Far from constituting a mausoleum that would contribute to the canonization of the heritage of Francophone Belgian culture, the Centre alias Le Vaisseau is a non-prescribing place with an experiential vocation, a catalyst of reference for the contemporary creation known as Belgian and the artistic ecosystem in its transversality. Through a resolutely de-sanctuarizing and a-trans-disciplinary programming, the Center is mandated to disseminate and promote the signatures of artists based in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. It thus ensures the promotion of emerging or established talents, from the peripheral to the dedicated. It helps to stimulate international co-productions and partnerships and to crystallize attention in favor of the so-called Belgian scene. The Centre unveils, by season, artistic approaches that attest to the irreducibility to a common denominator of porous territories of contemporary creation. Located in the 4th district of Paris, its programming is spread over more than 1000 m2\. Belgian decentralized vessel, in addition to the programming it deploys in-situ, it also implements programming outside-the-walls and invests cyberspace as a territory of creation and propagation with dedicated content. The Centre is a decentralised service of Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI): instrument of the international policy conducted by Wallonia, the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Commission communautaire française de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.
Sound installation by Simon Mahungu — "fragments of a moving memory" #days of intercession #((((int…
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Modern and Contemporary Arts
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Centre Wallonie Bruxelles/Paris
127 rue Saint Martin 75010 Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
The festival ((((interference_S)))) _ festival of sound substrate _ is the banner of self-differentiating, self-publishing research - a festival of the unpredictable, decoding, carried by artists limiting buried realities and unsuspected sounds.
It unfolds in the spaces of the Centre via an anarkhè-exhibition that aggregates research-creations that probe the sounds of the visual installation to the radio creations, but also the time of events called 'days of intercession'.
These days propose to extend the challenges of the festival by creating moments of condensation: Moments when works cease to be stabilized entities to become active and become situations in the making, protocols of experience, collective ecologies.
They take place, they occupy, they overflow.
Workshops, activations of works, collaborative works, edible proposals, performances, live, concerts.
Here, Simon Mahungu — "fragments of a moving memory"
Fragments of a moving memory explores memory as a language in circulation. From sound archives and voices collected between Brussels and Kinshasa, Simon Mahungu composes a polyphony of fragments, silences and resonances. The project reveals a poetry of memories in transformation, where languages, bodies and imaginaries cross and rewrite each other.
Fragments of a Memory in Motion is a sound installation project that questions the contemporary circulation of voices and archives. Hosted in residence as part of the interference_S program initiated by the Wallonia-Brussels Centre, in dialog with Archipel / Salé 2026, Simon Mahungu develops a research where memory is considered as a process in transformation, always in progress.
In collaboration with the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, he works with ethnographic sound collections from colonial contexts. These archives are linked to sounds of the present: Fragments of lyrics, tablecloths recorded between Brussels and Kinshasa, voices in transit and sounds produced at the very moment of listening.
By bringing these materials together in the same space, the artist brings out unpredictable dialogs where memory is recomposed in real time, in contact with the public. His approach is not to restore the past, but to cross it, to observe what it becomes when it flows between different bodies, territories and temporalities.
This approach also involves a critical reflection on the conditions of existence of archives: Who speaks, who listens, and in what context. The artistic gesture aims to move these memories, to free them from any geographical, historical or institutional assignment, in order to reveal their living and relational dimension.
At the heart of this practice, poetry acts as a method. It makes it possible to connect fragments, to reveal silences and absences, and to transform listening into a sensitive experience. Each sound becomes a related matter, contributing to a writing in motion.
Anchored in postcolonial thinking, the project asserts that memories do not have a unique origin, but are built in circulation and dialog. Between Brussels and Kinshasa, between colonial archives and contemporary voices, the installation composes a moving polyphony where visible and invisible narratives, missing fragments and ghostly presences intersect.
Fragments of a moving memory thus offers a sensory and reflexive experience where archives become active materials, capable of transforming themselves in the present and opening up new ways of inhabiting listening.
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Centre Wallonie Bruxelles/Paris
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127 rue Saint Martin 75010 Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles 127-129, rue Saint Martin – 75004 Paris Reception and exhibition room Metro Châtelet-Les-Halles, Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville
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