PROJECT

Enrica Camporesi is working on/directing her performance Oef! during her residency at wpZimmer together with Line Mertens and Andrea Rodrigues (research, text, performance) and Bert Serneels (research and scenography).

A production by Enrica Camporesi and Platform 0090 (technical and productional assistance, artistic advice); a co-production by C-Takt (Pelt) and De Singel – in creative residency at hetpaleis and Rataplan.

“Language is a wonderful instrument. Language is terrible. Language helps us see and navigate the world. But language is also matter in itself, rooted in the world, and when we think about language, we have to use language for the purpose.

Language is also always languages, even within the same language, because we play different roles and constantly switch in language use, even within the same sentence. Comme ca.

We exchange ideas and pass on knowledge through language. Language shapes feelings (just think of declarations of love and baby language). Language builds the politics that describes our entire work and life from cradle to grave: think of laws, instructions, promises, etc.

Language is a rain, a forest, a mountain of poetry and language is also manipulation, abuse of power, exclusion. And sometimes language is emptied by the negligence of daily habits and then it means nothing anymore. Language users often risk falling into the abyss of incomprehension. One word can suffice.

Thud.”