Feral 2026 Pirate - Let's do it 'rough weather network'
In the frame of the festival ‘Feral 2026 -Pirate’ b. bordoni (IT) & nat skoczylas (DE/EE), 2 artists from PLACE Performing Landscapes are inviting you to their workshop
rough weather network, a countercartography for pirating the institutions
In this workshop critical theory will meet speculative praxis, and sci-fi scenarios the commons, to materialise utopias.
The group will explore strategies of leaking, unsealing, turning upside down, cracking open, parasiting existing infra/structures, resources and accesses.
Participants will undercommon what they already have, and radicalise what needs clarity, grounding and direction. The group will start from situated experiences, positioning themselves within the socio-cultural ecology they are urgently called to act within, using the “treasure map” as a tool for conspiracy.
How do we build strategies of solidarity to survive the precarious times we are in? What scales do we operate on?
Feral is a festival that reflects on today’s urgent political and social issues, and how artists take them into their hands. It is a programme of artistic interventions and encounters that uses art to influence everyday life in Brussels. Feral can take place on a boat, on a farm, in a swimming pool or an old monastery.
Feral’s 2026 edition will explore the figure of the pirate and what remains of its legacy : from hacking practices to citizen-led initiatives, from forms of collective care to artistic and ecological experiments, we are seeing the emergence of practices that subvert existing frameworks to produce new knowledge, share resources and build community. A selection of speakers -artists, researchers, activists and on the ground practitioners- we will form a temporary assembly of pirates to explore the places, practices and stories that are experimenting with alternative ways of inhabiting the world and organising collectively.
September 2026
b bordoni (IT)
b bordoni is an artist and researcher based in Turin, working at the intersection of art, ecology and pedagogy. Through site-specific installations, participatory processes and relational practices, their research investigates present-day power asymmetries and the ecologies of the future. They develop new postures of proximity and listening between bodies, rooted in degrowth, reclaimed materials, and DIY methodologies.
nat skoczylas (DE/EE)
nat skoczylas is a gender queer Slavic witch living between Berlin and Massiaru (Estonia). As an artist, they’re interested in food and alternative economies: the ways beer making can transport us back into the taverns filled with gossiping womnx; how pickled cucumbers ground us into the ancestral and anti-colonial dimensions of where we come from; how we can anchor ideas into seasonal rituals. As an activist, they are building various collective structures, with a strong faith in interdependence, mutual aid, and the communal.
Hiatus in co-production with:
Cifas a place of learning and experimentation for performing art in the city and its fringes, based in Brussels.
Bethlen Theatre – Bethlen Square Theater with a 95-year legacy, has operated in its current form since 2012, supporting contemporary performing arts and local artists.
Norwegian Landscape Theatre is a creative production company of theatre maker, gardener and researcher Tormod Carlsen.
In the frame of PLACE Performing Landscapes
PLACE is co-funded by the Creative Europe Cultural Programme.