After each performance of New Religion by Mathilde Caeyers, the audience is invited onto the stage to experience the installation NEVEL .

The installation, which is part of the scenography of the performance New Religion, was created by Lawrence Malstaf. NEVEL was initially created in 2004 as an art installation, and will be used for its original purpose after the performance. The public can enter the installation to experience what it is like to be in a mutating labyrinth that determines where you are allowed to go.

New Religion
NEVEL at Dansens Hus
Lawrence Malstaf

NEVEL 1/66 
Hand polished aluminium 
In a wooden box with certificate
20 x 20 x 6 cm 
Edition of 5 copies + 1 A.P 
Price on request: ischa@artoffice.be

Lawrence Malstaf

Soleil Noir is an invitation to contemplate a luminous phenomenon, a journey in the hyperspace between artificial light (digital) and natural light (a dying star).

Soleil Noir explores the perception of a fragment of time suspended in the life of a supernova at the moment of its final explosion, just before its extinction... The moment lasts an eternity; the long-awaited explosion never arrives. It is perceptible in the air, as marked by this this kind of floating moment that one feels before falling... Except that here, we will not hit the ground, there will be no dislocation, there will be nothing except this presence, at once impressive and disturbing, strangely vibrating in front of us and yet almost inert, revealed by the light. Unless it is the opposite, let it be this shape that engulfs lights; we are not far from a black hole.

By this suspension in the life of a supernova, Soleil Noir reveals the energy that must be burned to keep alive the datas that we accumulate during our life. Soleil Noir exacerbates the fragility of the world and the elements that compose it, about to break, even if they are imposing and seemingly immortal. It is a moment of precarious balance that expresses the ephemeral dimension of our lives, both digital and physical.

Group exhibition Fiat Lux, curated by Julien Taïb

Centre Tignous d'Art Contemporain
Barthélemy Antoine Loeff

The space surrounding our planet is becoming saturated with debris; it will soon be impossible to cross this new belt of artificiality without a shield. The event horizon has turned into a thick, sticky fog. Left in suspension above our heads, this waste will end up falling on us, scorching meteors melting the last icebergs on which we could have still leaned before disqualifying the universe.
Impetuous, we sought to tame the infinite, to dominate time, space and climate.
Like a breach towards an undesirable future in which the human being is ironically at the centre of everything, including his own finitude, Barthélemy Antoine-Lœff pushes the voice of this climate that cracks under our feet, by poetry and sensitivity.

L’Horizon des Évènements is an exhibition on two locations:
02.02.2023 - 15.03.2023
l’Atheneum, centre culturel de l'université de Bourgogne
03.02.2023 - 24.02.2023
Un Singe en Hiver

Barthélemy Antoine-Lœff 

PREY is a new music theatre production by Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company, in co-production with Muziektheater Transparant and in collaboration with ICTUS Ensemble.

Annelies Van Parys is writing a new composition.

“We are food” (Val Plumwood)
A new humility

How can we change the way we view being human from a radical ecological perspective? What stories help us to better understand the disruptions caused by the climate crisis? These questions are at the heart of PREY. And perhaps our own mortality and vulnerability provide a good starting point for the search for an answer.


PREY will consist of three solos by three generations of women. Each has its own focus: text/language, song/music and dance/performance. With every solo, the tension between the human and the landscape, performer and scenography, becomes more intense and intimate. The essence of PREY is finding solace in the frightening fact that we too are food, that we too belong to an ecological cycle of life and death.

Kris Verdonck has gathered an extraordinary group of people around him for this performance: composer Annelies Van Parys, ICTUS Ensemble, actress Katelijne Damen, singer Anna Clare Hauf and dancer Mooni Van Tichel. Verdonck is responsible for the scenography, a multimedia landscape in which the performers increasingly disappear and are swallowed up.

The premiere is scheduled for 25-26 March 2023 at Théâtre Varia, together with Kaaitheater and as part of the Klarafestival in Brussels.

We are all food.
Interview with Kris Verdonck and Annelies Van Parys

TICKETS
Klarafestival
Théâtre Varia
Kaaitheater