Dark Habits in Kunstenwerkplaats I 18.10
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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