Peer View is a series of evenings where artists are invited to share their ways of working and to delve deeper into the research behind a finished work of art. For this fourth session, we invite two filmmakers: Evi Cats and Cristina Stuhlberger.

What kinds of dialogues with the world do artists create during the development of new work? What relationships do they have with their sources of inspiration? Which texts are read, which (personal) archives consulted, which conversations held, which field trips undertaken? And how is thinking and working shaped through this material?

In other words: how about the work behind the work? 

Christina Stuhlberger is a documentary filmmaker based in Brussels and Vienna. Her work centres on portraiture exploring history and contemporary politics through lived experience. Prior to her education in the arts she obtained a MSc in Environmental Engineering and worked as environmental specialist for the United Nations in Geneva and various national environment agencies.

Before making films, Evi Cats completed her masters degree in Cultural Analysis. Both in her film practice and her theoretical work she is interested in the city, everyday human interactions and small fictions within reality. Looking at Brussels and its social structures, Cats examines the mixture of people and habits in this kaleidoscopic, ever-changing city. She works around questions of the body relating to political spaces; hoping film could be an act of poetic activism.

Curated and organised by Dorine van Meel and Jesse van Winden

Location: Becue top floor (no elevator)
Chaussee de Forest 138, 1060 

Entrance: free donation 
Please bring cash for the bar and food

Doors open, food and bar: 17h
Start: 18h
End of presentations: 20:30h with possibility to stay informally

Many thanks to 1060CultureCultuur and the bicommunautary teams for culture in St Gillis/St Gilles for the support!