zaterdag 26 april
Repetitieruimte - 20:20

multidisciplinaire performance
(30 min)

Wrap It Up, Please is a research project initiated from some pieces of plastic I had at hand and the many questions around them.

I collected and patiently sewed together pieces of material as I did with pieces of its histories, artefacts and artworks, analytic and poetic texts, movies and advertisements in an attempt to understand better the ways plastic appears to me and others,

the functions it carries and the stories it tells.

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Traversing ecological concerns and capitalistic mindsets to then open into broader queries about naturality and artificiality, image and substance, matter and meaning.

I played with the scale of questions as I did with the distance of approaches: from scavenging material to reading philosophic texts, from crafting costumes and scenography to imagining fictional scenarios for characters to live in, to bring about a story in which the personal and the collective inevitably collide. Ultimately, plastic told me something about power and control, the nostalgia and despair of my humanity and its desire to shape, perfect, and master material reality.