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MOVEDBYMATTER / Kasper Vandenberghe

Calculated Risk

conversation installation

Calculated Risk
Calculated Risk
Sat 29.06.19

WORKING TITLE FESTIVAL — Kasper Vandenberghe climbs on a scaffolding clad in a protective suit and then drops down like a rock. It is calculated recklessness. It is a poetic search for how vulnerable we can still allow ourselves to be and how we can understand vulnerability as a force. It is dancing on the loose rope between two deeply human desires: the desire for balance versus a bottomless leap into the unknown.

Bojana Cvejić

Aesthetic individualism, or dancing solo in the 21st century

conversation

Aesthetic individualism, or dancing solo in the 21st century
Aesthetic individualism, or dancing solo in the 21st century
Mon 17.06.19

To round up TO AUTHENTICITY… AND BEYOND!, we invite performance theorist Bojana Cvejić for a final talk, followed by a conversation with Prof. Rudi Laermans. Laermans wrote the essay Be(come) yourself!, which marked the beginning of this season’s series on authenticity.

Vera Tussing, Esse Vanderbruggen & Stine Sampers

@duetthecity

conversation dance

@duetthecity
@duetthecity
Sat 27.04.19

In a choreography that transmits itself only by means of Stine Sampers’ photos, Vera Tussing and Esse Vanderbruggen re-situate their work in the urban landscape of Brussels, and then upload it to Instagram. On Dance Day, they invite you to Kaaitheater for a discussion on the meeting of their practices, and a physical sharing of the digital material.

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Thijs Lijster

Conversation #6: over de grote vlucht inwaarts

conversation

Conversation #6: over de grote vlucht inwaarts
Conversation #6: over de grote vlucht inwaarts
Mon 01.04.19

According to Dutch philosopher Thijs Lijster, in today’s complex world, we increasingly think of society as an ‘outside world’. Against the idea that history is something which happens to us, he champions the collective ability to make history.

Night of Knowledge on Brussels 2019

conversation debate

Night of Knowledge on Brussels 2019
Night of Knowledge on Brussels 2019
Fri 29.03.19

For the seventh edition of the Night of Knowledge on Brussels, researchers and experts from Brussels are joining forces to draw up a polyphonic overview of the major challenges facing Brussels today and to question both citizens and politicians about possible solutions and alternatives. This rich encounter alternates between varied scientific syntheses, debates, quizzes and musical interludes.

Salon: Performance Art & Art Fairs

conversation debate

Salon: Performance Art & Art Fairs
Salon: Performance Art & Art Fairs
Sat 23.03.19

A discussion on performance art and art fairs with Ellen de Bruijne, Liv Vaisberg, Julie Vandenbroucke, and Sarah & Charles. Moderated by Emmanuel Lambion.

Salon: From Stage to Gallery/Gallery to Stage

conversation debate

Salon: From Stage to Gallery/Gallery to Stage
Salon: From Stage to Gallery/Gallery to Stage
Fri 22.03.19

Exploring cross disciplinary practices that draw upon conventions of the visual and the performing arts with Ula Sickle, Alexis Blake, and Noé Soulier. Moderated by Zoë Gray.

Dan Graham & Glenn Branca

Collaborations (1980-1992)

film conversation

Collaborations (1980-1992)
Collaborations (1980-1992)
Thu 21.03.19

Dan Graham's work provocatively analyses the historical, social and ideological functions of contemporary culture, including architecture, rock music, and television. Deconstructing the act of viewing, he manipulates your perception with time delay, projections, closed-circuit video, and mirrors. 

Salon: The Heritage of Bauhaus

conversation debate

Salon: The Heritage of Bauhaus
Salon: The Heritage of Bauhaus
Wed 20.03.19

A discussion on the heritage of Bauhaus with Alex Arteaga, Vladimir Miller, An Fonteyne, Radouan Mriziga and Ula Sickle. Pieter T'Jonck moderates the conversation. To start off, Veronique Boone offers an introduction on the Bauhaus movement.

Salon: Death, Mourning, Rituals & Performativity

conversation debate

Salon: Death, Mourning, Rituals & Performativity
Salon: Death, Mourning, Rituals & Performativity
Sun 17.03.19

A discussion on death, mourning, rituals and performativity, with Lotte van den Berg, Barbara Raes, Pieter van Bogaert, Michel Yang (Oracle). 

Extended Salon: Indisciplinary Measures

conversation debate

Extended Salon: Indisciplinary Measures
Extended Salon: Indisciplinary Measures
Fri 15.03.19

How do artists let the story they want to tell determine if their work will become a film, a sculpture, a painting, an installation, a choreography or performance? What negotiations take place when they appropriate different disciplinary specialisms? How do they play with their spatial and temporal parameters? What is the politics of indisciplinary practices?

Catherine Wood & Jimmy Robert

Opening Salon: Performance in Contemporary Art

conversation debate

Opening Salon: Performance in Contemporary Art
Opening Salon: Performance in Contemporary Art
Wed 13.03.19

To open Performatik19, Tate Modern performance curator Catherine Wood discusses her recently published book Performance in Contemporary Art with artist Jimmy Robert. Curator Daniel Blanga-Gubbay will moderate the conversation.

Nina Power

Conversation #5: on the contemporary portrayal of women

conversation

Conversation #5: on the contemporary portrayal of women
Conversation #5: on the contemporary portrayal of women
Fri 08.03.19

In 2009, Nina Power wrote the book One Dimensional Woman about contemporary portrayals of women. Since she published her book, the #MeToo movement and other pressing feminist questions have emerged. How does Nina Power evaluate her book and the appeals she made then, today – on International Women's Day?

Rolando Vázquez

[Cancelled] Authenticity, Decoloniality, and the End of the Contemporary

conversation

[Cancelled] Authenticity, Decoloniality, and the End of the Contemporary
[Cancelled] Authenticity, Decoloniality, and the End of the Contemporary
Sat 02.03.19

Sociologist Rolando Vázquez explores how the contemporary search for authenticity connects to the impoverishment of experience in modernity.

SYMPOSIUM

The School of Speculative Documentary

debate conversation

The School of Speculative Documentary
The School of Speculative Documentary
Mon 25.02.19

The School of Speculative Documentary is an interdisciplinary space for encounter that seeks to question the documentary act. Creators take the floor to discuss uncertainty and guesswork, to confront the unfixable holes in their work and the messiness of reality.

Liwaa Yazji, Waël Ali & Jumana Al-Yasiri

Syrian theatre and contemporary writing

conversation debate

Syrian theatre and contemporary writing
Syrian theatre and contemporary writing
Sat 16.02.19

This afternoon focuses on Syrian theatre and on the work of a young generation of contemporary playwrights.

Julian Warner

On Racial Authenticity

conversation

On Racial Authenticity
On Racial Authenticity
Fri 25.01.19

Racial Authenticity is based upon essentialist notions of race and ethnicity, but it also describes the way in which we claim our subjecthood as identity by merging autobiography, practice, and body. Anthropologist/artist Julian Warner draws from his ethnographic fieldwork on the current state of black cultural workers in Germany, to address this articulation of racist discourse, progressive politics, and neoliberal commodification. 

Afua Hirsch

Conversation #4: on race, identity, and belonging

conversation

Conversation #4: on race, identity, and belonging
Conversation #4: on race, identity, and belonging
Mon 21.01.19

In her debut Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, author, journalist, and human rights activist Afua Hirsch has written a subtle personal history that also sketches the history of a country. Who can and may appropriate British identity?

Mogobe Ramose

Conversation #3: on Ubuntu philosophy

conversation

Conversation #3: on Ubuntu philosophy
Conversation #3: on Ubuntu philosophy
Mon 17.12.18

The South African philosopher Mogobe Ramose wrote the standard work on Ubuntu philosophy: a vision of existence as a continuous stream in which everything is constantly searching for balance and is inseparable connected with everything else.

Laurence Van Ypersele

[CANCELLED] Authenticiteit en de Groote Oorlog

conversation

[CANCELLED] Authenticiteit en de Groote Oorlog
[CANCELLED] Authenticiteit en de Groote Oorlog
Sat 08.12.18

What are the political, economic and didactic intentions behind these meanings, and how do we question them? Historian Laurence Van Ypersele delves into these questions, looking for answers.

Philipp Blom

Conversation #2: A History of the Self

conversation

Conversation #2: A History of the Self
Conversation #2: A History of the Self
Mon 03.12.18

Understanding the crisis today based on Enlightenment thinkers: that is how you might describe most of historian Philipp Blom’s books. Journalist and philosopher Anna Luyten will join him for a discussion about the journey of the Enlightenment’s rational, emancipated and authentic self. How far has it come?

Plaizier

Kalender/Calendrier/Calendar 2019

conversation

Kalender/Calendrier/Calendar 2019
Kalender/Calendrier/Calendar 2019
Tue 27.11.18

Plaizier has finished its now-famous calendar. The theme of the 2019 edition is the Brussels Canal Zone. Brussels experts Eric Corijn and Sofie Vermeulen contributed to the plans by writing both a general text about the zone and for each month, a thematic story about the history, economy, culture, logistics, mobility, or art in the area.

Ecopolis

Just Transition

conversation debate

Just Transition
Just Transition
Sun 25.11.18

It is not impossible to achieve a transition from a society that respects the limitations of the planet and offers everyone the possibility to develop their talents. But it is not easy. How can we effect a just transition in the current context of increasing polarization and inequality? Can we enhance social justice while also addressing the demands of ecological sustainability?

Bruno Latour & Frédérique Aït Touati

INSIDE

lecture performance performance conversation

INSIDE
INSIDE
Sat 24.11.18

Philosopher Bruno Latour and theatre maker Frédérique Aït-Touati reflect on the relationship between human beings and their environment. Can we change our perception of the earth? No longer from a great distance, like a blue marble flying through space… But from the inside out, from the wafer-thin outer layer of the globe on which all life, human activity and resources are concentrated?

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