurally funded by the Flemish Community Commission (2015).

SPIN was long-term resident of and structurally supported by Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kortrijk (BE) 2013-2021.

In 2011 SPIN received a generous financial donation from Cis Bierinckx. One of the things we used this money for was to built this wonderful witty website.

Over the past ten years, SPIN has developed successfull as well as proudly failed projects in partnership with:

Kunstencentrum BUDA, Kaaitheater, Beursschouwburg, Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Netwerk, L'Amicale de Production, Mountain View

Our fantastically engaged board of directors consists of Benny Vandendriessche, Jessica Gysel and Joris Janssens.

In the General Meeting they are joined by: Godart Bakkers, Johanna Couvée, Antoine Defoort, Klaartje De Bonnaire, Elisa Demarré, Sarah Magan, Rossana Miele, Sarah Parolin, Elie Agniel, Diederik Peeters, Hans Bryssinck, Kate McIntosh, Yasmina Boudia, Anna Rispoli and Marnie Slater

Executive Committee (Dagelijks Bestuur): Elie Agniel, Hans Bryssinck, Kate McIntosh, Diederik Peeters, Anna Rispoli, and Marnie Slater.

In the history of SPIN, previous board and general meeting members have been: Agnès Quackels, Hanne Doms, Katrien Reist, Mathilde Maillard, Marion Le Guerroué, Laura Deschepper, Els Silvrants, Helena Kritis, Michel Quéré, Leen Laconte, Ingrid Vranken, Marie Logie, Hicham Khalidi, Dries Douïbi, Guy Bindels, Danai Anesiadou, Elena Filipovic, Petra Roggel, and David Elchardus.

Hans Bryssinck is an artist, educator and narrative practitioner, with a career that spans the visual, performing and audiovisual arts, mainly focusing on collaborative work.

He is a founding member and codirector of SPIN (Brussels, BE). He teaches Performance at the School of Arts (Ghent, BE) and Narrative Practices for community work and education at UCIRED (Puebla, MX). He lives in Mexico since 2016, where he wrote and directed his first feature film Celestino.

Since 2019, his artistic and educational practice has been enriched by narrative practices, providing tools for working with people and communities centering ethics of care.

Kate McIntosh (1974) is an artist who practices across the boundaries of installation and performance. Her works often focus on the physicality of both performer and public, the manipulation of objects and materials, and the development of direct relations between spectators. She has ongoing fascinations with the sensory, transformation, collectivity, animal-human connections, destruction, mess, humour, care.

Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand and trained in dance - since 2004 McIntosh developed an internationally recognized body of stage and trans-disciplinary work which tours extensively in Europe as well as to Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

Despite a degree in visual arts, it’s above all in the stables of the stage arts that Diederik Peeters got lost. He has been reported to pop up in the work of colleague-artists, cunningly disguised as actor, performer or even advisor. But he especially keeps insisting on brewing his own artistic concoctions, sometimes in collaboration with carefully selected accomplices. Peeters committed several shows and performances, such as 'Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep, he waits', 'Red Herring' or 'Apparitions'... Peeters has a pathological preference for confusion. In his work the notion of a solid and unchanging reality is stubbornly sabotaged. Absurdities and contradictions pile up to reveal a universe where everything is constantly transforming, and nothing ever remains what it seems to be.

Along with Kate McIntosh and Hans Bryssinck he is a founding member of SPIN, a support and reflection platform based in Brussels.

Anna Rispoli works between artistic creation and civic space, developing prototypes for sharing material resources, intelligence and affect. For twenty years her transdisciplinary projects, performances, and urban installations have been created in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia.

In recent years, she has been working on various forms of "recreated documentary" such as Your word in my mouth about intimacy, eroticism and politics, Close Encounters (Nestroy Award nomination) together with teenagers facing the social pressure, or A Certain Value (European network InSitu), confronting the assembly practices of four different communities.

I am a visual artist from Aotearoa New Zealand, currently living in Brussels. My work engages with multiple formats, including sculpture, collaboration, editing, performance, painting and installation. In the last ten years I have been working in two parallel ways: engaging with archive material and developing long-term collaborations. My interest in archives started 2010 when I began to work in the company of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, stepsisters, lovers and artists whose photographic work and legacy have formed the framework for many of my projects. Like my solo work, my long-term collaborations are led by queer and feminist politics and desires. I am co-curator of Buenos Tiempos, Int. and a team member of Mothers & Daughters – A Lesbian* and Trans* Bar*. I am currently teaching on the AdMa program at St Lucas School of Art, Antwerp, where I am also undertaking a year-long research project on process tools for queer, feminist and anti-racist collaborative art making.

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