At CIAP, Lodewijk Heylen is conducting the 14 week long experiment Minecraft Ecologies. During the opening hours of the exhibition, several computers will be available for visitors to play the popular game Minecraft. On a communal server, everyone will be able contribute to this alternative world. Every player will be asked to communicate with the others in a chatroom. These conversations are then automatically converted to text and transmitted in real time during the exhibition. All conversations will be gathered in a log. Minecraft Ecologies is an attempt to expose the limits and possibilities of a self-sufficient system. The collected data will give rise to an all-encompassing experiment, in which technology and human interaction assume a central position.

A group show with works of Sara Bachour, Anaïs Chabeur, Emile Hermans, Kornel Janczy, Rokko Miyoshi, Ingel Vaikla, Julita Wójcik and curated by Alicja Melzacka.
In typography, ‘widows’ and ‘orphans’ are the lines standing alone at the top or bottom of a page, separated from the core paragraph. Here, they function as an analogy for other entities that have been purposely or accidentally detached from their context, and whose meanings become subject to renegotiation. The field of arts is where those proverbial widows and orphans can gather and where new and old interpretations can be generated, challenged, and debated. This exhibition presents seven different artistic positions coming into dialogue with one another and with the exceptional, symbolically-charged space of CIAP. It features both emerging as well as more established international artists, who in their own ways address the mechanisms of meaning-making, remembering, and forgetting that shape the entirety of our cultural landscapes – from personal souvenirs to landmarks of power.

This fall, CIAP will again present three special exhibitions, opening on the 17th of november at 17h:
- Visual artist Leen Voet (BE, 1971) presents a new series of large-scale oil paintings on canvas: The series Alda & Armand consists of three exact reproductions and of four variations, which have been interpreted more loosely or have been geometrically transformed.
- A group show with works of Sara Bachour, Anaïs Chabeur, Emile Hermans, Kornel Janczy, Rokko Miyoshi, Ingel Vaikla, Julita Wójcik and curated by Alicja Melzacka.
- At CIAP, Lodewijk Heylen is conducting the 14 week long experiment Minecraft Ecologies, an attempt to expose the limits and possibilities of a self-sufficient system.

Excursion to Art Düsseldorf, K21 and K20. More info here.

Op zondag 18 november is het weer zover: de zevende editie van Kunstendag voor Kinderen! Een dag waarop kinderen en hun ouders kunst in al haar disciplines kunnen beleven. Cultuurhuizen en organisaties over heel Vlaanderen en Brussel organiseren tal van fijne activiteiten. Ook bij CIAP is iedereen, en zijn in het bijzonder de kinderen, welkom!