On 7 & 8 November the new creation Haiti o Ayiti from Cecilia Lisa Eliceche and Leandro Nerefuh will premiere in Brakke Grond (Amsterdam).
Currently Charlotte Goesaert is working in wpZimmer on her research. After making her three performances EPIC FAIL, Loophole and ChitChat, she feels the urge to explore new ways to translate the theme of imperfection on stage through a long-term research.
Sunday 8.09 Gosie Vervloessem brings her Horror Garden in its natural habitat, the Lustwarande in Tilburg. Click here if you want to know more of the program of Brief Encounters ’19 #2.
1 > 15/08 – Arnes (IS)
19/08 > 2/09 – Hornaffjordur (IS)
Presentations on 15 en 30 August
The nature of a research project in search of how our relationship to nature tastes. It is a philosophical investigation into the sense of taste, in which our tongue and digestive system play crucial roles.
During her residency in Iceland, Gosie will develop work that continues on her research of last year in Hevergardi (IS). The creation process and presentations take place on two different places in Iceland. For this research, Gosie is working together with visual artist Tinna Ottensen.
17 > 21.06.2019 – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia (IT)
During Napoli Teatro Festival Italia the first gathering of the European supported platform Performances between two shores took place.
In a context in which racism and populism invade the Italian politics and public debate, a group of Arab artists based in Europe met with local artists and discussed topics of freedom of expression, memory, Arab theater in Europe and performing arts as an intercultural dialogue.
Dounia Mahammed participated in this event, together with the other artists such as Anis Hamdoun, Sara Shaarawi and Wihad Suleiman.
During their time at wpZimmer, Dan and Laurent will work towards finalising their ddddddddddduettttttttttttttttttttttttt, culminating in a showing moment on July 5th.
wpZimmer organises in collaboration with State of the Arts (SOTA) a workshop about the Fair Arts Almanac 2019: an informative and inspirational calendar on fair practices in the arts. All artists and art workers are invited to learn how to use the almanac as a tool for knowledge and reflection.
Prior to the OPENHOUSE, we organise a reading-session/interactive workshop guided by Katrien Reist and Derk Byvanck on ecological themes. Developed ideas and proposals from the discussion can be used for the next edition of almanac.
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Sunday 9 June, we open the doors of wpZimmer again for OpenHouse. For this 14th edition, we are zooming in on the topic of landscapes in transition. Works of Karl Van Welden, Gosie Vervloessem Fabric Samyn, Dounia Mahammed and Leonardo Delogu / DOM- will be shown. Also Tuur and Flup Marinus welcome you in their atelier and we provide sweets and drinks for in between.
This week we have the pleasure of having Tine Van Aerschot and Evelien Cammaert in wpZimmer. Both will work on their research. While Tine is working on disbelief, Evelien is going through collected images, texts and performative material in order to develop new strategies for the next phases of the creative workshop.
This week we have the pleasure of having Tine Van Aerschot and Evelien Cammaert in wpZimmer. Both will work on their research. While Tine is working on disbelief, Evelien is going through collected images, texts and performative material in order to develop new strategies for the next phases of the creative workshop.
The coming two weeks Charlotte Vanden Eynde and Nicolas Rombouts will work in the studio on Hyphen. In 2015, they were invited to perform a public improvisation in Brussels. A special artistic interaction unfolded, whereby their two ways of creating proved to have many similarities. Now they are doing a research project together that they will work out in a performance next year.
This week we welcome dancer/choreographer Lisi Estaràs, musician/composer Mirko Banovic, theater maker/actrice Kristien De Proost and dramaturge/theater maker Sara Vanderieck in wpZimmer where they will work on “When I look at a Strawberry, I think of a Tongue“.
During the residency in wpZimmer, Luke Jessop and Karenina Lambrechts will work on the duet. They start to put together some early ideas that they have and see how they work within the space. On Friday (03.05) they have a small public presentation. Welcome!
The Programmers’ Days are back! Together with Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Caravan Production, Hiros, Kosmonaut Production and CAMPO, we are preparing two exciting days for you on May 10th & 11th at Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek (Brussels). This year Kinga Jaczewska, Ula Sickle, Cecilia Lisa Eliceche & Leandro Nerefuh, Jaha Koo, Christophe Meierhans, Benjamin Vandewalle, Liz Kinoshita, Danae Theodoridou, Karl Van Welden, Gosie Vervloessem will present their work through talks, videos, and (fragments of) show(ing)s. A more detailed programme will follow soon.
MARS II – insitu version is shown 1 and 2 March 2019 at Arsenal Metz.
The research of NECROPOLIS was based on the article in The Guardian which includes a list of the 34.361 deaths of immigrants and refugees attempting to reach Europe since 1993.
For his residency in wpZimmer, Italian artist Leonardo Delogu is looking for (professional) dancers. During a three-day workshop, he and the dancers will conduct research into the liminal phase of a rite of passage, a concept of the cultural anthropologist Victor Turner
From 18-20 April 2019
10h-13h / break / 14h-17h
Lunch included
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For this 2nd edition of Critical Techno ‘So, do you believe in spirits?’, Helena Dietrich Together with Thomas Proksch conduct research around otherworldly body experiences, paranormal perceptions and the conditions to communicate with spirits and other entities.
Enter a world where forces are felt, colors keep on changing, obstacles appear and disappear. Created by Manon Santkin, this universe called New Measuring Rites will land in wpZimmer during this year’s Dag van de Dans on 27.04.
The guest of this week is Wouter Krokaert who will work together with Katja Dreyer and Charlotte Vanden Eynde on ‘Composities in het wilde weg’.
You are a starting creator (theatre, dance, comedy, slam, hiphop, cross-over, …) and you have an extraordinary concept in mind for a performance. You are looking for interesting people with whom you can talk about this idea – professional people with a lot of experience, an open mind and a broad background knowledge. You would even like it better to sit together with several people to bounce off your ideas to different viewpoints.
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During their time at wpZimmer they will continue their work on the third part of the project “The Art of a Culture of Hope”, which is an “Archive of Hope & Fear”. This archive is an attempt to find a way of sharing the experiences they have gained during “the art of a culture of hope”: which has become a web of responses and tender provocations, which have been collected across Europe, through the (performative) participation of more than thirty artists as well as through workshops with the (local) public.
14h
Atelier 210
During SINGULIER (14 > 17 Feb 2019) Gosie Vervloessem continues experimenting with her home, kitchen and garden equipment. The project Recipes for Disaster: The Magazine & Tupperware Party cooks up some crucial questions about classification and control: How do we cope with chaos in our daily lives? How to free ourselves from the quarantine of our own bathroom? How to argue for a messy and less sterile life in times of Ebola