Workspacebrussels is a workspace for new live arts in their most diverse forms. During their biannual festival Working Title Situation they invite you to discover some of the most intriguing new formats and projects artists develop in the field of performance and installation art. 

With Dance # 2 Christine De Smedt and Eszter Salamon continue to build on Dance # 1 / Driftworks. The first part – listening & mouthing – was inspired by Inuit throat-singing duets. In part two – words & gestures – a dialogue develops in which syllables and words become attached to movements. What does a choreography look like when it resembles a ping-pong game of question and answer?

During the Day of the Dance we show a screening of IT'S IN THE AIR. In this 2008 collaboration between Jefta van Dinther and Mette Ingvartsen, the two performers jumped on large trampolines for 50 minutes. This video registration is all that remains of the intense physical challenge.

A rain of ash floats down onto a musician and his instrument. Its impact on the musician and his music slowly becomes visible. Sound and vision gradually transform – until finally everything judders to a halt. How does ‘little’ man relate to the ‘grandeur’ of the universe?

Young theatre maker Orion Maxted builds a performance machine. Humans take the role of the different machine parts – applying a simple algorhythm, they transform each other’s words and gestures into complex structures.

Imminent climatological, political and ideological tipping points raise the question: are we literally ‘falling out of history’? Philosopher/activist Lieven De Cauter talks with philosopher Isabelle Stengers.

Ivo Dimchev continues his quest for interaction with you, the audience. He invites you to post Facebook-comments, which a dramaturge turns into dialogues. Not only do you literally supply what the actors are saying, you equally shape their views and opinions. The end result remains impossible to predict!

This – unexpectedly current – rerun from 2008 shows Paris from the perspective of the artist-immigrant. During the 20th century countless people took refuge in the French capital, including many artists and intellectuals. Just as likely, they ended up working as taxi drivers or street cleaners. Christian Bakalov’s depictions of their social exclusion and humiliation urge you to question your own feelings of empathy and solidarity.

‘Food for the mind’, that is The Discreet Charm of Marxism. You will be served Marxist writings on the class struggle and revolution as a full six-course meal. In this conversation piece you eat, read and discuss with the other guests! Bring a hunger for ideas and good food.

What if scenography becomes the starting point from where a story unfolds? Meryem Bayram developed a series of pure and basic forms made from cardboard, that transform from an apparently empty and flat surface into a whole repertory of evocative scenic elements.

Salva Sanchis revisits his group piece The Phantom Layer in the shape of a small-scale installation. Time and the body are mirrored by video projections. This physical essay explores the traces we leave behind and the infinite possibilities they generate.