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Aggressively Modern Times

Co-production

Residencies

  • 20.04 > 24.04.2026

What if Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times were filmed today? Not in a fac­to­ry, but in the field of the arts. Together with Femke Gyselinck, Maya Mertens (Vieze Meisje), Jeroen van Der Ven and Lawrence Mcguire (Hogobogobogo), Ferre Marnef explo­res what capi­tal means within the fluid labor model of today’s free­lan­cer. The per­for­man­ce dyna­mi­tes the shi­ny faca­des of the artis­tic entre­pre­neurs of the self in order to under­stand its own sta­te of being.Aggressively Modern Times wants to keep in mind that it is still pos­si­ble to inter­ve­ne in this liquid world. It is a peep show about life and work in a world whe­re more and more peo­p­le start to degra­de to a means: either func­ti­o­ning or fai­ling. In bet­ween, as with machi­nes, the­re is nothing. 

van/​met: Femke Gyselinck, Ferre Marnef, Lawrence McGuire, Maya Mertens & Jeroen Van der Ven
dra­ma­tur­gie: Marie Peeters pro­duc­tie: Sergeant copro­duc­tie: KWP met dank aan: Mooni van Tichel, a e i o u, CAMPO, KVS & Pilar