MELTING is an investigation of various questions related to the scientific, economic and psychological reasons for, and consequences of, our presumed current climate crisis.

Performance: Amund Sjølie Sveen
Installation: Lawrence Malstaf
Music by Slagr

water surface and 46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m  by David Bowen are included in Re-embodied: From Information to Sculpture a group exhibition at the Telfair Museum in Savannah (US).

Oxalys - Chamber Music
with a.o Trio for flute, viola & harp
by Annelies Van Parys

Claire Lefiliâtre & Oxalys
Bohuslav Martinu, Nonet
Canteloube, Chants d'Auvergne
(arr. Annelies Van Parys) 

On a beach near Calais a young refugee prepares himself to swim across the Channel, towards his new future. 
The new text by author Gaea Schoeters is mirrored by recently recovered Shakespeare-text. Composer Annelies Van Parys uses the Shakespeare-text as a libretto for a cycle of songs, which set the refugee theme in a historical perspective.
Scenography by Anneleen De Causmaecker.

Avant-première:
Opera XXI, Antwerpen (B): 24 April 2017
Première:
Opera Days Rotterdam (NL): 11 - 13 May 2017

Mesut Arslan places the actors and the text in artist Lawrence Malstaf’s installation of spinning tops. The audience is gathered around an open arena in which not only the tops, but also the characters, start revolving around each other. In this way the director sets the inner identity of a family and the surrounding audience in motion. 

With Christoph De Boeck (B), Raymond Gervais (CA), Aernoudt Jacobs (B), Anne-Françoise Jacques (CA), Rolf Julius (D), Yann Leguay (F/B) et Gaétan Rusquet (B), Bernhard Leitner (AT), Lawrence Malstaf (B/NO), Dominique Petitgand (F), Martin Tétreault (CA) and Dieb13 (AT), Davide Tidoni (IT/B), Katerina Undo (GR/B). 
Curated by Nicole Gingras.

New publication by Samuel Bianchini and Erik Verhagen (editors) with the collaboration of Nathalie Delbard and Larisa Dryansky.
Published by MIT Press, Leonardo Book Series.
904 pp. | 7 x 9 in | 164 b&w illus. | Hardcover | ISBN: 9780262034753

Tom Kok is accepted for a residency at Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)

David Bowen is invited to participate in the Autodesk Pier 9 Artist in Residence program, San Francisco (US)  from 1 February until 31 May 2017.

The compulsory work for the semi-final Cello 2017 is written by Belgian composer Annelies Van Parys. Chacun(e) sa chaconne will be world premiered on Monday 15 May at 15:00 at Flagey/Studio 4, Brussels.

The projects around the MOCO, a new center of contemporary art directed by Nicolas Bourriaud in Montpellier, are becoming more precise.
In October 2017, they will exhibit Belgian artist Jacques Charlier, a conceptual artist who creates unclassifiable work interspersed with humour and with references to art history, punk music, Belgian surrealism or American avant-gardes ... .