20.03.24 – 22.03.24, How to make a shits bird you on?, dramaproject o.l.v. Mario Barrantes Espinoza
FIVE-travellers take us to the realms of a constantly changing landscape… it’s the moon and my bed and the centre of a black hole and an elevator and the Zwarte Zaal and an office… a journey through collapsing science fiction desires, personal memories, and collective problems to take care of. How to make a shits bird you on? functions as a multi sensory performance. It assembles live music, dance, text and visual arts.
18:00-21:00. In & out!
Credits
- created by: Mario Barrantes Espinoza
- together with: Robbe Embrechts, Tembi De Koninck, Rinus Chaerle, Amy Clark, en Nathan Isahakyan
21.03.2024, 18:00
22.03.2024, 18:00
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Sentiments, Signes, Passions, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activitiesOnderzoekJean-Luc Godard’s final film reworked into a room-filling installation by his long-standing collaborator Fabrice Aragno
A mushroom cloud, legends of film history, IS flags, sunsets in Tunis, scenes of flight, expulsion, execution and war: Jean-Luc Godard’s at once poëtic and political film Le livre d’image (2018) spans more than a century. It questions the production of images, art, religion, representation and law.
The filmmaker combined film and contemporary history in five chapters and an epilogue to create an associative collage. The exhibition Sentiments, Signes, Passions is conceived by Fabrice Aragno, filmmaker and longtime collaborator of Godard. It takes up the division of Le livre d’image into chapters, further fragmenting the parts of the work and unfurling them in space. The dynamic projection breaks with the chronological form of a film screening. Across dozens of screens, the audience can give free rein to associations and pursue their own visual lines of sight.
Deeply respectful of his mentor, Aragno travels the world with each time a different version of the installation. For Film Fest Gent he adds a new component, documenting Godard’s personal workspace: Et la nuit le jour.
This internationally acclaimed project offers a rare window into the director’s creative world, inviting visitors to wander through fragments of image and sound and step inside the mind of one of cinema’s most influential figures.
On display in the Zwarte Zaal, from Thursday 8 October to Sunday 18 October, every day from 12:00 to 20:00.
Le Montavoies, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activitiesFor five years now, the landscape and garden architecture programme has been taking sixteen students to Le Montavoies in the French Haut-Jura. Wim Cuyvers has been working as a forestier-gardien on this 27-hectare site since 2009. Le Montavoies is at once a landscape, a public space, a refuge and a workplace. A place where the mountain speaks and ancient paths become legible once more.
During the annual workshop, students spend a week on the site. They observe, walk, sketch and work with what the place has to offer. Not based on a predetermined end result, but through attention, physical presence and engagement. Their interventions and conversations become part of a longer process in which the landscape is constantly changing and each participant is only temporarily present.
The exhibition brings together five years of workshops through photographs, student work, recordings and essays by Wim Cuyvers. Excerpts from Res Nullius, Wim Cuyvers’ publication on Le Montavoies, place these experiences in a broader perspective. The exhibition also offers the opportunity to screen two films by Wim Cuyvers, dodeNberg and 400,000 Volt, once again.
Six themes take centre stage: landscape architecture, climate change, globalisation, passers-by, high voltage and the connected condition humaine. At Le Montavoies, these themes become tangible and visible. They determine how the landscape changes, how passers-by move through it, and how the site is managed and experienced. In doing so, the exhibition poses a fundamental question: what role can landscape architecture still play when climate change and globalisation are radically altering the landscape, and when constant connectivity calls into question the very notion of being ‘outdoors’?
The exhibition therefore does not merely look back. It invites visitors to pause, listen and reflect anew on presence, public space and the future of the landscape.
Students who have taken part over the past 5 years:
Baert Warre, Claeys Arno, Cuvelier Jentse, Daenekindt Elise, De Bruyne Noor, Deschuytter Jef, Helsen Stef, Joos Iwein, Moyson Kevin, Pattijn Mathias, Spaas Maxim, Stalpaert Vito, Vandebroek Maarten, Van Hemelen Trui, Veys Justine, Balduck Warre, Borghlevens Baldr, De Bock Ben, De Niel Febe, de Ree Willemijn, De Winter Mats, Guiguilé Lola, Jacques Seppe, Lodewijckx An-Sofie, Maeghe Pieterjan, Praet Mathias, Van Camp Loran, Van de Putte Lars, Vandevyvere Wout, Van Severen Ward, Verborgstadt Una, Carazo Ruiz Fernando, Coppin Maxime, Cornelis Siebe, De Bie Hannah, De Laat Fleur, De Schepper Erin, Duysters Lune, Laureys Ana, Malengier Len, Mylle Marie, Piceu Maxim, Suy Tristan, Vanden Bussche Warre, Vandewal Benoît, Van Eeckhoudt Lars, Woestenborghs Flor, Beyls Joachim, Bonhomme Meindert, De Bie Helena, De Smedt Frederik, Deneudt Fons, Desaever Emiel, Dobbelaere Charles, Ganne Sam, Latré Sam, Losa Ralph, Muylaert Renée, Notelteirs Tristan, van der Kolk Pien, Van Oost Arthur, Ysveld Leander, Bertier Rune, Blondeel Stan, Bogaerts Vic, Costers Sam, Coudenys Soete, D’Hollander Oscar, Dooms Ruun, Gerard Charlotte, Leus Lena, Leyssens Jef, Schollaert Nathan, Swart Simon, Timperman Zeno, Vincke Lene
Teachers
Sylvie Van Damme, Luc Deschepper, Joke Vande Maele, Ruben Joye
10-13.11.26, 12:00 – 18:00
Landschapsarchitectuur onder hoogspanning, Zwarte ZaalAgendaArtistic activitiesThe exhibition ‘Le Montavoies’ is the result of five workshops held in the French Jura as part of the landscape and garden architecture programme at KASK & Conservatorium. Year after year, students travel to this special place to interpret, explore and understand the landscape. Issues such as climate change, globalisation and digitalisation become tangible and visible there. At the heart of the exhibition lies a question that is becoming ever more pressing: how do we learn to listen to the many voices that shape a landscape?
Not only to residents, users and policymakers, but also to rivers, forests, animals, infrastructure and other non-human actors that help determine our living environment. A high-voltage power line runs through the Montavoies area, transporting green energy from the Jura to Paris. This infrastructure provides the inspiration for the metaphor of ‘landscape architecture under high voltage’.
Building on this idea, we will engage in a discussion with Peter Aers about the future of the discipline. How can we make space for different perspectives within the practice of landscape architecture? What happens when we do not merely speak about a landscape, but try to listen to what the landscape itself is telling us? And how can such perspectives help us find new answers to today’s complex challenges? With this discussion, we are building on the ‘Conversation about our values’ initiative. We invite landscape architects, students and anyone interested to explore together which voices are being heard today, which are missing, and what this means for the future of our discipline.
Would you like to join us in reflecting and discussing these issues? Places are limited to 20 participants.
Marissal
Louis Pasteurlaan 2
9000 Gent
Emma Terlinck, Zwarte ZaalexpoAgendaArtistic activities‘Sometimes I can’t help but wonder’
Actually, all I had in mind was a small house.
I remember this because the room was too big when I dreamt about it.
What I woke up to this morning were all the holes, small and big ones, all around my bed.
As a matter of fact, my room is acting as if it were a big black hole because everything is being moved into the other house. And Wednesday is only the beginning.
By the other house, I mean the house I refer to as my house. Before my house was built, my room still had all my belongings.
Then again, it was in fact my own choice. Well, I can hardly say goodbye.
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder how I can make things complicated.
One morning, not too long ago, all I could think about were my teeth. By that I mean my dead teeth in that small little thing in my room. The ones who came, saw and conquered my wisdom.
And after that all that was left were four holes.
There will always be Goodbyes And Beginnings.
By the way, Wednesday 16th is only the beginning.
By that I mean that Sunday 27th is the end.
So naturally every day in between will in fact be different.
Emma Terlinck
Emma Terlinck completed a Master’s degree in photography and subsequently began the printmaking programme at KASK & Conservatorium. The everyday and the mundane form the starting point for her work, often taking the form of an endless stream of images on her mobile phone. From this emerges new graphic work in which play, intuition and a process-oriented approach take centre stage. In this way, figures are reduced to formal cut-outs, and objects to an interplay of lines. The individual works come together to form a whole, whereby the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.
Drama, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activitiesDuring the Drama Festival, drama master’s students present their graduation work. Offbeat and classical drama, crossovers, performances and multidisciplinary work can be seen at various locations in Ghent. The Drama Festival runs from 15 to 20 June 2026.
Als de dieren gek worden, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activities“Ik zat alleen in een kamer en had plotseling een flits van inzicht, en produceerde een volledig gevormd, briljant perspectief dat niemand ooit eerder heeft gehad: Alles is natuurlijk, van de bloemen en de bijen tot de laptop waarop dit tekstje is geschreven.”
In ‘Als de dieren gek worden’ onderzoeken vijf mensen hoe ver natuur, maatschappij en technologie uit elkaar lijken te liggen. Ze vragen zich af of ze nog terug kunnen keren naar de natuur en of er een onderscheid gemaakt kan worden tussen natuurlijk en onnatuurlijk. Ze gaan aan de hand van vooronderstellingen, filosofen en AI bepalen wat deze alomvattende en beladen begrippen voor hen betekenen.
By and with
Sainabou Johm, Pepijn Vermeulen, Lena Van Speybroeck, Giel Luyten en Anton Rys
Thanks to
Simon De Winne, Bauke Lievens, Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Carolina Maciel de França, Bardia Mohammad, Kato Ooms, Madonna Lenaert, Bjarne Liveyns, Hannah Ascoop, Simon D’Huyvetter, Helena De Smet, Aouatif Boulaich en onze medestudenten.
TWO DUDES AND A CHICK IN THE WEST, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activitiesIn the beginning The Man created heavens and earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of The Man hovered over the waters.
And The Man said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
And The Man said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
And The Man said, “Let water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
Then The Man said, “Let the dry grounds produce tumbleweeds and let the wind blow them to savage horizons.”
And The Man said, “Let there be Lights in the vault of the sky to separate day from night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times.”
And The Man said, “Let vultures circle over the land, giving them a keen eye.”
And The Man said, “Let the ground produce herds according to their kinds.”
Then The Man said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the herds on the ground and control the tumbleweeds’ path.”
The Man blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it with your blood.
So The Man created cowboy and wife.
This was their west.
By their sentience will it flourish
or by their folly fall to ruin.
From / With
Mina Marechal, Arnaud Muco en Winand Keymis
Thanks to
Simon De Winne, Bardia Mohammad, Bauke Lievens, Carolina Maciel de França,
Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Hannah Ascoop en Kim Smets
Bodycount, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activitiesIn Bodycount, two ‘sex-positive true crime lifestyle’ podcasters, Mia and Thais, delve into the world of sex and violence through their eponymous talk show. In their deep conversations, they wonder whether these two will forever revolve around each other, descending ever deeper into an obsession that provides them with both tools and shackles. They dredge up stories from their own and collective pasts, and discover how the two are inextricably linked.
Creation and performance
Alma Rio Cromstege and Maria Magdalena de Cort
Coaching
Abigail Gypens
Set design
Emma Onghena
Music
Kim Eldarova
Supervision
Jan Steen and Timeau De Keyser
With thanks to
KASK & Conservatorium, Bardia Mohammad, Simon De Winne, Madonna Lenaert, Rinus Martha Chaerle, Elise, Titus, Daan, my father, all my classmates and the performance ‘Who’s Afraid of Representation’ by Rabih Mroué / Lina Majdalani.
Vogeltribunalen!, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activitiesVogeltribunalen! Proclameert!; Declareert!; Escaleert!
Vogeltribunalen! is de maatschappij en de maatschappij dat bent u.
Vogeltribunalen! heeft geen éénduidige esthetiek.
Vogeltribunalen! is beter tien vogels in de lucht dan één in de hand.
Vogeltribunalen! is een staat van zijn.
Vogeltribunalen! nestelt zich tussen verwondering en verweer.
Vogeltribunalen! is Doeken!; Doeken!; Doeken!; Gordijnen!; Railingen!; Doeken!
Vogeltribunalen! is te veel noten op je zang.
Vogeltribunalen! zingt zoals ze gebekt is.
Vogeltribunalen! is vogelvrij.
Vogeltribunalen! spreekt met de keel en niet met de kop.
Vogeltribunalen! is niet bang om haar publiek in fictie los te laten.
Vogeltribunalen! eist faillisement.
Vogeltribunalen! moet sterven voordat het doek gevallen is.
Vogeltribunalen! is een verzameling van kortvoorstellingen door vogels, van vogels, aaneengeplakt door pek, veren en gordijnen. Zij toont flarden van een vogelmaatschappij die zich klaarstoomt voor de onherroepelijke stoomwals van een steeds geweldadiger wordende samenleving. Mens en vogel worden door elkaar geschud. Figuren fladderen, struikelen, exclameren, vliegen en moeten vooral hun ei kwijt. Onder de oppervlakte schuilt een onderzoek naar machtslust, menselijke gruwel en de dunne lijn tussen chaos en beschaving. Ergens tussen de actoren die oproepen tot hatelijke escalatie en struisvogelpolitiek, zien wij vogels die nog durven fluiten, dansen en vogelvrij uitvliegen. Vogelen of furore? Nesten of nazi’s? Ooievaar of olievaart? Teruggevloten of neergeschoten?
Curtain
Sebald van der Waal
By
Casper Schoolmeesters & Pieter van Dijk
Play
Ella Boomsma, Mira Cole, Miro Lievens, Seppe Somers
Under the guidance
Paola Bartoletti, Kristof Van Baarle
Music
Loïs Pluymers, Leander Vertriest, Bart Maris, Piet Jorens, Wouter De Broeck
Poster image
Emma Claire Sardoni
Costumes
Boris Vader, Maya Chowdhury, Linda Jasmin Mayer, Frida Luyckx
Can't be described how thankful we are to
Bardia Mohammad, Frederik Le Roy, Simon de Winne, Madonna Lenaert, Emma Claire Sardoni, Lotus Friede, Felix Braeckman, Wouter De Paepe Janneke Visser en Els Claeys <3, Tinnepot, Campo Victoria, De vogels van Vogeln, Het NAVO-kunstenfonds, Alle afgestuurde, afstuderende en studerende (Drama)studenten die ons bijstonden en inspireerden, Alle docenten waar we het privilege van hebben gehad les van te krijgen. Gevogelte
The pig, the fox & the inadequate desperate hope of turning a lost love around, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activitiesThe fox is clever. The pig is obedient. Until they aren’t. One pig at a time. Another subject. A willing one, perhaps. Or just too tired to resist. Pigs remember, though. They learn patterns. They remember the hand that feeds them is the same toxic hand that marks them. What the fox calls healing, the pig calls love. The fox cannot understand why the pigs keep acting the same. The pigs cannot understand why the fox does. Somewhere between leaving and staying, hunting and holding, they begin to trade places—until neither knows anymore whether they are predator or prey.
The pig admires the fox.
The fox admires the pig.
The abused pig used the fox.
The accused fox abused the pig.
The admired pig accused the fox.
The used fox admires the pig.
Forgive or forget; the choice is yours. The consequences not.
Play, concept and direction
Manon Van Ranst and Maxim Goossens
Technics
Natan Ceulemans and Siep Van Heugten
Poster
Simon Baert
Thanks to
Carolina Maciel de França, Bauke Lievens, Bardia Mohammad, Simon De Winne, Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Madonna Lenaert, de dieren, David Attenborough, de drama, alle toxische mensen, Studio 2, en de mama’s, koehandel, Pablo, alle porto, Hannes Bulen, Kobe Cottyne, Ashling Cauwenberghs, Ariana grande, KASK Drama, medestudenten en mannen met snorren
4.48, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activitiesRemember the light and believe
the light. An instant of clarity
before eternal night
– 4.48 Psychosis written by Sarah Kane.
Van / met
Fatou Kâ & Aniesha Akoua N. Tchimou
Met dank aan
KASK Drama, Simon De Winne, Bauke Lievens, Mateo Degroof, Bardia Mohammad, Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Sarah Kane, Jan steen.
six degrees of separation, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activitiesIn een wereld waar nabijheid geen afstand meer kent en intimiteit zich laat simuleren, vervagen de grenzen tussen echt en geconstrueerd. Wat gebeurt er wanneer die eenzijdige verbindingen wederkerig lijken te worden? Wanneer we niet langer alleen kijken, maar ook gezien willen worden — koste wat kost?
six degrees of separation is een onderzoek rond parasociale relaties en duikt in de verleidelijke logica van zelfmanipulatie. Het neemt je mee in een spel van aantrekken en afstoten, van kijken en bekeken worden, van controle en de illusie ervan. Het omarmt obsessies en verlangens, en stelt een eenvoudige maar onontkoombare vraag: hoe ver reikt onze verbondenheid werkelijk? En wie bespeelt hier eigenlijk wie?
Is iedereen echt maar zes handdrukken van elkaar verwijderd? Misschien. Misschien ook niet. Misschien is afstand gewoon een verhaal dat we graag geloven. Laat je verleiden. Laat je misleiden. Geef je over aan de betovering. Want de ware kunst van magie schuilt niet in wat de goochelaar doet — maar in jouw bereidheid om te geloven.
Credits
- concept: Melanie Barelds
- performance and text: Melanie Barelds, Tist de Maeyer
- under the guidance of: Ciska Hoet and Willem de Wolf
- external perspective: Joshua Smits
- technical support: Lena Dirckx
- image: Emma Ostyn
- visual design: Melanie Barelds
- incredibly grateful to: Korneel Coessens, Roos De Graeve, Simon De Winne, Madonna Lenaert, Bardia Mohammad, Frederik Le Roy, Dorelia Schraven, Louis Verlinde, my (graduating) class.
- Sponsorship: chopinchopin
- With the support of: CAMPO, KASK Drama, laGeste, Minard Schouwburg, NTGent, Trefpunt.
Kazemattenstraat 17
9000 Gent
Quinta del Sordo, KASK DramadramaAgendaArtistic activitiesAan de basis van ieder meesterwerk ligt een tragedie, maar ik vraag me af wanneer mijn tragedie komt. Hoe lang moet ik nog wachten op die noodlottige dag die mijn kunstenaarschap zal bepalen? Wie zegt het me? Wie heeft het antwoord? Ben ik de tragedie waarop ik wacht of ben ik de tragedie voor een ander?
Quinta del Sordo schetst een – al dan niet toevallige – ontmoeting tussen twee figuren. De Schilder laat al lang op zich wachten, de Wachter zit al minstens even lang te wachten. Wat volgt is spreken en zwijgen, stilstand en beweging, terugblikken en vooruitkijken. Het wachten is nu voorbij, het is dus logischerwijs tijd voor iets anders.
Van en met
Bjarne Liveyns, Mathisse De Sutter
Geïnspireerd door
De Zwarte Schilderijen van Francisco Goya
Met dank aan
Bauke Lievens, Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Simon De Winne, Bardia
Mohammad, Kato Ooms, Jill Gielkens