Rimini Protokoll
Conference of the Absent – Belgian premiere

The German Rimini Protokoll-makers return to the Kaaitheater, with their newest piece Conference of the Absent. During the performance, invited experts and speakers do not appear physically on stage, but are embodied by locals who only receive the script at the beginning of the evening. In this performance you will observe how the people of Brussels take on the identity of absent speakers. Without CO₂ emissions or bad Skype and Zoom connections, but with all the performative means of the theatre, contradictory propositions about globalisation collide in the theatre space.

With their documentary theatre, Rimini Protokoll has played on the most important stages in the world in the past fifteen years, to great success. Conference of the Absent premiered in Germany, now they are touring through Europe. At Kaaitheater we present the Belgian premiere.

Kaaitheater | 08-09/12 | Theater | Multilingual

Katrien Oosterlinck
Tactile Talk – premiere

How can we speak to each other without words? What does this time of not touching teach us about contact? How much proximity is there in distance? Tactile Talk invites you into a landscape of foam rocks, where performers guide you through a game. The performance is a meeting, a silent conversation about making contact, setting boundaries, noticing what moves us and what moves between us. It is a visual game, and a social choreography in which you investigate distance and proximity.

Katrien Oosterlinck focuses spectators and participants on physical experience and plastic arrangement. Her practice is not only about social interaction, but also about creating images through that interaction.

Kaaistudio's | 10-11/12 | Performance

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Rosas & Ictus Drumming (Live)

Drumming (1998) is returning to Kaaitheater! It’s one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most iconic choreographies, written to the eponymous, minimalistic percussion score by Steve Reich. A wave of pure dance and pure sound, a vortex of vital energy. For this run of Drumming, the music is performed live by Ictus: don't let this unique opportunity pass you by.

Kaaitheater | 15>19/12 | Dance

Jija Sohn
Lands of Concert

In Lands of Concert, artists Jija Sohn, Andrea Zavala Folache, Lucy Wilke and Oneka Von Schrader mix performance with workshop. They blur the boundaries between artist and spectator, and opt for radical intimacy. Together with the audience, they look beyond contradictions and entrenched polarised positions.The community based project Lands of Concert is based on the CARE principle, which focuses on recognising diversity and acceptance. Together, you will redefine your own position, that of the other, and that of the body as a form of limitation.

We welcome Jija Sohn for the first time in the Kaaitheater programme.

Kaaistudios | 15-16/12 | Performance

Sarah Vanhee
bodies of knowledge

How can you create a safe space in public space for the exchange of various forms of repressed or underexposed knowledge? This is the basic principle of bodies of knowledge (BOK), Sarah Vanhee's alternative school, that stays in the same spot in the city for a few weeks or months, and then moves again. From September until December, BOK is based in a tent in the centre of Brussels, close to the Kaaistudios. Every Saturday, ou can take part in a free programme , whether it be a walk, a workshop, a game or a read-aloud.

BOK has been traveling through Brussels since the summer of 2020 and was also programmed as part of Kunstenfestivaldesarts. In the essay Learning as Movement you can read more about the project.
In 2022 a BOK performance will be created for the Kaaitheater. Afterwards Sarah Vanhee and BOK will travel through Europe.

This project is funded by the European Network ACT - Art Climate Transition, of which Kaaitheater is one of the ten members.

On location in Brussels | 11/09  > 11/12 | Intervention | In Dutch, French, English, Arabic...

More-than-Human-Encounters
How Large Is a Person? -  Marisol de la Cadena & Isabelle Stengers

A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters is a series of lectures, talks and workshops that contemplates the entangled relationality in a multispecies world that has been modelled by patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism. 

In this session anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena, emerita Isabelle Stengers and political ecologist Mihnea Tanasescu will explore how human personhood has been constructed, and how it can be decentered and made to expand into different ways of seeing and being. Through critical anthropology and the philosophy of science, we will pick through the rich epistemological and ontological heritage of different ways of being in the world, and different ways of building knowledge.

Apart from her work with Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers is known by her publication Cosmopolitics which won the Ludwik Fleck Prize and her Grand Prize for Philosophy. Marisol de la Cadena has won the Senior Book Prize.

The lecture has been programmed by Kaaitheater and VUB crosstalks and is supported by the ACT - Art Climate Transition EU network.

Kaaistudios | 14/12 | Talk | English

Bodies of Knowledge by Sara Vanhee & More-than-human Encounters are co-funded by ACT & the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union