Brussels, 27th May 2011. Traffic in the city has reached critical mass and comes to a standstill. The result is an almost apocalyptic landscape, but see how the inhabitants make the best of it by reinventing their city. This is the futuristic situation that C&H will be staging for one hour in the centre of Brussels. 

After the debate Kernenergie. Maken we ons illusies? (in Dutch), the theatre-maker Davis Freeman will present the occasionally hilarious but none the less highly relevant performance Seven Promises in the Kaaicafé. Together with the actor Jerry Killick, he plays the part of a green preacher and they try to persuade the audience to make ‘sustainable’ promises.

There is no sign of God, but here and there we see dolls. Each of us is a character in someone else’s subjective reality. This is the thread running through We.art. dog.com. The performance is about nature and culture, death and life. Anyone who has ever seen Dimchev at work will know these are not just empty words.

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.

An evening with lecture-performances, film and music. The Beursschouwburg is presenting work by the Russian activist art collective Chto Delat?, the young Dutch artist Hedwig Houben, the English performer Zoe Laughlin and the Swiss fashion designer, performer and musician Christoph Hefti.

The lecture performance by Agnes Meyer-Brandis deals with art, science and weightlessness. Dawn Scarfe’s Turning to Spheres is a performance with wine glasses, a sine-tone generator and small speakers.

Apainting by Lucas Devriendt, was the inspiration for Performance of A Portrait. In it the painter and his model, the dancer Vincent Dunoyer, looked back on their collaboration. The painting and the performance have now resulted in Pairforming, a collection of videos, dances, photos and drawings.

The Portuguese writer and theatre-maker Patricia Portela discovered a box containing the writings and designs of Acácio Nobre, an early 20th-century Portuguese member of the avant-garde whose name has been erased from the history books. Using a vintage typewriter and wireless keyboard she brings Nobre’s work back to life and so questions the collective memory of a nation.

As part of her contribution to 'The Other Tradition' (WIELS), Pilvi Takala’s performance 'Bag
Lady' will take place in a shopping mall in the centre of
Brussels. The simple action of a neatly dressed woman carrying a lot of cash in a transparent plastic bag as she
walks through the mall was previously realized twice, most recently as
part of the 5th Berlin Biennial’s night program in 2008.

Theatre-maker and artist Kris Verdonck combines one ‘old’ and one ‘new’ performance. Part 1 is a performance for two plasterers. In part 2 an actor tries to tell his story as authentically and objectively as possible.