SALON is an outdoor space for relaxation, listening, unwinding and meeting, which will be haphazardly set up every day in the open area of the festival.
SALON is mainly curated by the bodies that inhabit it, and it will host a different musical programme every night, courtesy of artists and other individuals who agreed to publicly reveal their secret musical obsessions.
Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a curator in the performing arts and a writer. Between 2018 and 2026 he was part of the artistic direction of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. He has worked as an independent curator of performance and public programmes, including the São Paulo Biennial (2025), Yogurt and Other Spaces of Labour (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, 2021, in collaboration with Zeynep Öz) and Can Nature Revolt? (Manifesta, Palermo, 2018). He holds a doctorate from the University of Palermo; he is among the founders of Celador, a space of experimentation with language in Brussels, and is a member of the artistic committee of the Beirut Art Center. He recently curated the exhibition Etel Adnan e Giorgio Morandi at MAMbo – Bologna. He teaches regularly, including the weekly course Contemporary Salmon at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. He writes across different contexts, publishing at times as Dani — a personal, nocturnal name — in the queer tradition of the signature as voice rather than identity. His most recent writing has appeared in Mizna, BUTT and Mousse Magazine.
Daniel Blanga Gubbay is also present at Short Theatre 2026 with the CLASSE Daniel Blanga Gubbay e la danza come sputo, on September 6 at La Pelanda, before his SALON.