ISSUE #8, October 2025

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1. We Changed Bank!

Towards Apartheid Free Zone is a platform of more than 50 Belgian cultural organisations who decided to cut ties with apartheid regimes and their financial, digital and cultural partners.

Last year S P I N made a commitment to TAFZ and have taken the first step of ending our relationship with Belfius — who, via Candriam, is investing in the Israeli settlement industry and therefore violating human rights and international law — and chose the more ethical bank VDK. It took us some work, but it was a feasible process and we can only recommend the rewarding feeling of not supporting apartheid.

Next step will be to stop using Airbnb and Booking.com. For some ideas, here is a list of more ethical accommodation booking platforms: https://www.theinvisibletourist.com/ethical-alternatives-to-airbnb/

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2. News From S P I N’s Artistic Practices

Hans Bryssinck

Celestino, Hans’s first fiction film and one that be has been working on quietly and determinedly since 2015, is about to premiere in Belgium! Fascinated by the tension between strangeness and familiarity, and drawing on his own experience as a foreigner in Mexico, Hans explores the figure of the ‘intruder,’ the boundaries of hospitality, and the ways in which a sense of strangeness lives within each of us.

Join us on 25 October in Brussels, 6 November in Mechelen, 12 November in Aalst, or 14 November in Kortrijk.

Watch the trailer and follow us here.

Image by Rosa Hadit

Kate McIntosh

As the New York City mayoral election approaches, Kate is there showing Worktable https://www.spinspin.be/kate-mcintosh/worktable/ at the new Powerhouse International Festival https://festival.powerhousearts.org/ until 9 November. Meantime she’s preparing a new stage performance for 2026, about the curious experience and hidden politics of collective emotion.

Diederik Peeters

With an ever growing gang of great collaborators, Diederik is tunneling toward the premiere of his new show Confabulations. Blending psychiatry, neurodiversity and theatrical illusion, the show asks which realities we share, how they are constructed, and how they might be reimagined. Premiere is in Schauspiel Leipzig (DE) on 18, 20, 21, 22 November - then going straight to Le Phénix (Valenciennes, FR) to present a French version during NEXT Festival.

Anna Rispoli

The trajectory StruggleCareJoy enters its third chapter: from 22-26 October Anna will gather with the members of the Undocumented Candidate and the Alliance des F.O.R.T.E.S. for a residency at Kaaitheaterto explore the roots of the struggle of women in exile. They will work on sensitive archive forms, redefining what struggle, anti-racism, and feminism mean at different latitudes. What meanings do time and duration have in a life without Western documents? In complicity with Henriette Essami-Khaullot, Bojana Cvéjc and Nina Ferrante, and supported by VG, Kaaitheater, Kanal Pompidou, Museum Reina Sofia, Collectif 8 Mars and MOC.

Marnie Slater

Katja Mater, Clare Noonan, Jessica Gysel, Marnie Slater, Robin Brettar and Matilda Çobanli will open their collective exhibition Inspiraling at CRAC Alsace (FR) on 13 November. Open until 1 March 2026, Inspiraling will take a deep but playful dive into the collective’s working process, explore notions of artistic legacy, look into histories of queer-feminist community building and trace the non-linear narratives of their own creative collaboration and those that inspire them. The exhibition features guest appearances by MYCKET, Ot Lemmens, Sophy Naess, Judith Geerts, Nienke Fransen, Christine de Pizan, Rosalind Nashashibi and Anne Reijniers & Eline De Clercq, among others.

The exhibition is also supported by Flanders State of the Art.

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3. Welcome Emilie!

We are very pleased to announce that the S P I N team is finally complete. In March Emilie Legrand joined Elie Agniel in the management of our structure. She will divide her time between Outline and S P I N and we are looking forward to the knowledge exchanges that this encounter can spark.

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4. Wallets

The “Wallets” are a way that S P I N supports guest practices — offering a light yet robust administrative tool for independent artists, cultural workers, and sister organizations. In 2025, S P I N adds a new wallet to its growing list of practices: Bolingo.

S P I N currently also supports the wallets of Radical Hope, Ghyslaine Gau, Adva Zakai, Siemen Van Gaubergen and L’Amicale.

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6. Upcoming

Click here for S P I N’s recent and upcoming dates!