On Thursday 11 June, M HKA invites the Brussels-based collective Apolemia for a new edition of SUPERHOST.
Join us for an evening of live music, ongoing performance and hanging out conceived by Apolemia. Operating at the intersection of clubbing, performance and installation, the Brussels-based collective approaches the dancefloor as a mutable space for gathering, drifting attention and shared experience.
With Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Lydia McGlinchey, Martín Zícari and guests Debit, Iris Therasse, Carly Rae Heathcote, waltur and Nathan Ooms.
Programme
SUPERHOST: Apolemia
8pm – 1am | M HKA, top floor
Join us for an evening of live music, ongoing performance and hanging out conceived by Apolemia. Operating at the intersection of clubbing, performance and installation, the Brussels-based collective approaches the dancefloor as a mutable space for gathering, drifting attention and shared experience.
Together with their guests, Apolemia transforms M HKA’s top floor into a shifting environment of live sets, vocal interventions and performative encounters. The evening moves gradually from intimate listening into a full DJ set and nightlife experience.
With Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Lydia McGlinchey, Martín Zícari and guests Debit, Iris Therasse, Carly Rae Heathcote, waltur and Nathan Ooms.
Schedule
20:15 – 21:15
Iris Therasse
Live concert and performance
Expanded electronic guitar featuring live vocal interventions. Two voices become material together with electric guitar for the greater composition, resonating together.
Mario Barrantes Espinoza & Lydia McGlinchey
Vocal performance
21:15 – 22:00
Debit (aka Delia Beatriz)
Desaceleradas: Live / Rebajada A/V — live concert
A compositional homage to cumbia rebajada and its inventor Sonido Dueñez, the performance draws from the spectral textures of slowed tapes, street dance grooves, and degraded harmonies of an archive that refuses to disappear.
21:30 – 22:00
Lydia McGlinchey & Carly Rae Heathcote
Performance for Celebration — performance
In this performance Lydia McGlinchey extends her work on textile, performance and the context of nightlife.
Both sculpture and performer are treated as one continuous material, covered in flax, rotating slowly. Flax, a Flemish heritage material, is expanded into the artist’s experimental performance vocabulary. Taking on an opulent and celebratory cascade of gestures, the performance is both formal and festive, obscure and fully at home in the party.
The costume is made in close dialogue with artist Carly Rae Heathcote, who designs, envisions and constructs it.
This performance is an excerpt from a larger work being developed for the 20th anniversary of BUDA kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, to be presented on 20 June.
22:00 – 23:30
waltur
DJ set
Moving between textured club patterns, muddy industrial atmospheres and dystopian carnival references, waltur expands the possibilities of dance(able) music. Initially emerging as an experimental gabber DJ through the founding of a female collective, her practice has since evolved into a multi-genre approach shaped by bass-heavy psychedelic textures and eclectic global hard music.
23:00 – 00:00
Nathan Ooms
Honey House — performance
Blending choreography and theatricality, the performance unfolds through a relentless sequence of actions shaped by consumerism, self-optimisation and constant time pressure. Club music drives the body into continuous exertion within a shifting landscape of symbolic objects.
23:30 – 01:00
Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss)
DJ set
About Apolemia
Apolemia is a Brussels-based collective founded in 2024 by Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Lydia McGlinchey and Martín Zícari. Working at the intersection of performance, installation, sound and nightlife, the collective develops events that explore collective creation, social encounter and the shifting boundaries between art and party.
Its name refers to a marine organism composed of specialised individuals, each autonomous yet physiologically connected. Similarly, Apolemia conceives its events as constellations of artistic voices, contexts and practices that temporarily assemble into dynamic, interdependent wholes.
Apolemia’s curatorial approach expands the possibilities of performance within nightlife, proposing the party as a site of artistic experimentation and communal experience. By bringing together diverse practices, it creates spaces where performance, sound and social exchange converge in porous, continual evolving forms.
Mario Barrantes Espinoza is a multidisciplinary artist of Costa Rican-Nicaraguan heritage based in Brussels. Trained in theatre and dance, their work articulates performance, the (re)writing of texts, and the use of voice with materials sourced from pop culture and mainstream media. Active in the performing arts for over a decade, he has developed projects across Europe and Latin America.
Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss) is a Brussels-based sound artist, music producer, DJ and promoter working across sound curation, live performance and the creation of immersive and evolutive sonic environments. His soundscapes are shaped through layered textures, rhythmic structures and the use of field recordings.
Lydia McGlinchey is an Australian based in Brussels, working across textile, dance and performance. With a background in contemporary dance, she creates vivid works that merge movement, sculptural textiles and spoken text. Her performances have taken place in museums, theatres, parks, churches, dinner parties and clubs.
Martín Zícari is an Argentinian writer, curator and producer based in Brussels. Holding a PhD in Art History, his work engages with the politics of cultural production, collective authorship and performance practices. Having been active in the performing arts field for over eight years, he has developed projects across Europe and Latin America.
Practical information
Date: Thursday 11 June 2026
Time: 8pm – 1am
Venue: M HKA, top floor
Tickets: €13.78, including a €12 ticket price and Eventbrite reservation fees. Book your ticket here
Food: provided by Joost Pizza
Intimate setting with limited capacity. Early booking recommended.
Intieme setting met beperkte capaciteit. Vroeg reserveren aanbevolen.
Cadre intimiste et capacité limitée. Réservation vivement conseillée.
SUPERHOST is a series of curated evenings taking place in M HKA’s top-floor spaces. Each edition is shaped by a guest artist or community, who approaches the evening from their own practice and perspective. Conceived as a programme of live and discursive events, SUPERHOST unfolds as a simultaneously festive, intimate and precise encounter within the institution. Each evening proposes a specific focus—a deep dive into the language, rhythms and concerns of the invited practice—creating space for exchange, experimentation and shared attention.