deBuren

Van 30 november tot 2 december 2011 organiseren de Beursschouwburg en het departement Rits van de Erasmushogeschool Brussel (Exhibiting) Baroque Bodies, een interdisciplinair festival over barokke theatraliteit en lichamelijkheid, dat het werk van de zeventiende-eeuwse Engelse dichter, satirist, libertijn en pornograaf John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester als uitgangspunt neemt. Abattoir Fermé gaat samen met Pol Dehert aan de slag met het oeuvre van de Earl, Cis Bierinckx en Pol Dehert stelden een tentoonstelling samen en artiesten van allerhande pluimage presenteren hun visie op barokke lichamelijkheid, van queer cinema tot postkoloniale striptease.

In de week voorafgaand aan het festival, van 21 tot en met 25 november 2011, organiseert deBuren samen met Rits en Beursschouwburg drie workshops voor Nederlandse en Vlaamse studenten. Studenten van o.m. de Mime-opleiding in Amsterdam, het Rits in Brussel, de Rietveldacademie in Amsterdam maar ook het Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft in Giessen krijgen de kans om een workshop te volgen bij Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes (USA/Mexico), David Bade (Curaçao) of Angelo Vermeulen (België). In een tweede fase (januari 2012) verhuizen de studenten naar Amsterdam waar ze drie weken samenwerken in de Brakke Grond. De resultaten van die workshop, die begeleid wordt door Nederlandse en Vlaamse docenten, worden gepresenteerd tijdens de Nederlandse editie van Baroque Bodies in de Brakke Grond. Ook studenten van andere kunstscholen en artiesten kunnen zich kandidaat stellen voor het workshop-traject in Brussel en Amsterdam.

Pol Dehert, Arnoud Van Adrichem en Karel Vanhaesebrouck stelden een nummer van het Nederlandse literaire tijdschrift Parmentier samen, met inleidende teksten over Rochester en vertalingen van zijn werk: http://www.literairtijdschriftparmentier.nl/nummer.php?id=76

Klik hier voor het applicatieformulier.
Alle info: http://www.beursschouwburg.be/agenda/detail/nl/2488

Application deadline: 15 September 2011
Please send your application to katrien.van.langenhove@ehb.be

Brussels workshops

Workshop 1 | Guillermo Gómez-Peña (USA/Mexico)

Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the United States in 1978, where he works as a performance artist writer, activist and educator. Together with his troupe La Pocha Nostra he focuses on border issues, cross-cultural identity and intercultural relations. In his search for new alternatives, Gómez-Peña makes extensive use of multiple media, such as journalism, performance, radio art, video and installation art.

This workshop aims at creating a temporary community of rebel artists from different disciplines, ages, ethnic backgrounds, gender persuasions, and nationalities, in which difference and experimentation are not only accepted but encouraged. Participants are given the opportunity to develop new modes of relationships between artists and communities, mentor and apprentice, which are neither colonial nor condescending and to discover new ways of relating to their own bodies. By decolonizing and then re-politicizing bodies, they can become sites for activism and embodied theory, for memory and reinvention, for pleasure and penance. Why do we do what we do? Which borders do we wish to cross and why? What is the relationship between performance, activism, pedagogy and our everyday lives? What about the relationship between the physical body and the social body?

More information on www.lapochanostra.com

 
Workshop 2 | Angelo Vermeulen (Belgium)

Angelo Vermeulen is a visual artist, filmmaker, biologist, and author. His research in ecology, environmental pollution and teratology informs his art, which includes bio installations, experimental setups incorporating living organisms and science fiction references. Next to developing ‘Corrupted C#n#m#’, an experimental cinema project that explores the physicality of digital media, he currently also collaborates with the MELiSSA life support division of the European Space Agency. He co-authored the book Baudelaire in Cyberspace: Dialogues on Art, Science and Digital Culture with philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche. He is Advisor at Sint-Lucas Visual Arts in Ghent, Belgium, Adjunct Professor at the University of the Philippines Open University, and a TED Fellow.

In Vermeulen's workshop, entitled 'BODYREACTOR. Human monstrification in outer space', the participants will explore the notion of potential monstrification of the human body in outer space. This workshop reroutes the theme of the ‘space alien’ to man himself. How to work with an ongoing mutating and modifying body? How to physically deal with an unknown and ultimately body-transforming environment? How to relate to a space where biological evolution never took us in the first place? These will be some of the questions addressed in the workshop. ‘REACTOR’ refers to the experimental, open format of the workshop, to the condition of man in outer space (living in a craft or vessel), and to the fact that the group is locked up in one single space for one week. It also refers to the concept of monstrification in a more 'Gothic' sense.

More information on www.angelovermeulen.net


Workshop 3 | David Bade (Curaçao)

“More is more” would seem to be the motto of David Bade, born in 1970 in Curaçao. A mixed-media artist who lives and works in his birthplace as well as in the Netherlands, Bade won the Prixe de Rome shortly after completing his studies at de Ateliers in Amsterdam in 1993. He presented solo exhibitions in Auckland, New Zealand (1997), the Museum of Modern Art in Nice (1999) and De Hallen in Haarlem (2003). His work deals with questions such as sustainability, recycling, collaboration and community building. Since the nineties Bade has been organizing workshops and interventions in public space with different social groups. He is one of the founders of the Institu Buena Bista in Willemstad (Curaçao), an organization for contemporary art that offers an orientation course for young talents whom are selected through scouting and then guided and supported towards a future in the creative field. During this workshop, Bade and the participants will create a site-specific environment taking the shifting world of early modern baroque as a starting point. Instability, excess, changeability will function is key concepts. The workshop will also investigate different modes of collaboration.

More information: http://badeblog.wordpress.com/

 
Evening program:

Each day of the Brussels Winter School will be concluded by an evening program consisting of lectures and artist presentations. Please check www.beursschouwburg.be for updates.


General information

The RITS Winter School is made possible through the generous financial support of deBuren, Rits and VUB. The workshops are part of a larger artistic and scientific research project on John Wilmot and baroque corporality (2007-2011). This research project is funded by the BOAB Research Fund of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Erasmus University College Brussels and is developed in close collaboration with Beursschouwburg.

Participating art schools: RITS (Brussels), Mime School Amsterdam (Amsterdam), Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam), Institut fur Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft (Giessen), A.Pt (Advanced Performance Training).

Coordination research project: Pol Dehert & Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Coordination Rits Winter School: Tim Martens & Katrien Van Langenhove

Contact: karel.vanhaesebrouck@ehb.be