Residencies

• 12.10 > 17.10.2026
• 06.07 > 10.07.2026

What if an artist talk trans­forms into an unhin­ged the­ra­py ses­si­on, situ­a­ted some­whe­re bet­ween a dark day­dream and a cheer­ful talk­show? By com­bi­ning self-depre­ca­ting cloud rap and pop lyrics with (fic­ti­o­nal) artist inter­views, we, Simon Baetens and Micha Goldberg, aim to cre­a­te a port­rait of the artist today. How do they com­mu­ni­ca­te their dar­kest emo­ti­ons? How do they arti­cu­la­te their per­so­na­li­ty and arti­stry within their work?

After cre­a­ting the solo per­for­man­ce I’m Not Done, I, Simon, am diving dee­per into my fas­ci­na­ti­on with iden­ti­ty in the (post-)internet age. Two peo­p­le con­stant­ly inter­ro­ga­te one ano­ther. Are we wit­nes­sing an artis­tic Q&A? An inter­view? Therapy? For inju­ries & reme­dies, I am wri­ting dia­lo­gues for Micha Goldberg and myself, based on song lyrics, exis­ting inter­views and artist talks, per­so­nal con­fes­si­ons, and both real and inven­ted auto­bi­o­grap­hies and memories.

What emer­ges is an ever-trans­for­ming, mul­ti­lin­gu­al con­ver­sa­ti­on with one con­stant: the inex­haus­ti­ble urge to pick each other’s brains and keep asking ques­ti­ons, fue­led by the con­vic­ti­on that our inner world says some­thing about who we are and the art we cre­a­te. Do we get clo­ser to a ​“true self” this way, or do we dis­co­ver that iden­ti­ty is mere­ly a care­ful­ly cura­ted con­struc­ti­on? The ans­wer like­ly lies some­whe­re in the middle.