SUPERHOST | Club Antena. Intimate listening and dancing experience

with Nele Möller, Farida Amadou, Le Réalism, Céline Gillain, Roberta Miss, Elena Colombi

€12 all in (food and music)
Limited capacity
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CLUB ANTENA will be an intimate listening and dancing session with a lecture, concert, performance, catering and DJ sets, exploring what it means to listen with our bodies. Since time immemorial, we have held rhythmic rituals to heal ourselves and restore our relationship with the world. We use language, instruments or our own bodies to do this. What does the soothing and healing power of sound consist of? And how can we harness that power in other ways for the future? This is what CLUB ANTENA explores. In CLUB ANTENA, listening becomes a practice of resistance, and dance music a cultural force for change.

CLUB ANTENA is the closing event of Céline Gillain’s Superhost ‘ANTENA – listening to the walls’ at M HKA. This intimate listening and dancing session will take place on the top floor of the museum, in a safe(er) space covered in carpet and fabric. Specialised catering will be provided by Le Réalism.

Programme

5 pm – Start 
Reading by Nele Möller
Concert by Farida Amadou
From 7 pm: catering by Le Realism
Performance by Céline Gillain
DJ set by Roberta Miss
DJ set by Elena Colombi
11 pm – End 

Contributors

Nele Möller is a Brussels-based artist working primarily in sound, performance and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on forest conversations, historical nature inscriptions, critical field recording and listening practices. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Her research project ‘The Forest Echoes Back‘ is embedded in the artistic research cluster ‘deep histories fragile memories‘ and oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is very much impacted by climate change and an adherent bark beetle infestation. Since 2023, she has been producing ‘Listening Fields’ at the free radio station Radio Panik in Brussels. Besides that, she performs under the pseudonym Kimberly Clark and has released recordings on Futura Resistenza and RDS Rec.

Farida Amadou is a self-taught bass player based in Brussels, Belgium. The electric bass has been her main instrument since 2011. In 2013, she started playing a lot of different musical genres, including blues, jazz and hip-hop. Soon Farida started diving into improvised and experimental music, and she was quickly identified by local collectives and musicians. After a year (2018) as bassist in Belgian punk band Cocaine Piss, the musician decided to focus on her solo improvisation practice and collaborations with musicians such as Thurston Moore, Peter Brötzmann, Julien Desprez, Jerusalem in My Heart and Moor Mother… The focus of her work from 2021 to the present day.

Céline Gillain is a musician, performance and video artist based in Brussels working across the fields of experimental music, electronic music and visual and performing arts. The artist has performed extensively in Europe over the past ten years at venues ranging from music festivals (such as Non Frequenze Festival, Torino; Listen Festival, Brussels; and Horst Festival, Vilvoorde) to museums and art centres (such as Flagey, Brussels; Beursschouwburg, Brussels; MACBA, Barcelona; and Lafayette Anticipations, Paris). In 2017, Gillain released her first single together with Lexi Disques titled What Happens If I Open My Mouth?, soon followed by her debut LP Bad Woman with Drama (2018). Mind is Mud, Gillain’s second LP (12-inch), was released this year with Cortizona.  Céline Gillain has presented her videos, sounds and installations in both group and solo exhibition contexts. Inspired by listening methodologies applied in group discussions, Gillain leads various workshops and is the co-founder of a class dedicated to sound creation and experimental music at La Cambre School of Visual Arts in Brussels. M HKA invited Céline Gillain to conceive the 2023 cycle of Superhost, which resulted in ANTENA, a year-long programme dedicated to listening.

Le Réalism / Sophie Pelletier is a chef whose practice lies somewhere between the artistic and the culinary. She studied History of Art at the University of Rennes and then at the Art School of Angers. Her credo has always been to support independent businesses working with local and seasonal products, standing apart from the hegemony of soulless food chains. She is driven to develop an artistic, culinary and personally motivated practice. Sophie Pelletier’s cooking is particularly guided by colours and textures. The chef walks 10 km daily, foraging wild herbs and flowers in the parks and forests of Brussels and Brittany.

Roberta Miss aka Nur/Se has long and broad experience in the sound domain, mixing and participating in festivals and events since 2000. Her DJ sets are constructed through a layering of sounds and tracks in which clarity and confusion, heaviness and lightness, colour and darkness interact, thus creating narrative or abstract stories for the dancefloor or for more intimate listening, such as radio broadcast. In her work, she mixes diversely sourced material ranging from her own field recordings and samples from the media to club classics and more experimental tracks selected from a wide range of styles. Roberta Miss lives and works in Brussels where she is also a founding member of Poxcat, a collective with a feminist outlook, which aims to promote DJs and musicians who identify as female through the organisation of parties and monthly radio shows on Radio Vacarme.

Elena Colombi is a DJ, radio host and founder of record label Osàre! Editions. Colombi’s inspired sets are not only open-minded and mind-altering, but also seek to toy with the emotions of listeners and dancers via switches in intensity, tone, lightness and darkness. She seeks out the unexpected, from cosmic psychedelia and pounding jungle to obscure post-punk and spoken word. In the club, the whole lot degenerates into a beautiful, strange and wild selection of pulsating polyrhythms, industrial groove and sleek techno, coming together in… an unexpected flow. Her record label Osàre! Editions, founded in 2019 (meaning “daring” in Italian), presents quirky and experimental artists while never sticking to a single genre: from 90s darkwave to futuristic dance, gone are the boundaries between categories and time.

Practical information

Limited capacity
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Date: Saturday 9 December, 5-11 pm
Venue: M HKA, Museum of Contemporay Art (ANTENA space and the M HKAFE)
Catering: Savoury and sweet party snacks provided by Le Realism (included in ticket)

Drinks are available at the M HKAFE

Superhost is organised as part of the activities of L’Internationale, a confederation of seven modern and contemporary art institutions