Playground
The arts festival by M and STUK
For this eleventh edition, Playground brings a selected programme of performances by artists who are not bound by a specific discipline. Their practice freely combines elements from installation, text, film, sculpture, architecture and choreography. In provocative live performances between the performing and visual arts, they bring together objects and bodies. They create new images that reflect on art, the world and the mediatisation of society. On the occasion of this year's edition an overview of 10 years Playground will be published.
WONDER-WHAT-TIME-IT-IS
The sculpture WONDER-WHAT-TIME-IT-IS is inspired by a short story by the American author Edgar Allen Poe. The story is set in the city of Vondervotteimittiss where life is controlled by a bell tower. One day, an outsider disrupts life in the town ...
Offshore in Belgium
Since 2015 Cally Spooner has been probing the connections between economic, social and neuronal organisation. Over three days sixteen collaborators meet alongside a number of art works, in the form of rotas, lectures, fan mail, contracts and extended lunches. Sitting somewhere between ...
Royalty
In Royalty, a pre-recorded male voice recounts a seemingly significant occurrence. There is a man, another man and a third man. The men receive a briefing in advance, and in the performance they do their best to keep up with the voice’s words. In her performance works, Zhana Ivanova frequently creates conditions in which ...
Volatile substances
In Volatile substances Julian Weber continues his research on traditional japanese tea ceremonies. Looking at this ancient tradition from a present choreographic and sculptural perspective he investigates into the forming of the body due to the practice of tea. In the collision between this east asian tradition and ...
The Bridegroom Suites
The Bridegroom is a short dialogue between an author and his niece, Pamela. Using mime, choreographies and Guy de Cointet’s characteristic style, they try to find the woman a partner. Following an exhibition and numerous presentations, Playground is now presenting The Bridegroom Suites ...
Sprung a Leak
How do new technologies impact our feelings and behaviour? In her work, Cécile B. Evans explores how we interact with the world through the bias of machines, circulating information that is both emotionally charged and inevitably contradictory. In Sprung a Leak ...
Feeling For You
Feeling For You is an ongoing, frequently updated performance lecture that reverse engineers the artist’s practice through a series of personal anecdotes, google searches, images, audience reactions, and video clips. Meandering through the last few years of Evans’ work, the talk follows ...
Dominique Guilliot
The museum conceals an impressive variety of things: culture, sensations, ideas, large alleys, roofs, ceilings, walls, colours, shapes, densities, ... Yet, some things are missing, which is good, because those gaps leave room for imagination, for the audience, and ...
