Wednesday 24th May
2.00-8.00 pm

Tea served at 6.00pm
 

Place de la Résistance, Anderlecht
 

With Nicolas Mouzet Tagawa, Sara Sampelayo, Anne Claire Kelam, Dada (Daflow) and a 60 meter rope.
 

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Note by Nicolas Mouzet Tagawa:
 

There was this intention note that the three of us, Evelyne, Norma, and myself, conscientiously wrote after a week of investigating in Anderlecht, more precisely Cureghem and Saint Guidon.
 

This intention note was formulated from an observation we made, linked with the theme chosen for us: the “super multicultural superparty” seemed difficult to put into place. Different people living and working in Anderlecht seem to want the superparty to be more multicultural in the part of the commune they live or work in. Certain areas or streets of the commune seem to act as borders that divide it into squares.
 

We also discovered that twenty-five years ago, a “Bienvenue/Welkom in Anderlecht banner had been hung at the beginning of the Wayez street, just after the canal bridge that separates the Cureghem district from this street. The Cureghem district was symbolically orphaned. Isolated, ostracized by the large municipality of Anderlecht.
 

We had all the elements for our project: a film, taking place on a historic bridge in Anderlecht, the Canal Bridge, which would show a great game of tug-of-war, a kind of social satire that would humorously point out the tense relationships between different territories in the same municipality.
 

This is what I was asked to do.
 

I therefore went to meet different people, non-profit organisations, who live or work in this part of the municipality of Anderlecht. Between Cureghem and Saint Guidon. I was looking for residents, workers, important people for the area to play in the film.
 

I discovered another project, another party, another multicultural. That of the exchanges, the discussions that the possibility, that the hypothesis of the film allowed... What can you do with a rope? What else can we do, together, than a competition?
 

On Wednesday 24th May, Sara, Anne Claire, Dada, the rope and I will go to the Place de la Résistance from 2.00 to 8.00 pm.
 

Rather than a performance, I prefer to talk about a time.
A time during which all three of us question our presence.
We will have our video in our pockets.
We will share it. And then... I can't predict what will happen.
Maybe we'll bond. Maybe we'll shoot. Untie, bound, jump...
Maybe not.
 

But we will be there, at the meeting.
Multi us, multi everything.
A small party.

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You will also be able to watch the video "Bienvenue/Welkom in Anderlecht".

This video can be viewed at Cultureghem, Centre Culturel l'Escale du Nord and the café La Fourmilière (Rue d'Aumale,19c) from 25th May to 8th June.
 

By Sara Sampelayo and Nicolas Mouzet Tagawa
 

Based on an intention note written by Evelyne Huytebroeck, Norma Prendergast and Nicolas Mouzet Tagawa
 

With: a rope, Dada (Daflow), Marcel Jacobs, Anne-Claire Kelam, Ariane Sadowski, Eden Shriki, El-Ron Shriki, Norma Prendergast, Evelyne Huytebroeck, Yvette Piret, Claire Rappin, Bastien Montes and Damien Trapletti
 

Production by the Cifas
 

A collaboration with L’âge de la tortue and the Centre culturel d’Anderlecht Escale du Nord
 

We would like to thank Cultureghem, Anne Watthee, Benoit Leclercq, Roberto Roméo, Philippe Voglaire, Nadera Chilah, Thomas Griffet, Adèle Pion, Cibely Ayres Silva, Solange Bontemps, Ariane Sadowski, Yvette Piret, Joëlle Piquet, Khadija El Maachi, Peter Clasen, Koen De Leeuw, Olivier Roisin, Mathilde Maillard, Gilbard and Anna Czapski.
 

In the context of the European Cooperation project Secondary Residence, coordinated by L’âge de la tortue and co-funded by the European commission (Erasmus+ program)
 

First stage:

As a preamble, the artist Anna Czapski for Cifas, had animated the first stage, in the cultural centre l'Escale du Nord. Anna and Charlotte David from Cifas had developed an intention to "have a good time". In other words, to provide a warm and human experience in the strict sense of the word and to avoid a more technical, cold and methodological experience in order to achieve the "thematic outcome" required by the protocol.
 

Also via various techniques, partly from the "Futurology of Cooperation" project, time was spent bonding, forming a group, sharing powerful and living affects. "How to mobilise knowledge without theorising? Starting from what is important for each of us, from the knowledge and intuitions that have accompanied and carried the participants for a long time, we looked for what unites us, what is the basis of a common yet specific experience of our city: Anderlecht.
 

We talked a lot, we sang, we drank and ate. From the strata of our memories, sometimes trans-generational, obvious things surfaced and we trusted these 'emanations' to give the trio a direction, a meaning rather than another. As memories, sensations, visions and experiences were shared, the formula "super multicultural party" became obvious, because Anderlecht is a truly extraordinary city, seen from this angle.

Second stage:
 

Secondary residence was held in Anderlecht (Brussels) from 23 to 29 January 2023. For a week, a resident of Anderlecht - Norma Prendergast -, an artist - Nicolas Mouzet Tagawa - and a local counselor - Evelyne Huytebroeck - lived together and developed an artistic project for the public space based on the theme previously defined by this group of Anderlecht residents: The super multicultural super party.
 

Nicolas Mouzet Tagawa
Originally from Marseille where he worked as an educator with "autistic" or "maladjusted" children, Nicolas Mouzet Tagawa has been living in Brussels for 14 years. He is now a stage director and set designer. His work, which always begins with the creation of a space, is said to be halfway between installation, performance and theatre. He is a teacher in the scenography workshop of the visual arts school of La Cambre.
 

Evelyne Huytebroeck
Brussels citizen, journalist by training, regional deputy for the green party from 1989 to 2019, including 10 years as Minister in charge of the environment, urban renewal, disabled people and youth. She is currently a local counselor in Forest and is involved in the Federation of European Green Parties.
 

Norma Prendergast
Norma Prendergast (Dublin 1968) arrived in Brussels in 1988. As an artist, she has been working on participatory projects in Anderlecht for the past 20 years. In these projects, inspired by the neighbourhood (the streets, the dreams of the neighbours....), the inhabitants are invited to participate in the design of a new house.