bags | 2010
BAGS - the body bouncing back.
... sleeping BAG, peeping BAG, leaking BAG, creeping BAG ...
BAGS are durational performances on resilience : the property of a material to absorb energy when it is 'stressed' and then, upon unloading to have this energy 'recovered'. BAGS makes use of speechless and motionless communication, like staying power, pure bodily presence, camouflage, invisible relocation and rumours : in a busy and 'occupied' space a motionless body (in an anabolic state) plays with the perception of its surrounding and provokes moments of paranoya and illusion.
A performer commits him-/herself within a given public setting (festival lounge, shopping mall, public space, etc.) to dress in a bag-costume, lay down in a sleeping position and move as little as possible and for as long as possible. He/she waits for 'blind moments', during which an unrecognizable change of location can take place.
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For more information on BAGS please contact radical_hope.
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Tour
01-05-2010 until 2 May (17 hours) : invited by NG in the frame of LET'S SWIM TO OUR ISLANDS - nadine - Plateau, Brussels07-10-2011 until 8 Oct (24 hours) : invited by Davis Freeman in the frame of EXPANDING ENERGY, Kaaitheater - Brussels
originally conceived on an invitation of :
NG
concept & performance :
Heike Langsdorf
costume - sleeping BAG / Brussels - nadine :
Barbette, radical_hope
rumors at nadine / Brussels :
Lilia Mestre, NG, Elke Van Campenhout, Joël Verwimp, Nicolas Y Galeazzi, ...
rumors at Kaaitheater / Brussels :
Helga Baert, Ulrike Dobmeier, Katja Dreyer, Davis Freeman, Guy Gypens, Lilia Mestre, Herman Venderickx, ...
pictures :
Dolores Hulan, Heike Langsdorf, Various Artists, Herman Vendrickx
support & context :
Kunst/Werk, APASS, radical_hope