KANAL FABRIK

This night of the arts – the first in what we hope will be a long series at KANAL - Centre Pompidou since it will become a recurrent event as soon we reopen in 2020 – will take place from Saturday 29 June to 30th June.

The principle guiding Fabrik is simple: several partner institutions are invited to select an artist or collective active in multidisciplinary contemporary arts who will take(s) possession of a ‘territory’ within KANAL - Centre Pompidou buildings. This space will be theirs for the time it takes to develop a brand-new, never-before-seen project. Free to choose their approach and tools, they only have to follow one rule: they have to emphasize a Brussels, avant-gardist and experimental facet, to enable interaction with the public, and to make the creative process visible, on site. In other words, rehearsals, dress rehearsals and premieres must take place during the course of this unique night.

The Word Radio

20:00 - 04:00 

MAROUCHKA
Drawing on the female, feminist and queer inclinations of her record collection, The Word Radio resident Marouchka brings a sweet and sincere vibe to her ever-ecclectic sessions that range in form from EBM and Italo disco to 80s wave and post-punk.

LOUIS VOGUE

Louis Vogue has over the past two years emerged as one of Brussels’ most active DJs, his sets transcending any categorisation to deliver on one aim and one aim only: bringing vibes to the dancefloor.

WEIRD DUST (LIVE)

Brussels-based producer and The Word Radio resident Weird Dust combines organic and heavily-processed sounds into a unique blend of percussion-heavy retro-futurism. Fresh off the release from his 6-track album on Crevette Records, the artist will be performing a live concert.

ALFRED ANDERS

Firm favourite Alfred Anders, head honcho at Crevette Records, brings the night to a close with customary taste and technique. Expect a set that’ll have you begging for a tracklist.

MORPHING

Jean Casanova Castell, Filip Harna, Lola Martins-Coignus, Pierre-Alain Poirier, Emilie Terlinden

20:00 - 08:00 

Morphing is defined as special-effects process of someone or something changing shape or form. In the same vein as morphing, Jean Casanova Castell, Aurélien Cornut-Gentille, Filip Harna, Lola Martins-Coignus, Pierre-Alain Poirier and Emilie Terlinden, aim to inhabit one of the Kanal- Center Pompidou space. An empty stage, moving objects, packed or hidden paintings ocarinas look alike birds, are the elements of an open score that artists and performers will play. With Morphing, from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., series of events will take place in and around the display. Playing with displacements, activations, and sudden silences, Morphing is suggesting the missing image more than the exponent of sight. Not expected, not seen, not perceived but an image constantly reinvented in the night.

Both, two

Performance I - 20:15

Performance II - 22:45

In Both, Two Tussing & Vanderbruggen examine the duet, the smallest unit of togetherness. The dance duet is a genre with a history. In their most familiar forms, duets reflect the range of possibilities for relating, which resonate within a certain cultural imaginary. In particular, they reveal common-sense attitudes towards who gets to move, how, and under what conditions.
When two people dance together, a whole constellation of invitations, permissions and prohibitions is put on display. Both, Two invites the spectator to jump into this complex more-than-human ecology with her whole body: the work asks us not just to see but to sense. Can we hear a duet? What does it feel like? Costumes with palpable textures, swirling currents of air and sound, and a tactile program note complement the movements of tangibly enfleshed bodies; a journey for the proximal senses that intersects with the visual and the aural in unusual ways.

Performance & Creation: Vera Tussing & Esse Vanderbruggen Sound: Mike Picknett Lights: Bert van Dijck Costumes: Sofie Durnez, Jivan van der Ende Direction: Vera Tussing Dramaturgy: Seb Kann Feedback: Saïd GharbiArtistic Collaborator: JS Rafaeli Photography: Alessandra Rocchetti Video: Zoilly Molnar Production: Hiros Co-production: Kaaitheater, KAAP, The Place, IN / FINITY Support, Research, Residencies: Vlaamse Gemeenschap, South East Dance, The Place, CND Paris, Tanzhaus Zuerich, ImpulsTanz , BUDA, STUK, KAAP, De Markten, Cc 't Vondel, De Warande, Stems Gallery / Cindy Daignault, Klein Verzet Tactile Programme Note:Anna Goette, Bert Van Dijck, Lucie Beauvert, Esse Vanderbruggen & Vera Tussing Additional support and special thank you: Esther Severi, Anneleen Keppens, Zoltan Vakulya, Chen Wei Lee, Gorka Gurrutxaga, Laura Poletti, Magrit De Maegd, TOPAZ, Susan Carter-Schwantes, Bun Kobayashi & Clara Levy

CLAUDE CATTELAIN

Performance 20:00 - 22:30

Claude Cattelain is the author of a multidisciplinary work combining performance, sculpture and video. His practice is most often centred around his own body, which he tirelessly confronts with new constraints. Using materials that are usually modest, he tests the limits of gravity and endurance with unstable balances and tension, repeating precise movements until exhaustion or falling.
During his performance, Claude Cattelain will engage with immense columns in a journey through the raw spaces of Kanal.

Masayoshi Fujita

22:30 - 00:00

Carwash

Berlin-based composer and drummer Masayoshi Fujita once fell in love with the vibraphone, that metal instrument invented in 1916 and since then widely used in jazz and contemporary music. From 2012 to 2018, he dedicated a trilogy of albums to it, a series that has more to do with an ambient exploration, even a very personal vision of Zen, than with the regular use of the instrument. According to Fujita, the music is ‘inspired by the silence and depth of the fog, the mountains and their gravity’. But also humans, when cellos, flute, percussion and electronics are added.

Calculated Risk – The Ritual

Kasper Vandenberghe

00:00 - 00:40

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Calculated Risk by artist-equilibrist Kasper Vandenberghe consists of three intimately intertwined parts: The Ritual, The Installation and The Story. The course is a poetic search for how vulnerable we can still allow ourselves to be and how we can understand vulnerability as a force. How can we whitstand the storm of live? Vandenberge dances on the loose rope between two deeply human desires: the desire for balance versus a bottomless leap into the unknown.

During The Ritual at Kanal – Centre Pompidou, he climbs on a scaffolding clad in a protective suit made of mattress padding and bubble wrap and then drops down like a rock from a height of 4.20 meters. It is calculated recklessness. It is an ode to the fragility and extraordinary resilience that reveals the kinship between the creative artist and the playing child. Every one of Vandenberghe’s steps is accompanied by a text from Peter Verhelst. Earlier that day at Kaaistudio’s The Installation reveals the monks' work behind his meticulous research into trial and error. During The Story (Kaaistudio’s) he discusses various aspects of the calculated risk. He reports on his conversations with professionals such as a circus artist, hypnotist and insurer and testifies of what is perhaps the most important risk factor in our lives: love. And because of a delayed assembly of his fall movement, Vandenberghe's entire enterprise suddenly appears in a different light.

Performer and actor Kasper Vandenberghe (1983) founded the company MOVEDBYMATTER in 2018. Starting in 2004 at Toneelklas Dora van der Groen, in the initial stage of his career he worked for the renowned Dutch theatre company Zuidelijk Toneel and Ghent’s theatre collective Ontroerend Goed. Since 2008 Vandenberghe performs at Jan Fabre’s Troubleyn company. He performed in Troubleyn’s Orgy of Tolerance, Prometheus Landscape II, The Power of Theatrical Madness, This Is Theatre Like It Was To Be Expected and Foreseen (Reenactment), as well as in the endurance piece Mount Olympus. Since 2013 he teaches at the Teaching Group Jan Fabre in Antwerp.

DODO STAMP

Camille Lemile, Bára Barbora Hřebačková, Faustine Boissery

05:00 AM

What happens when we can’t fall asleep? Why even bother getting up? When we can’t rest but we’re exhausted… Is it our conscience that prevent us from letting go? Can you still stand up? Dodo Stamp is a psychological experience of tiredness, and the inability to fall asleep, performed by a voice and a tap dancer