Joachim Ben Yakoub is an art worker, sometimes operating as writer, sometimes as curator or dramaturg, mostly in the Kitchen, a collective study and workspace in Brussels. He works at Sint-Lucas Antwerp, where he promotes and conducts research in the arts as part of the SLARG research group, and where he teaches aesthetic theories. Joachim Ben Yakoub also works at erg in Brussels (École de recherche graphique) where he facilitates research in the arts.

Together with Reem Shilleh he is currently conducting the research “re-distributing solidarities”,  a research on sensible forms of memorial restitution, sonic and visual re-imagination, and re-distribution of past forms of solidarity. He is promotor of the Slarg researchers Hoda Shiatiri, Ayoh Kre Du CHatelet and Shayma Albess. Joachim is interest to promote research in the arts that is situated, dealing with decolonial aesthesis, memorial justice, collective praxis, undercommoning, embodied listening and speaking nearby.