A network that brings together Brussels artists, art workers, and artist-run initiatives for community building and exchanging knowledge. The ‘BARN Core Team’ facilitates, working for a culture of solidarity and empowerment.

WORK IN PROGRESS

This website is still in development. Please note that this is a bottom-up initiative with very limited funding. If there are mistakes, please bear with us :) Would you like to contribute? Let us know by writing us an email on contact@brusselsartistrun.net

Want to be part of the Telegram group? Here’s a link. This is a community platform with a variety of thematic ’topics’ (events, space for work, space to live, material shops & tools, jobs, etc). There are over 1300 users, and it’s growing rapidly.

Have fun, on behalf of the ‘BARN Core Team’, Esth (Level Five), Sophie (Level Five), Mariana (Level Five), Jesse (Jubilee), Milan (Domesticity), Eszter (Artist Commons). Please join us if you like!

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what do we mean by research...

By developing and refining productive forms of gathering tools and knowledge and other collective proposals for work and reflection, BARN facilitates a form of long-term research-through-practice across the entire body of the network, where collective intelligence is channels iteratively through the circulation of knowledge, strategies and survival tactics of artist-run initiatives. Through our evolving network of connections and information, the BARN Core Team aims to function as spaces, creating time, space, and opportunities for artistic collectives to connect.

Community Building Practices

Events and Gatherings:
we organize biking and walking tours to visit artist-run spaces, international meetups with similar networks, informal dinners where we cook together and reflect on each other’s work, and hangout without any specific agenda.

Advocacy and Policy Related Practices

Policy research:
local, national and European level policy research concerning artist-run spaces
Spaces for Spaces:
a series working towards a ‘framework of competing values’ for space for artistic work in the city, at Glasgow Studios, Anderlecht.

Knowledge Sharing Practices

Newsletter Advocacy and Policy Related Practicesr:
a monthly newsletter highlighting public moments from self-organized initiatives.
Telegram Group:
a space where members connect, share news, updates, and resources, and engage in discussions.
Website (in progress):
We are working on this open-source platform to map artistic initiatives in Brussels and more easily share valuable resources.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

–– a living cartography of Brussels’ artist-run initiatives, mapping spaces, financial and legal setups, and community dynamics.

–– development of adaptable methods for other informal networks, promoting collaboration and strengthening self-organization.

–– policy research linked to the Memorandum¬

–– Spaces for Spaces developing frameworks for competing values.