ANTOINETTE JATTIOT
Public Talk
Saturday 17th May 2025
ANTOINETTE JATTIOT
Public Talk
SAT.MAY.17
14:00-15:00
As part of the public program accompanying Extractive Imagination(s): Harnessing Energy, The Balcony will host a talk by writer and curator Antoinette Jattiot, who will discuss the works on show focusing on the practice of filmmaker Elsa Brès, with whom she's previously collaborated.
Antoinette Jattiot (she/her, lives and works in Brussels) is trained as an art historian (École du Louvre, Paris – Karl Ruprecht University, Heidelberg). At the intersection of writing, exhibition-making, and performative encounters, her practice explores the porous boundaries between visual arts and research, images and language. She is currently a curator at La Loge art center in Brussels. Since 2023, she has been part of the multidisciplinary collective—alongside Denicolai & Provoost, Nord, and Spec uloos—at the initiative of Petticoat Government for the Belgian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024). In the past, she has worked as an editor, researcher and assistant curator, in the field of visual arts (WIELS Brussels, M Leuven, among others). Her activities also extend into pedagogy: she teaches at ESA Le SeptanteCinq (BE) and regularly participates in art school juries, workshops, and guest lectures. She frequently contributes to art magazines and exhibition catalogues. She is a member of AICA and c-e-a.
The visit of Antoinette Jattiot is made possible by the International Visitors Programme of the Nieuwe Instituut with support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Free event, donations at the event allow us to support the program and organize more events in the future, thank you!
MODÈLE SONORE
Sound Model Drawing Session
Saturday 15th March 2025
MODÈLE SONORE
Sound Model Drawing Session
With artists Léa Guillout & Orian Arrachart
SAT.MAR.15
Register for one of the two sessions:
→16:30-18:00
→19:00-20:30
Modèle Sonore is a workshop inspired by life drawing, except that here, we listen to the subject rather than looking at it. It is an invitation to shift the senses in order to observe and draw differently. At the end of the workshop, there will be time for discussion and displaying the works created.
In connection with the current exhibition, this sound model session site-specifically develops a sound score in relation to the works on view, transporting the public into the artists’ universe during a live performance.
→ All levels are welcome.
→ From writing to drawing, calligrams or just listening, experimentation is free.
→ Drawing materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own favorite drawing tools.
ABOUT THE HOSTS
Léa Guillout is a visual artist, with a knowledge in set and costume design, who focuses on observational drawing and graphic research, particularly through life drawing sessions. With Orian Arrachart she curates Modèle Sonore, a sound-model workshop, previously performed at Espace Nonono (FR). These drawing sessions are spaces for conversational graphic experimentation, inviting performers, drawers and listeners to connect through various forms of language.
Orian Arrachart is an artist who uses sound to work on notions of listening, attention, relationship to the sensory and the present moment. His productions take a variety of forms, from sound creations for theatre and dance to compilations of sound recordings, installations in exhibition spaces, concerts and performances, curation of group exhibitions. He is part of the artist collective Non-Étoile in Paris and will score the sound for this session of Modèle Sonore at The Balcony.







This event is supported by The Balcony and Stroom Den Haag. Donations at the event allow us to support the program and organize more events in the future, thank you!
Screening curated by Collective First Cut
Saturday 11th January 2025
WITH FILMS BY Meriem Bennani, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, and Kiluanji Kia Henda
Get your tickets here!
The Balcony has invited the collective First Cut to develop a screening program responding to the exhibition on view: "Slow Drift(s) Chapter 2: Larry Achiampong and David Blandy".
Responding to the multi-layered research that gives life to Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s trilogy, First Cut has curated a screening event that approaches the founding themes of their work with equally multifaceted perspectives. The selected films offer a non-linear exploration of the politics and psychopathology of colonialism, interweaving past, present, and future. As the Finding Fanon series turns its focus toward friendship, collaboration, and the possibilities of future generations, First Cut’s programme builds on this vision exploring community’s resilience and resistance to forgetting.
PROGRAM:
19.30—Doors open
20.00—Screening works by Meriem Bennani, Francisca Khamis Giacoman, and Kiluanji Kia Henda
21.00—Chat/Q&A/Drinks
Meriem Bennani lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and high-production aesthetics, she explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of magical realism and humour. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations, composed with a subtle agility to question our contemporary society and its fractured identities, gender issues and ubiquitous dominance of digital technologies.

Francisca Khamis Giacoman is a Chilean artist from the Palestinian diaspora, currently based in Amsterdam. Through performances, installations, and audiovisual works, Francisca Khamis Giacoman is trying to recall stories of migration and unfold them at the boundaries of fiction and materiality. Her research touches upon language, knowledge production, and accessibility through narrative circulation, focusing on different ways of (re)membering ourselves and others. Actively involved in self-organized projects, Francisca is the founder and CEO of the “Museo del Perro * Honden Museum” in Amsterdam (2023-ongoing), co-founder of “Ediciones Rocas Shop” Cooperative Publishing House in Santiago (2017-23), and Espacio Estamos Bien, an art cooperative in Amsterdam that curates gatherings, publications, and exhibitions.

Kiluanji Kia Henda lives and works in Luanda. In his practice, he uses art as a means of transmitting and constructing history, exploring photography, video, performance, installations, object-sculpture, music and avant-garde theatre as ways of materializing fictional narratives and shifting facts to different temporalities and struggles. Using humor and irony, the artist represents the complexity of themes such as identity, politics, and perceptions of post- independence and modernity in Africa. Working in perverted complicity with historical legacy, he sees the process of appropriation and manipulation of public spaces and structures as different constructions of the collective memory.

First Cut is a platform based in The Hague curating screenings and conversations around independent/radical/experimental films by politically engaged artists. First Cut calls for transformative films that stem from socio-political inquiries. It aims to host artistic interventions and radical responses to our international society and its politics, bridging artists and local communities in The Hague. First Cut invites perspectives from multiple modes of production and backgrounds with which to read our political contexts and reshape a collective imagination. It especially encourages filmmakers with decolonial, feminist, queer and non-normative perspectives to submit their films. First Cut is founded by artists and researchers Cyan Bae, Hattie Wade and Cristina Lavosi.
An evening on Animal Crossing w/ Larry Achiampong & David Blandy
Saturday 15th February 2025
Join us on Twitch and Animal Crossing for a discussion with artists Larry Achiampong & David Blandy!
ONLINE EVENT & AT THE BALCONY
SAT.FEB.15. 16:00-17:30
As a finissage of the exhibition 'Slow Drift(s) Chapter 2: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy' at The Balcony, the artists invite you to join an informal evening of play and discussion. The event will take place online in the Animal Crossing game, where you will be able to join the artist’s island as they game and engage in conversation, but you can also follow the event via a Twitch stream. You can also join the live stream physically at The Balcony.
You've got several physical and online options to join the event:
→ Register via Eventbrite. You will receive a Twitch link upon registration.
→ Join the event on Animal Crossing: by signing up on Eventbrite, you will receive a Dodo Code upon registration.
→ Join the event at The Balcony, where we will live stream the game!
The Broken Archive
Friday & Saturday 21-22 February 2025
The Broken Archive
A performance and a live-action role-playing game about family archives and acceptance by artist Jana Romanova
Sign up here:
→Performance
FRI.FEB.21 19:00-21:00
SAT.FEB.22 17:30-18:30
→Role-playing game
SAT.FEB.22 13:30-16:30

In the spring of 2018, Jana's grand-aunt Lucia made the conscious decision to stop taking her medications and passed away several days later. For reasons that initially seemed random, Jana's grandmother tore apart every photograph in Lucia's family archive and was about to throw them away until Jana stopped her. Ever since that moment, Romanova went on and on for years with attempts to repair what was left of those images. This work is ongoing research on the societal pressure to define one's identity and worth through fitting into family expectations centered around work, level of income, successful marriages, and certain types of behaviors, exploring the emotional toll of feeling inadequate in a culture that prioritizes productivity and obedience above all.
In the performance, Jana attempts to repair her destroyed family archive, using various techniques and objects. As she works, she narrates the story centered on her aunt Lucia's relentless attempts to find her place in the world, often through questionable jobs that invariably ended in failure.
Duration: 1-2 hours.
In the role-playing experience, you are invited to collectively narrate a story of a family based on the pieces of torn-apart family photographs. You'll create characters as family members, explore the secrets and dramatic events behind the photographs by playing out short scenes, and eventually discover the reason why and by whom the archive was destroyed.
Duration: 3 hours.
No prior experience in acting, larping or archive research is needed.













