EXPLO #V - CITY OF TONGUES / LANGUES / TONGEN

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.

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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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