Ferre Marnef — Agressively Modern Times
A gentle punk gesture against the Rules of Art.
What if Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times were filmed today? Not in a factory, but in the field of the arts? Together with Femke Gyselinck, Maya Mertens (Vieze Meisje), Jeroen Van der Ven and Lawrence Mcguire (Hogobogobogo), Ferre Marnef explores what work means within the fluid labor model of today’s freelancer. The performance dynamites the shiny facades of the entrepreneur of the self in order to understand its own state of being.
In his first full-length performance since Desnor, Ferre Marnef double crosses sound and image. It is as much a concert as it is a theater performance, but secretly wants to be neither. The visual and sonic collage drags the artist-as-brand onto the stage in order to escape the Rules of the Art as a gentle punk act.
about
Ferre Marnef is a maker whose work moves between music, graphic design and theatre. For ten years, he collaborated with Louis Janssens within the collective Desnor, creating performances such as Ideale Plaats, #BOS, Galileo and Toverberg. As an actor, he joined tibaldus, contributing among other things to the complete Gombrowicz trilogy. He has also collaborated in various roles with companies and artists including Ontroerend Goed, buren, Ilan Manouach and Miet Warlop. Musically, he currently focuses on his experimental band Sergeant, whose debut was released on STROOM and whose second album Symbols will be released in 2026.
1h15min
in English
ground floor, PMR-accessible space, accessible toilet on +1 via the elevator accompanied by someone with a building access badge (ask at the door or the bar)
image ©Lieselotte de Keyzer
by & with Femke Gyselinck, Ferre Marnef, Lawrence McGuire, Maya Mertens & Jeroen Van der Ven dramaturgy Marie Peeters production Sergeant co-production Kunstenwerkplaats KWP & VGC thanks to Mooni van Tichel, a e i o u, CAMPO, KVS, A Two Dogs Company & Pilar
