Anne Ballon (she/her) is a writer and jeweller based in Brussels. Her texts have been published in several magazines, among others, in Rekto:Verso, Deus Ex Machina, deBuren, De Reactor and Hard//hoofd. Anne is part of the writers’ and artists’ collective Hyster-X. She is a VLOED laureate.

During the residency, Anne will work on Buiten, in de dingen, a work of poetic prose. In this text, a group of anti-mothers must reorient themselves after a cosmic event has overthrown an oppressive, totalitarian regime. How do they recover from this, and how do they learn to live together?