installation
Kaaitheater
Satch Hoyt
25/11/2011 ... 10/12/2011
Spoken World - During Spoken World, the English artist Satch Hoyt is exhibiting his installation Say it Loud! at the Kaaitheater. It is a platform for free expression, built of books on colonialism, the African diaspora and politics in general. In Brussels he will be building a ‘Belgian’ version of this ‘speaker’s corner’, with books on the Congo, the political situation in this country, and suchlike. During Spoken World you can get up on the platform yourself. Speak your mind!
lecture
Kaaitheater
Geert Buelens & Elsie de Brauw
25/11/2011
Spoken World - As a pampered Flemish-Belgian migrant to the Netherlands, the poet and
writer Geert Buelens surveys the world of right-minded artists and
wrong-minded policy-makers, of crisis taxes and sponging. His piece will
be read by the actress Elsie de Brauw (NTGent).
In Dutch
theatre
Kaaitheater
Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom & Aubrey Sekhabi
25-26/11/2011
Spoken World - The playwright and director Paul ‘Township Tarantino’ Grootboom delves into the recent past of South Africa and the current political impasse involving the ANC. At the time the ANC came up with some memorable political speeches.
In English; surtitled in Dutch and French
theatre
Kaaistudios
Tim Etchells
26-27/11/2011
Spoken World - The writer and theatre-maker Tim Etchells builds up a new performance – a speech for the performance artist Kate McIntosh – out of bits and pieces of other speeches. Although We Fell Short is comical and unsettling, subjecting the familiar rhetorical strategies of political speeches to a test of their linguistic breaking-point.
In English; surtitled in Dutch and French
performance
Kaaistudios
Nicoline van Harskamp
26/11 + 9-10/12/2011
Spoken World - Character Witness takes as its starting-point the autobiographies
of historical figures such as Malcolm X, Hillary Clinton, Margaret
Thatcher and Ariel Sharon. They each explain or justify some of their
controversial political decisions on the basis of childhood experiences.
Their stories are merged into a single speech, which will be delivered
by three actors.
In English
performance
Kaaistudios
Eleanor Bauer
26-27/11/2011
Spoken World - In a festival that concentrates on the word, the choreographer and
performer Eleanor Bauer is launching a counter-movement: what lies
behind the words? She will set up a parliament without words together
with students from PARTS.
theatre
Kaaitheater
Joost Vandecasteele, Gwendolyn Rutten & Pascal Smet
SPEECH »
2/12/2011
Spoken World - Come and see this: Joost Vandecasteele has written a speech for Gwendolyn Rutten and Pascal Smet, and these two politicians will present it live at the Kaaitheater. As a bonus Vandecasteele will himself perform a short version of Otaku, his apocalyptic comedy show that premiered at Spoken World 2009 and was selected for the 2010 Theatre Festival.
In Dutch
spoken word
Kaaitheater
Amiri Baraka & Saul Williams
3/12/2011
Spoken World - Amiri Baraka and Saul Williams are two big names in Afro-American spoken word. In the late fifties, Amiri Baraka (1934) made his name as a beat poet under his original name of LeRoi Jones. Saul Williams (1972) is several generations younger and one of the most powerful voices in alternative hip hop.
In English
performance
Kaaistudios
Kris Verdonck/A Two Dogs Company
Talk »
6-7/12/2011
Spoken World - Talk, a work by the artist and theatre-maker Kris Verdonck, is both an installation and a theatrical lecture. We see in the background on stage two plasterers at work In the foreground, an actor tells a story. He tells us how Rwanda is functioning these days. A society like those Kafka and Orwell described.
In Dutch; surtitled in French
theatre
Kaaitheater
Mapa Teatro
7-8/12/2011
Spoken World - When Pablo Emilio Escobar, the notorious, ruthless drugs baron from Medellin, was finally shot, a speech was found in his back pocket, intended for the day he would be elected president. Taking these mythical notes by Escobar as their inspiration, Mapa Teatro
has made a paradoxical production on the legalisation of drugs.
Spanish; surtitled in Dutch and French
debate
Kaaitheater
Kaaitheater
7/12/2011
Spoken World - From Colombia to Europe, the drug trade leaves a trail of destruction through societies all over the world. How are we to resolve this? With harsh repression? Or is legalisation a better solution?
In English
performance
Kaaistudios
Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico
SPEECH! »
9-10/12/2011
Spoken World -
Can we still be sure about the difference between what is real and what
is performed in our super-mediatised world? Perhaps ‘Speech!’ deals with that topic. Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico examine the fact that we experience everything as stories, whether it be social and political matters or everyday events.
spoken word
Kaaitheater
Aurelie Di Marino, Gundega Graudina, July Mollin, Kinge Berends, Kristina Camilleri, Nozizwe Dube, Réverien Iraguha, Siska Baeck
10/12/2011
Spoken World - What do you believe in? Do you have any dreams? Eight young people from Brussels, between 15 and 25, will be taking these questions as the basis for a speech they will write and give at the Spoken World Festival. The director Dirk Verstockt will be coaching them.
