back again | 2013
>>> part of >>> OTÇOE - works for passers-by
Back Again is a creation by bureau annex for April 2013, commisssioned by Les Halles / Trouble Festival: a choreographic slapstick-like scenario, which repeatedly was acted out in the same way on the same spot - the backspace of Taverne l'Evasion in Schaerbeek - by different actors, several times a day during one week. The different performances were filmed and successively edited and montaged towards a many-layered one-man-act. The actors could be observed from very close-by or from some distance, while taking a drink. After the act one could follow them towards a place in the direct neighborhood where the video-work they contributed to is being screened. Throughout the festival Trouble at Les Halles / Brussels, 3 times a day, another person enterd Taverne l'Evasion, spent there 10 minutes and then moved towards the Maison des Arts ... over there - 'in the videoimage' - these individual performances constituted one singular cloud: a swarm of individuals.
People participating on back again's meet each other through Bureau Annex.
Arising from an experiment in 2010, bureau annex is a developing practice for artists, concerned with the production of art in the ‘wilderness of urban milieus'. The interest is to create first an affinity between people 'foreign' to one another and then, as a consequence, work together. This affinity is not there from the outset but man-made by an artificial behaviour: 'hanging out' regularly next and with people and in places at first sight completely unacquainted, the artist becomes present in a reality which naturally wouldn't become familiar. Following up first contact conversations s/he proposes to produce independent art works irregularly and occasionally but continually.
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A first back_again is getting co-produced by Les Halles in the framework of Trouble#9 - A space for Live Art <<<, supported by radical_hope and Margarita Production
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Tour
24-04-2013 - 27 Apr 2013: Trouble Festival / Les Halles / Schaerbeek - Brusselscontext / practice :
bureau annex
concept development for Les Halles :
Charlotte Bouckaert, Heike Langsdorf
collaborator :
Wayaba Tokpwi
performers :
Charlotte Bouckaert, Stephane Galère, Jason Kashama Tshikala, Anarie Kifulu, Océane Kifulu, Heike Langsdorf, Hubert Moba, Adil Mabchour, Wayaba Tokpwi, Dieudonne Zoko
coproduction :
Les Halles, La Maraude, radical_hope,
special thanks :
Martine Cotman, Jean-Michel Sorel