word, performance
part of Knal_Interval
“i’m trying to be me and it’s so hard’
Selbstporträt mit Kater presents the best five minutes of a self-portrait gone out of hand. In this piece ‘Self I’ suddenly encounters the clone ‘Self II’ in the role of a lifetime. Selbstporträt mit Kater reveals the moment when an emancipated actor storms out of his theater-ensemble and union forever and buys ‘peanuts’ with his last money for an abstract dance performance inspired on the poems of Gertrude Stein. Selbstporträt mit Kater can be perceived as a micro-reflection on D.I.Y., queer- and cyber culture from a hangover-perspective.
Further on we’re looking for the absence of expertise and the evolution of the decline of old elites in the form of a theatrical adaptation of defrosted pizza with extra’s.
“I feel like a boner that already happened.”
* freely inspired on the work of the American video artist Ryan Trecartin.
A project from 7 ‘Bijzondere Vorming Woordkunst Drama’ of the Secundair Kunstinstituut led by Simon Van Schuylenbergh: Bo Adam, Yari Bogaert, Tist De Maeyer, Line Gregoire, Fatou Ka, Giel Luyten, Anaïs Simon, Chloé Thomson, Fleur Van Bergen, Barend Van Damme, Justine Vandenhende. Bijzondere Vorming Woordkunst Drama is a preparatory year for Drama art college and immerses the students in the world of performing arts.
Thursday 27/01
Location: De Kazematten, Kazemattenstraat 17, 9000 Gent
Starting time: 19h
Reserve your seat here (free admission)