Playground 2014

13.11.14

16.11.14

Discover the offer around this exhibition

8th edition of the arts festival

Playground in STUK and M Leuven

For the eighth time, Playground is exploring the captivating zone between these various artistic disciplines. The silent aspect of the visual arts contrasts with the public nature of the shared live performance. In addition to working on their oeuvres individually, artists enjoy the challenge and added value of collaborating with other artists and presenting their creations to live audiences. Furthermore, theatre directors and choreographers often look for a more visually expressive language.

Performances in STUK you can't miss

For the production A Stage Matrix 1, Markus Schinwald made a compact theatre set in which a strange furniture machine is continuously manipulated by dancer Oleg Soulimenko.

In the narrative performance Eureka, a lighthouse play, Ellie Ga investigates the history of the lighthouse from its construction to its ruin. A collage of images and voices guides us through facts and imagination, fabrications and myth.

In this new creation, Joëlle Tuerlinckx has embraced the challenge of translating her visual oeuvre to the stage. The audience witnesses her curious and critical exploration of the limits of this medium’s possibilities.

French artist Guy de Cointet (1934-1983) devised unique performances as an extension of his artworks. His performances are talking pictures: the objects’ text, colours and forms result in absurd stories about everyday events.

Performances and exhibitions in M

Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmus

Public Collection

Iconic and forgotten artworks are depicted by a group of performers. Through this continuous action, Romanian artists Manuel Pelmus and Alexandra Pirici – who are both based in the world of dance – create an immaterial counterpart to a series of visual artworks.

Béatrice Balcou

Untitled Ceremony #04

As a reaction to the speed of consumer society, Béatrice Balcou’s performances introduce a quiet focus on art. Behind the scenes of the museum, one piece from M’s collection is the focal point for a carefully orchestrated ceremony of restrained movements.

Beatrice Balcou, Untitled ceremony (2013)

Paul Hendrikse

Looking While Listening Title, Address, Dedication)

In the Book Tower at the University of Ghent, Paul Hendrikse invited eight performers to depict the act of listening. Like the performers in this video work you listen to philosophical texts read aloud, and you experience a highly personal listening event.

Marte Ramm Fortun

Riots I have known and loved

Marthe Ramm Fortun searches Leuven for looks for traces, locations and stories related to the student protests of May '68, riots that define the character of the university and town today during this unique tour.

Exhibition

Ellie Ga

In her oeuvre, Ellie Ga combines the documentary with narrative genres such as the essay and the travelogue. Her new work is based on intensive research and diving expeditions to the ancient lighthouse of Pharos in Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.