Join us for the opening of our new exhibition //sabotage!

Programme:

18:00 – talks!

• Keynote by Juan Sebastian Carbonell, sociologist specialising in labour, technology, and business, and author of Le Futur du travail and Un taylorisme augmenté. Critique de l'intelligence artificielle
• Keynote by Nicky Dries, professor of organisational behaviour in KU Leuven where she runs the Future of Work Lab, that studies social imaginaries for the future
• Panel discussion with Juan Sebastian Carbonell, Nicky Dries and Régine Debatty, the co-curator of the //sabotage exhibition

20:00 – guided tour! 

Exhibition tour guided by the curatorial team and the artists : Fayçal Baghriche, Younes Baba Ali, Shannah Legrin & Maarten Vanden Eynde

21:00 – drinks!

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Please note that Juan Sebastian’s talk will be in French while Nicky’s talk and the guided tour will be in English. Discussions with the audience may take place in French, Dutch, or English.

At the turn of the 19th century, workers protested against unfair labour conditions by deliberately working badly, slowing down or degrading production, or putting machinery out of action. Today’s workers —whether they are warehouse staff or startup employees— deploy micro-resistance tactics to defy the algorithm-driven intensification of labour, exposing workplace abuses, outsmarting algorithms and organising collective pushback.

Likewise, contemporary artists embrace sabotage as a tool to dismantle oppressive systems. For them, it’s a form of creative resistance, bridging historical labour struggles with modern battles against exploitation, marginalisation and democratic backsliding.

The exhibition invites reflection on urgent questions: Where are today's creative acts and technologies of unmaking” that disrupt the exploitative mechanisms of capitalism? How do artists mobilise inventiveness, storytelling and ischief to produce a ‘poetry of dysfunction’? And, finally, will the machines join the rebellion?

With : Younes Baba Ali, Fayçal Baghriche, Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez and Felix Klee, Shannah Legrin, Adrian Melis, Amor Muñoz, Juan Obando & Yoshua Okón, Selma Selman, Maarten Vanden Eynde