Performing Eavatea

Part of Archipelago of Artistic Practices, a Research Summit organised by Jubilee and M HKA. The programme and exhibition are built around Eavatea, a digital infrastructure for mapping research-based and transdisciplinary practices. Archipelago of Artistic Practices take place in conjunction with M HKA’s major exhibition The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and includes the participation of many of its exhibiting artists.

Thursday 12/6/2025, 18-21h

Location: M HKA INBOX, 5th floor

This year’s Jubilee Summer School is subtitled ‘Research Summit’. For ten days in Antwerp, Jubilee brings together a group of researchers – artists and others – to share their work, insights and surprises. The prism of this get-together is Eavatea, Jubilee’s new collaborative research tool for in-situ artistic research. To bring these situated practices from their lived environments first to the virtual dynamics of Eavatea and now into an institutional context, on invitation of one of the foremost museums of Belgium, is a good occasion to make them breathe and speak again. We will do this not only with the invited guests but also with you!

As this Research Summit takes places in the context of Jubilee’s exhibition Archipelago of Artistic Practices, and simultaneously with M HKA’s Geopolitics of Infrastructure, the museum can be tested in its capacity of infrastructure for bridging artistic research and audiences.

On the opening evening of The Geopolitics of Infrastructure we get a taste of such transitions of art projects from their situated contexts, to the internet-based Eavatea tool, to a museum experience – and back again: what do elements of cross-border artistic research smell, taste and feel like?

Live events during M HKA opening, 18-21h

19h – 21h / Production of Eavatea shards: melting caramel, cooling, breaking, scanning

20h – 21h / Performance Filip van Dingenen and Hélène Meyer, The Platform for Algae Diplomacy (offering algae soup & bites)