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A one-night performance i participated in, from the artist Erich Weiss'. It's based on a fragment from Raymond Roussel's novel 'Locus Solus'. The performers are actually dead people whom Canterel has revived with 'resurrectine', a fluid of his invention which if injected into a fresh corpse causes it continually to act out the most important incident of its life. We were a group of eight performers/dancers, moving for 40 minutes each individually on a soundtrack made by Erich Weiss and Ernst Gladbach. The performance was placed in KIOSK, Ghent

V. TWEE KEER APART VAN WIJ

'twee keer apart van wij' is a search, by two young performers, for the connection between each other. They try to distance themselves from who they are and look at their vulnerable selves. Distancing yet confronting.

This was a collaboration with a fellow Performance student. We made it for our jury in our first bachelor year.

In the summer of 2021, we got to perform this work at the art festival "Copacobana" in Ghent

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Marie

Vanderauwera

a work in progress about fragility and giving the audience a responsibility

My interest in Fine Arts and specifically in Performance Art started already in secondary school. I followed Theater at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven and at De Kunsthumaniora in Antwerp. In the fifth year of secondary school we got a workshop and we had to make a performance about David Lynch. This appealed to me and that's when I started to inform myself about the direction 'performance'. Now I am in my third year of Performance Art at KASK in Ghent.

Writing is something very important to me and brings order to my thoughts. This works quite structuring for my work as well as for my mind. How I often start a performance is by writing a text and starting from there. Sometimes it happens that I actually use this text or a piece of it in my performance, but usually this is a starting point and something I can fall back on. When I write a text, it is often very straight to the poinT and a description of reality. I also keep a journal which contains various ideas for projects. Texts and letters are also kept in it. Performances or exhibitions that have stuck with me, are also written down with a small description.

I attach enormous importance to space. I often ask myself how an object can relate to the performer or In what way should an object be placed like this and not in another way? What added value and/or meaning does that object create by taking its place there?
I find it interesting to adapt my performance to the space or vice versa.
Furthermore, I consider how the audience relates to the performer and/or the objects. Not everyone in the audience can see the same thing sometimes.

Light is an important aspect for me regarding space. For example, in my first year I made a trilogy, where the light became more darker In the first part, the viewers were sitting facing the wall. They had the choice to turn around and see me or let the sound and my voice be the only thing going on in the space.
In the second part of the performance they saw me, but they already had to put a little more effort into this because it was brought fairly minimalistic and in a darker space. For the last part of the performance, the room was almost completely dark and your eyes had to do the work to see anything at all.
I have the Tourette Syndrome, when I was little i didn't understand what it meant. To give myself more clearance about Tourette I began to see it as some blue guys who were living in my head and giving me things that i had to do. the things I had to do where my tics.
For me, "not seeing" represented a way of showing that I was being vulnerable and found it difficult to share my story with the viewer. Still, I always allowed them the chance to be able to contemplate the scene.

I am currently working on another project about Tourette and the blue guys.

A performance that represented one day, where I changed the basic (daily) routines like eating, drinking brushing your teeth, running, etc...
I wanted for the public that they experienced the routine again for the first time.

This performance gave also a critic about the question 'What is art.' I made a White cube. It represented a museum space. I felt like when something was placed in a white room of a museum or an expo hall, immidiatly becomes art.

The book 'the woman in the dunes' written by Kobo Abe has been an inspiration for this Performance.
The story is about a man who falls into a huge sand pit where he is trapped. His only companion is a woman who has been there for several years longer. Its about making new routines with someone you don't know in a place where you want to get out of.