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Maaike BuysMeet Alva Ishii (5pm)
🎪 Installation
🎪 Free
🎪 Entrance hall Schouwburg (continuous)
Come meet Alva Ishii: a promising artist you’ve probably never heard of. Don’t worry, Alva is totally new to the scene. NTGent is developing a fully digital house artist who will give interviews, create plays and join the artistic board.
Alva Ishii's development is an exploration of new technologies on stage. An example of radical imagination, NTGent's new leitmotif, which at the same time forces to question new technologies. What does AI do to us? What critical questions are we not asking? And why do we leave the development of AI to entrepreneurs?
Recharge XL - Dries Depoorter & Manu Siebens (11 am)
🎪 Installation
🎪 For free
🎪 Inside the tent
🔥 PREMIERE 🔥
One Day I Will Make The Onion Cry - Beyond the Spoken / Barbara Raes & Victoria Deluxe (from 9am)
🎪 Ritual & Installation
🎪 De Expeditie
🔥 PREMIERE 🔥
Escape the bustle of the city with the help of Recharge XL, an installation by Dries Depoorter, the artist known for his thought-provoking work on privacy and technology, and BERLIN scenographer Manu Siebens. Recharge XL transforms the mini-arena from Ramble Song, a performance by BERLIN, into a space where your mobile phone only charges when you close your eyes, supervised by AI.
This work is part of YouTurn, a project celebrating 20 years of BERLIN, which encourages artists to create new work with archive material. Experience a collective moment of digital disconnection!
An installation that collects and archives tears. Because grief is forgotten too quickly. In One Day I Will Make the Onion Cry, Barbara Raes integrates her private practice into the theatre for the first time. Together with visual artist Manu Siebens, she creates a poetic landscape in which the connection between the overproduction of onions, solastalgia (a nostalgic feeling for what is about to get lost) and interpreting our tears becomes tangible.
During the day you can experience a one-on-one ritual of Beyond the Spoken. In the evenings, the installation is open to the public. Hall De Expeditie (Dok Noord) becomes a place where one can embrace grief for what will one day disappear.
It's not about climate change — Cross Cultural Research Group STAGES (4pm)
🎪 Performance
🎪 For free
🎪 Inside the tent
Two artists and three scientists harness the power of language, music and words to reconstruct how the climate crisis came about. In particular: how humans became destructive creatures fuelled by hundred years of so-called civilisation. They perform, as a kind of musical speaking chorus, stories that awaken ghosts and demons of the past. From the invention of the steam engine and disastrous nuclear experiments, the group moves towards the now and the future. Question: can we really use solar energy from the Sahara and genetically modified trees to save ourselves?
Text and acting: Mary Ann Manahan, Philsan Osman, Pablo Casella, Anneleen Kenis and Lara Staal. Coaching & advice: Luanda Casella.
Wie Oud Wordt... - Yves Degryse & Bart Baele / BERLIN (5pm)
🎪Installation
🎪5 - 15 euros (pwyc)
🎪De Foyer (Schouwburg)
In Wie oud wordt... [Those who grow old... ], the audience takes part in an information meeting of the Association for the Rejuvenation of the European Continent. The board hopes to spread its ideas. An intense listening experience under the motto ‘Those who grow old have themselves to blame’. Or as Dutch leading newspaper NRC Handelsblad puts it: "In barely ten minutes, BERLIN creates a wonderful tragicomedy around old age."
Segen — YouYou Group (6:30pm)
🎪 Ritual
🎪 For free
🎪 Sint-Baafs square
The YouYou, long high-pitched and modulated cries, express feelings during festive moments, such as weddings, as well as in times of mourning. This vocal expression, zaghareed in Arabic, is at the heart of a performance created by the YouYou Group in 2022. In a complex series of ululations, performers unite their vocal, physical and emotional powers to collectively produce a vibrant score conceived as a blessing for a place.
Since 2014, the YouYou Group, founded in Brussels, has been developing artistic projects, where respect for tradition and openness to new interpretations coexist.
True Copy - Yves Degryse & Bart Baele / BERLIN (8pm)
🎪Performance
🎪15 - 28 euros
🎪Schouwburg (main hall)
In this critically acclaimed performance, new house artist BERLIN merges worlds on stage. One man struggles to hold his own amid a web of lies - or are they variations on the truth? The protagonist is Geert Jan Jansen, a master forger who managed to swindle the art world for more than two decades. So convincingly that Picasso and Appel unsuspectingly issued certificates of authenticity to works he created. True Copy shows the internal radar work of a complex man and, in the same breath, exposes the hypocrisy within the art world.
WeTurnTwenty — Peter Van Laerhoven & Hannes d’Hoine / BERLIN (9:30pm)
🎪 Concert
🎪 For free
🎪 Inside the tent
WeTurnTwenty is a concert that revives music from 20 years of BERLIN performances. A seven-piece band takes you on a trip through two decades of music. With four musicians who played in previous BERLIN productions, led by house composer Peter Van Laerhoven and with special guest Hannes d'Hoine (a.o. DAAU).
A festive evening with music that goes straight to the heart, and occasionally also aims for the legs. An event in the framework of YouTurn and with the support of NTGent.
