Raf Custers
Raf Custers (Brussels, BE) is historian, writer, doc-maker, singer-performer and journalist. A lot of visual work is created with Greet Brauwers such as the ongoing transmedia project ‘Re-Pulse’ (since 2019) and the 2011 award-winning documentary ‘Lithium, curse or blessing for Bolivia’. Together they undertook a study tour in 2013-2014 through South America for fieldwork on extractivism, the city and civil resistance, from which a book and numerous video documents resulted. He did many reports in the DRCongo. His documentary ‘Cri d'alarme du Kivu’ was awarded the Silver Signis in Rome in 2001. He's published other books on stowaways (1996), media activism (2004) and the multinationals of global mining and extractivism (2013). Raf has worked for all kinds of media before joining research groups IPIS and Gresea. Public interventions include ‘ChoeurFew’ and ‘BROcean-Zeemonster’. He participated in Bru(i)tal, the Brussels Zinneke Parade and musical performances ‘What happened to the dead fish’ (2021, kfda), ‘Melancholy at the 5 blocks’ (BBEK/Kaaitheater) and ‘Oslo’ (2018, Kaaitheater). For ‘Melancholy at the 5 Blocks’ (2020) he did the dramaturgy.
Algae to Ashes, Ashes to Glazes
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Audio workshop ASftS #3
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Beyond the Dirt, in 5 Selfies
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The Ocean's Trompe l'Oeil
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