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15.09.2020

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We don’t exist outside of language

Luanda Casella on language, violence and resistance in her performance piece Killjoy Quiz  

Luanda Casella considers the role of language in the way we experience and mediate the world around us and how the implicit violence of language can subjugate, control and diminish us in our daily lives. Resistance to this linguistic violence is an imperative we cannot ignore. Casella embodies this resistance in her work, in radical storytelling, in generating meaning in non-traditional ways, in the making of her latest performance piece Killjoy Quiz.

Luanda Casella

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Voices from the dark

The mystery of the end in the work of Michiel Vandevelde and Kris Verdonck  

Anyone growing up today has little difficulty imagining the end of the / a world. Our unbridled patterns of consumption fuel extreme global warming and ruthless pandemics, among other things. A virus or climate catastrophe could, in the ‘worst’ case scenario, wipe out the entire human race, but it also shakes ideologies, societies and worldviews. How can theatre deal with such an end times sensation? And shouldn’t the theatre tap into its mystical origins again to do so? Kristof van Baarle talks about this in reference to works by Kris Verdonck and Michiel Vandevelde, two makers with whom he himself collaborates as a dramaturge.  

Kristof van Baarle

essay 10.09.2020

I am multitudes

Ogutu Muraya on freeing the imagination from the confines imposed by a biased system

Last year, something snapped in the Kenyan performance artist Ogutu Muraya, who at the time was living in Amsterdam. He decided to stop applying for European visas and return to Nairobi. His decision was motivated by a desire to ‘go beyond Europe’, to free his imagination, to transcend internal limits rather than merely trying to cross physical borders. In this text, he tells us how he intends to continue his artistic practice and maintain his presence – but strictly on his own terms.

Ogutu Muraya

essay 10.09.2020