Working Title Platform #3 - This piece explores the way athletes experience movement, the
physicality of athletes and sportsmen: their bodies, their beauty, their
rhythmical movements, their facial expressions, the sounds their
actions produce, and how the experience of competitive sports is
structured for the spectator: how athletic events are organized, how
they are portrayed and commented on in the media (through television,
documentaries, radio and newspapers).

Working Title Platform #3 - Does the manner in which we look at things influence the world around us? The Reflecting Pool exhibition explores the ways in which techniques such as framing and editing, mainly associated with cinema, are also used in dance and visual arts to challenge our gaze.  Running parallel with the dance installations Birdwatching and One/Zero by Benjamin Vandewalle and Erki De Vries, you enter a world in which physical and mental movement are always an extension of each other.

How far can campaigners go before their actions cross the boundary of ‘democratic propriety’? Can one restrictively interpret ‘free expression’ as that which is put forward verbally, in writing or in pictures? Where does a democratic society set the threshold of tolerance with regard to action that goes further than simply proclaiming an idea? When does an action stop being an act of free expression and degenerate into vandalism, hooliganism or worse?

Spoken World -
Can we still be sure about the difference between what is real and what
is performed in our super-mediatised world? Perhaps ‘Speech!’ deals with that topic. Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico examine the fact that we experience everything as stories, whether it be social and political matters or everyday events.

Spoken World - When Pablo Emilio Escobar, the notorious, ruthless drugs baron from Medellin, was finally shot, a speech was found in his back pocket, intended for the day he would be elected president. Taking these mythical notes by Escobar as their inspiration, Mapa Teatro
has made a paradoxical production on the legalisation of drugs.