Programme

THE SQUATFABRIK IS A PROGRAMME OF RESIDENCIES FOR RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION IN THE VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE ARTS, OFFERED BY AND AT THE KULTURFABRIK, IN SYNERGY WITH THE BRIDDERHAUS, AND FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY THE OEUVRE NATIONALE DE SECOURS GRANDE DUCHESS CHARLOTTE. 

IN 2025, THE SQUATFABRIK IS BACK, OFFERING THREE FOUR-WEEK RESIDENCIES A YEAR UNTIL 2027. EACH OF THESE RESIDENCIES WILL HOST AN ARTIST OR ARTISTS‘ COLLECTIVE FROM LUXEMBOURG IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AN ARTIST OR ARTISTS’ COLLECTIVE FROM ANOTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRY.

The guest artists for this first SQUATFABRIK, which starts on 7 April and finishes on 04 May, are:

• RAPHAËL ADAMS (LU) :

Raphaël Adams is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ireland who works in the field of theatre and performance.. He is both director and performance artist and uses queer performance methodologies, audience empowerment and physical theatre to explore love and intimacy. By breaking and combining the traditional forms and conventions of theatre and performance art, he pushes those who witness his work out of their comfort zones and invites them to reflect on what it means to connect in a neoliberal society. Raphaël has worked with a number of organisations in Ireland including the Galway Theatre Festival, Macnas, Druid, Baboró and the Dublin Fringe. Raphaël benefited from the Druid FUEL residency, during which he conceptualised and wrote the interactive play Gulliver in Love, an adaptation of Swift's Gulliver's Travels. He also received a Macnas Fellowship and an Agility Award to develop his physical theatre and mask skills. Raphaël also took part in Dublin Fringe 24's Artist at Work .where he experimented with the symbiosis of theatre and performance by adapting one of his existing plays, Love Overdose, to a longer format. It was there that he began his visual arts practice, focusing on the organisation of what he called ‘interactive performance art exhibitions’.

Follow Raphaël on insta HERE.

• REN LOREN BRITTON 

Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer interested in trans*feminism, technoscience, radical pedagogy and disability justice. In their work, trans*feminist technoscience follows the long path of cyberfeminism, focusing on the ‘trans*’ prefix with the aspect of transgender identity but also with reference to the aspect of intersecting contexts with feminist concerns. He is interested in the way in which socio-technical systems and media make life accessible and enjoyable. Starting from the idea that we live in a deeply validist white supremacist world, and so in order to follow a justice-oriented direction, their work starts from the assumption that we need to rethink the terms of who fits into institutions at all scales, with what frictions (or not) and why. This set of considerations leads them to look at disability justice, which supports and values all non-normative bodies and minds. As such, her artistic research is often collaborative, focusing on her community (trans*gender and disabled people) and the critical technologies, narratives and media practices that have connected us in our shared non-linear futures, pasts and presents.ici.