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Decay

Le Pavillon

Pepa Ivanova

Part animal documentary, part erotic film and part science fiction film, Cindy Coutant&#8217;s high definition camera follows the (fictional) day of a group of snails. The gastropods, the stars of this short film, are bathed in a light that is sometimes pink, sometimes blue. From sunrise to sunset, the snails advance in a slow ascent, out of time and following the Earth&#8217;s axis. Télédésir, a thirty-minute film, follows their nonchalant rhythm and love-making. 
The animal reproduction takes on a theatrical, even supernatural dimension, enhanced by the soundtrack of Théo Pozoga, a musician and DJ also known as &#8220;Strip Steve&#8221;.
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Télédésir

Cindy Coutant

Econtinuum invites us to dive into the ecosystem of trees. This work is a collaboration between the artist Thijs Biersteker and the Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso. Before our eyes, it creates a conversation between two trees as it might happen underground, showing how the two species can warn each other of danger, how they share nutrients and how they learn from each other. As visitors enter the system, they realise that the roots respond to their presence and learn from their habits, forming a futuristic ecosystem of shared knowledge. 
The system is equipped with two sensors. Each one represents a tree and captures data on humidity, pressure, temperature, CO2 and the level of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the exhibition space. These sensors are combined with artificial intelligence that mimics inter-tree communication from a large network of scientific data.

Econtinuum

Thijs Biersteker

Japanese artist Aki Inomata draws a parallel between the behaviour of hermit crabs that change their shells when they get too big or are simply chased away by another species, and that of humans and their migratory movements. 
The artist started with shells used by hermit crabs, which she scanned to reproduce an exact copy with the addition of urban landscapes, all 3D printed. 
For both Aki Inomata and Thomas Thwaites, their work is an exploration and displacement of our perception of others and ourselves by observing the living.

Why Not Hand Over a "Shelter" to Hermit Crabs?

Aki Inomata

The bacteria that live on your body outnumber your own cells.  While we have 23,000 genes, our microbiome can contain up to 2 million unique bacterial genes.  There is a lot of emerging research on the role of all the microorganisms cohabit our body and personal traits, such as mood, behavior and health.  These findings unseat our relationship with notions of identity and genetic determinism; do I exhibit certain traits because of genes I inherited, because of the environment I was raised in, or because of the biome I have acquired through a lifetime of kissing and touching? 
Kisses from the Future consists of a series of self portraits exploring a decentralized identity composed of the multi-species constellation that is a microbiome. This project examines the impact of microorganisms living in the body that impact mood and behavior- elements that we typically associate with a sense of “self”, but is co-made with other species.

Kisses from the future

Ani Liu

Thomas Thwaites is a British designer who, through the creation of his objects, explores the psychological and social impact of technologies. For over a year, he conducted research to prepare himself to spend three days living like a goat in the Swiss Alps. He built an exoskeleton to adapt his bipedal body to that of a quadruped, and created a prosthetic artificial stomach to allow him to feed on grass, just like a goat. For several days he lived among the herd, observing distinctions in the natural world that he had not previously perceived, and observing the world from new perspectives, in a desire to step out of himself and distance himself from an anthropocentric vision.

Goatman

Thomas Thwaites

In 25 woodworms, sound artist Zimoun captures the sounds emitted by 25 woodworms encased in a piece of bark. Using a simple device, a microphone placed above the bark, the artist makes the invisible presence of the living creatures audible to the human ear.

25 woodworms

In 25 woodworms, sound artist Zimoun captures the sounds emitted by 25 woodworms encased in a piece of bark. Using a simple device, a microphone placed above the bark, the artist makes the invisible presence of the living creatures audible to the human ear. 
The sound produced seems to follow its own swarm logic, but this is just an impression because it is actually random. Only animals like termites and ants follow their own logic; woodworms do not adopt this behaviour. Each one emits a unique sound sequence that is born purely of the moment. In 25 woodworms, some 20 individual sounds reveal themselves to us.

Zimoun

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KIKK in town

KIKK invades the whole city with an art exhibition in 20 different indoor and outdoor locations. Discover the city in a different way thanks to this journey including monumental and interactive installations!

Kikk in tOwn

ENTER.black is a young company bringing together two artists with a common goal: to make digital tangible by producing physical and hybrid artistic installations.

ENTER.black

The Metamorpheur is a personalized photocall that uses micromapping and an intuitive interface. A disruptive booth that projects evocative patterns on the faces of its guests, making them a part of the art piece. Alone or with others, spectators can select their favorite projections and collect their portraits through a web-app or instant printing.

The Metamorpheur

KIKK Market

ENTER.BLACK

At ODD our mission is to unlock the fun, inspiring, educational and therapeutic powers of music for everyone, through playful but powerful smart products.

ODD Ball is the first ball in the world to make music. It connects to the ODD App, where you can choose 100s of sounds from percussions, keys, guitars and more. You can play over your favorite artists using Spotify or Apple Music, record and create a full track, sample your voice and share your creations with your friends.
It works as a wireless MIDI controller and is sensitive to the intensity of the bounce. Every time you bounce, tap, slap, catch, spin or juggle the ball, the app will play a sound through the phone&#8217;s internal speaker or any headphone or speaker connected to the phone.

ODD Ball

Play and create music by simply bouncing a ball 

Born in 2015 during an educational workshop led by the Master ITER (Innovation and Territory) and the LabEx ITEM (Innovation and Mountain Territories), at the Institute of Alpine Geography in Grenoble, France, the Losonnante project was initiated by Sébastien Depertat, joined in 2017 by Thomas Bonnenfant.

Losonnante

Losonnante is an original sound installation in that it offers a bone conduction listening experience. The sound is therefore not projected into space through the air, it travels along the elbows, arms, hands to the ears.

Bone conduction audio terminals

La niche is a digital agency specializing in the collaborative design of relevant solutions to boost your growth. From project management to digital strategies, from interface design to user experience, from application development to maintenance, from SEO to online marketing, from data intelligence to reporting, our team of experts are at the forefront of all the areas of the digital world. Our involvement and our passion have led us to collaborate with many clients and help them design quality digital projects that make sense. In this way, La niche offers a strategic and operational partnership to ambitious digital startups.

La Niche

Digital Agency

Zafi Cycles is a start-up that manufactures wooden bicycle frames that are 100% made in Belgium. 
Manufacturing wooden bicycles combines technology and craftsmanship to create an exclusive and innovative product. Its technical qualities (performance and comfort) and its timeless aesthetics make it a unique object capable of satisfying the simple amateur or the experienced cyclist.
In fact, wood is a great engineering material because its cellular structure acts as a network of natural shock absorbers, absorbing road vibrations and making the ride extremely smooth. It therefore allows you to combine performance and pleasure.
The wood is sourced from local sustainably managed forests (including the Sonian Forest) and everything is done to minimise the ecological impact during production. Each bike is custom built and designed in Belgium.
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Zafi Cycles

Wooden bicycle frames that are 100% made in Belgium

Deloitte Digital combines industry intelligence, tech know-how, creativity, and a human-centric mindset to create end-to-end experiences. From frictionless, always-on experiences and platforms that deliver simple, accessible human utility, to branded products and services that convert prospects to lifelong customers, we amplify behaviors that fuel growth.

Deloitte

The Deloitte Digital team will showcase its rapid prototyping capabilities by giving visitors the opportunity to experience their latest Digital Twin. Through the lenses of an augmented reality headset, users will discover the relationship between traffic and air pollution in a city center, and will be able to interact with the data in real time to improve the daily lives of citizens.

Augmented Reality & Digital Twin

Elevating the human experience

EyeHarp Association is a social company with the mission of improving the quality of life of people with disabilities through music.
Our activity aims to generate positive change in the life of people with disabilities by artistic, social, and laboral inclusion.
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EyeHarp

EyeHarp is the first musical instrument that is played with the eyes or with head movements. It allows people with disabilities to learn and to play music without barriers. Designed with musicality in mind, EyeHarp offers the same expressive qualities as any traditional instrument. It adapts to the musical level and capabilities of each user, thus providing a tailored, accessible music playing experience.

Musical instrument played with eyes

Fabricar3v is an INTERREG FWVL (France-Wallonie-Vlanderen) project created in 2019 and having the ambition to develop a &#8220;low cost&#8221; process of metal additive manufacturing. Our objective is to allow the greatest number of structures to have access to the printing of metal parts for prototyping and production in small or medium series. The work carried out within the framework of the project is open source and the technology developed is based on &#8220;MIM-like&#8221; manufacturing (FDM printing of metal-filled granules), which is very easy to implement, unlike other processes currently available on the metal 3D printing market.
The developments made will give rise to a technology with the lowest possible purchase cost: The complete process is currently less than €10,000. This is 20 times less expensive than what is currently available on the market, making this process accessible to small and medium-sized businesses and FabLabs.

FabricAr3v

Open Source and Low Cost aim to facilitate the adoption of metal 3D printing by all industry players. By freeing ourselves from the constraints of industrial property and cost we wish to accelerate the development of this promising technology. The design and development of a technology like this is complex and the skills to be implemented are therefore very diverse: Fabricar3v is composed of a multidisciplinary consortium, bringing together all the skills needed to pursue the objectives we have set ourselves. The project is composed of 10 cross-border partners, led by the CNRS. We are thus combining know-how and expertise in five areas: additive metal manufacturing, mechanics, metal injection moulding, simulation and industrial property.

Metal 3D printing

IT4Anxiety aims to support the implementation of innovative solutions through start-ups with the objective of reducing the anxiety of patients suffering from mental disorders.

IT4Anxiety

The project focuses on three aspects:
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1/ Supporting the co-creation of innovative solutions, based on the needs of mental health users, families and professionals in the field of mental health;
2/ Developing the competence and confidence of the mental health users and professionals;
3/ Assisting the implementation of the best solutions to ensure long-term sustainability.
This partnership comprises start-ups, Information Technology companies, mental health institutions, research centers, mental health users’ and families’ associations, psychiatric hospitals, universities and public authorities.

The Project

Blended Therapies

About 40 projects will be showcased from all over the word, all curated by us.

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Market

The Market is the place where you will discover the unique and innovative projects of talented Belgian and international entrepreneurs. On the program: a selection of innovative objects to handle, to test before everyone else. 

DJ Set at La Nef

Delta

KIKK Party day 1

For its Friday after-party, the KIKK joins forces with the young Namur crew T R U S T as well as the Delta&#8217;s &#8220;Doux Baisers&#8221; concept for a 100% techno line up with distinguished guests.
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KIKK x TRUST x Le Delta

Boston 168 (Italie) – Live :
Hailing from the Italian Motor City of Turin, the Boston 168 duo,is a kind of creative laboratory : true electronics researchers, who have spent years working on the vivisection of sound in order to create a new techno substance. In 2010 with their friend Gambo they created the Old and Young label which combines Gambo&#8217;s experience with their fresh perspective to take techno to unexplored territories. This is when they get to work on their live set and start irradiate with cosmic warmth, the dawns in warehouses, ex-industries and clubs, taking their audience on journeys in search new gravitational spaces and sonic black holes. Like the music on their label, their live sets combine the machines that have made the history of techno such as the TB-303 and the TR’s from Roland, with new machines from Elektron.
Phara – Live :
As a resident of the iconic Fuse Club in Brussels and the infamous Voltage Festival, Phara has been on the Belgian techno scene’s forefront since the start of his career in 2016. After releasing a 2 x 12” album on the renowned Black Sun Records following up on artists like Blawan, AnD, Sunil Sharpe &amp; many more, Phara has been continuously putting out dancefloor weapons on labels such as Planet Rhythm, Projekts, SK-Eleven and Soma.
In October 2021 he announced his first label PHAAAR, specially made to release his own productions. Known for his raw and energetic DJ sets, Phara takes a modern twist on old school techno. It shows up in his live performances which he’s been working on for a few years now : with only an ElecTribe as his only instrument on stage, he’s pushing the capacities of the machine to root a visceral techno out if it.
antoine. – DJ set :
antoine., is a DJ and producer from Namur (Belgium), curator of the T R U S T concept and member of the MOMENTUM collective. 
It was in 2011, in a dark marquee in Dour and in a euphoric atmosphere that antoine. got acquainted with techno music. 
The power of the basses, the repetitive and hypnotic rhythms, the sound textures&#8230; All these elements were new but already so natural to listen to. He is particularly attentive to the universe of Richie Hawtin, the undisputed master on the global minimal-techno scene.
In 2012, he bought equipment to tame music, understand it, to feel it. Love at first sight. In love with what technology offers him as a possibility, he quickly turns to a hybrid set-up that allows him greater creativity by integrating drum loops, live elements and sound layers into original tracks. He is now influenced by artists with singular, hypnotic and melancholic universes such as Shifted, Joachim Spieth, Etapp Kyle, Artefakt, Emmanuel or even P.E.A.R.L. In 2018, he became more interested in production and worked in his home studio to release his 2021 album “after. &#8220;.

Line up

 by KIKK X T R U S T X Le Delta

KIKK Party Day 2

Avec La bombe humaine, Éline Schumacher et Vincent Hennebicq mettent le dérèglement climatique au coeur de la réflexion. Dans une démarche sincère, drôle et intelligente, ils explorent toutes les facettes de la crise et tendent un miroir à nos incohérences.
Fonte des glaces, acidification des océans, disparition des espèces animales et végétales… Un mot résume à lui seul l’impact de l’Homme sur l’écosystème terrestre : anthropocène. L’ère des activités humaines qui, sous le joug du capitalisme, met à sac la richesse de notre planète. Nous savons que nous fonçons droit dans le mur, pourquoi est-ce qu’on ne fait rien pour empêcher cela ? C’est la question que se pose Éline, une humaine lambda, pleine d’idéaux mais aussi de contradictions comme beaucoup d’entre nous.
Armés d’un humour délicieusement décalé qui évite l’aspect moralisateur, Éline et Vincent abordent la grande question de l’avenir de la Terre, multipliant les rencontres avec des scientifiques, des anthropologues, des psychologues, des politiciens et des personnes au mode de vie alternatif. Émaillant le propos des soubresauts issus de leur propre vie, de la recherche du grand amour, du sentiment de culpabilité ou encore de l’addiction aux réseaux sociaux, ils nous offrent une bouffée salvatrice et un plongeon incongru dans l’intime face à l’humanité qui vacille.
La pièce s’accompagne de la musique originale live de Marine Horbaczewski et Olivia Carrère : clef de voûte sonore du spectacle donnant tantôt un air d’apocalypse, tantôt un parfum de printemps à la représentation.

La Bombe Humaine

« On en ressort gonflés à bloc, poussés dans nos voiles par l’énergie, l’humour, mais aussi le sérieux de ces confessions intimes doublées d’un copieux travail de recherche et de rencontres (…) » — Le Soir

Eline Schumacher & Vincent Hennebicq

Theatre

Parties and Performances

Because KIKK is also (and maybe especially) a party atmosphere, we invite you to several performances and parties. On the menu, live music, audiovisual performances, DJ sets and glitter!