SUPERHOST: Apolemia

On Thursday 11 June, M HKA invites the Brussels-based collective Apolemia for a new edition of SUPERHOST.

Join us for an evening of live music, ongoing performance and hanging out conceived by Apolemia. Operating at the intersection of clubbing, performance and installation, the Brussels-based collective approaches the dancefloor as a mutable space for gathering, drifting attention and shared experience.

With Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Lydia McGlinchey, Martín Zícari and guests Debit, Iris Therasse, Carly Rae Heathcote, waltur and Nathan Ooms.

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Programme

SUPERHOST: Apolemia

8pm – 1am | M HKA, top floor

Join us for an evening of live music, ongoing performance and hanging out conceived by Apolemia. Operating at the intersection of clubbing, performance and installation, the Brussels-based collective approaches the dancefloor as a mutable space for gathering, drifting attention and shared experience.

Together with their guests, Apolemia transforms M HKA’s top floor into a shifting environment of live sets, vocal interventions and performative encounters. The evening moves gradually from intimate listening into a full DJ set and nightlife experience.

With Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Lydia McGlinchey, Martín Zícari and guests Debit, Iris Therasse, Carly Rae Heathcote, waltur and Nathan Ooms.

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Schedule

20:15 – 21:15

Iris Therasse

Live concert and performance

Expanded electronic guitar featuring live vocal interventions. Two voices become material together with electric guitar for the greater composition, resonating together.

Mario Barrantes Espinoza & Lydia McGlinchey

Vocal performance

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21:15 – 22:00

Debit (aka Delia Beatriz)

Desaceleradas: Live / Rebajada A/V — live concert

A compositional homage to cumbia rebajada and its inventor Sonido Dueñez, the performance draws from the spectral textures of slowed tapes, street dance grooves, and degraded harmonies of an archive that refuses to disappear.

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21:30 – 22:00

Lydia McGlinchey & Carly Rae Heathcote

Performance for Celebration — performance

In this performance Lydia McGlinchey extends her work on textile, performance and the context of nightlife.

Both sculpture and performer are treated as one continuous material, covered in flax, rotating slowly. Flax, a Flemish heritage material, is expanded into the artist’s experimental performance vocabulary. Taking on an opulent and celebratory cascade of gestures, the performance is both formal and festive, obscure and fully at home in the party.

The costume is made in close dialogue with artist Carly Rae Heathcote, who designs, envisions and constructs it.

This performance is an excerpt from a larger work being developed for the 20th anniversary of BUDA kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, to be presented on 20 June.

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22:00 – 23:30

waltur

DJ set

Moving between textured club patterns, muddy industrial atmospheres and dystopian carnival references, waltur expands the possibilities of dance(able) music. Initially emerging as an experimental gabber DJ through the founding of a female collective, her practice has since evolved into a multi-genre approach shaped by bass-heavy psychedelic textures and eclectic global hard music.

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23:00 – 00:00

Nathan Ooms

Honey House — performance

Blending choreography and theatricality, the performance unfolds through a relentless sequence of actions shaped by consumerism, self-optimisation and constant time pressure. Club music drives the body into continuous exertion within a shifting landscape of symbolic objects.

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23:30 – 01:00

Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss)

DJ set