INTERVENTION, INSTALLATION WITH VIDEO & LIVING ARCHIVE

with 1 kitchen, 6 monitors, 1 videoprojector, 13 liter of soup , special
guests / red hall

Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Meggie Schneider will set up an interim kitchen as a site specific, temporal assemblage, which reflects her local research on Brussels fleemarkets and houses, and intervenes directly in the architectural environment of the Beursschouwburg. Providing space for food, video installations and regular conversations, this will be a stage and playground for all of us, hosts, guests, cooks, audiences, artists. Meggie will also create daily footage to constitute a living archive.
Being dissolved during a final bazaar, the kitchen objects will find their way back to (different) homes, scattered fragments leaving a trace.


BEURSSCHOUWBURG, BRUSSELS

The festival Performing Proximities explores notions of hospitality, intimacy and confrontation, both in relation to programming formats as well as in relation to artistic
works. An international group of artists working in the media ofperformance, dance,
video and music will elaborate on new proximities, desired or feared: on the inescapable proximity of ‘the other’, on queering desire and intimacy, on re-articulations of care and
solidarity in times of accelerated, global capitalism. An intensiveweekend of encounters, questioning our positions as artists, friends, audiences, producers, strangers, hosts and guests. Swapping offices, changing roles, touching senses, leaving traces,...

Curated by Bettina Knaup (DE), an independent curator based in Berlin, who works at the interface of performance, live art, politics and gender issues.

With the support of Goethe Institute, Brussels; Embassy of the Republic of Croatia, Brussels; Postgraduate School of Performing Arts - Advanced Performance Training,
Antwerp (PoPoK-APT)