NUCLEO creëert ruimte voor de artistieke ontwikkeling van kunstenaars.
UFO Publiek Programma #8
Cas-co Leuven
SUPPORT
SUPPORT
De achtste editie van UFO’s publieksprogramma wordt mede georganiseerd door Cas-co & Level Five. Tijdens deze editie nodigen we 7 internationale en nationale programmatoren en curatoren uit.
Het UFO visitors programma zal een PUBLIEK moment houden. Dit is een manier voor de gasten om zich voor te stellen, te delen op welke manier ze kunstenaars ondersteunen en wat ze binnenin hun lokale context ondernemen. Op dit publiek programma kan je de gasten op een informele manier ontmoeten en met hen in gesprek gaan.
GASTEN
- Stephanié Robin, Les Frenoy, Tourcoing, Frankrijk
- Keren Detton, FRAC Grand/Large, Frankrijk
- Ariane Skoda, CWB Paris, Frankrijk
- Aïda Sidhoum, Kunstinstituut Melly, Nederland
- Klaartje Esch, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, Nederland
- Simon Delobel, KIOSK, Gent, België
- Wanneer?
Donderdag 14 mei 2026
- Programma
12u Performative walk with Jonas Beerts
Open your mouth.
Show me your tongue.
Lay your heart on it.
Carry it gently.Welcome to The Swollen Tongue Tour.
It is getting close to noon. We should start moving. As we go, the city passes through us. Intestines intertwine with streets and alleys. Hunger is present. You will be guided from cas-co to a full belly. Let’s forage between cracks and corners, but remember: whatever you eat, always eats you back a little bit too.
13u Lunch by Jonas Beerts: Picnic lunch with artists, team, and curators
14u Public programme ‘Daydreaming together for the next decade’
In the third decade of the 21st century, the conditions for artistic production are being fundamentally (again?) reshaped. Amid overlapping crises — economic precarity, institutional instability, and shifting cultural priorities — artists and the organisations that support them navigate an increasingly fragile ecosystem.
Residency programmes, atelier organisations, and development platforms have long sustained artistic practice. Yet today, their mandates and resources are under pressure. What does it mean to “support” artists now? What forms of development remain relevant — and which must be reimagined?
This panel brings together curators, cultural workers, and organisers to reflect on evolving infrastructures of support. Moving beyond inherited models, it asks how residency formats, development programs and institutional responsibilities might be rethought in ways that are equitable, sustainable, and responsive to artists’ needs.
Rather than offering fixed answers, the conversation opens a space for collective speculation: what should we preserve, abandon, or invent? It examines the tension between artistic ambition and institutional precarity, asking how support structures can evolve without reproducing exhaustion, extraction, or inequality.
Format: The discussion will adopt a fishbowl format, allowing participants to move fluidly between listening and speaking roles. This structure invites a multiplicity of voices — artists, organisers, and audience members — into the conversation, reflecting the collective and evolving nature of artistic support systems today.
Duration 1h20min
16u (optional) Visit Exhibitions at Cas-co: Meet the artists of p.o.l.e.collective + Sofia Boubolis & Stans Vrijsen
Language: English
