Performance
TIM ETCHELLS
SAFETY MEASURES
24/09/2020 — 27/09/2020
22/04/2021
23/04/2021
24/04/2021
25/04/2021
Series of instruction cards
Visitors to the gallery are each given a card bearing the words Safety Measures on one side and a simple instruction on the reverse. The instructions which make up Safety Measures suggest modes, behaviours, tactics and systems for avoiding danger – some practical and common-sense; others mythical or bordering on desperate. Each instruction serves as a frame through which to view and encounter the world while at the same time playfully inviting the museum visitors to alter their behaviour once they leave the museum.
Performance
Calixto Neto
OH! RAGE
23/10/2020 — 24/10/2020
Calixto Neto’s Oh! Rage works on making minority bodies visible, and on remodelling their imaginaries. Based on a research into “peripheral” dances, in other words those that have been developed on the margins of institutional frameworks, his first solo focuses on the representation of black bodies, grasped at the crossroads between several emancipation discourses. He brings in the movements of Afropunk and Afrofuturisme, post-colonial research, especially covering Brazil, black studies and contemporary art.
Performance
Groupe DIX, ENSAV - LA CAMBRE
ECHO / ECART
26/09/2020 — 27/09/2020
27/09/2020 — 28/09/2020
Ten young artists working in different art forms, who have all shared the experience of studying performance at La Cambre, appropriate the collective dynamics and the playful philosophy of the Groupe Écart (1969-1982) that John Armleder belonged to. This process of appropriation coincides with the pandemic, which has temporarily cancelled any performances at KANAL and has meant that the group has had to work remotely for several months.
Performance
David Helbich
Scores for the body, the building & the soul for KANAL Brussels
24/09/2020 — 25/04/2021
24/04/2021
25/04/2021
"Perform the pieces in any order,
but do them all for best results.
Don't be put off by the historical references.
It is all about you and your actual experience.
If you enjoy this, do it twice." (from the scores)
Performance
Performed by Heike Langsdorf & Gilles Polet
IN, Kris Verdonck
17/10/2020
17/10/2020
17/10/2020
17/10/2020
18/10/2020
18/10/2020
18/10/2020
18/10/2020
In IN (2003) a performer remains motionless in a display window filled with water. The distortion to the performers' senses caused by the environment causes a state of trance. The sounds of breathing and movement are amplified by microphones.
« Kris Verdonck's imagery originates from an extreme theatrical simplicity and only gradually unveils its staggering power » - Elke Van Campenhout in De Standaard
Guided tourPerformance
with Petra Van Brabandt
PERSPECTI.EF.VE
19/03/2021 — 20/03/2021
02/04/2021 — 03/04/2021
The work of John M Armleder seen through the perspective of an artist.
During this subjective guided tour, artists and experts gravitating around the visual arts play the role of mediator and share their perspective on the world of John M Armleder or artists he invited to fill the spaces of KANAL with him.
PerformanceFamily
Peggy Lee Cooper & Ernesto Coyote
UNIQUE EN SON GENRE
20/03/2021 — 21/03/2021
21/03/2021 — 22/03/2021
A drag queen, a drag king, a book, an attentive child and an adult by its side.
How can we reflect on the notion of gender through literature, music, poetry, words and colours when we are still young? They don't change their skin to enchant us, they just change their costume. How to approach these complex subjects when you still have a lot of glitter in your eyes? Well, it depends.
MusicPerformance
FELIX KINDERMANN
CHOIR PIECE
11/10/2020 — 12/10/2020
In staging the choir Ghent Singers as a moving sculpture, Felix Kindermann‘s Choir Piece questions our relationship with the term togetherness, mirroring today‘s Zeitgeist along with its societal distortions. Through rearrangement, fragmentation, and techniques of acoustic distortion, the work creates a feeling of alienation, destabilizing the interrelated appearance and effect of the choir as a familiar cultural asset, blurring the lines which are dissolved through the play with essential opposites like harmony and disharmony, the individual and the collective.
Performance
DAVID HELBICH
Shouting
24/04/2021
25/04/2021
Guided by a group of performers, you are invited to share a moment of organized shouting. You trigger the reverberations of the space you’re in and experience the traces of your actions, mirroring our joint existence between tragedy and party.
Credits:
- Concept: David Helbich
- Performed by: David Helbich, Lilia Mestre, Michael Schmid
Performance
Samah Hijawi
Godefroid of Bouillon: The Bastard Son of Antara Bin-Shaddad
01/10/2020 — 02/10/2020
02/10/2020 — 03/10/2020
Samah Hijawi, Godefroid of Bouillon: The Bastard Son of Antara Bin-Shaddad, performance art at KANAL - Centre Pompidou in Brussels. A story that jumps through time and across geographies brings the artist and her grandmother in Palestine, together with two well-known European personalities; Godefroid de Bouillon, known as the first king of Jerusalem and the illegitimate son of the famous Arabian poet Antar Bin-Shaddad, and the 16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel.