‘Africaliennes’ refers to a series of awareness raising activities in Belgium that will shed light on the work by the Africalia partners in Africa. This Africalia evening presents a ‘sneak preview’ of two documentary films on contemporary South African artists.

Nine performers give it everything they’ve got to the accompaniment of loud techno music. They dance, dance and dance. A physical and emotional marathon, a bomb of non-stop energy which you still feel in your body long after it has ended.

How can you get out of your body? How long can you stay out of yourself …without losing it altogether? TALES OF THE BODILESS explores a condition that is hard to imagine : a world without human bodies.

For his first major solo exhibition, Kris Verdonck, theatre-maker,
artist and resident at Kaaitheater, is the guest of Z33 in Hasselt. He
is creating a new work called EXOTE there, a metaphorical garden
installation with a selection of the most invasive non-native plant and
animal species in Belgium. They are a genuine danger to biodiversity,
the economy and public health.

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.

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.