Since Monday, September 13th we are joined by actor, theatre-maker, and autodidact sound experimenter Nahuel Cano who will be working on “Mapping the Interior” during his residency at wpZimmer.
During his residency Nahuel plans to map interior spaces, domestic and inner subjective spaces. Mapping these spaces, their non-human and human geography, their ghostly presences and the different temporalities that collapse in different localities. He does not yet know how a spectral sound map would unfold in time and space. Finding ways to approach the design of such maps is the goal of his research.
With Gathering Ground Salomé Mooij invites us to try and fit the entire Earth into the Sint Jans square. She asks us to imagine the world without nation states – a re-mapping of the world from the landscapes it consists of. What is our Earth made of at this moment, and how could we imagine what the world might be?
You’re invited to a participatory performance this weekend at Sint Jansplein in Antwerp as part of this edition of Love at first Sight Get your ticket for Saturday 18/9 or Sunday 19/9 through this link.
Last week we were joined by Vincent Van Dijck as he worked on WHAT I FEEL I BELIEVE IN MY DREAMS during his residency.
From September 6th until 12th he worked on a formative examination of the potentialities of AR/VR as tools for cyber performance.
From September 6th until 12th we were joined by Michela Dal Brollo and Inés Ballesteros who were working on “Living Equipment” – they both create and demonstrate portable equipment as a set of transportable, practical and conceptual devices, which they name “Living Equipment”. Through the Living Equipment, they research how to generate temporary spaces that favour more heterogeneous and diverse forms of urbanism, in contrast to a tendency towards privatization and control in public space.
During his residency, artist and curator Yanis Stefanou will be working on “Shame-Less” (working title) from September 3rd until September 12th.
“Shame-Less calls for structuring a different sense of self through shame, for subverting shaming through a performative metamorphosis. It proposes experimental forms of thematizing and celebrating the experience of being looked, overlooked and shamed. It opens up new ways of imagining and reimagining identities, relations and modes for inhabiting the existing space of power.”
The starting point of “Shame-Less” is the murder on Zak Kostopoulos – one that unravelled a prevailing culture of queer-shaming in Greece.
As September greets us, so do new residencies. We’re kicking it off with a month long resident guest: contemporary artist Ted Oonk who will be focusing on CONTOUR – a collaborative project with Su Jung.
The starting point of the project CONTOUR was the opposite viewpoint both artists had on the concept of ‘the island’. What makes an island, how is it shaped in our minds and how do we reflect on the physical form?
With “Familiestraat”, artist and theatre maker Thomas Verstraeten joins forces with 200 local residents to create a six-hour performance that explores “the truly extraordinary, but also perfectly normal.”
Since 2020 he has been gathering moments from day to day life which he proceeded to examine by establishing links between the happenings in his street in reflection to what is happening all around us in the world – thereby juxtaposing world history with the history of his street, and vice versa.
On August 23rd, we’re joined by a new resident: dancer and choreographer Betty Tchomanga who will be working on “Wildfire”.
This work was inspired by the analogy described by Malcom Ferdinand in his essay « Une écologie décoloniale », exploring how a slave ship symbolizes a political metaphor and tells the story of the world and the Earth.
This analogy with a ship resonates with Betty Tchomanga’s research on the Mami Wata myth. Her representation is an amalgam between mermaids on the bow of the colonist boats and the spirits of the African waters. A ship brings the possibility of an encounter and a flow of beliefs, thoughts and imaginary worlds.
wpZimmer welcomes artist, writer and performance-maker Ira Brand in residency this week! Ira is known for her live, inter-disciplinary performances: solo stage shows, one-to-one pieces, duets, and participatory work. Her process is one of using personal starting points to speak to wider social, political, and formal concerns.
While in residency, she’ll be working on “Commitment Phone” – a project in development that explores (and wants to celebrate) ambiguity and doubt. It is a response to a perceived social and cultural demand for the clear, the certain, and the consistent – ways that we are taught it is worthwhile and understandable for a person to be. And to the increasing necessity to take strong, definite, personal and political positions, along binary lines.
Read more about Commitment Phobe here!