What has become of Adam MICKIEWICZ, Eliza ORZESZKOWA, Jerzy PUTRAMENT, Henryk SIENKIEWICZ, Adam WAŻYK and Gabriela ZAPOLSKA? In response to this rather strange question, we can report that their work is currently helping to give rise to another art form, thanks to the multidisciplinary project MIRAKEL: poème nocturne which can be seen from 9 until 13 September as part of Mons European Capital of Culture 2015 and at the next Nuit Blanche in Brussels on 3 October. The image above and video below will help explain the project in the words of those who created it.

>>> Maison des villes partenaires (rue d’Havré 114, Mons) – see map
>>> Wednesday 9 > Sunday 13 September – 10:00 > 17:00 (on Wednesday starting at 12:00)
>>> Free

>>> Nuit Blanche in Brussels, Quai aux Briques and Quai au Bois à Brûler (1000 Brussels) – see map
>>> 3 October 2015
>>> Free


MIRAKEL: Poème nocture is a mutidisciplinary project which, in the words of the project’s creators, artist Gary Amseian and curator Lara Molina,  “makes a book into the raw material of creation. It reveals it to be an object imbued with an incontestable anthropological weight, reaffirming its perpetual dimension in a time when the written word is more transitory than ever. A dimension in which the contemporary spectator, when faced with the ephemeral nature of everything that surrounds her, gives meaning to those objects which were starting to lose this meaning. The relationship that this project has with the theme of ‘renaissance’ becomes very apparent through those elements which go to make up the installation. Old books once again contain life and are reborn at the same time thanks to the seeds which are germinating within their pages. Almost as in a process of metamorphosis, their texts grow towards the outside in the form of plants which can now tell new, different stories. Accompanied by a performance by Ines López Carrasco, Laure Cecilio and Ibrahim Khayar, the project celebrates the cultural and linguistic diversity which one can find in the city of Brussels and will revisit live texts from universal literature selected for the occasion.”

In collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Brussels. With the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Brussels, the Polish Institute in Brussels, the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, the Muntpunt and the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Brussels.