Playground 2016
Mary Reid Kelley
A minotaur, a 19th-century French prostitute. These are just a few of the characters in the work of Mary Reid Kelley (°1979, Greenville, South Carolina) and her partner Patrick Kelley. She plays these historical figures in her videos, and uses costumes, masks and poetic wordplay to create a black and white parallel world.
This Is Offal
A pathologist examines the body of a woman whose own organs demonstrate their confusion and misunderstanding of her suicide. The actual speakers in the drama – the liver, heart, brain and other organs – signify the ‘offal’ from the work’s title and the ‘awful’ irrevocability of the act. But while even her own organs argue about what exactly took place, there’s certainly no hope of finding a rational, scientific explanation for this most tragic and complex of human actions.
By Written I Mean Made
Through the voices, bodies and actions of four performers, the lives of two characters, Peter and Mary, and their domestic world are conjured and disrupted. In the form of a 19th-century drawing room play, this performance questions notions such as friendship, language and gender.
Aeromatic Art Project
From Bruegel to Leonardo to Panamarenko. Flying is a popular theme in art. But art never really flies: line, structure and form are all suggestive of flying. In Aeromatic Art Project the roles are reversed: model helicopters make simple move- ments in the air before returning to their plinths, their helipads.
A sentence can be ours and ours
In Anna Barham’s live production reading groups, meaning proliferates from the physical surface of language - the sound, rhythm & cadence of the voice. The audience is invited to join a circle of readers where a text repeatedly mutates through the participants’ readings and speech recognition software, slipping from version to version over several hours until it falls apart.
Procedures For Underground
In this new work Paul Hendrikse investigates what happens when everyday poses and gestures are taken out of their original context. Procedures For Underground is a movement archive that exists of short series of politically, socially or normatively 'invisible' postures. All postures arise from a sort of crisis moment.
Don't Wind it up, Turn it on
Advertising photography plays on our desires. The performance is inspired by wrist watch print ads depicting male and female hands. The visual language of these advertising photos are carefully composed and contain implications to love, desire and luxury.
Tamam Shud
A man has been found dead and his identity is unknown. The label from his clothes, his fingerprints, his shoe size, none of it can be used to identify him. His only connection with the rest of the world is a small scrap of paper hidden in a secret pocket sewn into his trousers. It contains the last words of a Persian poem: Tamam Shud.
One more thing
In one more thing, Benjamin Verdonck unpacks a miniature theatre from a suitcase. Based on a line from Il diavolo sulle colline (The Devil in the Hills) by Italian author Cesare Pavese, he uses passing letters to assemble a graphic-abstract fantasy about the relativity of things.
