[Launch] We Circle Through The Night and Are Consumed by Fire

Join us for an evening of readings and performances to celebrate the launch of We Circle Through The Night and Are Consumed by Fire edited by Simon Asencio and Pauline Hatzigeorgiou and published by SB34. 

[full launch line up to be announced]

About the publication
This publication acts as a postscriptum to the exhibition project Through The Valley of The Nest of Spiders by Simon Asencio for SB34—The Pool in Brussels. Dedicated to Samuel R. Delany's sci-fi and sexutopia novel, the exhibition was conceived as a process of annotating the book, expanding on the ethics discussed by the characters of the novel through installation, performative readings and with the complicity of other artists and their works. This devious object pursues such an intertextual process, extending and disseminating the writings forged by the exhibition. 

Cette publication se présente comme le post-scriptum de l'exposition de Simon Asencio Through The Valley of The Nest of Spiders pour SB34—The Pool à Bruxelles. Dédiée au roman de science-fiction et de sexutopie de Samuel R. Delany dont elle porte le titre, l'exposition a été pensée comme un processus d'annotation de ce livre, développant les formes éthiques mises en pratique par les personnages du récit, à travers des installations, des lectures et situations performatives, avec la complicité d'autres artistes. Cet objet interlope poursuit ce processus intertextuel, en prolongeant et disséminant les écritures forgées par l'exposition.

With contributions by / avec les contributions de: Reinhold Aman, Henry Andersen, Simon Asencio, Jen Brodie, Chloe Chignell, Jack Cox, Samuel R. Delany, Diana Duta, Loucka Fiagan, gladys, Stefa Govaart, Sean Gurd, Pauline Hatzigeorgiou, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Bernard-Marie Koltès, David J. Melnick, Matthieu Michaut, Margaret Miller, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Anouchka Oler Nussbaum, Grisélidis Réal, Páola Revenióti, Sabrina Seifried, Raphaëlle Serres, Valerie Solanas, sabrina soyer, Megan Susman.

About the editors
Simon Asencio is an artist living and working in Brussels. Using research methodologies specific to performance, queer archiving and critical pedagogy, the work of Simon Asencio takes the form of performances, publications, exhibitions, collective study situations and co-creation projects. His current research focuses on the forms of sociability generated by textual practices, particularly in their relationship between poetic practice and political engagement.

Pauline Hatzigeorgiou is an art historian and curator based in Brussels. Her work often engages with the economic conditions that shape artistic production, with a focus on site, language, and transpositions in visual and performance practices through post—conceptual approaches. She is the cofounder of SB34, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing production spaces and programming for experimental practices. Pauline collaborates regularly with institutions and served as Associate Curator at WIELS. Recently, she has been appointed curator of the Sommerakademie Paul Klee for the 2025 edition. She also teaches at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and pursues a writing and publishing practice.