programme around the uncharted exhibition

Speculative Ecology Workshop

27.09 (all ages – as from 12 years old) • ISELP
11.10 (for kids between 7 and 12 years old) • ISELP
14:00 → 17:00
Free • By reservation: accueil@iselp.be • In french

During this workshop, the duo Fen & Zorg invite participants to immerse themselves in their research process to imagine new forms of relationships with the non-human — whether plant, mineral, bacterial or waste-derived.
Between field research and poetic drift, their approach subverts the codes of the so-called ‘natural’ sciences by creating forms of science fiction that cultivate our inter-species connections.
Using tools such as collection sheets, you will be guided to explore, glean and collect residues, traces or waste, both inside the ISELP and outside (Passage de Milan, Parc d’Egmont).
Through assemblage and collage, each participant will then create an educational poster to recount their experience and imagine new narratives between species.
Fen & Zorg is a Brussels-based duo of transdisciplinary artists whose practice combines visual arts and speculative storytelling.

Art, ecology and transformation: rethinking our relationship with living things.

Encounter with Nathalie Blanc
01.10 • ISELP
18:30 → 20:00
8€ / 0€ • In french

Nathalie Blanc, director of research at the CNRS and head of the Centre for Earth Policies at Paris Cité University, is a leading voice in environmental humanities in France. At the crossroads of art and ecology, she questions our ways of inhabiting the world in an era marked by the Anthropocene.
Her lecture invites us to listen to artists’ sensitive responses to the fragility of the Earth, to explore how art forges new links between humans and their environment, opening up new ways of thinking about transformation and coexistence with living beings. A journey between thought and creation, to rethink our relationship with the world that sustains us.

Guided visit

4.10 • ISELP
15:00 → 16:30
Free • Reservation recommended: accueil@iselp.be • In french

With Camilla Colombo, curator, and Lisa Ardoin, researcher in glaciology (ULB).

Discover the exhibition uncharted through a guided tour led by curator Camilla Colombo (Ohme) accompanied by scientific experts.
This approach combines artistic and scientific perspectives to shed new light on the works. An enriching interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals the links between artistic creation and scientific research.

The River and The Devil

16.10 • Académie royale de Belgique
19:00 → 21:00
8€ / 0€ • By reservation: accueil@iselp.be • In english

The River and The Devil invites the audience into the ruins of a disappearing river.
During colonial times in the Bolivian Andean Plateau, the river Desaguadero and its uncontrollable forces were demonized as ‘the Devil’ by colonial settlers. Since then, centuries of extraction have dried up the river, transforming it from water to salt. In The River and The Devil, Paula Almiron reimagines the Devil not as a destructive force but as the guardian of the river, exploring resilience and the remnants of fragmented histories.
Combining dance, fiction and collective storytelling, The River and The Devil evokes a sense of living among ruins, asking what remains when a river disappears. Mythological figures and spirits that once protected the river linger as echoes in this haunting meditation on loss and endurance.
This performance is co-presented with the Kennisnesten project led by the VUB, which brings together science, social engagement and art to foster dialogue and new perspectives. The event will be followed by a conversation between the choreographer and a researcher, reflecting on the scientific questions that inspired the piece.

Museum Night Fever

18.10 • ISELP
19:00 → 01:00
Free • More info: museumnightfever.be

ISELP and Ohme are participating in the 18th edition of Museum Night Fever!
On the programme: a sensory and musical immersion at the heart of the uncharted exhibition.
This event will be inspired by one of the most powerful forces on Earth: the volcano. An ambivalent symbol of creation and destruction, transformation and instability, it becomes here a metaphor for the thresholds we cross – between solid and liquid, visible and invisible, known and unknown.
A night of echoes and tremors, punctuated by sound and visual interventions that will make you vibrate in resonance with the deep movements of the planet—between matter, music, and magma.

Other sensitive issues. What does environmental history tell us?

Encounter with Grégory Quenet
29.10 • ISELP
18:30 → 20:00
8€ / 0€ • Reservation recommended: accueil@iselp.be • In french

Grégory Quenet is a professor at Paris-Saclay University, a pioneer in environmental history in France, and co-director of the Environmental Humanities department at the Collège des Bernardins. He offers a reinterpretation of history by integrating interactions between humans and non-humans and rethinking our relationship with time, space, and living beings. Through the prism of environmental history, he opens up avenues for imagining other narratives, both sensitive and situated. In resonance with uncharted, this lecture will be followed by a discussion with the exhibition’s curator, Camilla Colombo, and the audience.

Guided visit

08.11 • ISELP
15:00 → 16:30
Free • Reservation recommended: accueil@iselp.be • In french

Discover the exhibition uncharted through a guided tour led by curator Camilla Colombo (Ohme) accompanied by Lisa Ardoin, researcher in glaciology (ULB).
This approach combines artistic and scientific perspectives to shed new light on the works. An enriching interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals the links between artistic creation and scientific research.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Brussels Art Film Festival
15.11 . ISELP
15:00 • More info: baffestival.be

Documentary by Sofie Benoot.

Stones are one of the most fundamental but overlooked parts of our world. When a fictitious nature documentary narrator begins to investigate her kidney stone, she decides to tell one more story about this forgotten world of stone. Apple Cider Vinegar is a hypnotic essay film asking urgent ecological questions that takes the viewer on a journey meeting Palestinian stone masons, passionate British geologists and people living on the lava fields of Fogo.​
The screening will be accompanied by a conversation with director Sofie Benoot, offering insights into her work and the film’s themes in the context of the uncharted exhibition.

Beyond the Map – On listening, measuring, and imagining the unexplored

Conversation with Els Viaene, Frank Pattyn of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie – Department of Geosciences, Environment, Society (ULB) and Raoul Sommeillier (Ohme).
26.11 • ISELP
18:30 → 20:00
8€ / 0€ • Reservation recommended: accueil@iselp.be • In english

How can we explore what resists being seen, heard or fully known?
This conversation brings together sound artist Els Viaene and Frank Pattyn from the ULB’s Department of Glaciology and moderator Raoul Sommeillier (Ohme) to reflect on different ways of approaching the unknown, through scientific research and sensory experience.
From the vast and remote landscapes of Antarctica to the inaudible movements of ice, the dialogue revolves around how art and science trace, translate and sometimes imagine what lies beyond the limits of perception.

In collaboration with Laser Talks Brussels.