On Monday, June 21st we welcome a new resident at wpZimmer. Artist and performer Tiran Willemse will be in residency for the upcoming two weeks – working on Trompoppies/blackmilk, where he looks at one of the main choreographic elements of the dances that Trompoppies or drum majorettes perform, focussing on the precise hand gestures.
Discover more about the work here.
We’re kicking off our Summer with NE MOSQUITO PAS (19) – A collective, ongoing project where artists get to reflect on their relationship to success and failure, by working with elements that they experience as “failure” within their own practice. Presenting a series of solo performances in which they perform a negative (adapted) ‘second-hand’ version of their artistic practice in which a distinction between good and bad taste is declared unusable.
wpZimmer will be hosting two showings on June 28th and July 3rd at 8PM – each with their unique solos – no showing will be the same!
To reserve your tickets and get more information on the solos that will take place on each day, head to this link
[PART 1: Rosie Sommers, Simon Baetens, Sophia Danae Vorvila, Nathan Ooms, Willem De Wolf]
[PART 2: Micha Goldberg, Musia Mwankumi, Jacopo Buccino, Dahlia Pessemiers, Anna F. Jäger]
Joining us at wpZimmer for a showing or performance? Please read our safety guidelines!
*Topos 1 is supported by C-Takt & The City of Antwerp
There’s a new residency in town! wpZimmer welcomes concept creator and performer Sophie Guisset who will be joined by performer Clara Conza and dramaturgist Lisa Vereertbrugghen to work on VTC (working title).
VTC ( abbreviation for Vautour Tennis Club), is a research on the notion of rules and playfulness in the practice of tennis and in the practice of sexuality in darkrooms.Sophie is interested in the way this sport is organized, in the three types of regulation that affect players. The geometric boundaries of the field, the rules of behavior to adopt towards one’s partner/adversary, and finally the rules of the game in themselves. She will physically research how these three forms of rule organize themselves, their impact on the player’s bodies and mental state in a match situation and how they could be applied to another system.
Duet for two string trios is a coming together of pure dance and music, full of intimacy and lyricism, intense and disruptive, like the times we live in.
From this week on, we’re joined by Claire Croizé and the two performers with whom “Duet for Two String Trios” was created with and danced by: Emmi Väisänen en Jason Respilieux.
Read more about Duet for two string trios here!
Next up in residency at wpZimmer is Belgium-based costume designer and scenographer Sofie Durnez who will be staying with us until May 23rd working on DAYDREAM.
During her residency, Sofie engages with both, seeking overlap, synergy and contrast in images and materials. By also involving light, sound, smell and temperature, she explicitly seeks the physical limits of her designs.
Read more about Sofie’s residency below!
“The Chance to find yourself” is a collaboration of two migrants – who come from very different backgrounds -, which aim to stage a common performance. It becomes a confrontation between two theatre-practitioners, who came to Brussels hoping to improve their working- and living-conditions, who do not know each other, who have different cultural and economical backgrounds and different aesthetical practices and who both try to find out more about each other, themselves and their respective artistic practices, despite an evident cultural gap separating them.”
That’s how Benno Steinegger and Jovial Mbenga describe their latest practice “The Chance to Find Yourself” which they will be working on during their joint residency at wpZimmer until May 9th.
Discover more about both performers and the story behind The Chance to Find Yourself here.
Forensic Plant Lab was a one-day expo in which artists Maria Lucia Cruz Correia and Gosie Vervloessem guided visitors through the mind map of an investigation, which was broken up like a crazy wall. Forensic Plant Lab is set up as a detective agency that specializes in investigating the relationship between Homo Sapiens and the plant kingdom and, in a broader sense, humanity’s relationship with nature. The mind map through which the visitors were guided tells the story of the mutilation of the trees of De Liereman, a nature reserve in Turnhout, on the night of 23 May 2020. The artists started an investigation into this crime through field research, interviews with stakeholders of the ‘landscape’. The visitors who visited the expo were initiated into the ‘case’.
The expo was made possible with the support of The Activiteitenpremie from Flemish Authorities.
The one day event THE DATING PROJECT: First Date by the artist Dan Mussett in collaboration with Bianca Zueneli and Vincent Vandijck took place on March 6th 2021 at temporarily closed Bar Leon in Antwerp, between 15h and 19h. Every hour, two people were invited to the bar, and each given a mobile phone displaying a series of pre-scripted instructions that led them to re-enact a first date. Two participants began the date together, activating the first instruction at the same time. As the date progressed, they were given a variety of different types of instructions including scripted dialogues, dressing up, dancing, predicting each other’s futures and staring into each other’s eyes.
The Event was supported by The Activiteitenpremie from The Flemish authorities.
From this Monday on, a new residency started at wpZimmer involving performer Steven Michel who is currently working on his ritualistic solo ‘DATADREAM’ in which he fuses choreography, visual storytelling and experimental video.
“DATADREAM wants to reclaim the importance of the body and the voice in a digital era. To not simply regard the “virtual” as an escapist technology, but to consider it as an invisible facet of a reality we live in, and in which everything is connected. A starting point to create new group-bonding rituals.”
Steven Michel is joined by a few team members: Mathieu Bonnafous (sound design), Jan Fedinger (light design) and Laetitia Bica (video design).