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Dark Habits — onderzoek

KWP production

Residencies

  • 07.10 > 19.10.2024
  • 09.09 > 20.09.2024
  • 12.08 > 16.08.2024
  • 08.04 > 20.04.2024
  • 17.12.2024

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.

Credits: Mother Superior: Simon Van Schuylenbergh I Saints of dra­ma­tur­gi­cal jus­ti­fi­ca­ti­on & artis­tic devel­op­ment: Lydia Mcglinchey, Désirée Cerocien I Directed and per­for­med by Lydia Mcglinchey, Sophia Rodriguez, Loucka Fiagan, Luis Ramirez Muñoz, Simon Van Schuylenbergh, Désirée Cerocien, Hanako Hayakawa, Rosie Sommers, Castélie Yalombo, Micha Goldberg, Helena Araujo, Charlotte Nagel, Chiara Monteverde I Set design: Veronika Bezdenezhnykh, Bart Van Schuylenbergh, Simon Van Schuylenbergh I Lightdesign: Max Adams I Produc­tie Kunstenwerkplaats, Lore Sommeryns I Pictures pro­mo: Maryan Sayd I Met de steun van Decoratelier, Kunstencentrum Buda, Gouvernement, CAMPO, De Brakke Grond, Atelier 210, The queer self-defen­se group Athens, Elsemieke Scholte, Castillo, Vincent Focquet, Remco Wuyts, Sophia Danae Vorvilla, Nathaniel Moore, Marco Labellarte, Marivi Gazeta, Rojda Gülizar Karakuş, Norma Prendergast, Simon Baetens, Steven Sommeryns, VGC & De Vlaamse Gemeenschap.

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