Hosted by LUCA School of Arts, ENACT Festival presents a week of sonic transmissions, poetic exchanges and participatory performances. 

Organised by LUCA's Arts & Society expertise network, the festival explores artistic research and its embodied transmission.

Across four days LUCA researchers and their collaborators invite audiences into diverse worlds: from underwater silt intelligence and live-streamed forest ecologies, to inquisitorial testimonies, resistant folk traditions and media archaeologies. ENACT is a festival of artistic inquiry in process.

Artistic researchers develop alternative methodologies and explore performative ways to embody that research. ENACT puts these forms of disclosure centre stage.

Practical Info

• The festival is free and open to everyone. 
• Registering for the festival activities is mandatory. Some events have a limited capacity. You can register for various activities on this page.
• Reservations for lunch/supper are mandatory and available on the registration page until 31 October. A vegetarian lunch and/or supper will be provided on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Vegan options will also be available. 
• Questions? Email research@luca-arts.be

Programme 

Day 1 | Opening 
Tuesday, 4 November - LUCA School of Arts (Brussels)

Welcome

17:30 - 18:00

Phantoms: presence and inaudibilities
Keynote / artist performance talk / dr. Cathy Lane

18:00 - 19:00

Other Frequencies - Modes of Listening 
Lecture-screening / Esther Venrooij

19:15 - 19:45 

Open discussion

19:45 - 20:30

Reception on the Bridge

20:30 - 22:00

Day 2 | Shifting Paradigms and Waterbodies 
Wednesday, 5 November - Enough Room for Space (Drogenbos)

Welcome 

13:30 - 14:00

LUNÄ Talk - Turbid Ecologies
Curated conversation and installation / Marjolijn Dijkman 

14:00 - 17:00

Communal dinner & drinks

17:00 - 19:00

Day 3 | Ecologies of Exchange
Thursday, 6 November - LUCA School of Arts (Brussels)

Double-voiced - Poetics of Exchange 
Live documentary performance / Kersti Grunditz Brennan & Christina Stuhlberger

10:00 - 11:00 

ReAnimating the Anortho-Phenakistiscope
Installation / Guido Devadder & Martha Kicsiny 

11:00 - 11:45 

In Waking Hours
Projection / Sarah Vanagt

11:00 - 11:45

Extending Media Archaeology into Artistic Research
Presentation / Guido Devadder, Martha Kicsiny & Sarah Vanagt

11:45 - 12:30 

Open discussion

12:30 - 13:00

Lunch break 

13:00 - 14:00

Live Transmission Ecologies
Listening session / Nele Möller, Grant Smith & Lia Mazzari

14:00 - 17:00

Day 4 | Storytelling as Inquiry
Friday, 7 November - Theater Tinnenpot (Ghent)

Tea with Trixie
Participatory performance / Wendy Morris

11:00 - 13:00

Lunch break 

13:00 - 14:00

Resisting Folk
Lecture-concert-performance / Annelies Monseré & Goldscammer

14:00 - 14:45

Singing One to One 
Lecture-performance / Mariske Broeckmeyer

14:45 - 15:30

Open discussion 

15:30 - 16:00

Closing drinks