
EXPLO #5: CITY OF TONGUES / LANGUES / TONGEN / ألسنة
MILL
Gabrielle Petitstraat 4,
1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels
Invited artists
Ruben Bellinkx, Francesca Grilli, Pak Yan Lau, Karaoke Debate, Maurice Luijten, Mashid Mohadjerin, Elaine Mitchener, Soumaya Phéline, Leanders Schönweger, Tongues in Transit & Jivan van der Ende
Curated by
Aïda Gabriëls & Maarten Seghers
Programme
18:00-00:00 simultaneous and durational performances
20:00 The Forgetting of Air by Francesca Grilli (in collaboration with cinemaximiliaan)
21:00 announcement laureate MILL’s Beauty Reality Salon 2025
00:00 after party with expløder
*Drinks and food will be offered at democratic prices.
** The Forgetting of Air will also be presented on Sunday 19 October 2025 at Cinemaximiliaan
EXPLO #5: CITY OF TONGUES / LANGUES / TONGEN / ألسنة – a sonic journey with performances and artistic interventions by Ruben Bellinkx, Francesca Grilli, Pak Yan Lau, Karaoke Debate, Maurice Luijten, Mashid Mohadjerin, Elaine Mitchener, Soumaya Phéline, Leanders Schönweger & Tongues in Transit.
There’s a hum running under everything. A breath that doesn’t belong to one body.
City of Tongues is the fifth edition of EXPLO, Needcompany’s annual disruption of its own house. A one-day takeover of space and time. This year, stage director Aïda Gabriëls joins Maarten Seghers to shape a field of interference: a porous system of works, fragments, rituals and noises stitched into air.
Voice is not one: it cracks, stutters, multiplies.
The body is not symbolic: it acts, resists, forgets, relives.
Proximity becomes politics. Form becomes pressure.
Polyphony here is not harmony but collision. A choir without score, a city speaking through many mouths at once.
No stage, no path, no polite explanation.
EXPLO #5: CITY OF TONGUES / LANGUES / TONGEN / ألسنة
MILL
Gabrielle Petitstraat 4,
1080 Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Brussels
Invited artists
Ruben Bellinkx, Francesca Grilli, Pak Yan Lau, Karaoke Debate, Maurice Luijten, Mashid Mohadjerin, Elaine Mitchener, Soumaya Phéline, Leanders Schönweger, Tongues in Transit & Jivan van der Ende
Curated by
Aïda Gabriëls & Maarten Seghers
Programme
18:00-00:00 simultaneous and durational performances
20:00 The Forgetting of Air by Francesca Grilli (in collaboration with cinemaximiliaan)
21:00 announcement laureate MILL’s Beauty Reality Salon 2025
00:00 after party with expløder
*Drinks and food will be offered at democratic prices.
** The Forgetting of Air will also be presented on Sunday 19 October 2025 at Cinemaximiliaan
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