Newsletter March 2026 

The Green Corridor Brussels

102 Rue de Bosnie - 1060 Brussels

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March Residency Carmen Pazos
Open Doors Fri 27 & Sat 28 March 2026, 4-8 PM

Photo credit: Carmen Pazos

Carmen Pazos is a Brussels-based Spanish transdisciplinary artist. Her practice analyses the interplay of cultures in the context of globalisation, alongside an exploration of the artistic possibilities of experimental biomaterials.
At The Green Corridor Brussels, Carmen will explore the intersection between the idea of the commons and contemporary art. To this end, Carmen will devote her time at The Green Corridor to continuing and deepening her study of Elinor Ostrom's theory of the commons, as well as Pascual Tienen's reflections on its applications in the arts and culture. In the context of contemporary art, this theory questions the possibilities of self-organisation and resource management from the bottom up, through collaboration between artists and other members of the sector, thereby reducing dependence on the market.

In practice, the fruits of this research will be materialised in an installation during the “moment of exchange” at the end of the residency, the centrepiece of which will be a round table where ideas can be shared and a dialogue with visitors can begin. This performance is deeply inspired by Carmen’s experience in Japan, where artists and gallery owners often offer visitors a cup of tea after touring the exhibition to exchange opinions, as well as by the first coffee houses in 17th-century England, which served as a space for debate over a cup of hot coffee.

Additionally, the installation will consist of a series of sculptures made of wax, bioplastic and wire, continuing the central material exploration in Carmen’s practice in recent years, as well as an audiovisual installation in the semi-basement of the space.

@carmenpazomagar

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Astrid Newman (Wicklow) & Francesca Hawker
Open Doors Friday & Saturday 20 & 21 March 2026 

 

Photo credit: Cabaret Voltaire, IIDA

Astrid Newman (Wicklow) & Francesca Hawker (Brussels) have collaborated many times. They share an interest in how language mediates the relationship between audience and performer. Astrid works collaboratively, hosting moments of collective gathering. She has presented work in the Market Gallery, Glasgow, RIA (Dublin) and RAT HOLE Tokyo. In ‘22, she received an Arts Council Strand 1 Project Award and Agility Award. Francesca is a PhD student at LUCA Ghent, researching embarrassment in performance. Recently, she has presented work at Cas-co (Leuven), House van Wassenhove (Ghent), and Q-02 (Brussels).

Lauren Berlant proposes that the present is perceived affectively before it is felt in any other way. In their residency in The Green Corridor Brussels, they seek to create a space in their practices where they can sense and digest the present, a difficult task in a contemporary moment that feels increasingly unreal and imperceptible. Crucially, they aim to develop creative strategies for finding forms for these experiences while avoiding the analysis and subsequent categorisation that so often robs these attempts of their potential.

A central reference for them is The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart, a series of vignettes written collaboratively but from afar, each grasping toward a frame for a common experience viewed from within different contexts. In Berlant and Stewart’s words, “collaboration is a meeting of minds that don’t match. Circulation disturbs and creates what’s continuous, anchoring you enough in the scene to pull in other things as you go.”

Inspired by The Hundreds, they are investigating the potential of the vignette and engaging with writing prompts and exercises drawn from a variety of genres (for example, the somatic poetry exercises of CA Conrad and the deep listening exercises of Pauline Oliveros). Through this ongoing collaborative exchange, they will continue to produce a text together and subsequently gather themselves and others around it in order to test a variety of public-facing, participatory scenarios.

In order to share their project and receive valuable feedback, they will be in residence at The Green Corridor in Brussels and Mermaid Arts Centre in Wicklow in March and May, respectively. They intend to host “table reads” at both sites with invited audiences in order to enliven the texts and move beyond their own subjective position as writers.

www.francescahawker.net 
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Juli Bierich & mountaincutters by CASTOR
15 March at 2 PM

Photo credit: CASTOR

The Green Corridor Brussels will host one of CASTOR’s curatorial proposals exploring the notions of time, place, and culture. 

“Becoming Otherwise” looks at how things break down and how they can be fixed in real life, in society, and in culture. When what feels strong and certain starts to fall apart, can something new and different grow from that change? A live performance by Juli Bierich & mountaincutters in a curatorial project by CASTOR.

@castor.collective
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January Flashback
Roshan Di Puppo with Cyriaque Villemaux

Photo credit: Fabrice Schneider

LOOKING BACK
Contribution by Roshan Di Puppo

Objective Talk Show 
January 31 - February 1

The shirts hang — fresh, ironed. Some brush against each other. Others turn their backs. Two faces face one another: one pink, one blue. A measured distance - retreat, or shyness. The blue sleeve touches the pink.

A wooden board, baby pink, rubbed with coconut oil. A creamy mash behind chicken wire. On the floor, a rectangular box leans against the wall. Light grey cardboard. Lid on top. Inside: black ground. Coconut oil hardened over protective plastic.

At the centre: a drawing of a coconut at the end of a long white handle, springing from a fractured base of white clay. In a midnight-blue photograph, three appliances turn their backs to us — coffee maker, espresso machine, kettle. A flowered teapot, sketched in pencil, points to the exit.

Four doors. A glass entrance. One of varnished wood pressed to the wall. One painted grey. One glazed in white PVC, opening onto a small courtyard. Between them: a grey cardboard box with velcro fasteners, set on a yoga mat, standing upright. From it emerges a light wooden device. At its centre, an acorn suspended by a green thread.

A sound.

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