with contributions by Augusto Corrieri, Katja Dreyer, Nikolaus Gansterer, Yannick Guédon, Guy Gypens, Antoine Pickels, Julie Sermon, Christel Stalpaert and May Abnet, Julien Bruneau, Alondra Castellanos Arreola, Zoë Demoustier and Irena Radmanovic as the Guardians of Sleep
concept Jeroen Peeters and David Weber-Krebs programme David Weber-Krebs production Emma Verbeeck, Emilie Legrand co-production Outline and KASK supported by Flanders State of the Art thanks to Pedram Kargar and Heike Langsdorf
23.11.2024
Zwarte Zaal, Bijloke, Ghent
10:00 – 18:00
tickets 15 € (regular) 5 € (students)
lunch and apéro included
reservations here
On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors is a series of performance-conferences exploring how the performing arts—their forms, research, and discourses—are being challenged by climate emergency.
This fifth edition marks the conclusion of David Weber-Krebs’ PhD in the Arts, Exercising Fragility in Theatres and Beyond, a journey he embarked on six years ago. During this time, the world has experienced significant upheavals, most notably a pandemic that forced theatres to close, only to reopen in a profoundly altered state. This moment revealed new vulnerabilities, as an invisible airborne threat made humans both dangerous to, and fragile toward, one another. This disruption not only reshaped human relationships but also affected cultural institutions at their core.
This edition of On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors offers a space where artistic propositions respond to theoretical perspectives, centering fragility on stage and reflecting on what it means for our presence in the world and our ecological responsibilities.
Nikolaus Gansterer will accompany the contributions with his Translectures, performative drawings that translate the ephemeral thoughts into visual forms in real time.
Key contributors include Julie Sermon, author of the acclaimed Morts ou vifs: Pour une écologie des arts vivants, and Augusto Corrieri, artist, scholar, and magician. His work bridges performance, art, and ecology, and he is the author of In Place of a Show: What Happens Inside Theatres When Nothing is Happening.
Composer and singer Yannick Guédon will present an exploration of voice, revealing subtle variations within a single note to explore the mobility and fragility of sound.
In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, Katja Dreyer, Antoine Pickels, and Christel Stalpaert imagined what their first post-lockdown theater experience might be. Now, in 2024 and with Guy Gypens as their host, they revisit and reflect on those imaginings.
The day will conclude with a special reprise of The Guardians of Sleep (2017). While sleeping, the human body is vulnerable. Every night, a feeling of security and peace allows us to withdraw from the world—but what if the social protections we know were to suddenly fall apart?
schedule
10:00 doors open
10:15 introduction by David Weber-Krebs
10:30 lecture Augusto Corrieri
11:15 pause
11:30 performance Yannick Guédon
12:30 lunch
13:45 lecture Julie Sermon
14:30 pause
15:00 and then the doors opened again: Guy Gypens with Christel Stalpaert, Antoine Pickels and Katja Dreyer
16:15 pause
16:30 performance The Guardians of Sleep
17:30 apéro