The city does not exist. The city is an entity made out of performances that are acted every day by roughly the same people who do – or don’t do – more or less the same things. Every performer constantly creates and recreates the city. As performers, we ascribe a meaning to this stage known as ‘the city’. If we all decide to leave the set, then the city becomes a different physical and mental space.

In MAPping, we uncover the traces of unusual users: Isabel, Pitcho, Amira, Roland, Benjamin, Omar and Didier. All of them artists from Brussels. They are makers, coming from a broad array of different disciplines, from different artistic circles, and from multiple generations. This comes with its consequences. They create a sensory performance to experience Brussels in the way they personally do. Along with them, we discover and rediscover the connective tissue of the city: without pretention, without sensation, but with warmth and feeling. The artists map their city, their home, each on his or her own way. Let’s stroll with them through Brussels, through their lives and stories.