MINDBLOWERS 2022: Amor

These speakers have confirmed:

• An Jacobs is a professor at VUB. For Mindblowers, she delves into intimacy with non-human actors – think for example of how robots and technology are used today in the care sector and for sexual pleasure.
• Kim Snauwaert and Anyuta Wiazemsky Snauwaert got married in 2018 – not for romantic reasons, but to work on a durable form of community and to redefine marriage as part of a joint art project.
• Tom Deliens, Professor in Movement and Sports Sciences at VUB, proclaims his love for the body, for food, for eating and moving together, …
• Lars De Laet, Professor of Architecture at VUB, finds love in bridges, both in a practical and a symbolic sense. For example, the Quechua community builds a new bridge every year, and in civil engineering bridges are seen as works of art.
• Tine Hens, journalist and author of De wereld die we delen [The World We Share], talks about our love for the planet and how we are already grieving things we will lose due to climate change.
• Khalid Benhaddou, Diversity and Inclusion Commissioner at UGent, director of research centre CIRRA and Belgium’s youngest imam, focuses on neighbourly love and charity, and how we can be more understanding of various expressions of love and culture.
• Bahar Temiz, dancer, choreographer and KVS face, brings an updated version of her creation In Love (2014-16), a two-part solo performance in which she investigates how love can arise from objects. Together with sound designer Charo Calvo.
• Liliane Saint-Pierre, Belgian pop icon, singer of the Eurovision hit Soldiers of Love and LGBTQIA+ rights pioneer, performs her greatest hits.

Students Tiphaine Clerincx and Jeremy Tshiyembi Kayoka will be Masters of Ceremony on this inspiring evening.

SebCat, the inspirer of Rebel Up will delight us with sultry records from all over the world, and then passes the torch to Sina Nimone, two former radio students at RITCS, who will continue the party until 1am.