Somewhere deep inside the asshole of performance-artist Simon Van Schuylenbergh you can recently find a brand new cultural hub called ‘Anal Pompidou’. If you open-up a little more and go even deeper, the topics go further and the performances are wilder, there might be some audience participation of the worst kind, alongside an artisanale bakery and a weird collaboration with the quartier. Expect D.I.Y. special effects, meets homosexual desires, meets institutional-diharria, meets chaotic energy, meets unsubsidised hemorrhoids, meets you, the audience in the intimacy of the moment.

While plenty of underground spaces and art institutions (taking it over at one point) are serving as the breeding ground for gentrification projects in neighbourhoods such as Molenbeek, Anderlecht and Schaarbeek, ANAL Pompidou has the desire to gentrify the center of Brussels in the opposite direction. With his Bottom-up initiative, specialised in D.I.Y.trash, Anal hopes soon the rents will go down, in Louise, Dansaert, Petite Sablon, Grand Sablon, in front of the European parliament and in the whole municipality of Uccle. “i’m so high on art, but so low on money. High meets low, low meets high, where am i?”