Acid Lily and Castillo will carry out research to ask questions on the reasons why they choose, at a given time and place, to practice DJing and editing: What’s the use of DJing and editing? They will also ask questions on their arts teaching experiences: What happens to queers while getting teaching jobs?

This research project stems from their joint teaching of The Art of DJing at MULTI: Master in Editorial Practices at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 2025. The Art of DJing is a yearly seminar on epistemologies of editorial and DJing practices from Brussels queer standpoints. In the seminar, they ask themselves about the reasons why they choose, at a given time and place, to practice editing and DJing. They also ask themsleves about what tasks and activities they carry out when practicing editing and DJing. Through such exercise, they aim at nourishing common language and attempt to shape dynamic and materialist definitions of their practices of editing and DJing. The first iteration of the seminar was hosted at Recyclart in Molenbeek.

Acid Lily is a Brussels-based artist, musician, and accidental DJ. She plays other people’s music for the enjoyment of the curious. Rarely tied to one genre, she is exploring music in all its diversity with one crystal clear goal: uniting people on the dance floor. She tries to look for unexpected music and bring the unknown to the crowd.

Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and a DJ with 10+ years of experience, she uses her skills meticulously to make the dancefloors go crazy. Her work is unserious art. She plays music for people who don’t know if they want to listen to music. She tries to make people move when they don’t want to.

What does she know about DJing? Everything and yet so little. What does DJing mean to her? What kind of discs get jockeyed? What is her purpose? She is wondering, too. Is DJ what she is or what she does?

Since 2016, she has played at various venues and festivals; notably: Listen Festival, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Pink Screen, Homografia, Zeverock, Electron Festival… and has played for underground queer parties all around Brussels. She is part of Missfitte, a collective that focuses on making events for queer people. She is also a monthly resident at Le Belgica bar, and she is a sound technician and operator for the Pssound System, a community-built and -led sound system made with the Psst Mlle collective.

Castillo is an artist, arts researcher, and teacher. His art is hosting assemblies. His work asks questions at the junctions of arts and queer community health. Since 2020, he has conducted research on assemblies as methodologies, which began with the support of erg: école de recherche graphique (Brussels) and the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research. He is part of the arts collectives and research groups: Aids, archives, and arts assemblies in Belgium (Brussels, 2022–23), Art brut, bruta tú (Madrid), and Buenos Tiempos, Int. (Brussels).

He teaches at MULTI at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts. At the same academy, with Fefa Vila Núñez (Faculty of Sociology and Political Science, Complutense University of Madrid), he conducts a joint research trajectory that asks questions about transmissions, looked at in their form of negotiations, happening within queer activisms and art labour, as well as in between them, in Brussels and in Madrid, from the 1990s to today. They ask questions at a place and a time when arts institutions and queer communities look at the same events from opposing agendas: the conflictual transmissions of queer knowledges, tools, and methodologies, both within community projects and when teaching.

Over the past five years, his arts research has been co-produced with, among other arts centers, La Bellone, BUDA, Kaaitheater, Sint Lucas Antwerpen, and Viernulvier in Belgium; Azala, La Escocesa, La Bassa Mar, Hablarenarte, and MACBA in Spain; and the Athens Museum of Queer Arts in Greece. Presently, his research trajectory is supported by a grant from Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.

He was born in Castilla-La Mancha and lives in Brussels.