Open studio - workspacebrussels
02.09.22 kaaistudio’s
02.09.22 kaaistudio’s
Dear all,
I'm writing to you from the concertstudio which you will enter soon. This afternoon you will be in the sweet company of three lonely planet fantasies, a self-curated series of solo performances.
I'm writing to you from the concertstudio which you will enter soon. This afternoon you will be in the sweet company of three lonely planet fantasies, a self-curated series of solo performances.
*I’ll present*
A.ROOM.POURED.OVER.ME
a teenage-reverie of lonely dances & songs about sickness,*followed by*
How to feel alive in a dying world? ??
starring a vulnerable-super powerful drag-alien
Zoe Hagen *and in the end*
Just for you and me
starring tragic-erotic moves and deep gaze byPierre-Louis Kerbart
For quite a few days of this residency, I’ve been working with me, myself and I.
*I’ve been thinking a lot about what Olivia Laing wrote in this amazing book, Lonely city:
A feeling of separation, of being walled up or locked up, is combined with an almost unbearable sense of exposure.
*And I’ve been writing and singing some songs about pain,
as my chronic illness got bad in the last days and I couldn't think about anything else.
In the words of Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva:
And think about the weight of time: yes, that means you feel it every day. On very rare occasions, I get caught in a moment, as if something’s plucked me out of the world, where I realize that I haven’t thought about my illnesses for a few minutes, maybe a few precious hours. These blissful moments of oblivion are the closest thing to a miracle that I know.
*I’ve been thinking a lot about what Olivia Laing wrote in this amazing book, Lonely city:
A feeling of separation, of being walled up or locked up, is combined with an almost unbearable sense of exposure.
*And I’ve been writing and singing some songs about pain,
as my chronic illness got bad in the last days and I couldn't think about anything else.
In the words of Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva:
And think about the weight of time: yes, that means you feel it every day. On very rare occasions, I get caught in a moment, as if something’s plucked me out of the world, where I realize that I haven’t thought about my illnesses for a few minutes, maybe a few precious hours. These blissful moments of oblivion are the closest thing to a miracle that I know.
Then Zoe and Pilou joined me in kaaistudio!!!!1!
Zoe, Pilou and I met a few years ago in ISAC, a school for performing arts in Brussels, where our works started to take shape and connect. During these days of residency together, we created a repertoire of practices to work out our solo-performances in a collective frame:
Popstar eclatée training, fan-fictions,
sickness revelation,
vulnerability confession,
crash/crush test and more,
Maybe this is the question that could accompain you through the next hour.
See you inside, Alice
crash-crush?