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Karel Burssens : Currents

Currents unfolds in two parts, as a durational installation and a performance. The installation explores the simplest of forms, a line, turned into a light sculpture. Through repetition, it defines not only rhythm, space and light, but also the movements of a dancer. He will meet and confront the moving sculpture in an effort to reconfigure the relationship between man and machine.

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The initial state of alienation is pushed to reach a poetic realm, a layered landscape to dream into. As such, both installation and performance aim to reveal our contemporary position as entities forced to adapt to an ever-changing world on both a technological and socio-political level. How do we deal with these situations? How do we continually find a new balance within our own environment and how do we deal with this on a larger scale?

Credits

Concept and direction: Karel Burssens Created with and performed by: Mario Barrantes Espinoza Created with: Tarek Halaby Dramaturgy dance: Femke Gyselinck Music written by: Daniel Brandt Music performed by: Ruth Velten (Soprano- & Baritone-Saxophone), Simon Goff (Violin), Andreas Voss (Cello), Florian Juncker (Trombone), Daniel Brandt (Guitar, Bass, Synths, Drums, Piano) Music published by: Erased Tapes Music Ltd Light designed with: Cate Carter, Geert Vanhout, Bryte Design, Kristof De Dycker Costume design: Max Doerr Outside eye: Jeroen Verrecht Film by: Robbrecht Desmet, Sander Vandenbroucke Production sculpture: Fisheye Production: Hiros Coproduction: C-TAKT, STUK, deSingel, Vooruit With the collaboration of: Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek, Vlaams Architectuurinstituut, GC Elzenhof, School van Gaasbeek With the support of: The Flemish Government Special thanks to: Liesl Vanautgaerden, Arnout van Vaerenbergh, Gabriel Schenker, Geert Belpaeme, Bettina Molnar, Sue-Yeon Youn, Carlos Garbin, Povilas Bastys, Bart Adriaensen, Joost Machiels, Helga Baert, Kristof van Baarle, Ailsa Cavers, Theo Livesey, Luka Svajda, Elhad Bilal, Anthony Vermeulen

Press

Review on Currents published in Hart (NL)

Video interview with Karel Burssens during his residency at Vooruit

Review on Currents published at Theaterkrant (NL)

Interview with Karel Burssens on Pompidou at Klara radio (NL)

Review on Untitled (Currents), the installation of Currents on pzazz (NL)

Project

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Karel Burssens : Currents

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