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 organisation, with collaborators also currently active in Berlin and Mexico City.

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...

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 Bie Vancraeynest, Benny Vandendriessche, Yasmina Boudia, 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, 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 genoot een opleiding aan het KASK in Gent die hem toestond om zijn interesses en ideeën uit te werken in de disciplines die er geschikt voor waren. Hij ontwikkelde zich als vormgever, performer, theatermaker, beeldend kunstenaar en ook als filmmaker.

Kate McIntosh is een kunstenares afkomstig uit Nieuw-Zeeland die de grenzen van performance, theater, video en installatie overstijgt. Ze volgde een dansopleiding en treedt wereldwijd op sinds 1995.

Als zelfverklaard typevoorbeeld van de neoliberale immateriële cultuurwerker slash jobhopper, wordt Peeters nu en dan in het werk van collega-kunstenaars gesignaleerd, vernuftig vermomd als acteur of performer. Maar hij blijft vooral ook aandringen op het brouwen van zijn eigen artistieke brouwsels, soms in samenwerking met zorgvuldig gekozen trawanten.

Ondanks een diploma beeldende kunst is het vooral in de stallen van de podiumkunsten dat Diederik Peeters verdwaalt. Hij werd gesignaleerd in het werk van collega-kunstenaars, sluw vermomd als acteur, performer of zelfs adviseur. Maar hij blijft vooral aandringen op het brouwen van zijn eigen artistieke brouwsels, soms in samenwerking met zorgvuldig geselecteerde trawanten. Peeters maakte verschillende performances, zoals 'Chuck Norris doesn't sleep, he waits...', 'Red Herring' of 'Apparitions' ... Peeters heeft een pathologische voorkeur voor verwarring en in zijn werk wordt de notie van een solide en onveranderlijke werkelijkheid hardnekkig gesaboteerd. Absurditeiten en tegenstrijdigheden stapelen zich op om een universum te onthullen waarin alles voortdurend verandert, en niets blijft wat het lijkt.

Samen met Kate McIntosh en Hans Bryssinck is hij oprichter van SPIN, een Brussels ondersteunings- en reflectieplatform voor artistieke praktijk.

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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