Jubilee is a platform for artistic research, run by a group of artists and other researchers
Reading Room
Reading Room #38: Agency
In 2025, Jubilee starts a new cycle of Reading Rooms, now focusing on the book collection of artist Kobe Matthys (1970-2023) at Agency’s Praticauthèque, Brussels
20/01/2025, 18-20:30h
Publication
A Modest Proposal (in a Black Box)
Publication of the text A Modest Proposal (in a Black Box) by Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans and a link to their video essay for the ‘Cinéma et spéculation financière’ issue of Images secondes – cinéma & sciences humaines
Conversation
Spaces for Spaces: The Value of Space for Artistic Work (2)
A second public conversation in a series working towards a ‘framework of competing values’ for space for artistic work in the city, at Glasgow Studio, Anderlecht
25/01/2025, 15-18:30h
Dialogue
Venise 1972-2024
Vincent Meessen participates through a dialogue with art historian, curator and teacher Raphaël Pirenne to Venise 1972-2024, a retrospective edition of the artistic projects produced by the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (FWB) in the Belgian Pavilion in the Giardini in Venice. Personne et les autres – Vincent Meessen and guests was a research-based and collective pavilion curated by Katerina Gregos in 2015 in the framework of the 56th Venice Biennale.
Ongoing exhibitions and biennale participations
Suskewiet Visions
David Shongo & Filip Van Dingenen participate in the Bangkok Art Biennale 2024, Nurture Gaia
24/10/2024 – 25/02/2025
Publications
Seasonal Matters Rural Relations
Seasonal Neighbours examines the ongoing material and social transformations of cohabitation in contemporary rural areas. The collective, based in the EU, brings together artists, designers, chefs, writers and architects whose practices touch on aspects of seasonality, temporary cohabitation, agricultural practices, cultural memory, and practices of belonging.
Constant’s New Babylon
Podcast by Justin Bennett about the soundtracks produced by Constant for his New Babylon project in the 1960’s, available on UFMC (Umbrella for Music Curators)
Do Bureaucrats Dream of Excel Sheets?
Vermeir & Heiremans’ A Modest Proposal features in the essay ‘Do Bureaucrats Dream of Excel Sheets? On Imagination and Administration’, in the book The Sleep of Reason. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art by curator and art critic Pieter Vermeulen.
Listening to / in Public Space
Online publication by Justin Bennett in Research Catalogue, of research into audio walks and listening. Featuring detailed documentation of Justin Bennett’s audio walks made over the last 20 years
What is (Not) Had: Reflections on Emptor
In this essay, art historian Steyn Bergs reflects on Jubilee’s collective research project Emptor
Volatile Properties. A Modest Proposal revisited
Contribution by Vermeir & Heiremans in the Special issue of the online journal Finance & Society on Volatility in finance, art, and culture.
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 will be presented during a programme staring with Jubilee’s Summer School 2024, July 2024.