Besides having graduated at KASK & Conservatorium Ghent’s Drama departement, Menzo Kircz & Eleonore Van Godtsenhoven have plenty more in common: a fascination for the imagination behind the seemingly worthless and the playground between history and fiction. The upcoming show ‘Happiness’ with collective Camping Sunset aside, both theatre makers are currently working on the long-term project ‘Residu Local’. As self-proclaimed bad archeologists, they cultivate and concoct abandoned artifacts, from everyday subjects and memories of a local resident, to a message on the wall and everything else inbetween.

Kircz and Van Godtsenhoven proceed their long-term project while residing in Kerkbrugge-Langerbrugge. They collect objects and stories that characterize the transformation of the remarkable area. Not only do they untangle the layers of the surroundings and historical remnants, they also search for intersections in which fiction can sneak in. The researched material is then clustered in a performative display, as to make ‘Residu Local’ reconstruct and rebuild the place again.

In Kerkbrugge-Langerbrugge vervolgen Kircz en Van Godtsenhoven hun langetermijnproject en verzamelen ze objecten en verhalen die de transformatie van het opmerkelijke gebied typeren. Ze ontrafelen niet alleen de lagen van de omgeving en restanten van de geschiedenis, maar kijken ook naar de snijpunten waar fictie kan binnensluipen. Het onderzochte materiaal bundelen ze een performatieve uitstalling, zodat ‘Residu Local’ opnieuw een plek kan reconstrueren en herbouwen.