IN/FINITY An infinite project about and in finitude

26.10.2017

The first outpatients’ clinic for supportive and palliative care TOPAZ (VUB) (founded by Wim Distelmans) offers support to patients with incurable disease and their loved ones. The Kaaitheater is supporting their three-year artistic-participative project IN/FINITY, in which artists and the guests/patients at the centre engage in dialogue on the theme of (in)finity. It is not unthinkable that some of the participants will never see the artistic end result. You will see a glimpse of their method and process, half way through.

To close the evening, the artists will debate scientists and one another about transhumanism, the importance of touch in art and caregiving, the effect of breathing on wellbeing, and the power of the imagination when ill. In a mix of exhibitions and discussions.

PROGRAMME

17:00 > 19:40 (continuously, 20 min.) Emi Kodama
Performance: It begins at the tip of your pencil

Using blind drawings and the power of a simple story, Emi Kodama’s performance invites you to a trip around your imagination. The Canadian artist explores the everyday through short stories that are depicted in performances, installations, video, sound, photography and drawings.

17:00 > 17:30 Mike Schmid/Ictus
Performance: Breathcore

A Breathcore is a choir that sings without a conductor or score, and which explores various forms of collectiveness through breathing – the sound, the vibration, the tactility. The performers’ breathing resonates and creates a hazy field of breathing landscapes.

18:00 > 19:00 Jorge León & TOPAZ
Book presentation: AND?

Making a good portrait of someone is a way of bringing them home, whether it be in written, photographic or painted form. Twelve TOPAZ guests explore their self-image.

The book will be presented by Flemish Minister for Culture Sven Gatz, Jorge León, Wim Distelmans, Marc Noppen, Caroline Pauwels, and the (artistic) collaborators, guests and volunteers at TOPAZ.

19:30 Vera Tussing
Try out Staging Encounters: Tactile Quartet

Much of Vera Tussing’s work has focused on the magic hidden in movement and touch. She and her team invite the guests of TOPAZ to discuss and experiment around modes of situating the audience within a theatrical experience. She will be sharing excerpts from these processes.

20:30 the artists of IN/FINITY

Om niet te gronde te gaan. Persoonlijke notities bij IN/FINITY
by Rudi Meulemans
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Panel discussion A road map for artistic practices in (health)care
with Jorge León, Rudi Meulemans, Emi Kodama, Vera Tussing, Michael Schmid, prof. Free De Backer (moderator).

Our Daily Death

programmaboekje - feuille de salle - programme booklet

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Join a special breathing experiment!

Wanted

Fri 29.09.17

The project BREATHCORE has been an ongoing investigation of the dynamics of breath within a social, artistic and political context. For the final development of this work we seek 30 volunteers who are motivated to experiment with breath and are willing to play the role of spectators and contribute with feedback.

Our Daily Death - Opening Night

Kaaistudio's

Wed 25.10.17

Our contemporary Western culture generally looks on death and dying with fear and denial. In Our Daily Death, we are examining the other side of the coin by welcoming artists and scientists who consider death to be part of our daily life.

Our Daily Death

Claire Croizé & Etienne Guilloteau

Mer-

dance music

Kaaitheater

Fri 27.10.17

Five dancers and five musicians perform a polyphonic piece about death and saying goodbye. Nevertheless, there is also space for lightness. From the moment you are born, death is constantly approaching: life in freefall. By acknowledging death, Croizé and Guilloteau aim to celebrate life to the full.

Robert Steijn

Walk Into Nothingness

ritual

Kaaistudio's

Wed 25.10 - Fri 27.10.17

In Buddhist monasteries, people learn through meditation to look at life from the perspective of their own mortality. Robert Steijn has turned this meditative practice into a ritual. Together, you will walk around the city, as though you were taking this walk for the last time.

Thomas Quartier

Performing Death. Rituals and Spirituality of Human Finitude

talk

Kaaitheater

Fri 27.10.17

How can we deal with finitude? By living with death. How can that be real? By performing death. In this lecture Thomas Quartier – a Benedictine monk and professor for Ritual and Monastic Studies at KU Leuven – ritually links life and death by reflecting on music, embodiment and transcendence.

Our Daily Death

Jorge León

Forever Kids (6-8y)

workshop

Kaaistudio's

Wed 25.10.17

Along with a group of children, Jorge León explores playful perspectives on the theme of immortality. The children will pretend to die and come back to life, join fun activities around the end and leaving, perform the end of a play, and explore ways of leaving the stage and entering it again.

Our Daily Death

VIDEO: Our Daily Death | Rudy Meulemans - Om niet te gronde te gaan. Persoonlijke notities bij IN/FINITY

tijdens Our Daily Death

Video

Tue 07.11.17

In een mix van toonmomenten en gesprekken krijg je een inkijk in dat werkproces, halfweg. De kunstenaars gaan op het einde van de avond het gesprek aan met wetenschappers én elkaar over transhumanisme, het belang van aanraking in kunst en zorg, het effect van ademhaling op welzijn, en de kracht van verbeelding in een ziekteproces.

VIDEO: INFINTY panel discussion

during Our Daily Death

Video

Tue 07.11.17

The Kaaitheater is supporting their three-year artistic-participative project IN/FINITY, in which artists and the guests/patients at the centre engage in dialogue on the theme of (in)finity. You will see a glimpse of their method and process, half way through. A panel discussion with Jorge León, Rudi Meulemans, Emi Kodama, Vera Tussing, Michael Schmid, prof. Free De Backer (moderator).