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 in (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)
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) for Gestures of Artistic Care, Bruges (BE)
2023 — Two-month residency at the psychosocial center Sint-Alexius, in collaboration with residents, workspacebrussels and KAOS, 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 at 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 C-takt Dommelhof supported by workspacebrussels with Henny Baeken and Kito Kotsoane, Neerpelt (BE)
