PERFORMATIK 2011

Kaaitheater
Black box or white cube?

During the nine days of the Performatik Festival, we shall be spotlighting contemporary performance art, body art and live art. For the second time we shall again be cooperating with numerous partners in Brussels, each of whom will contribute their own expertise. Which means we shall be viewing this art form not only from the theatre and dance angle, but also from that of the visual arts, where performance art is flourishing now as in the past.

The festival opens at Wiels with an exhibition entitled The Other Tradition. The artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster heads in the direction of theatre together with the Berlin musician Ari Benjamin Meyers, while Kris Verdonck, artist in residence at the Kaaitheater, is creating an exhibition on location. Kafka provides the inspiration for both. Having deciphered the codes of theatre and the office, Deep Blue is now turning to the hotel room. Barbara Matijevic and Giuseppe Chico revive two of the successful lecture-performances from the last Spoken World Festival and present the world premiere of the third part. And Ivo Dimchev, one of the most intriguing performers around today, will be appearing at the Kaaitheater, with his dog.

Black box or white cube? Exhibition or performance? The Performatik Festival is where boundaries are explored and codes deciphered. What holds it all together is the live event, the encounter between you and the performer, in the here and now.
>>> The full programme will be announced at the end of November.


a Kaaitheater festival in association with Argos Centre for Art & Media, Beursschouwburg, Bozar, CC Strombeek-Bever, QO2, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre a.o.
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lecture/performance
Kaaistudios
Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico
I AM 1984 »
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
K.62 »
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.
performance
Kaaitheater
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.
lecture/performance
Kaaistudios
Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico
Tracks »
4/3/2011
Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico present their own form of ‘history’ in three sparkling, imaginative and highly entertaining lecture performances. In Tracks, Matijević and Chico offer an associative view of their 1989. 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.
In English
lecture/performance
Kaaistudios
Barbara Matijević & Giuseppe Chico
Forecasting: a pirate's dilemma »
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