Level Five is a cooperative studio for and by artists. We collectively organise and take care of our spaces and the people making use of them. In this way we create a durable foundation for each of our artistic practices and initiatives.
Level Five is a cooperative studio for and by artists. We collectively organise and take care of our spaces and the people making use of them. In this way we create a durable foundation for each of our artistic practices and initiatives.
Radio
Radio Level Five is a series of podcasts, including conversations with artists, audio poetry, storytelling and more.
The first episode of Before the Eyes is the last exhibition of Matt Copson @Clearing gallery Brussels titled Age of Coming. From September 8 to October 23 2021 Age Of Coming,… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Currently, Rachel Bacon is working on ‘drawings‘, which might be one way to enter the discussion: what this term, or rather, the act of drawing might actually include, in specific… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
What does it mean to bring street culture into the black box of a theatre hall? At what point does raving become contemporary dance? Where do the dance floor and… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Today we launch the new season with a special episode, the first in a series of talks about parenthood, child care taking, nurture trauma, and their entanglement with artistic practices.… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
This track by Italian artist Marco Lampis started out as a text, became an almost hypnotizing sound piece – and remains an ongoing project. As Lampis says, the work started… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
In the broad range of Christiane Blattmann’s artistic work we encounter objects and pieces between two and three dimensions, carefully crafted materials as silicone, metal or jute, but most of… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Eternal City by Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence is a sonic exploration of an imagined downtown area located between Bregenz, Austria and Dallas, Texas. The piece was created especially for… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Laszlo Umbreit and Eitan Eifrat are Rhh: a band that mixes live recordings, electronic instruments and acoustic drums. Rhh released an LP last month titled Seemingly Still. The album was… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
n his meticulous and dense paintings, Jannis Marwitz confronts us with scenes – or entries to narrations – packed with figures and details. What we see evokes echoes of traditional… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Balancing on the ridge between craft and concept, between material research and figurative depiction, between function and autonomy, Veerle Melis explores the facets, methods and underlying systematics of art fuelled… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
To mark the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel that was celebrated in Israel this Thursday, we were invited by Israeli activist Eitan Bronstein to a… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
‘The 25th of January 2011 was the most special day of my life. It was a moment when life froze, and it was only about the present moment. An overwhelming… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Bas Blaasse tried to write the perfect cover letter to be done with it once and for all. But how do you maintain a balance between what you want and… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Perri MacKenzie discusses her essay "The Stakes are a Thick Vision, Images of Women Gambling in Eliot and de la Tour" published in the first issue of Le Chauffage. Le… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
La Galerie Louise An artist statement, a novella, a confession 2015-2020 Written by Batsheva Ross Read by Ella de Burca Text editors: Perri Mackenzie Liz Allen Sound editor: Marco Lampis… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
25 years of collaborating have brought Xavier Garcia Bardon and Emmanuel Gonay in an interesting and fruitful position somewhere between dedicated amateurism and professionalism. Their fascinating music pieces are fuelled… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
How do we understand a work? How does it come into being and how do these two aspects interrelate? "For me, editing is really important," says artist Helen Dowling, mostly… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Kevin Gallagher is originally from Illinois in the US, but is based these days in Brussels. He works primarily in sculpture; the sculptures’ installation are often specific to their forms.… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Working with film, assembling pieces, sometimes reflecting on others or the traces they leave: Their work, say artists Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat, often starts with the idea of… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
With the second episode of The Notebook Readings, Marco Lampis takes us further into the delicate space opening up between what we find while wandering and what we make out… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
How can today’s economic logic of speculation in cities be countered to support creative infrastructure and, at the same time, the agency of communities in precarious situations? As an interdisciplinary… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Markus von Platen presents a soundpiece which he assembled from excerpts of recording sessions made during approximately the last year. Everything was sequenced from a modular system, using probabilistic rhythms,… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
"The Sun and the Looking Glass – for one easily forgets but the tree remembers": the beautiful title gives a hint that Milena Desse’s latest film is both, poetic and… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
The members of Peliskan met in film labs – and united to perform the magic of transferring celluloid to digital. In an interview with Jérôme Zahno, part of the collective,… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Talking about wandering, wandering in words: In a fascinating conversation architect Laura Muyldermans and Jolien Naeyaert, architect and artist, take us along on an explorative walk through real and thought… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Combining various artistic disciplines including sculpture, performance, painting, story-telling, David Bernstein circles around – or starts from – objects, their use and meanings to unfold an intriguing network of new… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Thought experiments are used in analytic philosophy as intuition pumps. These five thought experiments, found in academic literature and re-adapted by Piero Bisello for Radio Level Five, are especially whacky.… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Notes we take are like a future sediment, fragments and traces of what we find or think while wandering in the broadest sense, and which may enter works to come,… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
In this show we collected audio pieces, sound bites, confessions and songs from Level five members and friends, all dedicated to their beloved pets, to animals that serve as muses… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Inspired by "An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris" written by Georges Perec, Bas van den Hout forced himself to look down on the Bourse, Brussels, for one hour… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Door jou verzonden: Vandaag om 12:20. Level Five Radio presents a conversation about Judaism and art. David Bernstein and Batsheva Ross, who are two Jewish artists, discuss questions such as… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
As part of a language-focused project, Olaf Winkler took the Brother Grimm‘s fairy tale The Death of the Little Hen and repeatedly fed it to computerized translation algorithms. Through a… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Bas Blaasse was worried that he'd lose himself, so wrote himself a letter. Read especially for Radio Level Five. This talk is part of a series with interviews – Level… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Radek Szlaga is a tirelessly driven worker who seems to be more in his studio than he is at home. Covered with paint, the studio itself appears as one big… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
What does a side job of an artist have to do with his/her artistic practice and how much influence does this have on the artist and the artistic practice? Do… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
They’re a band, each playing different instruments of design, typography, visualisation. Their collaborative projects run from magazines to poster campaigns and as members of level five, they have created our… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
n Karolien Chromiak‘s work, the layering of (so-called) artificial and natural elements and media are joined to create something new yet familiar, the meaning and sensation of which is one… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
In 2017, Sirah Foighel Brutmann and Eitan Efrat made a film called Miroir Séb Fragile ! The film is a work, a gesture, a questioning of and around absence, the… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
From growing mushrooms to our financial system and how we value things and meanings: Within a wide range of means, Philip Janssens creates works that literally or metaphorically grow in… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Francesca Grilli wavers between video art, performances, installations and theatre. For her new piece Sparks, an adaptation of a 2018 performance-installation, children read the palms of adults, though embracing the… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Working with magazines, collages and a variety of other materials, from paper to pencil, all of these have their own meaning in the work of Olaf Winkler. Through the memory… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Can something threedimensional be considered photography? Do photographs admit materiality? Dries Segers answers these questions affirmatively. If he works at the intersection of various media and artistic disciplines, he positively… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Not just an interview, also a music piece… With the soundscape of her film “Mall of Europe” by Maxime Rouquart as a starting point, videaste Emma van der Put leads… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
An intriguing question to start: Is there a difference between a filmmaker and an artist who works with film? Chloé Malcotti, considering herself as the latter, is just about to… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
For Ingo Brosch, the pandemic brought both: as an actor for theater, film and TV he encountered the sudden stop of routines and projects – and he broadened the range… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Maybe Bas van den Hout is, most of all, a collector. Of found objects, literature, images. From there, the Dutch artist works with them, carefully with material and time: “If… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
As a visual artist Maud Gourdon works with means such as drawing, sculpture and installations – and thereby leads us into a world of possible codes and languages. Marks and… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
Our first guest is Sophia Holst. She is fascinated by how tiny urban details relate to urban changes in general. In her research-based practice, Sophia Holst navigates between art and… read more or listen to this episode on Soundcloud
