Not Standing / Alexander Vantournhout
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An in situ performance
Capacity: 134
- Circus
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How important is a frame to a work of art? What happens if we remove it? Or conversely: what happens if we simply look at the frame itself? Frames explores this relationship between the frame and the artwork by placing Not Standing’s physical art within outdoor visual frames. Alexander Vantournhout and his three partners create constantly evolving body sculptures within the viewing frames. Bodies intertwine, hang, and climb the frames, walk upside down, and defy gravity as well as your imagination. Every movement is a constant search for balance, focused on cooperation and body control. Frames invites you to explore choreographed installations that challenge artistic and visual perspectives, transforming them into physical poetry within the public space.
How defining is a frame for a painting? What if you remove the frame? Or vice versa: what if you remove the artwork and just look at the frame? *Frames* explores this relationship between frame and art, placing Not Standing’s physical movement art within outdoor visual frames. Alexander Vantournhout and his three co-performers build ever-changing body sculptures within the viewing frames. Bodies intertwine, hang from, and climb on the frames; they walk upside down and defy both gravity and your imagination. Each movement is a continuous search for balance, focusing on cooperation and body control. Frames invites you on a journey through choreographic installations that challenge and blend art and viewing perspectives into physical poetry in the public space.
Not Standing vzw
78 Beversesteenweg, 8800 Roeselare
BelgiumPhone: +32 4 83 68 65 13
https://notstanding.com/
kiki@notstanding.com
Frames
Concept & Choreography: Alexander Vantournhout / Created and Performed by: Chia-Hung Chung, Axel Guérin, Emmi Väisänen & Alexander Vantournhout / Dramaturgy: Sébastien Hendrickx & Rudi Laermans / Collaborators: Charlotte Cétaire, Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet, Petra Steindl & Esse Vanderbruggen / Costumes: Patty Eggerickx, assisted by: Coline Paquet and Isabelle Airaud - Textile printing: Daniel Henry Studio / Metal constructions: Willy Cauwelier / Wooden constructions: Bram Dobbelaere / Tour organization: Frans Brood Productions / Administration: Esther Maas / Technical team: Bram Vandeghinste, Bert Van Dijck, Lukas Vanhoutte / Tour technicians: Bram Vandeghinste, Bert Van Dijck, Siebe Coorevits, Lukas Vanhoutte / Production & tour management: Janne Coonen & Kiki Verschueren / Communications: Kiki Verschueren.
PRODUCTION: Not Standing. COPRODUCTIONS: Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Ghent (BE) / Les Halles de Schaerbeek (BE) / Le CENTQUATRE, Paris / Le Carreau Scène nationale de Forbach et de l'Est mosellan (FR) / Scène nationale Carré-Colonnes Blanquefort (FR). SUPPORT: Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter, via Flanders Tax Shelter / With the support of the Flemish authorities. Alexander Vantournhout is artist-in-residence at Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER in Ghent and an associate artist at Le CENTQUATRE, Paris. He is a cultural ambassador for the city of Roeselare. He receives support from the BNP Paribas Foundation for the development of his projects.