A story about loneliness, survival, poverty, hope, and yes, also about love between two people surrounded by a colourless, scentless yet permanent threat of radiation.

PERFORMATIK 17

How do you deal with the universal human urge to be part of a greater whole?

Artifice, aural hallucinations and a dare give rise to a real encounter in the real world which may for once be described truly as beyond anything you've ever known.

From early February through early April, you will encounter unusual installations in the halls of the Beursschouwburg. The Dutch artist Feiko Beckers has taken over our exhibition spaces with a series of dwellings on stilts. Inside these huts, he presents sculptures, films, texts and even performances, including A Disappointment You Can Rely On.

The Automated Sniper is a lecture, modern dance and critical pamphlet, as well as an exciting game.

What links Angela Merkel’s policy to the interaction between proteins? What is the common factor in the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership and the working of a thermostat? Or time and money?

In Last Seen Standing Between Brackets, Adva Zakai asks how she can continue dancing when she no longer has a body.

Choreographer Jan Martens and movie director Lukas Dhont are organizing a workshop about meeting people, intensity, intimacy and privacy.

Bernard Van Eeghem & Stefanie Claes paint in silence, without words or music, but with burning love.

Dana Michel is inimitable. Unconventional and unique, she does things her own way, overwhelms us with her instinct and intuition. Where her artistic work is concerned, this Canadian choreographer attracts the most positive of adjectives. And we are bringing her to Belgium for the first time!

What makes us so lonely nowadays?

Dear friends of the Beursschouwburg, We have lots to tell you at the end of this year 2016.

In the context of our biannual Working Title Festival, we organize a series of two-day artistic workshops during which some of the artists in workspacebrussels share their experiences with the Brussels artistic community. The artists will introduce you to their practice through a series of practical exercises. The results will be presented as short interventions during the Working Title Festival. The workshops are free and open to all artists and art students. Since the number of participants is limited, reservation is required.

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

*A sober yet intense performance about love, beyond all the clichés.*

Come and celebrate the spirit of discovery, over three weeks of performances, exhibitions, workshops and inspiring encounters! With a.o. Niko Hafkenscheid, Pablo Castilla & Hedvig Biong, Gaetan Rusquet, Peter Aers, Christian Bakalov, Melih Kiraç, Filip Berte, Celine Butaye, Yurie Umamoto, Felix Ott, Matea Bakula & Nick Steur

Under the headliner Come together and in connection to the framework of Hana Miletic on gender topics, the reading group will discuss texts and films providing insight into the fourth wave of feminism and the related use of common. During this third session we watch and discuss The Gleaners and I (2000) by Agnès Varda.

A break. Falling with abandon into a cascade, bathing in basins, finding events, consent to paths, let oneself succumb to the waves. Finally, sinking into the knees in algae to feel their complete vitality.

Three projects in three different art centres during three weeks.

You Sad Legend is part of an ongoing performance collaboration between visual artist and filmmaker Wu Tsang and performance artist boychild, featuring experimental cellist Patrick Belaga.

Somehow thinking is always ‘to make think’. ‘To make think’, this means opening up a larger space, which is uncertain in its nature and direction. It’s like generating geography without the map, or even cosmography without an atlas. – Jean-Luc Nancy

Under our headliner Come together and in the connection to the framework of Hana Miletic on gender topics, the group will meet for a vivid discussion on texts and films which provide insight into the fourth wave of feminism and the related use of commons.

In the beginning there was nothing 
and then that too exploded
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Who says we don’t want to be inspired?

The Ghent-based artist duo Robbert&Frank Frank&Robbert (BE) are currently working on a project, in which they are producing small wooden suitcases. The suitcases – the same size as hand baggage in airplanes – contain fold-out works of art and performances. In the Beursschouwburg, they will during the day unpack and set up the content of the suitcase with the title GO AWAY, SORROW OF THE WORLD. In the run-up to their new performance, we invite you to come and have a look at this budding new universe. The message of the work may seem naive, but it refers to the simple – and age-old – belief that with this text, like a mantra, one can effectively improve the world. Everyone who reads, thinks and speaks this text is sending something good out into the world.