Unrequested Services is a series of public services conceived by artists.
They are unrequested because nobody commissioned or asked for them – if not the artists themselves, following their own desire and needs. The project is supported by radical_hope/House of Practices and the Flemish Authorities (first service)
They are unrequested because nobody commissioned or asked for them – if not the artists themselves, following their own desire and needs. The project is supported by radical_hope/House of Practices and the Flemish Authorities (first service)
Concept & curatorship: Simone Basani in collaboration with Alice Ciresola
Invited artists:
David Weber-Krebs
Amina Sâadi
Lucy Guarinoni
Logo graphic design: Amina Sâadi
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Invited artists:
David Weber-Krebs
Amina Sâadi
Lucy Guarinoni
Logo graphic design: Amina Sâadi
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UNREQUESTED SERVICE 3: LUCY GUARINONI and SIMONE BASANI (2025)
On the ways home
On the ways home is an artistic and performative service delivered via messaging apps. It is designed to guide users along possible routes toward “home,” whatever that may mean to them.
Inspired by the format of a gamebook, the service unfolds through recorded, visual, and written storytelling, as well as through an exchange between a user and a narrator. Users face different choices; each decision concludes a chapter of their story and shapes the next one, allowing the journey to continue step by step, until the user’s agency takes over and the obligation or binary nature of choice is queered.
At the end of each one-to-one virtual exchange, a reflective and performative gathering brings together, in real life or online, the users, the narrators who guided them, and an interested audience.
This moment invites reflection, connection, and sharing around the different experiences and meanings of “way//s home.”
Born as a transfeminist, queer, and intimate practice, On the ways home continues to grow while embracing its roots. Its aim is to collectivize the service, accompanying more people in exploring their own ways home. To this end, an increasing number of users are invited and trained to become storytellers themselves.
The research process so far has been hosted by Lavanderia a Vapore (Collegno, IT), a.pass (Brussels, BE), and BUDA Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk, BE). Supported by radical_house (Brussels, BE) and BNA-BBOT (Brussels, BE).
UNREQUESTED SERVICE 2: AMINA SÂADI (2021-2022)
Persil&Coriandre
Persil&Coriandre is an unrequested service, conceived and realized by artist and graphic designer Amina Saâdi.
Visible in various epiceries in Brussels starting November 2021.Amina Saâdi is interested in visual identities and communities, approching the topic through her background of graphic designer. Not interested in faces, names but rather traces that people can leave and how to interpret them.Going to night shops during Covid 19 was a way to connect with people. And I would go to ask for persil & cordiandre, the basis of Moroccan cuisine even if I don’t using them always when I cook.
“How can you recognize persil & corianders?”
Shy and this a simple way to connect with people. So a project that initially served myself. A way to go back to her own cultural roots - something taken from granted - and going back to them.
Frustrating, because they would stop speaking if they understand you don’t speak Arabic: a pretext to having a conversation with them, negotiation a common ground for a conversation.
How to make places in already-existing places?
![Amina's father showing how to distinguish the leaves of persil and coriander]()
![graphics and drafts for US Persil & Coriandre / Amina Sâadi]()
![drawings Persil & Coriandre / Amina Sâadi]()
![Amina's father explaining to Amina how to write herb names in Arabic]()
![Amina walking in Forest to deliver P & C bags]()
![P & C bags in a épicerie in Forest]()
“How can you recognize persil & corianders?”
Shy and this a simple way to connect with people. So a project that initially served myself. A way to go back to her own cultural roots - something taken from granted - and going back to them.
Frustrating, because they would stop speaking if they understand you don’t speak Arabic: a pretext to having a conversation with them, negotiation a common ground for a conversation.
How to make places in already-existing places?
UNREQUESTED SERVICE 1: DAVID WEBER-KREBS (2021)
The practice is repeated three days a week at different times, one hour per day, until November in the parc Armand Steurs. The trigger of this practice is the phenomenon that one encounters when remaining still and silent in places, be they places in nature or public places in cities. In those cases, often happens that different creatures would approach human beings, for instance, without fear and without being called.
David develops a practice, still without name, that aims at opening up to his physical surroundings in the park, to and for the animals, human beings, plants, entities and unexpected events. He tries to connect without imposing his own presence.
