exhibition
The exhibition can be visited during the festival from 5 to 15 December from Thursday to Sunday.
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​Opening hours during the festival:
Thu-Sun 12:00 - 19:00.
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Div.fuse takes place in argos, centre for audiovisual arts.
Werfstraat 13, 1000 Brussels ​
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The exhibition in argos shows the work of these artists:

05_15.12.2024



Jannes Snyers
Mistpoeffers
Jannes Snyers is a multidisciplinary artist who uses a wide range of media, including sound, installations, drawings, film and websites.
In the work that Jannes has created for this exhibition, he presents the first results of his octophonic research, in which he builds on earlier ideas about the virtualization of sound. Using a self-made sound system and self-written software, he explores how algorithmically designed environments can be distorted and experienced within a spatial audio context. He also poetically incorporates various thematic elements, such as overstimulation and cybernetics, into his composition.
Quinten De Wilde
KRAUTROCK
Quinten De Wilde’s work explores the relationship between technology and everyday processes, combining different media and approaches.
KRAUTROCK is a project that creates sound based on the fermentation of cabbage. Gas emissions from the fermenting cabbage are captured and converted into sound using various gas sensors. Because fermentation is a process that takes time, the sound also develops in its own life cycle. Over a period of about 30 days, a generative sound work is created, together with a well-done jar of sauerkraut.


Shino Matsuura
TO/AND ORANDA / Gesloten Circuit
Shino Matsuura’s artistic drive takes shape through communication with others, through establishing lasting relationships with people through various media.
In an era where political sentiments are increasingly turning against people who are considered “outsiders”, Shino offers a personal story of migration – from Japan to the Netherlands and finally to Belgium. Her work explores the complex interplay of displacement, identity and the relentless pursuit of desires and the transformation of desires into something physical. Shino not only aims to provoke conscious reflection, but also to resonate with the viewer’s subconscious and appeal to his or her visceral perceptions.
Monica Basbous & Charbel Alkhoury
Popg Clanc
Charbel Alkhoury’s work, often expressed in photography and video installations, navigates through the complex interplay of memory, identity and urban transformation with his projects.
Monica Basbous is an architect, researcher and teacher. They work mainly with maps, text, games, images, video and hypertext.
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Popg Clanc is a WhatsApp group created in early 2019 by online gamers. During the events of the two years that followed, Popg Clanc developed into a multifaceted entity: at times a revolutionary cell, a grassroots neighborhood group, an information sharing and verification system, a mutual aid network and a support system. Popg Clanc is: [M00nz, Anxiety Attack, P00pie, Lastuadri, Jfara7, Leil88, Shaikha0123, Moudira2aldir, Feiruzwbass, Metweleh07, Lynnnnyl, ZaThug, Gabzoy, IchliebePopo, Rips88, Melm0, W84godo].









Asma Laajimi
Flying north, a brainstorm of acceptance, oversharing is overcaring
Asma Laajimi's work spans film, photography, installation and text. Deeply rooted in her personal experiences, she explores the nuances between reality and fiction, and the connections between the personal and the collective, the emotional and the political."
Loaded with memories of the tourist beaches of her childhood on the Tunisian coast, Asma recycles images from the first months of her arrival in Belgium. These are interspersed with more recent reflections. Wandering through airports, daydreaming in airplanes and gazing at glittering seas, she questions the politics of welcoming and the contemporary power dynamics of mobility in the global North.

Loïs Soleil
Tinder_boys_@Brussels_
Through digital art, performance, installation, poetry and sound, Loïs Soleil aims to bridge the emotional and the political by posing intersectional cyber-techno-feminist questions.
The installation was born from a collection of screenshots of heterosexual men proudly posing with weapons on the dating app Tinder. To feed this collection, Loïs Soleil developed an artificial intelligence that can detect weapons and a robot that swipes on Tinder. Screenshots of these profiles were then printed on tatami mats that are used for feminist self-defense classes. With the help of lawyers and legal AIs, a video was also created entitled 'How not to get sued as an artist'.
Many thanks to Julien Dutertre and Federal Eco Foam (Lommel) for their help and support.
Léa Mainguy
Le fantôme d'Houille (Ferraillant l'oubli, la demi vie de leur absence se passe et persiste le présent)
Léa Mainguy’s artistic practice moves between audiovisual media, installations and narrative constructions, focusing on exploring and redefining spaces in between while shaping stories in new ways.
Blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, Léa’s multimedia installation explores the forgotten history of her family and the former Fosse Ledoux mine in northern France. Her grandparents are so-called “Harkis,” Frenchmen of Algerian origin who sided with the French during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). After the war, many Harkis and their families were persecuted in Algeria, causing some to flee to France, where they were often marginalized. Her grandparents first lived in a camp in central France before settling in Condé-sur-l'Escaut. To give voice to this overlooked history, Léa visited the site and documented the remains, interviewing her family, local museum guards and a stranger she met during her exploration.
Ana Inés Spagnolo López
Unstatic core imagery decomposer device
Ana Spagnolo’s practice explores the long-lost idea of ​​“the internet as a refuge.” In her work, Ana imagines scenarios where technological artifacts conjure up new ways of engaging with the digital.
In a world where the relentless power of images has gotten out of control, the Unstatic Core Imagery Decomposer Device has a single purpose: to reduce images to their most basic, pixelated form. Inspired by Radio Liberación TV, rudimentary, homemade antennas are strategically placed around a computer monitor. These antennas interfere with misleading wavelengths that can impede our critical perception, neutralizing their impact and allowing us to observe images in their essence.
Sound credits: Bbrainz / Slythe
Animation: Manuela Vásquez Guayasamín
Production assistance: Lara Claes

Brecht De Cock
artifacts of you, artifacts of me.
Brecht De Cock is an artist and filmmaker whose work revolves around process and experiment. His practice focuses on film, animation and intermedia, exploring boundaries and combining disciplines.
Brecht’s film is a meditative exploration of the relationship between photography and animation, focusing on the tension between transience and digital reality, as well as the haunting nature of space. This disembodied portrait of mourning uses a combination of animation, live action and photogrammetric scans to bring to life an intensely personal story that touches on a universal theme.

Luka Van der Cruyssen
Nested Sequence
Luka Van der Cruyssen is a photographer and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling. She combines analogue and digital techniques and explores the possibilities of image reproduction and manipulation.
Through this experimental essay film, Luka investigates memories and the futile attempt to reunite faded stories, lost lovers and forgotten locations. It is a journey through the mind of the filmmaker and an in-depth exploration of the digital universe and the internet. The film challenges conventions by pushing the boundaries of editing, sound, abstraction and AI, creating a unique visual language that is both alienating and revealing.

Gabriella Achadinha
Oooof_____aged badly
Gabriella Achadinha brings together her background in film and art in a multidisciplinary medium. Her work explores themes of nostalgia, neurodivergence and pleasure-as-protest, focusing on the archive, online representation and media-created narratives.
Gabriella’s film is an exploration of the contemporary phenomenon of social media-fueled and skincare-branded ageism. Through the voices of diverse users, the film shows how industry-driven insecurities are staged as a spectacle, with skincare influencers, ‘miracle serums’, anti-aging masks and filtered promises of perfect, youthful skin. Against this visual backdrop, one message becomes clear: for women, it is culturally taboo to let your skin age.
Sound Credits: Jack Colleran
Loes Vanneste
Between Places
Loes Vanneste creates experimental films and artworks in which she combines diverse media, driven by an ongoing fascination with (micro)biology and natural processes.
Somewhere in the depths of space, fragments of forgotten thoughts and memories drift aimlessly. Here lies the Palace of Dust, home to a translucent beast that endlessly rearranges, shifts and eats the swirling particles. “Where am I?” resounds through the vast emptiness. In a feverish dream, the beast takes a sleeping woman on a life-changing journey through the dust and darkness...



Lyn de Weijer
Dirkie
Lyn de Weijer seeks connection by gathering people who can be characters in her story. Through staged photos, she creates moments of intimacy that evoke a unique closeness.
When my boyfriend or niece came over, we had so much fun with Dirkie. One time, we came up with a new plan. I was probably the one who came up with the plan; it was my hamster and I have always had a heated and combative side. It takes four hands to perform this trick. We each took two corners of one of my dress-up clothes and put little Dirkie in the middle. I still can't imagine how it is practically possible, let alone what it must have felt like, to shit poop while flying.