Beursschouwburg faces violence
Facing Violence is the title of Beursschouwburg's spring programme on quiet refusal, self-defense and riot.
Violence is everywhere. On the 24/7 news cycle, scrolling down our screens, seething at a distance or looming close to home. When it doesn’t blow out in words it can pin us down under heavy boots, biased laws and towering hierarchies. Violence can be overwhelming, enraging and numbing, and in some cases, it can provoke immediate action.
How can we relate, react and reflect on violence when we keep experiencing it in our bodies, environments, technologies, bureaucracies, norms and narratives? What about the bodies that are constantly on alert, (dis)armed, ready to strike back? Can we practice violence as resistance when life is at stake? Can we build (unlikely) alliances, share strategies and face the harm together?
The artists, makers and thinkers in the Facing Violence programme want to try out some things. They want share thoughts, anger, love and research, listen, resist, refuse, contradict – eventhemselves – defend, dance and learn. Beursschouwburg has created in close collaboration with them a spring programme filled with performances, expos, concerts, films, workshops and conversations. We face violence together.
FACING VIOLENCE
25 JAN - 10 JUNE
With Léa Drouet, Elsa Dorlin, Olave Nduwanje Basabose, Basel Zaraa, Baobab van de Teranga, Sana Ghobbeh, Salma Said, Miriam Coretta Schulte, Jija Sohn, Julia Reist, Aleksandra Lemm, State of the Arts, Pierre-Patrice "Pépé" Kasses, Fatoosan, Ruby Savage, Chimaero, Gosia Wdowik, Carolina Mendonça, Carolina Bianchi, Gérald Kurdian, Brussels Brazilian JiuJitsu Academy, Pallavi Paul, Ligia Lewis, Joachim Ben Yakoub, Nadia Fadil, Latifa Elcambeni, Code Rouge, Brahim Tall, Tarek Lakhrissi, Alex Reynolds, Black(s) to the Future, Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Nicolas Pirus, Kyo Kim, Sybil Coovi Handemagnon, Ne Touche Pas A Ma Pote / Blijf van mijn lijf, Ola Hassanain, Collectif Mémoire Coloniale et Lutte contre les Discriminations, ...
The programme of Facing Violence will be launched on Thursday 26 January with the vernissage of the exhibition Quiet Refusal from 17:00, a speech by general and artistic director Melat Gebeyaw Nigussie at 19:00 and the performance Violences by Léa Drouet at 20:30.
Check out the full programme on beursschouwburg.be