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angel - Nele Verrecken

"Macht kommt von machen, etwas tun können" - Angela Merkel Reverend’s daughter, Angela Kasner grew up in East Germany. Her aunt from West Germany often sent presents such as Levi’s jeans and a Beatles record. When the wall fell, she decided to let go of her scientific career and enter politics.
 

Ostentation Project - Sophia Rodriguez

In Ostentation Project the body wants to become an image, while at the same time breaking this identification. By researching the different layers of meaning that female bodies generate in social and physical capitalist-oriented spaces, Ostentation Project works through the images projected [...]
 

Godefroid de Bouillon: the Bastard Son of Antara Bin-Shaddad - Samah Hijawi

A story that jumps through time and across geographies brings the artist and her grandmother in Palestine, together with two well-known European personalities; Godefroid de Bouillon, known as the first king of Jerusalem and the illegitimate son of the famous Arabian poet Antar Bin-Shaddad, and [...]
 

Shiraz, Tell me about the revolution ? - Farbod Fathinejadfard

In 1945 the first university of Shiraz opens. In 1963 women are able to vote for the first time. In 1971 the Shah organizes the most expensive and biggest party in the world. In 1979 Mayhem breaks out, the country collapses, the Islamic Republic of Iran is established. In 1990 I was born.
 

Again The Sunset - Inga Huld Hákonardóttir

Again The Sunset is where identity is multiplied over and over again by what it touches. It moves. It is a song, a speech and a story... It is a hard rock made hard when you hold it. It is quiet. And then it gets so loud. And there is repetition. In the lyrics there is repetition, in the
 

Myriam Van Imschoot - Le Cadeau

’Le Cadeau’ is a tribute to the "youyou" (in French) or "zagharit" (in Arabic), a sharp voice with which women express joy and other intense emotions in countries such as North Africa, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Basque Country. Nowadays, the scream also appears more and more in [...]
 

Light Years Away - Edurne Rubio

Between 1960 and 1980, my father and his two brothers were members of the Edelweiss Speleology Group. This group discovered the Ojo Guereña cave in northern of Spain, one of the largest caves in the world. The brothers, born in the conservative town of Burgos just after the Spanish Civil War,
 

Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere - Mining Stories

‘Mining Stories’ is a documentary theatre performance by Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere following a mining disaster in the region of Minas Gerais, Brazil where Silke grew up as a child. Through interviews collected both in Europe and in Brazil, an intriguing journey unfolds visiting several [...]
 

JAHA KOO - CUCKOO

On the finite wisdom of a Korean rice cooker. Jaha Koo gives a touching insight into the tragedy of a lonely life in a thoroughly technologised society. A feeling of “helpless isolation”, 고립무원, is characteristic of the life of the younger generation in present-day South Korea, the home of
 

Cry me a river - The quest of the source - Katja Dreyer & Karen Røise Kielland

Cry Me a River – the quest for the source started as an expedition to the source of the River Styx in Greece. In Greek mythology, the Styx is the river that constitutes the border between the earth and the underworld. Achilles was dipped in it, Narcissus fell in love with his own image and [...]
 

Aurelie Di Marino - If there weren’t any blacks you’d have to invent them

Six performers put the 1968 screenplay by Johnny Speight “If there weren’t any blacks you’d have to invent them” on stage. By staging this seemingly outdated movie, they question an important paradox today: the conscious complicity of the members of society to systemic violence which is openly [...]
 

Rósa Ómarsdóttir – TRACES

“Maybe it is worth running the risks associated with anthropomorphism (superstition, devinization of nature, romanticism) because it, oddly enough, works against anthropocentrism: a chord is stuck between person and a thing, and I am no longer above or outside a nonhuman environment”. (Jane
 

Ophelia comes to Brooklyn - Katja Dreyer

Ophelia comes to Brooklyn is part of The Aunt Project. In it, Katja confronts herself and the audience with what remains when a relative dies: memories, objects, unfinished business, sadness and many questions ... The play Ophelia comes to Brooklyn was written by Katja’s aunt Antje Katcher. She
 

SAFE - Julie Pfleiderer, Oxana Omelchuk & ICTUS

One of the great dystopias of the twentieth century: everything is going very well, the specialists are on it, explanations are followed by more explanations. However one woman continues to be obstinately and inexplicably allergic to everything. Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for a
 

CHERNOBYL DRAWINGS - Nikolas Lestaeghe, Karlien Torfs & Nicolas Delalieux

Take a tour of the hidden gems, graffiti and junk of Ghent in search of happiness and safety Tijdens de nacht van 25 op 26 april 1986 ontplofte de kernreactor in Tsjernobyl (de toenmalige Sovjet-Unie). De dagen daarna dreef er een radioactieve wolk doorheen Europa. Pas na enkele dagen