03.10.24, 19:30, WAARzeggers

Some people like to know ‘the truth’ before they can put a traumatic event behind them. A truth commission has to investigate what happened along the side of the victims as well as the perpetrators. One might ask whether all victims benefit from the (full) truth? Some groups of people adopt their own truth practices to cope with the past. Does that make their ‘truth’ any less true?

In WAARzeggers, researchers, artists and experts by experience have open conversations that start with doubt.

In this edition, Sofie Verclyte(artistic researcher at KASK & Conservatorium), Chokri Ben Chikha (Action Zoo Humain, artistic researcher at KASK & Conservatorium) and Tine Destrooper (UGent, Human Rights Centre) will discuss the healing power of ‘truth’. The evening will be moderated by Shanice Wanjiku.

Sofie Verclyte is affiliated as an artistic researcher to KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and howest. The research project On Migrating Heritage was financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.

Chokri Ben Chikha is affiliated as an artistic researcher to KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and howest. The research project Performing the invisible was financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.