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Dark Habits in Kunstenwerkplaats I 18.10

16.10.24

These past two weeks, Simon Van Schuylenbergh wor­ked on his research cal­l­ed Dark Habits and ends this resi­d­en­cy peri­od with a public showing at Kunstenwerkplaats!

18.10 — 20:30
Kunstenwerkplaats in Pianofabriek

Pay what you want — BRING CASH!
no reser­va­ti­ons needed

Dark habits is an artis­tic pil­gri­ma­ge which brings into light the under­sta­ted beliefs of an artis­tic prac­ti­ce and its community.

As a star­ting point we will obser­ve the acti­ons of the sis­ters of per­pe­tu­al indul­gen­ce’, a group of queer acti­vists who held mee­tings dres­sed up in self-made nun-cos­tu­mes. They held cere­mo­nies during the AIDS cri­sis in which they decla­red infec­ted bodies as saints. The faith of the­se nuns cen­te­red on the society’s noti­on of the dir­ty,” infec­ted body, as oppo­sed to the pure’ body, descri­bed within Catholicism.

Dark Habits puts a spot­light on the beliefs and rati­o­nals which pro­tect and gene­ra­te both our soci­e­ty and artis­tic field through sta­ging them in the con­text of dif­fe­rent spi­ri­tu­al spa­ces: the church, the new age cult, sata­nic cults and the faith of the faithless.

By sta­ging them we try to expo­se their pos­si­ble inner-con­tra­dic­ti­ons, exa­mi­ning their sanc­ti­ty, and humo­rous­ly playing with their demise.

Dark Habits will be built with artists from the net­work con­nec­ted through Ne mosqui­to pas. Instead of solo’s we will make a series of group-acts. Each night you will see 5 dif­fe­rent acts made by 5 dif­fe­rent artists, per­for­med together in group.


see you!


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