Huskrooms
— performance installation
the inner space is the performance
Huskrooms is an installation and performance in constant movement intuitively shaped through interactions with its participants and (semi) public spaces.
In a world where rituals and shared narratives are lost, Huskrooms creates an environment to spend time with oneself and other people. Time to dwell with other beings: all the carefully collected materials, each bearing its own history.
People, weather, gestures, habits, textures and objects interact with the work, which then becomes a living artwork.
Each Huskroom intends to symbolise the basic conditions of human safety and security as well as to explore once own body awareness and body sensing through contact with the artwork.
Visitors who walk and wander through the world of the linked together Huksrooms embody the artwork which brings them in contact with themselves, others and the environment, an environment that through their gestures and presence gains new meaning and relevance.
In the coming years, Huskrooms will continue to evolve as a platform for collaboration, connection,
and experimentation—blurring the boundary between art and everyday life.
This development takes place with transdisciplinary artists and in partnership with institutions and programs at the crossroads of care and art.
in collaboration with experts and artists:
Kito Kotsoane — co-director, performer & scenographer (fashion designer & multidisciplinair artist)
Rona Kennedy — dramaturg (multidisciplinair artist)
Henny Baeken — mentor (body-oriented therapist)
Nina Plantefève-Castryck — scenographer & performer (ceramic artist)
Robin Kersten — textile designs (textile artist)
Renske Maria Van Dam — advisor (architect)
Francesco Apostoli — advisor (architect)
supported by Flanders State of the Arts and in collaboration with:
BUDA (Courtrai, BE)
radical_house (Brussels, BE)
Kaos vzw (Brussels, BE)
vzw wit.h (Courtrai, BE)
workspacebrussels (Brussels, BE)
C-takt - Dommelhof (Neerpelt, BE)
Dr.Guislain Museum (Ghent, BE)
Metropolitan Fukujusou (Kyoto, JP)
Oost-Achterhoek (Neede, NL)
2022 — Artistic intervention during the scientific conference Public Health Palliative Care International, by invitation of Julie Rodeyns (Through Art We Care) – Gestures of Artistic Care, Bruges (BE)
2023 — Two-month residency at the psychosocial center Sint-Alexius, in collaboration with residents, workspacebrussels and Kaos vzw, Brussels (BE)
2023 — Artist talk at Dr. Guislain Museum with Kaos, invited Geert Opsomer & Rona Kennedy, Ghent (BE)
2023 — Research project at the reception area of the youth psychiatric center Dr. Guislain, with Lucinda Ra and the youngsters of Fioretti & De Steiger, Ghent (BE)
2024 — Two-week art residency at Centrum W Ruchu with Elsa Mencagli & Paula Diogo, supported by APAP Feminist Futures, Warsaw (PL)
2024 - ongoing — Art residency with on-site artistic interventions in collaboration with Lucinda Ra (theatre group) at the Dr. Guislain Museum and Psychiatric Hospital, Ghent (BE)
2025 — Installation performance in public space during Open Studios by workspacebrussels, supported by Kaaitheater, with Kito Kotsoane and production support by Leonie Buysse, Brussels (BE)
2025 — One-month residency with Judith Trepp & Vince Montague, Metropolitan Fukujusou, Kyoto (JP)
2025 — Three-month group exhibition Crip Stories in collaboration with Kito Kotsoane, Nina Plantefève-Castryck and Henny Baeken on invitation of Kaos and wit.h at Kasteel De Lovie, Poperinge (BE)
2025 — Performance installation during finissage of group expo at Kasteel De Lovie, in collaboration with wit.h, Kaos and Studio Artîlerie, with performers Kito Kotsoane, Nina Plantefève-Castryck, Robin Devroedt, Inge van der Weijde, and video artists Warre Keuppens & Arno De Facq
2025 — Two-week residency with Kito Kotsoane & Rona Kennedy at cultural center BUDA, Kortrijk (BE)
2025 —Performance installation in library Oost-Achterhoek / Neede with Henny Baeken, Neede (NL)
2026 — Art residency at Dommelhof C-takt supported by workspacebrussels with Henny Baeken and Kito Kotsoane, Neerpelt (BE)
Performance installation and artistic intervention in public space during Open Studios by workspacebrussels with support of Kaaitheater
in collaboration with fashion designer Kito Kotsoane, performer Leonie Buysse and textile artist Robin Kersten
Installation during the exhibition Crip Stories by vzw wit.h at De Lovie, on invitation of KAOS vzw
in collaboration with fashion designer Kito Kotsoane, ceramic artists Henny Baeken and Nina Plantefève-Castryck
(c) Nora Vanderstraeten
Performance installation during closing of the exhibition Crip Stories by vzw wit.h at De Lovie, in collaboration with Studio Artîlerie
in collaboration with fashion designer Kito Kotsoane, ceramic artists Nina Plantefève-Castryck, performer Robin Devroedt, Inge van der Weijde, video artists and stills by Warre Keuppens and Arno De Facq
Art residency, the floating now - Ghost Dancers, at Metropolitan Fukujusouin, Kyoto (JP)
Series of artistic experiments and interventions at Dr. Guislain Museum and Psychiatric Hospital
in collaboration with fashion designer Kito Kotsoane, theater collective Lucinda Ra and the residents living on the site
Experiments during residency at Arts Centre BUDA, Kortrijk (BE)
in collaboration with fashion designer Kito Kotsoane and Rona Kennedy
Artist talk about research residency with Kaos & workspacebrussels at Dr.Guislain Museum
artist talk with guest speakers Rona Kennedy and Geert Opsomer about research residency taking place in the psycho social center in Elsene (Brussels) taking place in Dr.Guislain Museum
Research residency at psycho social center Sint-Alexius with Kaos & workspacebrussels
2 month research residency taking place in the psycho social center in Elsene, Brussels