101 Liters Alchemy

Artists: Melanie Ganino, Chris-Armel Iradukunda, Stef Assandri, Gregor Petrikovič, Maria Stuut, Jere, annat maria MaratKovich, Emily Zuberec, Borderdisorder, Asli Hatipoglu, and Tehani Amarasuriya

About the Exhibition

The doors are open. The threshold is humming.

You are invited to cross into Reactor — a space where distortion, ritual, and digital/analog alchemy coexist in a fragile dance.

We toast collectively, chaotically to collaboration and transformation. To lichen mutants and AI extensions, to the poetry of borders, to the infinite loop of suffering turning into wellbeing.

A ritual begins somewhere between one and zero, between autumn and static. Cheers to the distorted voices of more-than-human intelligence rippling through the house, unsettling walls.

Reactor is where digital minds read poetry in physical air. Where silence interrupts noise for the benefit of new speech.

Cheers to everything that is still mutating.

Program Schedule

Friday

• 17:00: Doors Open

• 19:00: Workshop by Stef Assandri: “Los ecos del silencio” (1h15' / EN)

• 22:00: Doors Close

Saturday

• 17:00: Doors Open

• 20:00: Music performance by Jere: Electric transition ft. Maria Stuut (45' / ESP/EN)

• 21:00: Performance by Borderdisorder (40' / EN/YU)

• 22:00: Doors Close

Ongoing & Featured Works

• Chris-Armel Iradukunda — Performative Installation: Prototypes & Research for "Twofold Alienated" (EN/FR)

• Gregor Petrikovič — Polaroid series: Malum Mostra

• Melanie Ganino & Maria Stuut — Performative installation: Quantic pool stories, on rat war and other possibilities

• Emily Zuberec — FIRST ENCOUNTER / TOURING MONUMENTS

• annat maria MaratKovich — objets trouvés

Menu: PANDAN (Thai-Sri Lankan Pop-Up Kitchen)

Curated by Asli Hatipoglu & Tehani Amarasuriya

• Oyster mushroom spiced potato croquettes with fermented smoked tomato relish and pickles — €6.50

• Tom kha pumpkin coconut soup with coriander and chilli — €7.00

• Steamed jasmin rice plate with Thai hunglay curry or Thai yellow curry with sweet potatoes, Sri Lankan spiced seasonal vegetable curry, lacto-fermented pickles, and fresh coconut cucumber salad — €12.50

• Coconut panna cotta with fermented dragon fruit or plum sauce with coconut crumble — €4.00

All options are vegan and gluten-free available.

Drinks: Homemade kefir and kombuchas.

Featured Artists

Melanie Ganino

Weaves her practice around photography, worldbuilding, and witchcrafting into magical objects and daily allies for transformation.

Gregor Petrikovič

An artist and filmmaker exploring human connection and alienation in the digital age through a blend of philosophy, movement, and visual storytelling.

Chris-Armel Iradukunda

Also known in his expired passport as daqhris, an interdisciplinary artist from Burundi (born 1992). For many human years, he documented his walks all around Belgium using photography—an art form that ultimately led to his exile.

Jere

A musician, songwriter, poet, and fanzine artist who puts the focus on everyday hidden magic.

Maria Stuut

A biologist turned artist with an inexplicable fondness for cabbage, working with film, performance, music, and writing. With a microscope in one hand and a mirror in the other, she lets her body wander into encounters, exploring her environment through a personal, lyrical, and tragicomic lens.

Emily Zuberec

A writer and cultural worker living between Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and Brussels. She is the founder and managing editor of Commo Magazine, public programmer at Dye Jardin Papillon community garden, and co-founder of the reading series One Long One.

annat maria MaratKovich

Also known as Mrs. Kovich, an artist, writer, researcher, and illustrator exploring everyday experiences through critical speculative fiction, material foraging, dressing up, and daydreaming.

Stef Assandri

An artist, researcher, and designer born in Montevideo in 1989. In recent years, they have explored and researched practices relating migration, gender, and anti-speciesism through writing, performance, and costumes.

(B)ORDER DI3ORDER

A sensory, sound, and performative project—a cathartic cleansing and a magic spell against the increasingly toxic relationship between EEA and non-EEA countries on the continent. They present a three-act performance carried by algorithmic and allegorical poetry, rudimentary electromagnetic noise, heavy bass kicks, dungeon synth melodies, anti-visuals, ecstatic dance, and the uneasy voices of a Balkan women's choir.

Asli Hatipoglu & Tehani Amarasuriya

• Aslı Hatipoğlu (TH/TR): An interdisciplinary artist whose social practice focuses on curating participatory dinners and installations that shed light on how culinary history and agricultural politics change our relationship to food.

• Tehani Amarasuriya: A multidisciplinary artist from Sri Lanka striving for work that is anti-capitalist, political, and queer.