About art as a form of care. And about art in places where care is at the heart of everyday life.

AMOK, KAAP’s multidisciplinary city festival, brings together music, performance, film, workshops, conversations and encounters across different locations in Bruges. This year, we start from a simple yet profound question: are we still OK?

In a time that is accelerating, hardening and becoming increasingly complex, AMOK chooses to slow down. To listen, look, move and be together. How do we care for ourselves and for one another? And what role can art play in this?

These are big questions. Because art is not therapy, nor does it need to be healing or useful to be meaningful. A concert can bring calm, a performance can comfort or unsettle, and a shared experience can bring people closer together. Sometimes art comes into direct contact with care; sometimes it does not.

With AMOK, we explore what can emerge when art and care meet, without deciding in advance what that relationship should be.

We do this not only in familiar places for art and culture. AMOK also moves into places where care is part of everyday life. We bring artists, audiences and people working in care together, creating space for encounters, exchange and new experiences.

Am I OK? Are we OK?