Performatik 2019

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PRACTICALITIES

Get your tickets at PERFORMATIK.BE + KAAITHEATER TICKETSHOP Sainctelettesquare 20 Square Sainctelette, 1000 Brussels T 02 201 59 59 | tickets@kaaitheater.be Opening hours during the festival: Mon–Sun 11:00 > 18:00 RETURN-TO-KANAL PASS During Performatik19, there will be five ongoing performances and open studios at Kanal – Centre Pompidou. You can visit all of these over several days with only one ticket (€ 14), which is for sale online or on the spot. Welcome back!

COMBINE SHOWS You can combine several performances and exhibitions on each day.

Use the day-by-day schedule on the inside flap to figure out your programme.

SEEING 4 OR MORE SEPARATE PERFORMANCES? Receive a 25% discount on the standard price! > kaaitheater.be/abo

PERFORMATIK19 CLOSING PARTY After 11 days of attending performances, it’s high time we perform ourselves.

SAT 23/03 22:00 > ...

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EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS SUN 27/01 –> SUN 28/04

JAN VROMMAN & VINCENT DUNOYER Poetas sin alfabeto

FRI 1/02 –> SAT 23/03

NORA TURATO Diffusion Line

WED 20/02 –> SUN 26/05

BERNARD VAN ORLEY Brussels and the Renaissance

THU 28/02 –> THU 28/03

IN/FINITY Through Art We Care

WED 13/03 –> SAT 16/03

LIZ MAGIC LASER Handle/Poignée

THU 14/03 –> SAT 23/03

THE MONASTERY DIY Monastery

WED 20/03 –> SAT 23/03

TAAVI TALVE Blind Spot

FRI 22/03 > 19:30

OPENING 20 YEARS S.M.A.K. Een vertaling van de ene taal...

ARGOS BEURSSCHOUWBURG BOZAR DE MARKTEN BEURSSCHOUWBURG ZSENNE ARTLAB BEURSSCHOUWBURG CC STROMBEEK

WED 13/03 19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

19:30 –>20:30

OPENING SALON: PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART

KAAITHEATER 41

KANAL 11

21:00 > 22:00

LAURE PROUVOST They Are Waiting For You

KAAITHEATER

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THU 14/03 10:00 –>19:30

EMI KODAMA Beyond the buildings… (20 min.)

12:00 > 14:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

KAAISTUDIO’S 25

18:00 > 20:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

19:00 > 19:04!

SOPHIE WHETTNALL Shadow Boxing

CENTRALE – VITRINE 35

19:15 > 19:19!

SOPHIE WHETTNALL Shadow Boxing

CENTRALE – VITRINE 35

19:30 > 20:10

BRYANA FRITZ Submission submission

BEURSSCHOUWBURG 28

21:00 > 22:00

LAURE PROUVOST They Are Waiting For You

KAAITHEATER

21:00 > 22:00

JIMMY ROBERT Joie Noire

KAAISTUDIO’S 20

KANAL 11

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ONGOING 12:00 –>19:00

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL – open studio

KANAL 11

FRI 15/03 10:00 –>19:30

EMI KODAMA Beyond the buildings… (20 min.)

KAAISTUDIO’S 25

12:00 > 14:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

14:00 –> 19:00

STAV YEINI The Senders (45 min.)

15:00 > 18:00

SALON: INDISCIPLINARY MEASURES

18:00 > 20:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

18:00 > 18:45

JOCELYN COTTENCIN Monumental

19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

19:30 > 20:10

BRYANA FRITZ Submission submission

21:00 > 21:45

GLOBE AROMA & JOZEF WOUTERS Underneath Which Rivers Flow

DECORATELIER 26

21:00 > 22:00

JIMMY ROBERT Joie Noire

KAAISTUDIO’S 20

22:00

SALON: ART, REPRESENTATION, GENDER AND RACE

KAAISTUDIO’S 39

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38 KAAISTUDIO’S 25 KAAITHEATER 39 ZSENNE ARTLAB 38 KANAL 12 KANAL 11 BEURSSCHOUWBURG 28

ONGOING 12:00 –>19:00

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL – open studio

KANAL 11

12:00 –>18:00

JOCELYN COTTENCIN Monumental – open studio

KANAL 12

SAT 16/03 12:00 –>14:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

15:00 > 17:30

GLUKLYA Debates on Division: When Private becomes Public

18:00 > 20:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38 BOZAR 17 ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

18:00 > 18:45

JOCELYN COTTENCIN Monumental

19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

19:00 > 22:00

LOTTE VAN DEN BERG Dying together

19:30 > 20:10

BRYANA FRITZ Submission submission

21:00 > 21:45

GLOBE AROMA & JOZEF WOUTERS Underneath Which Rivers Flow

KANAL 12 KANAL 11 KAAITHEATER 10 BEURSSCHOUWBURG 28 DECORATELIER 26

ONGOING 12:00 –>18:00

IN/FINITY Through Art We Care

DE MARKTEN

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12:00 –>19:00

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL – open studio

KANAL

11

12:00 –>18:00

JOCELYN COTTENCIN Monumental – open studio

KANAL

12

16:00 –>20:00

RIVER LIN The O Time Collection

KANAL

13

SUN 17/03 10:00 –>19:30

EMI KODAMA Beyond the buildings… (20 min.)

KAAISTUDIO’S 25

12:00 > 14:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

14:00 –> 19:00

STAV YEINI The Senders (45 min.)

KAAISTUDIO’S 25

15:00 > 18:00

LOTTE VAN DEN BERG Dying together

KAAITHEATER 10

18:30 > 19:30

SALON: DEATH, MOURNING, RITUALS AND PERFORMATIVITY

KAAITHEATER 39

18:00 > 20:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

18:00 > 18:45

JOCELYN COTTENCIN Monumental

18:00 > 20:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

20:30 > 21:40

LAST YEARZ INTERESTING NEGRO i ride in colour and soft focus,…

KAAISTUDIO’S 21

12:00 –>18:00

IN/FINITY Through Art We Care

DE MARKTEN 37

12:00 –>19:00

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL – open studio

KANAL 11

12:00 –>18:00

JOCELYN COTTENCIN Monumental – open studio

KANAL 12

16:00 –>20:00

RIVER LIN The O Time Collection

KANAL 13

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38 KANAL 12 ZSENNE ARTLAB 38 KANAL 11

ONGOING

MON 18/03 12:00 > 14:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

18:00 > 20:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

20:30 > 21:15

GLOBE AROMA & JOZEF WOUTERS Underneath Which Rivers Flow

DECORATELIER 26

TUE 19/03 12:00 > 14:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

18:00 > 20:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

20:30 > 22:00

PIETER VAN BOGAERT Fort Beau

KAAISTUDIO’S 24

20:30 > 21:15

GLOBE AROMA & JOZEF WOUTERS Underneath Which Rivers Flow

DECORATELIER 26

WED 20/03 12:00 > 14:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

17:30 > 18:30

SALON: THE HERITAGE OF BAUHAUS

18:00 > 20:00

THE MONASTERY Bardo States

18:30 >19:30

JAN VROMMAN Het museum van het lokale en het universele

ARGOS 34

19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

KANAL 11

20:00 >21:00

JAN VROMMAN Het museum van het lokale en het universele

ARGOS 34

20:30 > 21:15

GLOBE AROMA & JOZEF WOUTERS Underneath Which Rivers Flow

ONGOING

ZSENNE ARTLAB 38 KANAL 41 ZSENNE ARTLAB 38

DECORATELIER 26

12:00 –>16:00

A.PASS RESEARCHERS Unsettled Study – open studio

KANAL

15

12:00 –>19:00

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL – open studio

KANAL

11

THU 21/03 19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

KANAL 11

19:00 > 21:00

DAN GRAHAM Collaborations (1980–1992)

WIELS 33

19:00 > 21:00

LÉA DROUET Boundary Games

ARGOS 34

20:30 > 21:00

METTE INGVARTSEN & WILL GUTHRIE All around

KANAL 14

20:30 > 21:15

GLOBE AROMA & JOZEF WOUTERS Underneath Which Rivers Flow

DECORATELIER 26

ONGOING 12:00 –>16:00

A.PASS RESEARCHERS Unsettled Study – open studio

KANAL 15

12:00 –>19:00

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL – open studio

KANAL 11

12:00 > 12:15

ULA SICKLE & HYOID Voice ascending a staircase

WIELS 32

12:30 > 13:30

SALON: FROM STAGE TO GALLERY/GALLERY TO STAGE

WIELS 41

16:00 > 16:15

ULA SICKLE & HYOID Voice ascending a staircase

WIELS 32

16:00 –>19:00

A.PASS RESEARCHERS Unsettled Study

KANAL 15

19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

19:00 > …

BARBARA RAES U-Loss

20:30 > 21:40

NOÉ SOULIER Performing Art

20:30 > 21:30

PRICE Melodies are so far my best friend

21:00 > 22:00

MERYEM BAYRAM & GUY ROMBOUTS Never Walk Alone #7: Fourfold

22:00 > 22:30

METTE INGVARTSEN & WILL GUTHRIE All around

KANAL 14

12:00 –>16:00

A.PASS RESEARCHERS Unsettled Study – open studio

KANAL 15

12:00 –>19:00

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL – open studio

KANAL 11

12:00 > 12:15

ULA SICKLE & HYOID Voice ascending a staircase

WIELS 32

13:30 >14:30

SALON: PERFORMANCE ART & ART FAIRS

BOZAR 41

15:00 > 15:45

ALEXIS BLAKE Allegory of the Painted Woman

BOZAR 18

16:00 > 16:15

ULA SICKLE & HYOID Voice ascending a staircase

WIELS 32

17:00 > 17:45

ALEXIS BLAKE Allegory of the Painted Woman

BOZAR 18

17:00 > 17:25

NORA TURATO The good, the bad and the viscose

17:00 > 17:45

GLOBE AROMA & JOZEF WOUTERS Underneath Which Rivers Flow

18:00 –>21:00

A.PASS RESEARCHERS Unsettled study

19:00 > 19:45

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL

19:00 > …

BARBARA RAES U-Loss

20:00 > 20:25

NORA TURATO The good, the bad and the viscose

BEURSSCHOUWBURG 31

20:30 > 21:30

PRICE Melodies are so far my best friend

BEURSSCHOUWBURG 30

20:30 > 21:40

NOÉ SOULIER Performing Art

22:00 > 23:00

IVO DIMCHEV Selfie Concert

22:00 –>…

CLOSING PARTY

FRI 22/03

KANAL 11 KAAISTUDIO’S 22 KAAITHEATER

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BEURSSCHOUWBURG 30 CC STROMBEEK 36

ONGOING

SAT 23/03

BEURSSCHOUWBURG 31 DECORATELIER 26 KANAL 15 KANAL 11 KAAISTUDIO’S 22

KAAITHEATER

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KANAL 16 KAAITHEATER

ONGOING 12:00 –>16:00

A.PASS RESEARCHERS Unsettled Study – open studio

KANAL 15

12:00 –>19:00

RADOUAN MRIZIGA O.KANAL – open studio

KANAL 11

PARTNERS

KAAITHEATER IN ASSOCIATION WITH A.PASS ARGOS BEURSSCHOUWBURG BOZAR CC STROMBEEK CENTRALE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU TOPAZ / IN/FINITY WIELS WORKSPACEBRUSSELS ZSENNE ARTLAB

INTRODUCTION

Every other year, Performatik showcases contemporary performance art or ‘live art’, together with a great many Brussels partners. For eleven days, artists enter a twilight zone in which they tinker with the codes of both the performing arts and the visual arts. Performance has flourished in the arts world in the past, but over the past few years has increasingly come to occupy its own distinct space.

Vito Acconci, who presented work at Performatik09, once claimed that performance art can only ever be a temporary art form in an artist’s oeuvre; one moment that shakes everything up as an announcement of a new period. But since three performance artists won golden lions at the previous Venice Biennale and performance art has become a fixture at art biennials and art fairs, ‘immaterial’ art forms appear to have acquired a permanent place in the world of visual art.

Is it a sign of the times that living bodies increasingly occupy museums? Are museums skillfully responding to consumers’ desire for experiences? And do artists avidly adapt, for example by creating a theatre version and a museum version of their work? Or are they searching for new forms and methods of presentation that tamper with the established codes of artworks, audiences, and institutions? Over the past decade, Performatik has decisively opted for the latter. Performance art is an art form that is essentially fragile – and must be.

In this sixth edition, visual artist Laure Prouvost – in collaboration with Sam Belinfante and Pierre Droulers – is presenting her first performance work for the stage, and choreographer Noé Soulier is letting twenty artworks from the collection of the Centre Pompidou occupy the theatre space. Alexis Blake and Jocelyn Cottencin are energizing art-historical works and offering a fresh perspective. Jimmy Robert, Jozef Wouters/Globe Aroma, Last Yearz Interesting Negro, and PRICE are shifting the boundaries of visibility and invisibility.

Historical backdrop of Performatik19 is the Bauhaus movement, which emerged 100 years ago. A number of Bauhaus principles have become deeply relevant again: the cross-fertilization between disciplines, the status of the author and the collective, the arts academy as an artist community, artisanry versus mass production, bringing art closer to everyday life, and the relationship between bodies and space as fundament for the development of new worldviews. The principles of Bauhaus form an inspirational source for the works of Radouan Mriziga, Ula Sickle and the a.pass researchers. Moreover, in this edition artists will create together with students, more than ever. They don’t just show end results, but invite you to their rehearsals or open studios.

Another thread in the festival is death, loss and performativity. In March we will commemorate the 2016 attacks on Brussels. During U-Loss and Bardos States, Barbara Raes and The Monastery, respectively, will develop new rituals around loss. Lotte van den Berg and Liz Magic Laser will explore the borders between performance, therapy and politics, while IN/FINITY looks at the intersection between care and art.

Performance cannot be pigeon-holed. Expect one-on-one performances, performances of 4 minutes to an entire day, rituals, performed research, concerts, a demonstration in the city, dance, sound installations, lecture performances, debates, activated exhibitions… and a party. The common element is always the live event, the encounter between you and the performer in the here and now.

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INLEIDING

Performatik zet de hedendaagse performance art of ‘live art’ elke twee jaar in de kijker, samen met elf Brusselse partners. Elf dagen lang betreden kunstenaars een schemerzone waarin ze duchtig aan de codes van de podiumkunsten én de beeldende kunsten morrelen. Performance floreerde in het verleden al in de kunstenwereld, en neemt er de laatste jaren steeds beslister zijn plek in.

Vito Acconci – nog te gast op Performatik09 – beweerde dat performance art slechts een tijdelijke kunstvorm kan zijn in het oeuvre van een artiest. Een moment dat alles door elkaar schudt, als aankondiging van een nieuwe periode. Maar nu op de vorige kunstbiënnale van Venetië drie performancekunstenaars een gouden leeuw ontvingen, nu performance art een vast onderdeel is op kunstbiënnales en kunstbeurzen… blijken de ‘immateriële’ kunstvormen ook in de beeldende kunstwereld een vaste plaats verworven te hebben.

Is het een teken des tijds dat levende lichamen steeds meer de musea binnensluipen? Spelen musea handig in op de vraag van de consument naar ervaringen?

En gaan de kunstenaars hier gretig in mee, door bijvoorbeeld meteen een podiumversie én een museumversie te creëren? Of zoeken ze naar nieuwe vormen en presentatiewijzen die morrelen aan de codes van zowel kunstwerk, publiek als instituut? Performatik kiest al tien jaar lang resoluut voor het laatste. Want performance art is een kunstvorm die in essentie fragiel is – en moet zijn.

In deze zesde editie maakt beeldend kunstenaar Laure Prouvost – in samenwerking met Sam Belinfante en Pierre Droulers – haar eerste performancewerk voor de theaterzaal, en laat choreograaf Noé Soulier een twintigtal kunstwerken uit de collectie van Centre Pompidou de theaterruimte innemen. Alexis Blake en Jocelyn Cottencin geven kunsthistorische werken een nieuw perspectief. Jimmy Robert, Jozef Wouters/Globe Aroma, Last Yearz Interesting Negro en PRICE, verleggen de grens tussen zichtbaarheid en onzichtbaarheid.

Historische backdrop van Performatik19 is de Bauhaus-beweging, die 100 jaar geleden ontstond. Een aantal Bauhaus-krachtlijnen zijn immers ook nu erg actueel: vakmanschap versus massaproductie, het statuut van de auteur en het collectief, de kunstacademie als een gemeenschap van artiesten, kunst dichter bij het dagelijks leven brengen, en de relatie tussen mens en ruimte als basis voor het ontwikkelen van nieuwe leefwereldmodellen. De Bauhaus-principes vormen het vertrekpunt voor de werken van Radouan Mriziga, Ula Sickle en de a.pass-onderzoekers. In deze editie zullen bovendien meer dan ooit artiesten samen creëren met studenten, en niet enkel eindproducten tonen maar ook het werken zelf.

Een van de andere lijnen in Performatik19 is dood, verlies, en performativiteit.

In maart herdenken we immers ook de Brusselse aanslagen van 2016. Tijdens U-Loss en Bardos States ontwikkelen, respectievelijk, Barbara Raes en The Monastery nieuwe rituelen rond verlies. Lotte van den Berg en Liz Magic Laser zullen de grens aftasten tussen performance, therapie en politiek, terwijl IN/FINITY creëert op het kruispunt tussen zorg en kunst.

Performance laat zich niet vangen in één categorie. Verwacht je aan éénop-één-performances, performances van 4 minuten tot een hele dag, rituelen, performed research, concerten, een demonstratie in de stad, dans, geluidsinstallaties, lecture performances, debatten, geactiveerde tentoonstellingen… en een feest. Bindend element is telkens het live gebeuren, de ontmoeting tussen jou en de performer, in het hier-en-nu. Welkom!

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INTRODUCTION

Tous les deux ans, Performatik met en lumière l’art contemporain de la performance ou live art. Onze jours durant, le Kaaitheater et onze partenaires bruxellois accueillent des artistes qui explorent la zone d’ombre où ils triturent sans ménagement les codes des arts du spectacle vivant et des arts visuels. Dans le monde de l’art, la performance a déjà connu un essor par le passé et ces dernières années, elle y occupe sa place de manière toujours plus résolue.

Vito Acconci – qui était un des hôtes de Performatik09 – affirmait que l’art de la performance ne peut être qu’une forme d’art provisoire dans l’œuvre d’un artiste.

Un moment qui secoue tout, comme l’annonce d’une nouvelle période. Mais à présent que la précédente Biennale de Venise a décerné un lion d’or à trois artistes de la performance, que cet art fait partie intégrante de toutes les biennales et foires d’art contemporain, les expressions artistiques « immatérielles » s’avèrent avoir acquis une place fixe dans le monde des arts plastiques.

Est-ce un signe des temps que des corps vivants s’infiltrent toujours plus souvent dans les musées ? Les musées misent-ils habilement sur la demande des consommateurs de vivre des expériences ? Les artistes y participent-ils volontiers, en créant par exemple d’emblée une version scénique et une version muséale ? Ou cherchent-ils de nouvelles formes et de nouveaux modes de présentation qui triturent les codes de l’œuvre d’art, du public et de l’institution ? Depuis dix ans déjà, Performatik choisit résolument cette seconde option. Parce que l’art de la performance est et doit par essence être une expression artistique fragile.

Pour cette sixième édition, la plasticienne Laure Prouvost présente sa première performance pour la scène – en collaboration avec Sam Belinfante et Pierre Droulers –, et le chorégraphe Noé Soulier s’empare de l’espace théâtral avec une vingtaine d’œuvres d’art de la collection du Centre Pompidou. Alexis Blake et Jocelyn Cottencin introduisent du mouvement dans des œuvres d’art historiques. Jimmy Robert, Jozef Wouters/Globe Aroma, Last Yearz Interesting Negro et PRICE jouent avec les frontières du visible et de l’invisible.

L’ancrage historique de Performatik19 est le mouvement Bauhaus qui a vu le jour il y a cent ans. Certaines lignes directrices sont très actuelles : l’artisanat par opposition à la production de masse, le statut de l’auteur et du collectif, l’académie des arts comme communauté d’artistes, le rapprochement de l’art de la vie quotidienne. La relation entre l’homme et l’espace constituait la base du développement de nouveaux modèles de vie. Les principes du Bauhaus sont le point de départ de Radouan Mriziga, d’Ula Sickle et des chercheurs d’a.pass. Qui plus est, les artistes collaboreront plus que jamais auparavant avec des étudiants au cours de cette édition et ne présenteront pas seulement des œuvres achevées, mais aussi les processus de création et les répétitions.

La mort, le deuil et la performativité sont une autre ligne directrice de cette édition de Performatik – au mois de mars, nous commémorons les attentats de Bruxelles en 2016. Dans U-Loss et Bardos States, Barbara Raes et The Monastery créent respectivement de nouveaux rituels autour de la mort et du deuil. Lotte van den Berg et Liz Magic Laser partent en quête des frontières entre performance, thérapie et politique ; IN/FINITY jette un pont entre soins et art.

La performance ne peut pas être cataloguée. Attendez-vous à des performances en tête à tête, à des performances de quatre minutes ou d’une journée entière, à une manifestation dans la ville, des rituels, des recherches en public, des concerts, de la danse, des installations sonores, des lectures-performances, des débats, des constellations, des expositions interactives… Et à une fête ! L’élément commun est toujours l’événement en public, la rencontre dans l’ici et maintenant entre spectateur(s) et performeur(s). Soyez les bienvenus !

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EXHIBITION AT M HKA

LAURE PROUVOST AM-BIG-YOU-US-LEGSICON 8/02 > 19/05/2019 M HKA (Antwerp) is presenting the largest Laure Prouvost solo exhibition to date.

See a wide-angle panorama of her career, ranging from a key selection of her formative video works to recent major installations.

Show your personal code at M HKA, and pay the reduced entrance fee (€ 5) for the exhibition.

Show your voucher at Kaaitheater, and pay the reduced ticket price (€ 12) for the performance.

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LAURE PROUVOST Sam Belinfante & Pierre Droulers They Are Waiting For You

LOCATION KAAITHEATER

EN Laure Prouvost’s first work for the main stage is rooted in her film Dit Learn, in which a quick succession of everyday objects, images and texts encourages you to imbue everything with new meaning. You can expect an ‘expanded cinema experience’ in which recorded and live images duplicate the actions in the theatre.

WED 13, THU 14/03 21:00 PERFORMANCE 1H | ENGLISH | € 16/12/10 BELGIAN PREMIERE

OPENING SALON PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART

NL Vertrekpunt in Laure Provousts eerste werk voor de grote zaal is haar film Dit Learn, waarin een snelle opeenvolging van dagdagelijkse objecten, beelden en tekst, je aanmoedigt om aan alles nieuwe betekenissen te geven. Verwacht je aan een ‘expanded cinema experience’ waarin opgenomen en live beelden de acties in het theater verdubbelen.

Tate Modern performance curator Catherine Wood discusses her recently published book Performance in Contemporary Art with artist Jimmy Robert.

WED 13/03 19:30 ENGLISH | FREE | KAAITHEATER

FR Le point de départ de la première œuvre pour grande salle de Laure Prouvost est son film Dit Learn, dans lequel une succession rapide d’objets du quotidien, d’images et de textes nous stimule à donner de nouvelles significations à tout. Il faut s’attendre à une « expérience de cinéma augmenté » dans laquelle des images filmées et des prises de vue en direct au théâtre se dédoublent.

This performance is a re-interpretation of a theatrical performance work co-commissioned by the Walker Art Centre Minneapolis & EMPAC New York.

DANCE Jack Magai, Terry Hempfling MUSIC Eli Keszler SINGERS Clemmie Franks, Catherine Carter, Josephine Stevenson IN THE FRAMEWORK OF EXTRA, with the support of the Institut Français and the Cultural Service of the French Embassy in Belgium

LAURE PROUVOST (°1978, France) lives in London and Antwerp.

She recently held solo exhibitions at Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Fahrenheit (Los Angeles), and Palais de Tokyo (Paris). In 2013, she won the prestigious Turner Prize.

In May 2019, she will represent France at the Venice Biennale.

SAM BELINFANTE is an artist living and working in London.

Along with filmmaking and photographic work, his practice incorporates curating, sound and performance.

PIERRE DROULERS is a French and Belgian choreographer and dancer.

From 2005 until 2015, he co-directed Charleroi/Danses.

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NOÉ SOULIER Performing Art

LOCATION KAAITHEATER

EN Now that bodies are occupying more and more museums, Noé Soulier is presenting an opposite movement: what if instead of bodies, the artworks themselves adapted to a new space?

Performing Art presents twenty pieces from the collection of the Centre Pompidou. You do not see them as you walk through a museum, but from your seat in the theatre.

FRI 22, SAT 23/03 20:30 PERFORMANCE 1H10 | € 16/12/10 BELGIAN PREMIERE

NL Nu lichamen meer en meer de musea innemen, kiest Noé Soulier voor een omgekeerde beweging: wat als niet de lichamen maar de kunstwerken zich aanpassen aan een nieuwe ruimte?

In Performing Art kijk je naar een twintigtal kunstwerken uit de collectie van het Centre Pompidou. Niet al wandelend door een museum, maar vanop je theaterstoel.

FR À présent que les corps entrent toujours davantage dans les musées, Noé Soulier choisit un mouvement inverse : et si c’était les œuvres d’art qui s’adaptaient à un nouvel espace au lieu des corps ? Dans Performing Art, on regarde une vingtaine d’œuvres d’art de la collection du Centre Pompidou. Non pas en se promenant à travers un musée, mais à partir de son fauteuil de théâtre.

CREATED BY Noé Soulier PRODUCTION ND Productions, Alma Office CO-PRODUCTION Kaaitheater, Centre Pompidou, Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse, CND Centre national de la danse, Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou, Festival d’Automne à Paris

NOÉ SOULIER (°1987, Paris) studied dance at PARTS and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Combining many interests, his work explores choreography and dance in different settings.

He is regularly featured in the Kaaitheater programme.

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THIRD SPACE / LOTTE VAN DEN BERG Dying Together

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NL ‘De dood verdient onze aandacht, niet onze angst,’ aldus Lotte van den Berg. ‘Met dit werk hoop ik een ruimte te creëren waarin we met elkaar kunnen kijken naar situaties waarin mensen samen sterven.’ Je neemt deel aan een fysiek uitgevoerde gedachteoefening. Met respect voor de veelal waargebeurde situaties waarop de scenes zijn geïnspireerd, worden menselijke verbintenissen ontrafeld en blootgelegd.

SAT 16/03 19:00 + SUN 17/03 15:00 PERFORMANCE ENGLISH | 3H | € 16/12/10 BELGIAN PREMIERE

EN ‘Death deserves our attention, not our fear,’ Lotte van den Berg says.

‘In this work, I hope to create a space in which we as a group can explore situations in which people die together.’ You take part in a physically performed thought experiment. With respect for the often true stories on which the scenes are based, human connections are unravelled and revealed.

© SALIH KILIC

FR « La mort mérite notre attention, pas notre peur », explique Lotte van den Berg. Avec cette production, j’espère créer de la latitude pour pouvoir regarder conjointement des situations de décès collectifs. » Lors de Dying Together, nous participons à un exercice de réflexion exécuté de manière physique. Avec respect pour les situations en grande partie authentiques dont sont inspirées les scènes, des liens humains sont décortiqués et mis à nu.

CONCEPT & DIRECTION Lotte van den Berg WITH Floor van Leeuwen, Gerindo Kamid Kartadinata, Justyna Wielgus, Matteo Bifulco, Lukas von der Lühe COMPOSITION Polly Lapkovskaya SCENOGRAPHY Breg Horemans LIGHTING DESIGN Vinny Jones DRAMATURGY Tobias Staab PRODUCTION Third Space CO-PRODUCTION Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Festival BLVRD, Vooruit, BUDA, SoAP, BIT Teatergarasjen, Nanterre-Amandiers

The work of theatre director LOTTE VAN DEN BERG (°1975, Groningen) investigates the ways in which we relate to each other. She blurs the boundary between the performers and the audience, such as in her earlier work Building Conversation, which she presented during Performatik17.

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RADOUAN MRIZIGA 0.KANAL

LOCATION KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU

© RADOUAN MRIZIGA

WED 13 > SUN 17, WED 20 > SAT 23/03 12:00 > 19:00 + ACTIVATION PERFORMANCE 19:00 (± 45 MIN.) OPEN STUDIO + PERFORMANCE USE YOUR RETURN-TO-KANAL PASS [SEE INSIDE FLAP]

EN How can dance, choreography, performance and architecture create a new kind of space together?

Referring to Bauhaus as a pedagogical model, Radouan Mriziga seeks to establish a contemporary educational practice that reformulates the modelling of space. Mriziga is inviting dance, drama and architecture students to exchange knowledge and practices.

Come and see their artistic process during the day or keep an eye on the performance schedule!

NL Hoe kunnen dans, choreografie, performance en architectuur samen een nieuw soort ruimte creëren? Met de Bauhausbeweging als backdrop, werkt Radouan Mriziga aan een hedendaagse praktijk om het modeleren van ruimtes te herdenken. Mriziga nodigt dans-, drama- en architectuurstudenten uit om kennis en methodieken uit te wisselen. Kom langs en maak het werkproces mee tijdens de dag, of houd het performanceschema in de gaten!

FR Comment la danse, la chorégrahie, la performance et l’architecture peuvent-elles créer ensemble un nouveau type d’espace ? En se référant au Bauhaus comme modèle pédagogique, Radouan Mriziga tente d’établir une pratique contemporaine qui reformule le façonnement de l’espace. Mriziga invite des étudiants en danse, en art dramatique et en architecture à échanger des connaissances et des pratiques. Venez assister au processus de création durant la journée ou tenez bien à l’œil le calendrier des performances.

IN COLLABORATION WITH ETH Zürich/An Fonteyne & Moussem WITH Arno Boey, Bianca Zueneli, Blanka Major, Elias D’Hollander, Joël Berger, Oliver Burch, Kelly Man, Saïda Brückner & Sara Sherif CO-PRODUCTION Kaaitheater & Kanal – Centre Pompidou

Choreographer and dancer RADOUAN MRIZIGA (°1985) studied dance in Marrakesh and Tunisia and continued his career at PARTS. Since 2014 he has been supported by Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre.

From 2017 to 2021 he is an artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater.

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JOCELYN COTTENCIN Monumental

LOCATION KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU

© HERVÉ VÉRONÈSE

FRI 15, SAT 16, SUN 17/03 18:00 PERFORMANCE/DANCE 45 MIN. USE YOUR RETURN-TO-KANAL PASS [SEE INSIDE FLAP] Witness their progress during the day!

EN Originally, Monumental was a film about monuments, statues and memorials in public spaces. Jocelyn Cottencin brought these monuments to life with twelve performers, transforming the rigid forms of sculpture into a story. Cottencin is now handing the performance on to a group of students from the ULB and La Cambre.

How do you represent performance and time in the immovable space of collective memory?

NL Oorspronkelijk was Monumental een film over monumenten, standbeelden en gedenktekens in de openbare ruimte.

Die monumenten liet Jocelyn Cottencin tot leven wekken door 12 performers: de verstarde vormen van de beeldhouwkunst veranderden zo in een verhaal.

Nu draagt Cottencin de performance over aan een groep studenten van de ULB en La Cambre. Hoe kun je spel en tijd brengen in de onbeweeglijke ruimte van het collectieve geheugen?

FR À l’origine, Monumental était un film sur des monuments, des statues et des mémoriaux dans l’espace public.

Au final, Jocelyn Cottencin a invité 12 performeurs à les mettre en mouvement : ainsi, les formes figées de la statutaire donnent naissance à un récit, à une ébauche de narration. À présent, Cottencin transmet la performance à un groupe d’étudiants de l’ULB et de La Cambre. Comment introduire du jeu et du temps dans l’espace inamovible de la mémoire collective ?

WITH Ben-Nourine Mokhtaria, Blondiau Marie, Dias de Lemos Alberta, Gregova Alena, Grimaud Anouk, Haugen Ingrid, Hermet Marion, Italiano Oriana, Lecharlier Romain, Leszczynski Alba, Noël Soline, Wardawoir Helyett, Wouters Pauline CO-PRODUCTION Kanal – Centre Pompidou, L’École de La Cambre, Université libre de Bruxelles/Master Arts du Spectacle vivant (COORDINATED BY Karel Vanhaesebrouck, ASSISTED BY Sylvia Botella)

After studying art and architecture, JOCELYN COTTENCIN continued working with the so-called applied arts, such as design, architecture, and graphics.

He is particularly interested in the issue of emitting and receiving images, codes and languages.

He lives and works in Rennes.

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RIVER LIN The 0 Time Collection

LOCATION KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU

© CHINFAN

SAT 16, SUN 17/03 16:00 > 20:00 CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE USE YOUR RETURN-TO-KANAL PASS [SEE INSIDE FLAP]

EN We get up and we go back to sleep every day: the two extremes that determine the primal unity of our lives.

In this performance, River Lin questions sleep as an artificial force. To ritualize the daily cycle, he tries to fall asleep in an unexpected public place.

Until his alarm wakes him, over and over again.

CONCEPT & PERFORMANCE River Lin

Born in Taipei, and currently based in Paris and Taipei, RIVER LIN (°1984) is an artist working across the fields of visual and performing arts, including live installation, durational performance, one-on-one situation and choreography.

His live work has been presented internationally at festivals and exhibitions, including the 2016 Taipei Biennial, Manifesta 11 (Zürich), le Palais de Tokyo, to name but a few.

LÉA DROUET Boundary Games

© BEA BORGERS

THU 21/03 19:00 PERFORMANCE/DANCE 2H USE YOUR RETURN-TO-KANAL PASS [SEE INSIDE FLAP]

EN Léa Drouet transforms an area in Kanal into a social laboratory for play and experimentation. Six performers test the process involved in composing and disbanding groups. Boundary Games shatters the binary division of ‘us’ and ‘them’ to which our relationship with others is all too often reduced.

BY Léa Drouet WITH Frédéric Bernier, Madeleine Fournier, Catherine Hershey, Simon Loiseau, Marion Menan & Bastien Mignot SCENOGRAPHY, COSTUME DESIGN Gaëtan Rusquet SOUNDS CREATION Yann Leguay DRAMATURGY Camille Louis PRODUCTION Morin / AMA, Vaisseau CO-PRODUCTION Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Charleroi danse, La Coop asbl

Young Brussels artist LÉA DROUET is an up-and-coming figure on today’s international scene.

Her work encompasses the fields of performance, installation and experimental music, often focusing on group dynamics and its (dis)harmonies.

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METTE INGVARTSEN & WILL GUTHRIE All around THU 21/03 20:30 + FRI 22/03 22:00 PERFORMANCE/MUSIC 30 MIN. | € 8

LOCATION KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU

EN Drummer Will Guthrie and choreographer Mette Ingvartsen are performing together for the first time. You encircle the stage, on which a drum kit, a moving light installation and the bodies of the performers confront each other. Rotations, rhythm and speed are the primary components of a performance that builds up to an ecstatic trance.

© HANS MEIJER

NL Drummer Will Guthrie en choreograaf Mette Ingvartsen treden voor het eerst samen op. Je omcirkelt het speelvlak, waarin het drumstel, een bewegende lichtinstallatie en de lichamen van de performers de confrontatie met elkaar aangaan. Draaiingen, ritme en snelheid zijn de hoofdbestanddelen van een performance die opbouwt tot een extatische trance.

FR Le batteur Will Guthrie et la chorégraphe Mette Ingvartsen se produisent pour la première fois ensemble.

Le public prend place en cercle autour de l’espace de la performance, dans lequel s’affrontent la batterie, une installation lumineuse mobile et les corps des performeurs. Rotations, rythme et vitesse sont les éléments principaux d’une performance qui mène à une transe extatique.

PERFORMANCE Will Guthrie & Mette Ingvartsen LIGHT DESIGN & TECHNICAL DIRECTION Hans Meijer PRODUCTION Mette Ingvartsen/Great Investment vzw

Danish dancer and choreographer METTE INGVARTSEN graduated from PARTS in 2004, and was an artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater from 2013 until 2016. She lives and works in Brussels.

WILL GUTHRIE is an Australian drummer/percussionist living in France. He plays solo and in several bands, using different combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics.

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A.PASS RESEARCHERS Unsettled Study

LOCATION KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU

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FRI 22/03 16:00 + SAT 23/03 18:00 OPEN STUDIOS WED 20 > SAT 23 12:00 > …

PERFORMED RESEARCH CA. 3H USE YOUR RETURN-TO-KANAL PASS [SEE INSIDE FLAP] Witness their progress during the day!

EN During Unsettled Study, a.pass platform for artistic research is revisiting the architectural, material and performative components of doing research together. The group is establishing a space of study at Kanal where you can join their explorations as they happen. a.pass welcomes you to navigate through not-knowing, hearsay, strange intuitions and obsessions.

NL Tijdens Unsettled Study kijkt a.pass – platform for artistic research practices – naar de architecturale, materiële en performatieve componenten van samen research voeren.

De groep creëert daarvoor een artistieke ruimte in Kanal om een inkijk te geven in hun studie, terwijl die aan de gang is. Verwacht je aan onverwachte bewegingen langs blinde vlekken, waaronder ook geruchten, intuïties en obsessies.

FR Pendant Unsettled Study, la plateforme de recherche artistique a.pass observe à nouveau les composants architecturaux, matériaux et performatifs d’une recherche collective. Pour ce faire, le groupe crée un espace de recherche à Kanal où l’on pourra suivre leur étude pendant son déroulement.

Attendez-vous à des mouvements inattendus le long de points aveugles comme des rumeurs, des intuitions et des obsessions.

PRODUCED & PERFORMED BY a.pass researchers CURATORS & FACILITATORS Alex Arteaga, Deborah Birch, Elen Braga, Isabel Burr Raty, Chloe Chignell, Diego Echegoyen, Amélie van Elmbt, Nassia Fourtouni, Katinka van Gorkum, Antye Guenther, Steven Jouwersma, Leo Kay, Joke Liberge, Mathilde Maillard, Sara Manente, Michele Meesen, Maurice Meewisse, Lilia Mestre, Caterina Mora, Muslin Brothers (Yaen Levi & Tamar Levit), Eszter Némethi, Goda Palekaite, Laura Pante, Peggy Pierrot, Rob Ritzen, Flavio Rodrigo, RRadio Triton, Femke Snelting, Christina Stadlbauer LECTURE PERFORMANCE MENTORING Philipp Gehmacher PROCESS CURATOR Vladimir Miller

A.PASS is an artistic research environment in Brussels that develops research on performativity and scenography in an international artistic and educational context.

The institute includes two complementary bodies that operate in parallel and in dialogue: a Post-master Program and a Research Centre.

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IVO DIMCHEV Selfie Concert

LOCATION KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU

© EMILIA MILEWSKA

SAT 23/03 22:00 PERFORMANCE/MUSIC ENGLISH | 1H | € 14/10 BELGIAN PREMIERE

EN Ivo Dimchev is one name that cannot be missed from the Performatik programme: the exuberant performer has never missed a single edition. He often depends on audience participation to create his performances, such as P-Project (shown during Performatik13) and FB Theater. This time he is returning with his brand-new Selfie Concert. Take out your phone… because no selfies means no concert!

NL Ivo Dimchev kan niet ontbreken op de Performatik-affiche: de exuberante performer miste nog geen enkele editie. Als publiek vervul je wel vaker een essentiële rol in zijn performances, zoals bij P-Project (dat hij toonde tijdens Performatik13) en FB Theater.

Deze keer brengt hij z’n gloednieuwe Selfie Concert: haal je telefoon boven… want zonder selfies geen concert!

FR Ivo Dimchev est l’un de ces noms qui ne peuvent pas manquer à l’affiche de Performatik : le performeur exubérant n’a jamais raté une édition. La participation du public joue souvent un rôle essentiel dans ses performances, comme pour P-Project (qu’il a présenté lors de Performatik13) et FB Theater.

Cette fois, il nous propose le tout nouveau Selfie Concert : sortez vos téléphones, car sans selfie, pas de concert !

‘I like the idea of a selfie concert in which people are constantly making selfies with me while I’m singing. I love to take selfies!

It brings me closer to my audience, I get feedback, or at least see in their eyes how the show is received.’

– IVO DIMCHEV

IDEA, TEXT AND MUSIC Ivo Dimchev PERFORMED BY the artist and the audience

IVO DIMCHEV lives between Los Angeles, New York, Vienna and Sofia, intensely presenting his controversial performances, vocal concerts, art exhibitions and books.

He was an artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater from 2013 until 2016.

Over the last two years he has definitively chosen the path of music.

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GLUKLYA & ANNA BITKINA Debates on Division: When Private Becomes Public

LOCATION BOZAR

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EN Debates on Division is an ongoing, interactive performance that deals with the complexity of current political reality and its implications. What begins as a fictional TV talk show with invited actors and artists ends with a performative demonstration to the European Parliament. Gluklya and Anna Bitkina thus aim to create a public forum that highlights different forms of human fragility and traumas caused by deviating from established political structures.

NL Debates on Division is een lopende, interactieve performance die de complexiteit van onze politieke realiteit aanpakt. Wat begint als een fictieve talkshow met verschillende gastacteurs en -artiesten, eindigt met een performatieve demonstratie die naar het Europese Parlement leidt.

Op deze manier willen Glukyla en Anna Bitkina een publiek forum creëren dat inzoomt op de verschillende vormen van menselijke kwetsbaarheid en trauma’s… veroorzaakt door het afwijken van de gevestigde politieke structuren.

FR Debates on Division est une performance continue interactive qui aborde la complexité de notre réalité politique actuelle. Ce qui commence comme un talk-show fictionnel avec différents acteurs et artistes invités s’achève par une démonstration performative qui mène au Parlement européen. C’est ainsi que Gluklya et Anna Bitkina souhaitent créer un forum public qui se focalise sur différentes formes de vulnérabilité et de traumatismes humains causés par la déviation de structures politiques établies.

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT. HOME OF GYÖRGY SÁNDOR KÁDÁR. PHOTO © JUAN PABLO PLAZAS, 2018

SAT 16/03 15:00 PERFORMANCE ENGLISH | 1H30 PERFORMANCE + 1H DEMONSTRATION | € 8/6 RESERVATION VIA BOZAR.BE

IN COLLABORATION WITH Philippine Hoegen, Teresa Cos, Gary Farrelly, Polina Akhmetzyanova, a.o.

GLUKLYA/Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya is an artist living between Saint Petersburg and Amsterdam.

Her research revolves around the ideas of inclusiveness, embracing poetry and performance practice.

She was one of the founding members of the feminist movement ‘Factory of Found Clothes’ and the collective Chto Delat. She has exhibited internationally, including Manifesta10, the 56th Venice Biennale of Art, Positions#4 in the Van Abbe Museum, MUMOK Wien, to name but a few.

ANNA BITKINA is an independent curator and a co-founder of curatorial platform TOK in Saint Petersburg.

Her practice is a multidisciplinary process that connects art, theory, social and political science, philosophy in order to generate knowledge and articulate conditions of contemporary society.

She lives and works between Russia and the Netherlands.

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WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE EXHIBITION

BERNARD VAN ORLEY BRUSSELS AND THE RENAISSANCE BOZAR 20/02 > 26/05/2019 This first ever monographic exhibition of the work of Bernard van Orley – a key figure in the Renaissance world which formed Bruegel – collects masterpieces from around the world, and returns them to the place where they were once created.

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ALEXIS BLAKE Allegory of the Painted Woman

LOCATION BOZAR (HORTAHAL)

SAT 23/03 15:00 + 17:00 PERFORMANCE 45 MIN. | FREE | RESERVATION VIA BOZAR.BE EN Mother, Madonna, seductress, prostitute, martyr, saint, goddess…

Throughout art history, women have often been assigned archetypal roles.

What began for Alexis Blake as a research project on the representation of women in Italian art soon evolved into a choreography and into a performance. Accompanied by four musicians in the Horta Hall at BOZAR, she makes an archive of poses abstract, stripping them of their history and context. She thus questions notions such as gender, representation, reproduction and seriality.

NL Moeder, Madonna, verleidster, hoer, martelares, heilige, godin… In de kunstgeschiedenis krijgen vrouwen veelal archetypische rollen toebedeeld. Wat voor Alexis Blake begon als een onderzoeksproject naar de weergave van de vrouw in de Italiaanse schilderkunst, transformeerde al snel in een choreografie, in een performance.

Begeleid door vier muzikanten in de Hortahal van BOZAR, abstraheert ze een archief aan poses, om ze te strippen van geschiedenis en context.

Op deze manier bevraagt ze noties als gender, representatie, reproductie en serialiteit.

FR Mère, Madone, séductrice, prostituée, martyre, sainte, déesse …

Dans l’histoire de l’art, les femmes se voient souvent attribuer des rôles archétypaux. Ce qui a commencé pour Alexis Blake comme un projet de recherche autour de la représentation de la femme dans la peinture italienne s’est rapidement transformé en chorégraphie dans le cadre d’une performance. Accompagnée par quatre musiciens dans la salle Horta de BOZAR, elle abstrait des archives de poses pour les dépouiller d’histoire et de contexte. Ainsi, elle met en question des notions comme le genre, la représentation, la reproduction et l’aspect sériel.

CONCEPT, DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY Alexis Blake DANCERS Nafisah Baba, Marika Meoli MUSICIANS Raphaëlle Ribouillault, Rosa Vidal, Robert Visser, Jean Xhonneux

ALEXIS BLAKE has a multidisciplinary practice that coalesces visual art and performance through methods of translation such as choreography, sculpture, video, and/or text.

In 2007, she received an MA in Fine Art from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

Her work has been presented at numerous locations, such as the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), ExtraCity (Antwerp), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como) and La Triennale di Milano XXI.

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JIMMY ROBERT Joie Noire

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EN In this tribute to artist and curator Ian White (1971–2013), Jimmy Robert investigates the worlds of disco and death. You witness two imposing bodies in a space of rhythm and sensuality. While assessing a club’s potential to host underground celebrations, Joie Noire dissects club culture.

Expect a critical meditation on the legacy of the 1980s with a specific focus on AIDS, activism, gender and race.

NL In dit eerbetoon aan kunstenaar en curator Ian White (1971–2013) onderzoekt Jimmy Robert de werelden van disco en dood. Je ziet twee imposante lichamen in een ruimte van ritme en sensualiteit. Op verstilde wijze boort Joie Noire verschillende lagen van clubcultuur aan. Wat is het potentieel van een club als plek van underground vieringen? Verwacht je aan een kritische meditatie over de erfenis van de jaren 80 – van aids over activisme tot gender en ras.

FR Dans cet hommage à l’artiste et le curateur Ian White (1971–2013), Jimmy Robert examine les mondes du disco et de la mort. Le public voit deux corps imposants dans un espace de rythme et de sensualité. Joie Noire dissèque de manière paisible les diverses strates de la culture du clubbing et son potentiel à accueillir des célébrations underground.

Attendez-vous à une méditation critique sur l’héritage des années 80, en particulier le sida, le militantisme, les questions de genre et de race.

CURATOR Mason Leaver-Yap PERFORMED BY Courtney Henry, Jimmy Robert PRODUCTION KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Born in Guadeloupe, JIMMY ROBERT currently lives in Berlin.

He is a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London and the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam).

He has exhibited at Tate Britain and WIELS, and presented performances at Performa 17, Playground 2015, and others.

Jimmy Roberts has been featured in the Performatik programme twice before, in 2011 and 2013.

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THU 14, FRI 15/03 21:00 PERFORMANCE/DANCE ENGLISH | 1H | € 14/10

LAST YEARZ INTERESTING NEGRO i ride in colour and soft focus, no longer anywhere

LOCATION KAAISTUDIO’S

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body as oracle, a trance, a rhythmic

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with the texture of my current mental

interface, an atmosphere, a landscape

state. a dance informed by everything and everyone i have ever encountered, seen, heard, felt, been beside that has become part of me, as i try to identify my own voice. and then see if i can stand it. nothing ever really goes away.

© KATARZYNA PERLAK & CARLOS JIMENEZ

CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE Jamila Johnson-Small MUSICAL COMPOSITION Phoebe Collings-James, Josh Anio Grigg, Jamila Johnson-Small, Junior XL, Nkisi, Shelley Parker LIGHTING DESIGN Jackie Shemesh SOUND DESIGN Josh Anio Grigg SCULPTURE Joey Addison VIDEO Jamila Johnson-Small & David Panos

Last Yearz Interesting Negro is the performance project of London based artist and dancer, JAMILA JOHNSON-SMALL. They make choreographic compositions with collaborators of small dances, sculpture, electronic music, poems, video, texture and a public.

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BARBARA RAES U-Loss

LOCATION KAAISTUDIO’S

BILAL ALNOURI SY/B

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CONTINUOUS RITUALS € 16/12/10

GABINO RODRIGUEZ MX JASSEM HINDI SA/DE LEONARDO DELOGU IT MELIH GENZBOYAÇI TR/NL

EN How do we deal with mourning and loss nowadays? Life is a succession of transitional moments, major and minor connections that inevitably change you. The decreasing importance of traditional rituals to experience transitional moments has resulted in a search for alternatives. That is why Barbara Raes created a workspace for unacknowledged loss and new death rituals: Beyond the Spoken. She is coming to the Kaaistudios to share her practice along with seven artists with very different cultural backgrounds. They will each explore the intersection between art and ritual.

MIEKO SUZUKI JP/DE NATHALIE BIKORO FR/GA/DE

NL Hoe gaan we vandaag om met rouw en verlies? Het leven is een aaneenschakeling van kantelmomenten, kleinere en grotere positieve en negatieve schakelingen die je onvermijdelijk veranderen. Het dalende belang van traditionele rituelen om transitiemomenten te beleven, leidt tot een zoektocht naar alternatieven. Daarom creëerde Barbara Raes een werkplaats voor niet erkend verlies en nieuwe afscheidsrituelen: Beyond the Spoken. In de Kaaistudio’s zal ze haar praktijk delen, samen met zeven kunstenaars met zeer verschillende culturele achtergronden die zich allen begeven in het gebied tussen kunst en ritueel.

FR Quelle approche adopte-t-on de nos jours face au deuil et à la perte ?

La vie est un enchaînement de basculements, de commutations petites ou grandes, positives ou négatives, qui nous transforment inévitablement.

L’intérêt décroissant pour les rituels traditionnels qui marquent ces moments de basculement nous incite à partir en quête d’alternatives. C’est pour cela que Barbara Raes a créé un atelier pour les pertes et les deuils non reconnus et pour des nouveaux rituels d’adieu : Beyond the Spoken.

Aux Kaaistudio’s, elle partagera sa pratique avec sept artistes d’origines culturelles très diverses qui travaillent tous à la croisée de l’art et du rituel.

Discover the detailled programme during the festival > kaaitheater.be/u-loss

IN COLLABORATION WITH workspacebrussels

BARBARA RAES worked as a dance curator and artistic director for Vooruit and BUDA between 2000 and 2014.

In 2016, she founded Beyond the Spoken, a working space that deals with unacknowledged loss.

Raes links her research and her work to the field of art, in venues such as DasArts, BOZAR, Theater Aan Zee, HAU Hebbel am Ufer and Kaaitheater.

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PIETER VAN BOGAERT Fort Beau Chapter 1: The end

LOCATION KAAISTUDIO’S

© LESLIE THORNTON, LAST TIME I SAW RON

TUE 19/03 20:30 LECTURE PERFORMANCE ENGLISH | 1H30 | € 8 EN During this lecture performance, Pieter van Bogaert will discuss the first chapter of his project Fort Beau.

In the 1970s, a performance artist tells him something about the end of beauty. A contemporary photographer leads him to the beauty of the end.

An actor in the 1990s shows him beauty as an end, as a goal in itself.

Gradually this becomes a story about beauty without end.

NL Tijdens deze lecture performance heeft Pieter van Bogaert het over het eerste hoofdstuk van zijn project Fort Beau. Een performancekunstenaar in de jaren 70 vertelt hem iets over het einde van de schoonheid. Een fotograaf van vandaag leidt hem naar de schoonheid van het einde. Een acteur in de jaren 90 toont hem schoonheid als een eind, als een doel op zich.

Langzaamaan wordt dit een verhaal over schoonheid zonder eind.

FR Au cours de cette lecture performance, Pieter van Bogaert aborde le premier chapitre de son projet Fort Beau. Un artiste de la performance des années 70 lui parle de la fin de la beauté. Un photographe contemporain le mène vers la beauté de la fin. Un acteur des années 90 lui montre la beauté comme une fin, un but en soi.

Lentement, la lecture performance se transforme en un récit sans fin sur la beauté.

PIETER VAN BOGAERT writes about art and occasionally presents exhibitions.

He recently published Grand Tour 2020. Meetings across Europe on art and ecology to celebrate the tenth birthday of Imagine 2020, a European project about art and ecology of which Kaaitheater is the project leader.

He lives and works in Brussels.

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STAV YEINI The Senders

LOCATION KAAISTUDIO’S

© JOERI THIRY

FRI 15, SUN 17/03 14:00 + 15:00 + 17:00 + 18:00 TRY-OUT PERFORMANCE ENGLISH | 45 MIN. | € 5 | LIMITED CAPACITY EN This first test version of The Senders is an immersive, synesthetic experience that allows you to experience reality in an unseen yet amplified way. The work emphasizes inclusion, empathy and a profound listening to non-human lifeforms.

Is a new world possible beyond the economic and ecological crisis?

CONCEPT, SOUND DESIGN Stav Yeini SPACE DESIGN, INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION Nimrod Astarhan SOUND Christina Vantzou VIDEO Siet Rae ALCHEMY, SCENTS Ayin De Sela FERMENTATION, COOKING Andrew Hardwidge DANCE, PERFORMANCE Mikko Hyvönen & Ezra Fieremans

STAV YEINI (°1986) graduated from PARTS in 2010. She has collaborated with the Brussels collective Busy Rocks and with artists such as Georgia Vardarou, Lance Greece and Mikko Hyvönen. Since 2017, she has developed her own work in collaboration with STUK, Kunstencentrum Buda, ZSenne Artlab and workspacebrussels.

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EMI KODAMA Beyond the buildings, the clouds are a mountain range

LOCATION KAAISTUDIO’S © EMI KODAMA

THU 14, FRI 15, SUN 17/03 10:00 > 18:45 ONE-ON-ONE PERFORMANCE ENGLISH | 20 MIN. (STARTS EVERY 45 MIN.) | € 5 WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THROUGH ART WE CARE > P. 37 EN ‘We usually hang the hammock late spring after our winter coats have been put away for good. Recently, the days have become noticeably longer in the evening.

I lie on the hammock after dinner. In the fading light, the new leaves overhead slowly darken to a deep green.’

Emi Kodama invites you to listen to a story from the comfort of a hammock. Suspended

in the air, the day left at the door, you will travel to different destinations in your imagination.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT Elias Heuninck SUPPORTED BY IN/FINITY

Canadian artist EMI KODAMA has been living and working in Belgium, since graduating from HISK (Ghent), the Frank Mohr Institute (Groningen) and ArtEZ Institute of the Arts (Enschede).

She has a multidisciplinary practice including video, photography, drawing, writing, and performance.

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‘One day, a large banner suddenly appeared on the facade of Decoratelier, showing a virtual vision of what the neighbourhood might look like in the future.

The atelier and its surroundings had been replaced by a large park. That same day, I met a group of people from Globe Aroma and we decided to dig a hole towards this future park that, right now, is still an old factory. In the enormous void we taught each other to build out loud: a form of construction in which there is no difference between speaking, dreaming and building. Gradually an alternative park took shape, a park where memories and imagination intermingle, a secret garden filled with shadows and a jumble of grey zones. As yet I understand little of it, but it seems to be a place where people can decide for themselves whether or not to be visible or invisible, and this in the heart of the city.’

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GLOBE AROMA & DECORATELIER JOZEF WOUTERS Underneath Which Rivers Flow 21:00 – FRI 15, SAT 16/03 20:30 – MON 18, TUE 19, WED 20, THU 21/03 17:00 – SAT 23/03 PERFORMANCE ENGLISH/FRENCH | 45 MIN. | € 14/10

LOCATION DECORATELIER

EN Decoratelier Jozef Wouters is working with Globe Aroma on Underneath Which Rivers Flow. A group of women and men – builders, poets and dreamers – meet weekly in the Decoratelier in Molenbeek. Together, they build stories, a secret garden full of wormholes to unsuspected worlds.

NL Decoratelier Jozef Wouters werkt samen met Globe Aroma aan Underneath Which Rivers Flow. Een groep vrouwen en mannen – bouwers, dichters en dromers – komt wekelijks samen in Decoratelier in Molenbeek.

Samen bouwen ze er verhalen, een geheime tuin vol wormgaten naar onvermoede werelden.

FR Decoratelier Jozef Wouters collabore avec Globe Aroma pour Underneath Which Rivers Flow. Un groupe de femmes et d'hommes – bâtisseurs, poètes et rêveurs – se réunit toutes les semaines à Decoratelier à Molenbeek.

Ensemble, ils y bâtissent des récits, un jardin secret truffé de trous de vers menant à des univers insoupçonnés.

BUILDING POETS Ali Alkrizi, Barry Amad Talib, Mimouna Amri, Zohir Boumelha, Bushra, Sekou Coumbassa, Chantal Gyselinx, Idriss Hassan Hardy, George Khuroshvili, Soumaya Mahroug, Shilemeza Prins, Randy Renders, Marie-Ange Sibi, Ifrah Yusuf Magan WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO Saïd Amrawu, Alex Cepile, Tahar Sadam, Mbarek Wouallaga ARTISTIC DIRECTION Jozef Wouters PRODUCTION Damaged Goods, Globe Aroma DECORATELIER Vladimir Miller, Jeroen Peeters, Menno Vandevelde a.o. CO-PRODUCTION Kaaitheater, Netwerk Aalst

The socio-artistic workplace GLOBE AROMA enables people to learn about the richness of other people’s cultures and creates opportunities for refugees and newcomers with artistic abilities.

Decoratelier is an open and ongoing project by scenographer JOZEF WOUTERS. From an old factory building in Brussels, he initiates various projects in collaboration with a motley group of builders, dreamers and thinkers.

Decoratelier Jozef Wouters functions as an accessible workplace, where there is room for both artists, audiences, and social experiment. During Performatik17, they presented ATELIER III, in collaboration with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods.

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BRYANA FRITZ Submission submission

LOCATION BEURSSCHOUWBURG

THU 14, FRI 15, SAT 16/03 19:30 PERFORMANCE ENGLISH | 40 MIN. | € 14/11

EN On a big screen and before a live audience, Bryana Fritz snips up heavy philosophical texts until they suddenly become light and readable. By combining them with snippets of medieval literature, music and images made up of digital characters, she creates a performative collage in protest of her digital cage. Slowly but surely, Fritz achieves a new balance between her body and the screen.

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NL Op een groot scherm verknipt Bryana Fritz zware filosofische teksten tot ze opeens licht en leesbaar worden. Door die te combineren met middeleeuwse literatuurfragmenten, muziek, en afbeeldingen samengesteld uit computersymbolen, ontstaat een performatieve collage die haar digitale kooi in vraag stelt. Langzaam maar zeker creëert ze een nieuwe balans tussen haar lichaam en het scherm. © BRYANA FRITZ

FR Sur un grand écran et en direct face au public, Bryana Fritz découpe des textes philosophiques lourds jusqu’à ce qu’ils deviennent légers et lisibles.

En les combinant avec des fragments de littérature médiévale, de la musique et des « dessins numériques », elle obtient un collage performatif qui remet en question sa cage numérique.

Lentement mais sûrement, Fritz crée un nouvel équilibre entre son corps et l’écran.

BRYANA FRITZ was born in Chicago and has studied dance in Minneapolis, Essen and with PARTS. She’s since lived and worked in Brussels as a dancer, performance-maker and poet.

With this new performance, Fritz further pursues her romance with dance, poetry and the digital screen.

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LIZ MAGIC LASER Handle/Poignée

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WED 13 > SAT 16/03 12:00 > 22:00 VIDEO INSTALLATION 14 MIN. | FREE

EN Linguist George Lakoff describes four archetypes to describe the dynamics between politicians and citizens: the disciplinary parent, the caring parent, the obedient child, and the rebellious child. It’s Liz Magic Laser’s starting point for a colourful instructional video for a political dance therapy, guiding you through four sequences of therapeutic movements.

TAAVI TALVE Blind Spot

WED 20 > SAT 23/03 12:00 > 22:00 VIDEO INSTALLATION ENGLISH | 11 MIN. | FREE © TAAVI TALVE

EN Blind Spot is a quest to find what scarce traces remain of Epp Kotkas, an Estonian artist who was active in the experimental dance scene of New York in the 60s and 70s. Talve combines fact and fiction to tell the story of an artist who was totally unknown in her home country. With this video installation he shows an essayistic memory that attempts to reconstruct an unrecorded past.

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PRICE Melodies are so far my best friend

LOCATION BEURSSCHOUWBURG

NL Als we steeds meer, sneller en oppervlakkiger taal consumeren, kunnen we dan nog instinctief en emotioneel met taal omgaan? Om die vraag te beantwoorden roept PRICE de hulp in van beweging en muziek.

Samen met pianist Sebastian Hirsig houdt hij je in de ban van zijn lichaam en stem. Je staat mee op scène, terwijl de soundtrack van hemelse ambient naar duistere tribal vloeit – en weer terug.

FRI 22, SAT 23/03 20:30 PERFORMANCE ENGLISH | 1H | € 14/11 BELGIAN PREMIERE

EN If we continue to consume more language more quickly and superficially, will we still be able to use language instinctively and emotionally? PRICE is appealing to movement and music to answer this question. Along with pianist Sebastian Hirsig, he will captivate you with his body and voice. You stand next to him on stage, while the soundtrack of heavenly ambient will flow to dark tribal – and back again.

© MATHIAS RINGGENBERG

FR Si nous consommons toujours davantage, plus vite et plus superficiellement le langage, pouvons-nous encore nous en servir sur le plan intuitif et émotionnel ? Pour répondre à cette question, PRICE convoque le mouvement et la musique.

ARTISTIC DIRECTION PRICE (Mathias Ringgenberg) MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE PRICE CO-PRODUCTION Arsenic – Contemporary Performing Arts Center Lausanne, Tanzhaus Zürich, Life Long Burning

PRICE is the alter ego of Mathias Ringgenberg – born in Rio de Janeiro and based in Zürich.

This queer hybrid of close reality and distant dream enters a no-holds-barred exploration of the emotional disorientation of a generation that grew up with mass culture, neoliberalism and the ubiquity of the internet.

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NORA TURATO The good, the bad and the viscose

LOCATION BEURSSCHOUWBURG

© JAN KUHR

SAT 23/03 17:00 + 20:00 PERFORMANCE ENGLISH | 25 MIN. | FREE

EN Nora Turato points a selfie-cam at today’s hectic internet culture. She exposes the fears that are at the root of our society’s shortening attention span. Her monumental installation in cold, black steel suggests that our ‘totally wired’ state of mind may be far more institutionalized than we think.

NL Nora Turato richt een selfie-cam op de hectische internetcultuur van vandaag. Ze legt de angsten bloot die aan de basis liggen van de steeds kortere aandachtsspanne van onze samenleving. Haar monumentale installatie van kil, zwart staal laat doorschemeren dat onze ‘totally wired’ gemoedstoestand wel eens veel meer geïnstitutionaliseerd zou kunnen zijn dan we denken.

FR Nora Turato dirige une caméra selfie sur la culture internet trépidante actuelle. Elle dévoile les peurs qui sont à l’origine des laps de temps de concentration toujours plus brefs de notre société. Son installation monumentale en métal noir, froid, fait transparaître notre état d’âme totalement câblé qui pourrait bien être beaucoup plus institutionnalisé que nous le pensons.

EXHIBITION NORA TURATO DIFFUSION LINE FRI 1/02 > SAT 23/03 | BEURSSCHOUWBURG | FREE Nora Turato infuses text with zeitgeist to create a spicy performative soup that some may find bitter but none could call bland. Expect foreboding metal structures and a verbal distillation of our partial-attention society, delivered with soap-operatic brio.

NORA TURATO was born in Croatia but has lived and worked in the Netherlands for the past ten years.

She studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, a.o. In 2017–2018 she was a resident artist at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. In addition to group exhibitions in Europe and the USA, she has also held celebrated solo exhibitions at Manifesta 12 in Italy, a.o.

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ULA SICKLE & HYOID Voice ascending a staircase

LOCATION WIELS

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FRI 22, SAT 23/03 12:00 + 16:00 PERFORMANCE 15 MIN. | FREE, RESERVATION VIA WIELS.ORG EN Dancer/choreographer Ula Sickle presents a new and intimate sound performance in the striking, sevenstorey staircase of WIELS. It is a pared down score for body and voice, performed by the artist and singer Fabienne Seveillac. One of Sickle’s starting points was Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus Stairway. He painted it at a moment of uncertainty about the future of the Bauhaus school, closed shortly afterwards by the Nazis.

The performance’s title alludes to Duchamp’s seminal painting Nude descending a staircase, No. 2.

NL Danser/choreograaf Ula Sickle brengt een gloednieuwe intieme geluidsperformance in de monumentale traphal van WIELS. Geflankeerd door zangeres Fabienne Seveillac, volgt ze een uitgepuurde partituur voor lichaam en stem.

FR La danseuse et chorégraphe Ula Sickle présente une nouvelle performance sonore intime dans la monumentale cage d’escalier du WIELS. Il s’agit d’une partition épurée pour le corps et la voix, interprétée par l’artiste et chanteuse Fabienne Seveillac.

PERFORMERS Ula Sickle, Fabienne Seveillac ARTISTIC COLLABORATION HYOID Contemporary Voices TEXT EXTRACT FROM Jacob Wren’s In love with the movement of the world (2017)

ULA SICKLE is a choreographer and performer based in Brussels. From a background in contemporary dance, she works across disciplines and in collaboration with artists in other domains such as the visual arts, contemporary music or architecture. She studied in Toronto and Paris, before attending PARTS. In 2018 she had a residency at WIELS, and she is regularly featured in the Kaaitheater programme.

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DAN GRAHAM & GLENN BRANCA Collaborations (1980–1992)

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NL Dan Grahams werk gaat de provocatie niet uit de weg, terwijl het graaft naar de betekenissen van cultuur vandaag, zoals in architectuur, rockmuziek en televisie. Dan Graham introduceert persoonlijk dit videoprogramma dat zijn samenwerkingen met de recent overleden cultmuzikanten componist Glenn Branca (1948– 2018) in de kijker zet.

THU 21/03 19:00 INTRODUCTION BY DAN GRAHAM + SCREENING 2H | € 7 | RESERVATION VIA WIELS.ORG EN Dan Graham’s work provocatively analyses the historical, social and ideological functions of contemporary culture, including architecture, rock music, and television. Deconstructing the act of viewing, he manipulates your perception with time delay, projections, closed-circuit video, and mirrors. WIELS is presenting a video programme highlighting his collaborations with iconic composer and musician Glenn Branca (1948– 2018). Graham will be present to give an introduction.

FR L’œuvre de Dan Graham analyse, non sans provocations, les fonctions historiques, sociales et idéologiques de la culture contemporaine. WIELS présente un programme de vidéos qui résultent de collaborations entre et le compositeur et musicien culte récemment décédé, Glenn Branca (1948–2018). Dan Graham en personne donnera une introduction du programme.

— Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon (1992) | 19 min.

— Westkunst (Modern Period): Dan Graham Segment (1980) | 7 min. | German & English — Performance and Stage-Set Utilizing Two-Way Mirror and Video Time Delay (1983) | 45 min. © DAN GRAHAM – COURTESY ELECTRONIC ARTS INTERMIX (EAI), NEW YORK

DAN GRAHAM (°1942) is an American artist, writer, and curator. In performances, installations, and architectural/sculptural designs, he investigates public and private, audience and performer, objectivity and subjectivity. He lives and works in New York.

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JAN VROMMAN Het museum van het lokale en het universele

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© JAN VROMMAN, POETAS SIN ALFABETO, 2018. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

WED 20/03 18:30 + 20:00 LECTURE PERFORMANCE DUTCH | 1H | € 6/4 (WITH RESERVATION, PAY CASH AT THE DOOR) | LIMITED CAPACITY PREMIERE

NL Jan Vromman gaat in op de onzekerheid van de mens – en de kunstenaar – over zijn rol in dit bestaan. We lijken in dit opzicht allen dichters zonder alfabet, op zoek naar taal die betekenis kan genereren. In Vrommans lezing komen teksten naar voren die uitdrukking willen geven aan die gedachtegang. En dit alles doorsneden met beeldmateriaal uit zijn rijke archief.

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JAN VROMMAN & VINCENT DUNOYER POETAS SIN ALFABETO SUN 27/01 > SUN 28/04 | WED-SUN 11:00 > 18:00 | ARGOS | € 6/4 This exhibition is the remarkable result of an alliance between two extraordinary, very different artists. Although Vincent Dunoyer and Jan Vromman appear to relate to one another like yin and yang, like a minimalist to a maximalist, they share the same unruliness.

For this project, they are focusing on the concept of ‘Spain’.

The film and television producer, video artist and theatre director JAN VROMMAN (°1958) blazes his own trail.

His work is socially committed and suffused with human warmth. With a refined sense of humour, he combines the documentary and the analytic with the anecdotal and the seemingly banal.

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SOPHIE WHETTNALL Shadow Boxing

LOCATION CENTRALE-WINDOW VITRINE – RUE SAINTE-CATHERINE 13, 1000 BXL

THU 14/03 19:00 + 19:15 PERFORMANCE 4 MIN. (BE ON TIME!) | FREE You stand outside!

EN A woman behind a shop window is faced with a complex dilemma: a man constantly attacks her, but she absolutely refuses to defend herself or strike back. Her attitude is anything but passive, on the contrary, it suggests profound willpower. In Shadow Boxing – a live version of a video from 2004 – Sophie Whettnall pursues ethical coherence by rejecting violence.

FR Une femme derrière une vitrine se trouve face à un dilemme complexe : un homme l’agresse sans cesse, mais elle refuse de rendre les coups et même de se défendre. Son attitude est tout sauf passive, mais indique au contraire une volonté de fer et une grande maîtrise de soi. Avec Shadow Boxing – une version en public d’une vidéo de 2004 –, Sophie Whettnall recherche une cohérence éthique en rejetant la violence.

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NL Een vrouw in een etalage staat voor een complex dilemma: een man valt haar onophoudelijk aan, maar ze weigert terug te slaan of zich zelfs te verdedigen. Haar houding is allesbehalve passief, maar wijst net op een extreem sterke wilskracht. Met Shadow Boxing – een live versie van een video uit 2004 – neemt Sophie Whettnall de morele bovenhand door geweld simpelweg te verwerpen.

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SOPHIE WETTNALL ETEL ADNAN. LA BANQUISE, LA FORÊT ET LES ÉTOILES THU 4/04 > SUN 4/08 | CENTRALE

SOPHIE WHETTNALL (°1973) lives and works in Brussels, where she studied visual arts.

Her work includes photography, video and multimedia installations, often exploring the relations between the intimate and the unknown. She has exhibited at, a.o., The Video Art Foundation (Barcelona), the ICA (London) and Video Underground Zero (Toronto).

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MERYEM BAYRAM Never Walk Alone #7: Fourfold (Autonomous Scenography) FRI 22/03 21:00 PERFORMANCE €5 EN Fourfold (Autonomous Scenography) is a generator of scenographies, a machine that constantly produces different images. Image, sound, language and light do not aim to represent something, but to generate a reality in complete freedom. Meryem Bayram creates a field of tension between the known and the unknown, with points of both help and hindrance.

For this production – and to celebrate the 20th anniversary of S.M.A.K. – she is collaborating with artist Guy Rombouts.

LOCATION CC STROMBEEK

NL Fourfold (Autonomous Scenography) is een generator van scenografieën, een machine die telkens andere beelden maakt. Beeld, geluid, taal en licht willen hier niet zozeer iets representeren, maar in alle vrijheid een werkelijkheid produceren. Meryem Bayram creëert een spanningsveld tussen het gekende en het ongekende, met hulplijnen en hindernissen. Voor deze voorstelling – en naar aanleiding van 20 jaar S.M.A.K. – werkt ze samen met kunstenaar Guy Rombouts.

FR Fourfold (Autonomous Scenography) est un générateur de scénographies, une machine qui crée tout le temps d’autres images. Image, son, langage et lumière ne veulent pas tant représenter quelque chose que produire une réalité en toute liberté.

Meryem Bayram crée un champ de tension entre le connu et l’inconnu, entre des indications et des obstacles.

Pour ce spectacle, et à l’occasion des 20 ans du S.M.A.K., elle travaille avec l’artiste Guy Rombouts.

© GIANNINA URMENETA OTTIKER

EXHIBITION [20 YEARS S.M.A.K.] EEN VERTALING VAN DE ENE TAAL NAAR DE ANDERE See works by Marcel Broodhaers, Luc Deleu & T.O.P. Office, Noé Soulier, Joris Kerremans & Laurens Mariën, Anton Parys, Leyla Aydoslu, Minkja Gu, a.o.

OPENING FRI 22/03 19:30 FREE | CC STROMBEEK

CONCEPT Meryem Bayram OBJECTS & PERFORMANCE Guy Rombouts & Meryem Bayram PRODUCTION 0090 platform

MERYEM BAYRAM is a visual artist, curator and scenographer. A recurring theme in her work is the investigation of the common ground between abstraction and figuration. She studied in Antwerp at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and Crafts. As a visual artist she participated in exhibitions in Vooruit (Ghent), the TheaterFestival (Antwerp), The Tunnel arts festival (Istanbul), to name but a few.

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IN/FINITY Through Art We Care

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© VERA TUSSING & ESSE VANDERBRUGGE, TACTILE QUARTET(S)

THU 28/02 > THU 28/03 TUE-SUN 12:00 > 18:00 EXHIBITION FREE EN What are the thematic lines between art and care? The exhibition Through Art We Care presents the trajectories of ten IN/FINITY artists who spent three years working in residence at the palliative and supportive outpatients’ clinic TOPAZ. There is also space for the connection between art and humanity from the perspective of the artist. What are the possibilities that art can create with the care sector?

EN Welke thematische lijnen kun je trekken tussen kunst en zorg? De expo Through Art We Care toont de trajecten van tien IN/FINITY-kunstenaars die drie jaar lang in residentie werkten in het palliatief en supportief dagcentrum TOPAZ. Net zo goed is er ruimte voor de band tussen kunst en menselijkheid vanuit het oogpunt van de kunstenaar. Welke mogelijkheden kan kunst scheppen binnen de zorgsector?

FR Quelles lignes thématiques peuton tirer entre l’art et les soins ?

L’exposition Through Art We Care présente les trajets de dix artistes d’IN/FINITY qui ont travaillé pendant trois ans avec des patients du centre de jour pour soins palliatifs TOPAZ. En même temps, il y a aussi de la latitude pour le lien entre l’art et l’humanité à partir du point de vue de l’artiste. Quelles possibilités l’art peut-il engendrer dans le secteur des soins ?

SAT 16, SUN 17/3 12:00 > 18:00 FREE The artists activate the exhibition with ongoing performances, workshops and artist talks.

CHRISTIAN BAKALOV JORGE LEÓN NAOMI KERKHOVE EMI KODAMA RUDI MEULEMANS ORACLE (MICHEL YANG, JUSTINE MAXELON, CAROLINE DAISH) MICHAEL SCHMID VERA TUSSING

The first outpatients’ clinic for supportive and palliative care TOPAZ (VUB) (founded by Wim Distelmans) offers support to patients with incurable disease and their loved ones.

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THE MONASTERY DIY Monastery + Bardo States

LOCATION ZSENNE ARTLAB

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DIY Monastery THU 14 > SAT 23/03 10:00 > 20:00 CONTINUOUS VIDEO INSTALLATION ENGLISH |FREE Bardo States THU 14 > WED 20/03 12:00 + 18:00 RITUALS ENGLISH |2H | FREE EN The Monastery invites you to dive into the Bardo States: liminal moments between living and dying, in or out of your body, where you balance on the edge of the unknown. The Monastery goes DIY (Do It Yourself): in the performative video installations, you can prepare yourself to leave the body, aided by the monks. Twice a day the monks also initiate the rituals themselves and organize a wake for the monk who is buried alive.

NL The Monastery nodigt je uit tot de Bardo States: momenten waarop de grens verdwijnt tussen dood en leven, tussen de limieten van het lichaam, wankelend op de grens van het onbekende. Ze gaan voor DIY (Do It Yourself): met de hulp van video’s kun je de Bardo rituelen om je lichaam te verlaten zelf uitvoeren. Twee keer per dag initiëren de monks de rituelen ook zelf, en organiseren ze een wake voor de levend begraven monnik.

FR The Monastery nous invite aux Bardo States : des moments liminaux entre la vie et la mort, entre l’intérieur et l’extérieur du corps, oscillants à la limite de l’inconnu. The Monastery opte pour le bricolage : dans l’installation vidéo performative, le public peut lui-même exécuter les rituels Bardo, c-à-d. se préparer à quitter son corps avec l’accompagnement des moines. Deux fois par jour, les moines pratiquent eux-mêmes des rituels et organisent une veillée pour le moine enterré vivant.

BY & WITH Elle (Elke Van Campenhout) & Robert Steijn

ELKE VAN CAMPENHOUT/ELLE had a very varied career, with a background in jazz, philosophy, and performance studies, and as a critic and the founder of the a.pass advanced Master’s and PhD programmes in the arts.

She is one of the founders of the Brussels experimental spiritual community The Monastery, which installed four ritual days at the Kaaistudios during the 2017–2018 season, as part of the RE:RITE-series.

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THE SALONS

Enjoy compelling conversations with performing artists, curators and academics in a relaxed atmosphere. More names will be added to the salons, keep an eye on the website!

IN ENGLISH | FREE, BUT PLEASE RESERVE A SEAT AT PERFORMATIK.BE

OPENING SALON

EXTENDED SALON

PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART

INDISCIPLINARY MEASURES*

with Tate Modern performance curator Catherine Wood, Jimmy Robert

on artistic practices beyond the disciplinary with Bryana Fritz, Radouan Mriziga, a.o.

WED 13/03 19:30 KAAITHEATER

FRI 15/03 15:00 > 18:00 KAAITHEATER

ART, REPRESENTATION, GENDER AND RACE

DEATH, MOURNING, RITUALS AND PERFORMATIVITY

with Jimmy Robert, Alexis Blake, a.o.

with Lotte van den Berg, Barbara Raes, Pieter van Bogaert, Michel Yang (Oracle), Katleen Van Langendonck

FRI 15/03 22:00 KAAISTUDIO’S

SUN 17/3 18:30 KAAITHEATER

THE HERITAGE OF BAUHAUS

FROM STAGE TO GALLERY/ GALLERY TO STAGE

with Alex Arteaga, Vladimir Miller, An Fonteyne, Radouan Mriziga, Ula Sickle, Jozef Wouters

with Ula Sickle, Alexis Blake, Noé Soulier, Zoë Gray

WED 20/3 17:30 KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU

FRI 22/03 12:30 WIELS

PERFORMANCE ART & ART FAIRS with Liv Vaisberg, Emmanuel Lambion, a.o.

SAT 23/03 13:30 BOZAR

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LOCATIONS

Find detailed maps for every location at performatik.be Don’t let traffic and limited parking space spoil your plans: leave plenty of time to get to the right location.

Most venues are easily accessible by public transport!

1. KAAITHEATER

7. ARGOS

2. KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU

8. DE MARKTEN

Sainctelettesquare 20 20 Square Sainctelette 1000 BXL Akenkaai Quai des Péniches 1000 BXL

3. KAAISTUDIO’S

Onze Lieve Vrouw Van Vaakstraat 81 81 Rue Notre Dame du Sommeil 1000 BXL

4. BEURSSCHOUWBURG

Auguste Ortstraat 20–28 20–28 Rue Auguste Orts 1000 BXL

5. BOZAR

Ravensteinstraat 23 23 Rue Ravenstein 1000 BXL

6. WIELS

Van Volxemlaan 354 354 Avenue Van Volxem 1190 Vorst

PERFORMATIK19 CURATORS BEURSSCHOUWBURG Dries Douibi, Helena Kritis BOZAR Anne Judong, Ekaterina Kaplunova CC STROMBEEK Luk Lambrecht CENTRALE Carine Fol KAAITHEATER Katleen Van Langendonck KANAL – CENTRE POMPIDOU Serge Laurent ZSENNE ARTLAB Emiel Roman TOPAZ / IN/FINITY Wouter Bouchez, Julie Rodeyns WIELS Zoë Gray WORKSPACEBRUSSELS Elke Decoker A.PASS Vladimir Miller

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Werfstraat 13 13 Rue du Chantier 1000 BXL Oude Graanmarkt 5 5 Rue du Vieux Marché aux Grains

9. CENTRALE – VITRINE

Sint-Katelijnestraat 13 13 Rue Sainte-Catherine 1000 BXL

10. ZSENNE ARTLAB

Anneessensstraat 2 2 Rue Anneessens 1000 BXL

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Liverpoolstraat 24 24 Rue de Liverpool 1080 BXL 12. CC STROMBEEK Gemeenteplein 1 1853 Strombeek-Bever

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LAURE PROUVOST INSTALLATION VIEW LISSON GALLERY, NEW YORK, 2018 © LAURE PROUVOST COURTESY LISSON GALLERY BIJLAGE BIJ KAAITHEATERFOLDER MAART–APRIL 2019 V.U.: BART CLAES, C/O AKENKAAI 2, 1000 BRUSSEL ONTWERP: PAUL BOUDENS