About the artwork

During the festival, Apolemia takes over the Rain Room for its final intervention as performance collective in residence. Building on previous transformations, the dance floor reshapes into something fluid and unexpected, from a living fountain to a swamp-like arena and living piñatas. The stage has become a shifting environment throughout the night, closely connected to the audience and the music.

Performance, sound, and scenography will unfold together through two proposals: a stage at the centre of the dance floor where solo performers present their acts, and an installation of bodies, spun and hung as scenographic objects.

Apolemia continues its interest in the club as a space for artistic thinking. The residency closes with a special b2b between Fake Moss and LYZZA, alongside performances by Mario Barrantes Espinoza and Lydia McGlinchey, together with several other performance artists, bringing the night to a final moment of exchange on the dance floor.

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About Apolemia

Apolemia is a collective consisting of four members: Lydia McGlinchey, Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Martín Zícari and Pierre Bayet (Fake Moss) - are all interconnected by a shared love of nightlife, curiosity for what performance can become in the unconventional club context. Based in Brussels but presented internationally (in São Paulo and The Philippines), Apolemia was invited for a residency at Horst Club. Joining in November last year, they approached the season not as three isolated nights, but as a three-part cycle unfolding across winter. Across these moments, their presence acts like a growing body within the club’s architecture: a site where bodies meet, play, experiment with form, and where performance reclaims nightlife as a shared cultural practice. This trajectory culminated at the Closing Weekend (14-15 March) and extends into a final piece at Horst's Arts & Music Festival in May 2026.

Apolemia is a shape-shifting nightlife event where clubbing, performance, and installation meet. Named after a type of marine organism, an Apolemia is not a single creature, but a collective of thousands of interconnected individuals. Together, they function as one organism, yet each remains independent. Apolemia thinks of their events in a similar fashion: a polyphony of artists, contexts, and crafts that come together to create something larger, temporarily assembling for the night, and for whoever is there.

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With: Akano Toto, Alphonse Eklou Uwantege, Anna Franziska Jäger, Fake Moss, Ika Schwander, LYZZA, Lydia McGlinchey, Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Nathan Felix-Rivot & Stefa Govaart