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Gregory Feldman

We Are All Migrants

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We Are All Migrants
We Are All Migrants
Kaaitheater
Thu 25.05.17

By way of introducing some themes raised in Thomas Bellinck’s performance “Simple as ABS #2”, political anthropologist Gregory Feldman will give a 1 hour-lecture based on his publication “We Are All Migrants: Political Action and the Ubiquitous Condition of Migrant-hood” (2015).

Markus Miessen & Armen Avanessian

Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match

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Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match
Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match
Kaaitheater
Tue 18.04.17

Philosopher Armen Avanessian and architect Markus Miessen discuss the possibilities of ‘xeno-architecture’. Can spatial practice – by embracing alienation – open up a larger space for the unknown? By turning toward ‘what could be’, could an architecture be built that deals with today’s overwhelming complexity and global unrest?

Salon XL: Loïe Fuller – Unraveling an Icon

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Salon XL: Loïe Fuller – Unraveling an Icon
Salon XL: Loïe Fuller – Unraveling an Icon
Kaaistudio's
Thu 30.03.17
American dancer and choreographer Loïe Fuller was a pioneer of modern dance and theatre technique. This Salon XL brings together researchers and artists to unravel her multi-layered personality and to sketch her influence and legacy on contemporary performance artists, such as Ola Maciejewska and Trajal Harrell.

Hito Steyerl & Rabih Mroué

Salon #5: Different practices, common grounds

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Salon #5: Different practices, common grounds
Salon #5: Different practices, common grounds
Kaaitheater
Wed 29.03.17

Filmmaker Hito Steyerl and theatre director Rabih Mroué will engage in a conversation about their artistic cooperation. The common ground of their practices is the idea of storytelling as a way of exposing (political) fictions in society and bringing them back to the domain of art.

Salon #4: Bringing nature into art

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Salon #4: Bringing nature into art
Salon #4: Bringing nature into art
Kaaitheater
Sun 26.03.17

Theatre director Philippe Quesne, visual artist Müge Yilmaz and art historian Maarten Doorman discuss possible meanings of the image of nature in art. Notions such as the romantic, the sublime and the search for authenticity will be questioned along the way.

Salon #3: Activating Objects

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Salon #3: Activating Objects
Salon #3: Activating Objects
Kaaistudio's
Sat 25.03.17

Visual artists Hedwig Houben, Grace Schwindt and Laure Prouvost talk about the relationships between sculpture, performance and theatricality. An interesting parallel in their work is the search for activating objects that appear to be fixed, by turning them into theatrical players.  

Salon #2 : Social Sculpting

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Salon #2 : Social Sculpting
Salon #2 : Social Sculpting
Muntpunt
Sat 25.03.17

Why do artists make work outside of the black box or the exhibition space? Which place can art take within the flux of daily life in the city? Choreographer Meg Stuart, scenographer Jozef Wouters, dramaturg Jeroen Peeters, performance artist Ant Hampton, theatre maker Lotte van den Berg, and choreographer Benjamin Vandewalle attempt to give some answers.

Opening Night | Performatik17

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Opening Night | Performatik17
Opening Night | Performatik17
Kaaistudio's
Fri 24.03.17

In addition to Dorothea von Hantelmann’s opening talk and Grace Schwindts opening performance Opera and Steel – made especially for Performatik – the festival kick-off showcases performances by Hedwig Houben, Kristof Van Gestel and Heike Langsdorf, and Miet Warlop. Laure Prouvost completes the evening with an installation.

Dorothea von Hantelmann

SALON #1: Opening Lecture

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SALON #1: Opening Lecture
SALON #1: Opening Lecture
Kaaistudio's
Fri 24.03.17

Dorothea von Hantelmann is an art historian and a curator. She is the author of How to Do Things with Art (2010), one of the seminal works on performativity within contemporary art. Her current book project explores exhibitions as ritual spaces in which fundamental values and categories of modern, liberal and market-based societies historically have been, and continue to be, practiced and reflected.

Tim Jackson & Barbara Unmüßig

On Prosperity Without Growth and Paths to a Sustainable Society 2.0

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On Prosperity Without Growth and Paths to a Sustainable Society 2.0
On Prosperity Without Growth and Paths to a Sustainable Society 2.0
Kaaitheater
Mon 13.03.17

Tim Jackson explores subjects such as employment, social investment, and inequality. In addition, he explores strategies to attain ecological and financial sustainability: an essential vision for social progress.

Inigo Wilkins

The myth of Golem

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The myth of Golem
The myth of Golem
Kaaitheater
Wed 15.02.17

Drawing on recent neuroscientific theories of consciousness, the young British philosopher Inigo Wilkins outlines the contemporary significance of the myth of Golem and the automation of inert matter via a control script.

Srećko Horvat

Subversion?

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Subversion?
Subversion?
Kaaitheater
Mon 06.02.17

The young Croatian philosopher, author and political activist Srećko Horvat is undoubtedly one of the leading voices of his generation. His talk starts from Fernando Pessoa’s novel The Anarchist Banker and then provides a unique theoretical insight into possible subversions in a time which is getting darker day by day.

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