The Tip Inn by Zoe Williams
Rue de la Regence 67, 1000 Brussels
Preview: Wednesday 3 September, 7PM - late
Opening hours: Thursday 4 September - Sunday 7 September, 11AM - midnight
Welcome to The Tip Inn. Conceived by Zoe Williams for RendezVous, this space serves as a salon de rendezvous during Brussels Art Week—a place to gather, meet, drink, listen, exchange, and dance. Join us during and after the opening hours of the participating venues. Part dive bar, part art installation, this temporary venue welcomes you with a variety of drinks, including artist cocktails, and hosts a rich program of talks, performances, readings, and music sessions throughout Brussels Art Week.
Through her multidisciplinary practice, Marseille-based British artist Zoe Williams creates performative, set-like environments incorporating a wide range of mediums, which are often conceived and executed in collaboration with others. Subtly scripted, her audience becomes implicit in the activation or witnessing of the scene. She researches notions of power, excess, desire and consumption, and performs these dynamics in her highly cinematographic work.
The Tip Inn builds on the artists’ fascination with “bars”. Time-spaces that function as signifiers of community; of decadence; of consumption; of cultural belonging; of escapism and of rebellion. A bar exists as a staged reality in which the power dynamics of service and the economies of “pleasure” are played out. It’s a context in which notions of class, society and value are enacted and sometimes highlighted, upturned or even mocked. The Tip Inn Bar is a space on the edge—where currency flows like liquid, roles invert, and moments tip toward revelation, rupture, or release.