Jubilee is a platform for artistic research, run by a group of artists and other researchers
Screening
N12°13.062′ / W 001°32.619′ Extended
Vincent Meessen’s short film N12°13.062′ / W 001°32.619′ Extended is part of a screening programme at Contrechamp / Le Cinématographe, Nantes
02/09/2026, 20:30h
Performance presentations
A Song for the Sun Kin(g): Polyphony and Dissonance in the Law Archive
A performance presentation by Louise de Bethune, performed twice: at the ‘Law and the Humanities World’ at the University of Lucern, Switserland, and at the ‘Criticial Legal Conference’ at University of Westminster
02/09 and 10/09/2026
Artist-Run Tour & Hangout
Anderlecht Artist-Run Tour & Hangout
The BARN Core Team of the Brussels Artist-Run Network organises visits to 3 artist-run spaces in Anderlecht, followed by a Hangout to get to know each other: Gilbard, Janitor and Kompot, Brussels
11/09/2026, 17-22h
Reading Room
Reading Room #52: Les bruits de la nature
Jubilee’s 2025-26 cycle of Reading Rooms focuses on the book collection of artist Kobe Matthys (1970–2023). For this fourteenth session Agency invites Vincent Meessen, Jubilee member and currently part of Agency’s research residency programme at the Praticotheque. Meessen will take us into texts by Etienne Souriau focussing on his critique of anthropomorphism and his proposal for a “healthy” zoomorphism. This reading room will take place in French.
17/09/2026, 18-21:00h
Commoning
Seasonal Work: Learning in Common
Stijn Van Dorpe and Elien Ronse take part in ‘Seasonal Work: Learning in Common’, a commons-based summer school, working process and exhibition at Clublokaal in Breda, running from 2026 to 2027
Publication
Who Cleans the Academy? Stories of Relational Resistance
Wie maakt de academie schoon? Verhalen van relationeel verzet (‘Who Cleans the Academy? Stories of Relational Resistance’) is a publication for the art journal Collateral, edited by Stijn Van Dorpe and Sarah Késenne as part of their long-term trajectory with cleaners at LUCA School of Arts, Ghent campus
Artist Residency
Vincent Meessen in residence at Agency
Vincent Meessen is one of the six artists invited to activate Agency’s Praticotheque in 2026. The Praticotheque is the space where the List of Things and Kobe Matthys’ library are installed. Meessen will mainly focus on Thing 000782 (Bruits de la nature n.2), in relation with a film work in development
Recent publications
L’Internationale situationniste. Vies, textes et pratiques
Vincent Meessen contributed an essay titled ‘De la vie quotidienne sous la colonisation à la colonisation de la vie quotidienne’ to this edited book about the Situationist International
Contested and Controversial Heritage
Louise de Bethune contributed a chapter to the book Betwist en beladen erfgoed, published by LeA. In Dutch
Vermeir & Heiremans in Dannie.io
Dannie.io (2025) brings together the stories, threads and images of Kunst & Zwalm (about/with/in/through) water, an art route in the Zwalm region, curated in 2023 by manoeuvre and nadine
Into the Garden
An audio work about an existential finitude situation by Justin Bennett, published by Petit Bardo, 2026
PROTOCOLS & DIPLOMACY for undisciplined practitioners
Filip Van Dingenen’s monograph Protocols & Diplomacy for undisciplined practitioners published by Hopper & Fuchs, 2025
Collective research
Eavatea
In partnership with nadine, f.eks and several artists, Jubilee developed a mapping tool for artistic practices. Titled Eavatea, the tool for developing, visualising, archiving and relating practices, it is specifically designed for sharing practices that do not present themselves easily in conventional exhibition contexts: research-based, often in situ, nomadic, collective, ephemeral, interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary practices. It is currently a working prototype, and is presented during Archipelago of Artistic Practices, a one-year programme of presentations, performances, conversations, walks, and more at nadine, Kunsthal Gent, and M HKA/CKV, from summer 2024 to summer 2025.