Eternal Terra Ear New Society (ETENS) is a fluid post-intellectual collective questioning comfort in times of crisis. We weave a social–architectural core across cultures, ecologies, and technologies, creating spaces where fragility becomes fertile. Through experimental infrastructures, symposiums, performances, and curated projects, we bring together cultural practitioners to prototype cooperative models of practical and resilient care clarifying burden, especially within communities of the Global South facing ongoing disruptions and developmental debt. Driven by post-extractivist ideals, ETENS reimagines a co-creative process rooted in mutual aid, feminist leadership, and cooperative sharing.
At Rez Gauche, we wish to extend this ideology through a residency that transforms crisis into dialogue and visibility, blending exhibition, performance, film, and open processes that invite the local Brussels community to encounter and co-create through the transparent, street-facing architecture of the space reflecting on how Comfort situates amid Crises, and how can we find a new society within ourselves.
Timeline
15–24 Oct: Ongoing exhibition
16 Oct: Opening event at 7pm— Radical Consultancy launch (Yidi Lola Wang, Social Architect), dance performance (Emily Read), film screening (Ruba Al Sweel, Manon Teirlynck), and intimate sound performance (Sophia Abderrazak, and others) opening event details: @e.t.e.ns
24 Oct: Performance evening — dance (Mashiro Tamura), sound performance (BLAHMI) and video screening (Mathilde Verbeeck), performance (Urte Groblyte, exercise of discomfort), Ukrainian documentary screening (Anastasiia Bortuali)
Artists & Program
ETENS Social Architect, Curator: Yidi Lola Wang 汪一笛
Event Coordinator, Co-Curator: Kamila Holikova
Graphic: Yidi Lola, Chunjia Fang
Scenography: Skincity, everyone
Movies
Temporary Shelter by Anastasia Bortuali (1h20)
Award-winning documentary on Ukrainian asylum seekers in Ireland.
First Phone by Ruba Al Sweel
A video-essay reflecting on climate change, platform capitalism, and geopolitical unrest, narrated by an AI egregore and exploring apophenic experiences of scrolling.
Dust bunnies by Manon Teirlynck embodies this fragility and transient nature of our connections, reflecting on the dualism where both beauty and pain coexist.
Currents by Mathilde Verbeeck (5min) Experimental video that portrays the fluidity of human emotions within the context of day-to-day life.
Dhowj Gurung (b. Tamuwan nation) is a visual artist based in Glasgow.
Screen 1
sorry but _____ fell in love with the specter again, and again, and again, and again…… (2025) HD video, 2:30 min loop
Screen 2
click to flee (2025)Single-channel video installation, HD video with sound, 2:30 min loop
Performance
Emily Read — dance performance (opening event)
About Dreaming body
A willing self-dissolution as a gesture towards transcendence. Dreaming body attempts to come into divine contact with the world. I reach for a peaceful joy and sense of safety as I dissolve into being with the other parts of my self beyond my body’s edges.
Urte Groblyte — performance (closing event)
Exercise of Discomfort
Mashiro Tamura — dance performance (closing event)
Eh? Ufufu
An attempt of hiding something by
relying on your image of me;
instead of fighting against it as always.
This is a continuous practice.
Art Exhibition
Skincity Paintings
Iliana Papadopoulou Digital Art WERE YOU HERE
Sophia Abderrazak — window installation sophiaabderrazak.com
Peacock O’clock, Loading Images - photo series
Sound
Inter Sensory Communication by Orinoko layers emotion and storytelling through left-field sound exploration. At once vivid and abstract, these sounds seek to embrace a momentary narrative.
Sophia Abderrazak — intimate sound performance (25-30min)
Zero Entertainment by BLAHMI is her unreleased album inspired by the book Infinite Jest. This book holds the sadness of her generation in endless scrolling and addictions. BLAHMI started producing the album without realising she was doing so, while reading the book for the second time. Some sadness, some anger but also some beauty is palpable in the music.
Manshee Zhang, Chunjia Fang, Artbook
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Entrance
The entrance is donation-based, suggested €10 with cash on site, which includes a performance fee and membership (optional) in our growing international post-intellectual ecosystem.
Location: Rez Gauche, Rue Théodore Verhaegen 154, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels
Event Registration: register here
More info: https://eternalterraear.xyz/