photo Miet Warlop's archive
April 23rd, 2010 – 1.00 p.m. Schloss Bröllin, in the city streets
Miet Warlop / CAMPO, Ghent, Belgium
BIG HEAP/MOUNTAIN. PROPOSITION 2: RECONSTRUCTION
The show of Belgian performer Miet Warlop is an individual artistic project in three parts. The first one – “Reanimation” (2006) is a one-minute scene of murder, repeated for forty minutes of the performance, in which actors were replaced by animated empty clothes. The Schloss Bröllin is a location of the second part – “Proposition 2” – titles “Reconstruction” (2007). Miet Warlop appears on stage and makes some simple activities giving them ritualistic meaning. In “Reconstruction” she refers to the previous part, although, as she stresses, none of them has “liturgical inclinations”. It’s rather about pure ritual. Frequent and sudden changes of the action destroy symbolic references of the presented scenes. Accumulation of cardboards, wooden planks, plastic buckets, papers, bottles, a football and other rubbish intensifying absurd mess during the show brings element of restlessness and emotional tension.
In the third part titles “The Life” Miet Warlop in cooperation with Sofie Durnez performs a series of actions and artistic interventions in the city streets intending to break everyday routine. “The Life” presented in 2008 was video-recorded.
collaboration – Sofie Durnez, Kurt Stockman, Adriaan Verwée
technical support – Karel Cleminck, Philippe Digneffe
