Belgium’s LIBITUM Residency

Ad Lib is now working in collaboration with the new non-profit organization Libitum, which manages de residency programs. Belgium’s LIBITUM residency programme welcomes, supports and brings together Belgian and international artists from all disciplines to work on research, experimentation and personal creation in studios, workshops or on stage.These residencies are open to the following disciplines: theatre, dance, circus and street arts, urban arts, music, digital arts, audiovisual creation, visual arts, book arts, fashion, design, installation and performance.

This multidisciplinary residency programme brings together around sixty national and international artists every year in June for a 3-week period in the area around Torgny, in the heart of the Gaume region in Belgium.

Initiated and run by Ad Lib, in partnership with the ROx, Pied en Coulisse and the villages of the Commune of Rouvroy, the Belgium’s LIBITUM residencies provide an environment for formal and informal work and exchange, where disciplines meet and artistic perspectives intersect. Among other things, they provide a framework conducive to the creation of new potential collaborations and synergies.

As part of their residencies, expert support is offered to artists according to the needs of their discipline.
Furthermore, each week of residency is punctuated by exchanges between artists, collective feedback on projects, open rehearsals and public round tables.

The Belgium’s Libitum residency programme covers the costs for mentoring, work spaces, meals and accommodation for each artist in residence. The programme also covers travel costs for international artists.

🌾 2024 • Second edition

55 artists and 32 projects were hosted for the second Belgium’s LIBITUM multidisciplinary arts residencies. Here are the names of the project leaders:

Agathe Juvenez · Amélie Lemonnier · Antoine Coppi · Antonin Compère · Aurélie Brousse · Aurore Morillon · Balthazar Blumberg · Baptiste Leclere · Carolina Fonseca · Christine Muller · Collectif Feux-Fracas · Delphine Wil · Diana David · Gabriel Mbaye · Gabriel Vanderpas · Delphine Wil · Diana David · Gabriel Vanderpas · Delphine Wil Gabriel Mbaye · Gabriel Vanderpas · Jean Leroy · Lisa Kaison · Lola Barrett · Lola Fontanié · Lucie Yerlès · Mathilde Maillard · Matteo Sedda · Maxime Le Moing · Noemi Pittalà · Olivia Stainier · Oriane Lautel · Pauline Vanden Neste · Pierre- Louis Kerbart · Sophie Frérard · Thomas Prédour · Véronique Dockx · Vladimir Perrin · Yasmine Yahiatène · Zoé Janssens

Over periods of one to three weeks, the artists developed their personal and/or collective projects in an environment of work and exchange, both formal and informal, where different practices came together and artistic views intersected.

This year was also marked by the presence of the theme ‘TO (DE)CENTER’, which ran through the general organisation of the programme, bringing together the artists who took part around a common point of dialogue, discussion and exchange.

🌾 2023 • First edition

57 artists and 38 projects have been hosted for this first edition. Here are the names of the first selected artists of de Belgium’s LIBITUM residencies :

Alban Ovanessian · Antoine Cogniaux · Bahar Majdzadeh · Brenda Boote · Camille Bleu-Valentin · Camille Husson · Camille Lefèvre · Cannelle Grosse · Charlotte Wacker · David Méndez Yépez · Dorine Voglaire · Emiliano Cedillo · Faustino Blanchut · Florian Pâque · François Gillerot · India de Vere · Jeanne Debarsy · Julie Benegmos · Lenaïc Brulé · Lorette Pouillon · Lorena Di Bello · Marie Lecomte · Marthe Degaille · Martina Aranda · Martina Calvo · Maxime Arnould · Maxime Schwarz · Marine Dézert · Nino André · Natalia Vallebona · Nathalie Maufroy · Pietro Quadrino · Paul Mosseray · Paul Vivien · Rachel Cholz · Suzanna Bauer · Thibault Sartori · Tom Boccara · Violette Pallaro · Véronique Jadin · Wided Ouassale · Votre Chazam · Vinciane Mandrin

Ad Lib’s ATTIC #2 – Writing and research residencies in the performing arts

Over the season, this residency program welcomes artists from the Brussels-Wallonia Federation for two-week writing residencies, in the heart of Brussels.

The Ad Lib’s ATTIC residency takes place in Ad Lib’s offices, in the attic perched at the top of the Conciergerie building in the shared spaces of La Vallée located at the following address:

39 Rue Adolphe Lavallée
1080 Brussels

 
☞ The Ad Lib’s ATTIC residencies are taking a break for the 24-25 season. We hope to be able to host new projects again next season.

 
For more information on the Ad Lib’s ATTIC residencies, please contact us by email at residences@adlibdiffusion.be or follow us on social media.

 
The Ad Lib’s ATTIC residences have previously hosted:

• Season 22-23 :Violette Pallaro, Amandine Laval, Marina Yerles, Valérie Gimenez, Antonin Compère, Hélène Colin, Lisa Tonelli, Mercedes Dassy, Chloé Larrère, Rosandra Nicoletti, Angèle Baux Godard, Lara Hubinont, Thibault Sartori, Célia Rorive, Leila Devin, Clara Bellemans, Alice Valinducq, Astrid de Toffol, Poetic Punkers, Ikue Nakagawa, Suzanna Bauer and Aurianne Servais.

• Season 23-24 : Ikue Nakagawa, Suzanna Bauer, Agathe Juvenez, Aurianne Servais, Lucile Vignolles et Emil Stengele, Oriane Lautel, Federico Protto et Galia De Backer.