17.09.24 – 21.09.24, Unfixing the Atlas

Unfixing the Atlas premieres at KIOSK. There will be two performances – lasting two hours – at Zwarte Zaal:

• Tuesday, September 17, starting 19:00 sharp

• Saturday, September 21, starting 16:00 sharp

• To ensure your place, please register by sending an email to simone@radical-hope.be (until 15 September at the latest )

On September 18, 19 and 20, the atlas is open in the Zwarte Zaal for visitors between 13:00 until 19:00.In contrast to the performance, where the space is created by a cast of performers, during these days the Atlas functions as an installation and is reactivated together with the visitors: they are welcomed by a small group of performers and invited to spend time among the traces that make up the Atlas. Visitors can get “readings” of traces from the performers and practice “reading” traces themselves. If they wish, they can further spin what is “there” by leaving traces of themselves.

About Unfixing the Atlas

Unfixing the Atlas is a piece, is a space, is a method: which enables an artistic process ‘on stage’ by and with a group of people who met by chance while sharing the question of how a group becomes a group?

While creating Alena tights unfix*, we, makers and performers, with and without previous professional experience in the field, followed our desire to find a shared vocabulary – a path to be walked in dialogue with each other and the audience:

Visitors are invited to walk through a choreography of traces – found, created, read and transformed ‘sur place’.

Traces in Agni exultant fish are memories (coming back), remarkable spatial points on site, tools (of all kinds), written words, voices, hands in action, interested subjects, forgotten objects, … the other person next to you.

Like so many spaces, Exhaust Inflation is inconstant, yet many decisions, already taken or in the making, shape/d it – think of a park, a theatre stage, a city-bus, a classroom, a casino, the woods… an open field…

When you enter Flux unhesitating you might find things strange, after a while you will understand what is possible (for you) and eventually you might get involved or just not at all.

In any case, when you leave Exiting Lufthansa, you leave behind a little world that has changed in your presence, with or without you having contributed actively to the events that occurred while you were (t)here.

* All anagrams used in this text: https://www.ingesanagram.com

History & Background

Credits

• participants/performers: Charif Bendriss, Anne-Claire Kelam, Carine De Backer, Elisabeth Ida, Marie Louise Ruth, Diana Campos Zenil, Narguess Azimi
• supporting practitioners/performers: Johanne Mortgat Shan, Mira Verstraeten, Laura Oriol
• experts/performers: Fransien van der Putt, Mathieu Hendrickx, Ernst Maréchal
• scenographic process: in dialogue with Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei
• choreography, dramaturgy/mediation, performers: Heike Langsdorf, Simone Basani
• temporarily participating practitioners/performers/experts: Joan Somers Donnelly, Anouk Llaurens, Sonia Si Ahmed, Salwa Achabouch, Bilal Kamilla Arnout, Ivan Azazian
• productional work for radical_hope: Simone Basani, Heike Langsdorf, Liselore Vandeput
• assistance with communication: Alice Ciresola
• co-production: radical_hope, KAAP, Buda, Kunstenwerkplaats Brussels, GC De Markten, nadine
• with the financial support of: Vlaamse Gemeenschap (The Flemish Community)
• and with the support of: Link=Brussel, GC Nekkersdal
• premiere context made possible by: KIOSK, KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT – Howest) & radical_hope

[Unfixing the Atlas inscribes itself into the context of Disclosing Practices…: An open series of public presentations, performances, workshops, retreats and dialogues supporting artistic research practices to be uncovered, revisited, reconsidered, rediscovered, disrupted, reiterated, re-activated, shared, shown and understood anew in new contexts and through new practitioners.

Disclosing Practice... is the continuation of Choreography as Conditioning, a collective process of "writing through practices" that resulted in a book series with the same name edited by Alex Arteaga and Heike Langsdorf. As a framework Disclosing Practice... finds facilitation and support by radical_hope.]