Welcome to the Jungle is a performance installation inspired by ‘global weirding’, a term used to describe the effects of global warming. You make your way through a strange and desolate labyrinth of mirror foil and a sensory jungle that excites through its abundance of pseudo-natural stimuli. Like the performers, you are given a costume to wear. This adds to the confusion on the route. Who is the spectator?

While you get a bite to eat, Cis Bierinckx will talk with Jan Lauwers about his work and what inspires him. Over the last twenty years Jan Lauwers has become best known for his pioneering work for the stage with Needcompany.

Our programme-makers will guide you through the new season. Book the best seats for 2010-2011!

In the book Are we here yet? Meg Stuart reflects on her own practice in dialogue with Jeroen Peeters and several past and present members of Damaged Goods. It links together significant moments from Stuart’s artistic career by means of reflections on creation, performing, improvisation and dramaturgy. In addition, the book includes illustrations, documents and performance scripts, as well as an actual guide with exercises.

Computers, Privacy and Data Protection is a two-day-conference for academics, practitioners, policy-makers and activists to come together, exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues of information technology, privacy, data protection and law. This year’s conference theme ‘An Element of Choice’ has been chosen because of the many options open for data protection policy. Technological change is dictated by higher forces, but can be steered.

The world is in a wretched state, as we know. How can we change it? Peter Tom Jones and Vicky De Meyere – both guests in Burning Ice #1 last year – have published a book that focuses not on the problems, but the solutions. It’s a superb book that shows us how to change course. Terra Reversa offers appealing guidelines for a better society, whose main elements are comfortable living, justice, ecological sustainability and meaningful employment.