The philosopher Vinciane Despret asks 26 intriguing and pertinent questions about what animals do, want and ‘think’. This yields marvellous and sometimes hilarious stories, told by scientists, animal-tamers, zookeepers, etc. Stories that make us think. We are screening two short documentaries made in 2005 by film-maker and activist Didier Demorcy, to which Vinciane Despret also contributed, one on sheep, one on wolves.

PERFORMATIK2013 - Meggy Rustamova is creating a video and a performance for Performatik. The title refers to a ‘disrupted’ place, an ‘in-between space’ that you enter on your way to somewhere else. You appear to know where you are going, yet the new place is a mystery. (dis)Location examines fiction and reality and the transition between the two. The performance is based on spontaneity, chance, and what may or not be expected.

PERFORMATIK2013 - Visual artist Jimmy Robert and choreographer Maria Hassabi will present an extended version of their collaborative work, Counter-relief. Hassabi’s choreographic experience directs and experiments with various ways in which the body engages with the established formal elements from Robert’s previous iterations: a black and white 16mm film, a collection of wooden planks, and a non-linear abstract text. Following the performance, these elements remain precisely in the place they were left, revealing a movement-inscribed installation.