Constant

Study Days: Mapping Otherwise

Wendy Van Wynsberghe — 2026-04-30T12:56:53Z

A workshop, followed by a talk and a conversation

How can mapping and spatial analysis be used to record and respond to urban conflict?

In the context of the recent arrival of Frontex in Brussels-Midi station, we will consider how mapping can be used to record and resist the militarization of urban space and how it can be used to support collective practices. We will consider mapping as a form of artistic research, activist practice, and a method that creates spatial encounters. Mapping otherwise is a participatory process that uses visual spatial language to analyse the workings of power with those who are subject to it. It is a way of questioning the conventions of standard cartography that sees from one point only (above) and removes experience. In this workshop we will consider how to create maps that are situated and that convey an everyday and lived knowledge of space from the point of view of those who are marginalised. The workshop will take these premises as its starting point: what to map, why and with whom.

Places are limited. Please register for the workshop before 11/05/2026 by sending an e-mail to: wendy(at)constantvzw.org

After a break, there will be a talk on Topological Atlas, a poetic research project by Nishat Awan* that visualises migration through digital, sensory and human perspectives, followed by a discussion. You can come to the talk without having followed the workshop, and vice versa.

Workshop: 15:00-18:00
Lecture on Topological Atlas: 19:00-20:00

*Bio
Nishat Awan's research focuses on the intersection of geopolitics and space, particularly on issues related to diasporas, migration and border regimes. She explores modes of representation in space, especially in the digital context, and the limits of testimony as a form of ethical engagement with distant places.
https://www.topologicalatlas.net/about/people

Spoken language: English.
The room and toilets are accessible for wheelchair users.

Constant_V: Q.A.B.U. Quantic Antics of the Borderless Underground

imane — 2026-04-29T09:45:20Z

Workshop: from 14:30 to 16:30
Opening installation: from 18:00 to 21:00

About the installation
Violence and resistance exist side by side. For violence to reproduce and go undetected, it must be justified and normalized, and for resistance to bloom, it must be groomed out of sight. Yet, making something invisible and becoming invisible tells two completely different stories.

Quantics Antics of the Borderless Underground (QABU) is a fictional exploration of resistance from humans and more-than-humans to the (in)visible forms of violence that we call 'borders'. Borders are everywhere, grow in all directions, and so does resistance, spreading through city networks beneath our feet, hidden in plain sight, and materialzing in the most unexpected creatures and places.

Through drawings and field recordings, this installation in Constant's window depicts possible elsewheres and elsewhens to denounce the colonial legacy of border narratives and instigate the social imagination against technofascism. Underground routes, mutant moles, and journeys across queer spacetime situate QABU and its authors within the deadly fiction of borders, made of surveillance, incarcerations, and displacements of discriminated-against bodies. Far from being an escape from structural inequality and systemic oppression, QABU's imaginary is a call for using existing tools to break the continuum of violence collectively.

About the workshop
Before the opening, we will organize a workshop to craft a shared urban language with special powers. We will create stencils that overlap with soundscapes and turn walls into dimensional portals between cities. What kind of places would you choose or imagine in a city to be part of QABU interdimensional resistance?

Places are limited. Please register to the workshop by sending an email to imane@constantvzw.org

Practical information
Where: Rue du fortstraat 5A, 1060 St-Gilles, Brussels
When: Thursday 21 May 2026
Accessibility : Constant's office does not have an accessible toilet. You can find more info about the accessibility of our space here.

!! POSTPONED!! - Gathering with the tricksters

imane — 2026-04-06T10:15:22Z

!! POSTPONED (new date tbc) !!

We would like to invite you for a session to take a look at the Trickster as the embodiment of the smuggler figure. An occulture process. Together we will work on invisibility, disappearing in the ultra technological system, and how to stop fearing boundaries.

In the Mexican coyote cartography, the fire was kept by a circle of unreachable flies, the world outside of the circle was left in the darkness. The coyote ran inside and put its tail on fire and then she burned the forest around; by this act the fire was set free and became accessible for everyone again.
By this holistic figure, we will explore counter knowledge. We will play together with the camouflage of our inner self, and looking for strategy to confront the surveillance technologies. This technopaganism workshop, will involve our body as a weapon, shapeshifting, discomfort, grey zone. Developing a language without words, as they listen to our whispers, we play with how the information we transmit can only become visible between the ones we trust.

When: Saturday 18 April from 11:00 to 17:00
Where: Constant Studio, Chaussée de Jette 388 Koekelberg
Accessibility : The Studio is fully accessible for wheelchairs. You can find more info about accessibility here.

You can subscribe to the workshop via cyberwitching@constantvzw.org.
You can bring your laptop and something to add to the food/snack table.
Let us know if you have any dietary restrictions as we will be providing lunch.

You are welcome to send us a few lines about yourself, or to share a poem, images, materials, etc., as a way of introducing yourself, without any obligation, simply to help prepare the group's energy.

Bio:

I'm Barb from "barbare" the one that don't speak the langage. Or Tipoe, Brad Pity, Maislusine, Barbaricade … other algorithms that i use inside the system to adapt . I'm a gatherer, a hopecore, a trans being, a spiritual anarchist. Living in the neuro_divergent pleasure world , with ptsd forces , that often drag me into the void. From this void I'm making swamps relying on radical resistance.

This session is part of a research trajectory initiated in collaboration with Constant's "cobwebs". This research is supported through the framework of one of Constant's artistic commission of 2026.

Cauldron for conspiracy gathering

imane — 2026-02-27T09:45:20Z

For the first session of the cyberwitching gatherings series, we invite you to come together in a collective moment of sharing and speculation around experimental tactics rooted in magickal practices and hacking legacies.

If witches are seen as energy benders, can we read programmers, guided by code, functions and the currents flowing through circuits as spell casters or magick potions? Can we create counter spells to infiltrate Ethernet cables, corporate server farms and shield ourselves from surveillance systems like biometric tracking, predictive policing algorithms, etc.? How do we lift the veil to get out of the spell that entraps us in cyber and techno dependencies to reclaim alternative technologies against technofascism?

We are organising a moment to meet on the 23rd of march 2026 at Constant studio, Chaussée de Jette 388 for a first get together. Bring your homemade spells, hacking stories and technodisobedient tactics to see how we can form a shared practice of cyberwitching.

This session is part of a research trajectory initiated in collaboration with constant's cobwebs. This research is supported through the framework of one of Constant's commission of 2026.

Practical:
When: Monday 23 March 2026 from 16:00 – 18:30
Where: Constant Studio, Jetsesteenweg 388 Chaussée de Jette, 1081 Koekelberg, Brussels
Accessibility : The Studio is fully accessible for wheelchairs. More info about accessibility
Registration: Please email imane@constantvzw.org

Unbordering

Donatella — 2026-01-26T14:19:59Z

During 2026 Constant's research focuses on the question of technologies of repression and control used at borders.

Unbordering is a call to critically and radically rethink the technological apparatus of visual control erected near and far from European borders. It is a dive into repressive and authoritarian technologies as an internalisation of the violent politics of Fortress Europe. Unbordering examines border technologies in order to unravel the ways in which the border becomes a means of making violent cuts, literally and figuratively, across bodies, lives, livelihoods, cultures, nations and ecosystems.