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Salon XL: Loïe Fuller – Unraveling an Icon

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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.

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Hito Steyerl & Rabih Mroué

Salon #5: Different practices, common grounds

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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.

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Salon #4: Bringing nature into art

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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.

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Salon #3: Activating Objects

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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.

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Dorothea von Hantelmann

SALON #1: Opening Lecture

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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.

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Salon #2 : Social Sculpting

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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.

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