A series of talks organised by the Flemish-Dutch Centre deBuren, intended for higher education students, but everyone is welcome. There will be two series which one can attend in full or in part.

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 010 - On stage a stack of torn books, a screen spits out random images. What starts out as a discussion about pizzas can suddenly continue with a history lesson, switches from flamenco to post-punk, from reflections on love to comments on the relation between humiliation and the economy. The director Rodrigo García – last year at our Performatik festival – seems to ask: what are we to do, say what we think, withdraw, or take part? And what if our actions were in vain?

In her previous pieces, Charlotte Vanden Eynde often used objects and video, coming close to the boundary of visual art. In I’m Sorry It’s (Not) A Story she gives shape to her associative visual idiom in pure movement and dance, and seeks out the ‘image’ and poetry of movement.

Platform Kanal was set up a year and a half ago. It is a network comprising many of the zone’s actors. Its aim is to think about and work on an overall, integrated vision for the development of the Brussels canal zone. The urban research group from the VUB and La Cambre school of architecture will provide the presentations.

(BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) by the American dancer and choreographer Eleanor Bauer is a dance performance on grandeur and vulnerability, hubris and humility, about living large when less is more but more is also unmistakably more. Bauer invites you on a safari expedition into the depths of the surface-oriented world of the performer. Self-expression drops the self and expression takes over.