debate
Kaaistudios
Boris Charmatz & Cosmin Costinaș
24/2/2011
The choreographer Boris Charmatz, director of the Musée de la danse/Centre Choréographique in Rennes, talks to Cosmin Costinaș, curator of BAK (Base for Contemporary Art) in Utrecht, about his Musée and about two of its projects: expo zero, an exhibition without objects, and Brouillon, where performers ‘activate’ an exhibition-in-progress showing works of art. An opening discussion that sets the tone for this festival.
In English
performance
Kaaistudios
Mette Edvardsen + Ivo Dimchev / Franz West
24/2/2011
Opening night of the 2011 Performatik festival, with new work by Mette Edvardsen and Ivo Dimchev!
In English
installation
Different locations
Kelly Schacht
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25/02/2011 ... 05/03/2011
The Ghent based artist Kelly Schacht examines how isolated fragments of reality can acquire the maximum meaning in a minimal staging. She responds to various spaces and situations whether they involve undeveloped land, a gallery, an arts centr... During the festival, audiences can see works of hers at the Kaaitheater, the Kaaistudios and the Strombeek-Bever cultural centre.
installation
PSK/PBA
deepblue / Christoph De Boeck
25-26-27/2/2011
Christoph De Boeck approaches sound as a visual and tactile medium. His interactive installation Steel Sky confronts the visitor with an acoustic representation of his electrical brain activities : a ceiling of steel segments responds to his state of consciousness in real time. The intimate topography of the cerebral cortex of each person walking under the roof, is mirrored as pins hit different locations on a matrix of steel in shifting rhythms and combinations.
exhibition
Wiels - Van Volxemlaan 354 av. Van Volxem - 1190 Brussels
Wiels contemporary art centre
25/02/2011 ... 05/03/2011
Wiels brings together a young generation of artists who use a situation, event or action as their central medium. Unannounced events and actions, artefacts, documents, installations, films, props and other objects, these are the artists’ contribution to this experimental exhibition, which tries to identify what an other tradition of art might be.
film
Argos
Argos
25/02/2011 ... 05/03/2011
Argos presents a series of performances and choreographies on video and film that explore notions of movement, space and time within the urban make shift environment of New York City during the early 1970s. The protagonists of these works – from the dancer to the performer, from the camera to the city, from the passerby to the sparse audience – physically appropriate the public terrain of their daily surroundings through their presence as well as actions.
performance
Sandton Hotel
deepblue / Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki
25/02/2011 ... 01/03/2011
In their performances, Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki set out in search of the poetry of the everyday. Through tiny shifts in reality they create a dreamy, absurd in-between world. Field Works-hotel is a performance for just one spectator at a time. You will be immersed in the mysterious past of an ordinary hotel room.
performance
Wiels - Van Volxemlaan 354 av. Van Volxem - 1190 Brussels
Danai Anesiadou
25/2/2011
For the opening of the exhibition 'The Other Tradition' at Wiels, Danai Anesiadou re-stages One Measures a Circle, Beginning Anywhere, an event she first presented to small groups of spectators in exactly the same space at Wiels in Performatik 09.
performance
Woluwe Shopping Centre
Pilvi Takala
Bag Lady »
26/2/2011
As part of her contribution to 'The Other Tradition' (WIELS), Pilvi Takala’s performance 'Bag
Lady' will take place in a shopping mall in the centre of
Brussels. The simple action of a neatly dressed woman carrying a lot of cash in a transparent plastic bag as she
walks through the mall was previously realized twice, most recently as
part of the 5th Berlin Biennial’s night program in 2008.
installation/performance
La Raffinerie - Manchesterstraat 21 Rue de Manchester - 1080 Brussels
Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company
26-27/2/2011
This new circuit performance by the theatre-maker and artist Kris Verdonck exudes the atmosphere of Franz Kafka’s writing and of the German expressionist film. We recognise several of his recurring themes: the Unheimlichkeit of the world, the tension between man and machine, between the living being and dead material.
In English
installation/performance/dance
KAAITHEATER Living
Vincent Dunoyer
26-27/2/2011
Apainting by Lucas Devriendt, was the inspiration for Performance of A Portrait. In it the painter and his model, the dancer Vincent Dunoyer, looked back on their collaboration. The painting and the performance have now resulted in Pairforming, a collection of videos, dances, photos and drawings.
In French and English
performance/dance
Kaaitheater
Mette Ingvartsen & Guillem Mont de Palol
26-27/2/2011
Two figures in search of intense physical expression, from stillness and silence to speed and ecstasy. ‘Real’ emotions become formal constructions through their repetition, variation and filming. ingvartsen and fellow performer Guillem seek forms of expression on the borderline of the human and the inhuman.
performance
Kaaistudios
Patrícia Portela
26/2/2011
The Portuguese writer and theatre-maker Patricia Portela discovered a box containing the writings and designs of Acácio Nobre, an early 20th-century Portuguese member of the avant-garde whose name has been erased from the history books. Using a vintage typewriter and wireless keyboard she brings Nobre’s work back to life and so questions the collective memory of a nation.
In English
lecture/performance
Q-O2 - Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 quai des Charbonnages - 1000 Brussels
Agnes Meyer-Brandis + Dawn Scarfe
28/2/2011
The lecture performance by Agnes Meyer-Brandis deals with art, science and weightlessness. Dawn Scarfe’s Turning to Spheres is a performance with wine glasses, a sine-tone generator and small speakers.
In English
film/lecture/music/performance
Beursschouwburg - A. Ortsstraat 20-28 rue A. Orts - 1000 Brussels
An evening with
1/3/2011
An evening with lecture-performances, film and music. The Beursschouwburg is presenting work by the Russian activist art collective Chto Delat?, the young Dutch artist Hedwig Houben, the English performer Zoe Laughlin and the Swiss fashion designer, performer and musician Christoph Hefti.
In English
lecture
Kaaistudios
Paul Willemsen
2/3/2011
Paul Willemsen, Artistic Director of Argos, Centre for Art and Media ( Brussels) since 1996, will hold a talk on the Argos video programme ‘Down Low Up High – Performing the Vernacular’.
He replaces Barbara Clausen, who unfortunately has had to cancel her previously announced talk.
In Dutch
lecture/performance
Kaaistudios
Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico
2/3/2011
Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico present their own form of ‘history’ in three sparkling, imaginative and highly entertaining lecture performances. In I AM 1984, Barbara Matijević takes us on a journey through the year 1984. She shows us bits of world history, science fiction, film, the virtual world of internet, and video games.
In English
performance
Kaaitheater
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ari Benjamin Meyers
3/3/2011
Orson Welles’ The Trial, based on Kafka’s novel of the same name, inspired K.62, an orchestrated performance, a musical mystery, a black comedy by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and the musician Ari Benjamin Meyers from Berlin.
In English
performance
In Brussel / A Bruxelles / In Brussels (location communicated by phone later on)
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ari Benjamin Meyers
K.85 »
3/3/2011
Orson Welles’ The Trial, based on Kafka’s novel of the same name, inspired K.62, an orchestrated performance, a musical mystery, a black comedy by the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and the musician Ari Benjamin Meyers from Berlin. K.85, a journey for a handful of spectators, will be performed simultaneously. Unfortunately you cannot see both performances at the same time.
In English
performance
Kaaistudios
Myriam Van Imschoot
4-5/3/2011
Living Archive is a performance in which the dance historian and dramaturge Myriam Van Imschoot brings her personal archives to the stage. She draws on interviews she did when she was a critic, as well as other audio relics. Living Archive is an associative poem of sound and image, with Van Imschoot as a living index, guardian and administrator, prosthesis, ear, and lover and stealer of voices.
In Dutch and English
lecture/performance
Kaaistudios
Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico
Tracks »
4/3/2011
Matijević and Chico give an associative view of how they experienced 1989, the year the Wall fell and the world was turned upside down. Their material consists of authentic and fictional audio documents either made in 1989 or related to it by content: pop songs, excerpts from radio and TV shows, private recordings and so on. This second part concentrates on sound.
In English
performance/theatre
Kaaitheater
Ivo Dimchev
4-5/3/2011
There is no sign of God, but here and there we see dolls. Each of us is a character in someone else’s subjective reality. This is the thread running through We.art. dog.com. The performance is about nature and culture, death and life. Anyone who has ever seen Dimchev at work will know these are not just empty words.
In English
lecture/performance
Kaaistudios
Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico
5/3/2011
Barbara Matijevic and Giuseppe Chico present their own form of ‘history’ in three sparkling, imaginative and highly entertaining lecture performances. In a way the city of New York is the subject of Forecasting. The performers examine subtle and often invisible changes in our ideas and bodies, inspired here by modern scientific and technological developments.
In English
Kaaitheater
Audrey Cottin & dj Visual Kitchen
5/3/2011
Visual Kitchen has been switching between the audiovisual arts and party scene for more than a decade, producing and creating for a wide range of musical projects, from Schubert to Sondheim, AFX to Feldman or Huoratron to Harvey. Visual Kitchen is music for your eyes, visuals for your ears… The after party will start with a performance by Audrey Cottin’s (Hisk laureate 2010) Brussels Clapping Group.
