A free evening where sound, space, and art converge – beautifully, blissfully, all night long. What to expect? An electrifying flow of unique sonic currents as Berlin-based artists e/tape and Perila guide you through deeply personal musical journeys inside the Wintercircus Arena.
For this special occasion, e/tape will collaborate with the historic archive of IPEM – Ghent University's legendary institute for electronic and psychoacoustic music – weaving past and present into a singular listening experience. Brussels-based ISLAS from Basic Moves will also join the lineup, adding their own distinctive atmosphere deep into the night.
Settle into an intimate environment close to the DJ booth and fully surrender to the sound. Surrounding you, UK visual artist Joëlle will generate live visuals in sync with the rhythms and textures of the music, transforming the arena into a living, breathing canvas. As you drift through the space, discover works by 10 national and international artists exploring the cutting edge of technology and art.
As you drift through the space, discover works by 10 national and international artists exploring the cutting edge of technology and art.
Let yourself be carried away. Free entry, all night.
Wintercircuit (April 29 – May 3) unfolds across Wintercircus, Club Wintercircus, and VIERNULVIER: a long weekend where frequencies of art, music, and technology flow through the building. From immersive A/V performances and ambient nights to works exploring AI and creative disruption, the program moves between intensity and introspection.
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e/tape is a DJ whose practice is shaped by attentive listening, movement and long-term engagement with sound across cultures and environments. Alongside his performance work, he operates as a music curator, developing listening environments for diverse contexts. Formed through years of travel and immersion, his work approaches DJing as a form of narrative construction, where selections are guided by memory, place and the subtle relationships between sounds. His sets unfold patiently, suspended between motion and stillness.
Drawing from a wide range of sources including rhythm, texture, field recordings and melodic fragments, his selections are treated with care and restraint, allowing space for perception, presence and transformation through listening. e/tape has presented his work internationally at cultural institutions, festivals and clubs including Fondazione Prada, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Houghton Festival, Waking Life, Meakusma and Beursschouwburg.
Perila is a Berlin-based sound and visual artist, DJ, performer and poet exploring sensitive borderlines and the depths of subtle matter. Her practice centres around textures, tangibility and the spatiality of field recorded sound, raw emotions, voice, poetry, body and change. She approaches music as a healing and transformative agent, an invitation to open other layers of engagement with reality through deep listening, observation, presence and mutual dialogue with an audience.
Her work has been released on labels including Smalltown Supersound, The Trilogy Tapes, Shelter Press and West Mineral Ltd. She is the founder of WET, an online community featuring podcasts with spoken word, poetry, ASMR and field recordings.
islas is the artist name of Ailsa Cavers, a Brussels-based DJ and co-founder of Belgian record label Basic Moves. Following a background in visual arts, she developed long, immersive sets that bring together delay pedals, ASMR, spoken word, film scores and ambient sounds, playing with the friction that arises when two records meet and the joy that erupts when sounds come together into something previously unheard.
Her artist name is a tribute to Eliane Radigue's Islas Resonantes, an important ambient work by the pioneering female electronic musician. In 2017 she co-founded Basic Moves, a Brussels outsider club music label highlighting the continuity between the past and present of the Belgian electronic music scene. She also co-founded the PLANET collective, with a repertoire spanning both dance-oriented and ambient sets.
Joëlle Snaith is an audiovisual artist and designer based in London. She works at the intersection of live visuals, performance and interaction design, exploring the relationship between sound and form. Snaith translates music into visual language through frequencies and minimal structures, creating compositions entirely sculpted by sound. She is the visual artist for electronic musician and DJ Richie Hawtin and a resident at FOLD, London.
Wintercircuit has even more to offer. Discover the full program!