© Jussi Virkkumaa

The rivers chasing us (new creation)

durational — Installation — Performance — 2025
Sculpture / dryness / landscape-bodies / relation to water and pleasure / care of the body / care of the deads / traumas / memories/ the touch / the touch that heals / the touch that takes, steal or give / the divine touch – we were never appart – the sound of the walk...Read more

© Nada Žgank

Along the way, Among others.

Performance — 2024
Along the way, among others. is a relay commission from the European performance network: A time for live art (Trouble Festival in Brussels, New Performance Festival Turku in Finland, Mir in Athens, Infinite Present in Ljubljana in Slovenia). An artist makes the link from one festival to another through a slow journey. The experience of...Read more

©Stanislav Dobak

En reconnaissance

choreography — Installation — Performance — sound experiment — 2023
En reconnaissance merges choreography and sound in a performance that creates a space to experiment with what separates, links and moves us. Giving room to what is present, to every thing that is present without establishing a hierarchy between what is considered human and non-human.  En reconnaissance examines the matter  and what animates it, and...Read more

© Miles Fischler

In-depth

Co-creation — digital art — durational — Installation — Performance — sound experiment — 2022
In-depth explores the body-image relationship in continuation with As we were moving ahead occasionally we saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty & the eYe in the light in the eYe , this time in co-creation with Damien Petitot.  In-depth is a performative installation, activated by two performers, putting into play the relationship between the body, the...Read more

© Alexandra Bertels

the eYe in the light in the eYe

Co-creation — Installation — Performance — 2020
the eYe in the light in the eYe resonates with Brancusi’s self-portraits and sculptural clichés, and his desire to make visible the absolute, the very essence of a form or an idea.  The performance echoes Brancusi’s desire to dissimulate or highlight qualities for one point of view, the one of the camera or spectator, while...Read more

©Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker

As we were moving ahead occasionally we saw brief glimpses of beauty

choreography — digital art — Performance — video installation — 2017
As We Were Moving Ahead Occasionally We Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty is an exploration of the choreographic potential of (live) video editing and the perspective of the selfie. In a never-ending tracking shot, the arm operates as a steadycam creating a hypnotic loop. The continuous (re)staging of oneself pushes the limits of the inside...Read more

© Colin Delfosse

Atravès / De travers

Co-creation — Performance — 2021
in collaboration with Thiago Antunes  The body, its tissues, its cells, or even the places, record informations, happy or unhappy events. Thiago and Gaëtan, who practice craniosacral and bioenergy healing, are inspired by these practices to revisit and transform the memories of the place and their history. This project can be seen as an investigation...Read more

As I was moving ahead

Installation — 2015
As I Was Moving Ahead is a video installation created ahead of the performance As we Were Moving Ahead Occasionally We Saw Brief Glimpses Of Beauty. This project is inspired by Pipilotti Rist’s video installation Mutaflor in which the artist is filmed naked in a studio, a video montage shows a tracking shot from her...Read more

@Jacqueline Trichard

Trauerspiel

Co-creation — Installation — Performance — sound experiment — 2019
In collaboration with Joël Defrance, opera #low-fi #solastalgia #camp #tranimal #mourners Sound installation / Speakers in blocks of ice broadcasting Toxic by Britney Spears in slow motion, lamento turned drone / Creatures half-diva, half-monkey, in fake fur and diving suit / winch & stiletto heels / Tenor and counter-tenor lyrical interpretation of Britney / Pseudo-Wagnerian...Read more

© Hervé Veronese

Meanwhile, (the tour)

durational — Installation — Performance — Sculpture — sound experiment — 2014
Meanwhile, questions our relationship to architecture and (personal or global) disaster. This project started out with the desire to carry on a work based on vibrations produced by sub-bass sounds. It was experimented in a previous installation called Je d’espace. Similarly to the Back-and-forth performance, the body is very much engaged in the process of shaping the...Read more

©Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker

Meanwhile, (the wall)

durational — Installation — Performance — sound — 2013
Meanwhile, questions our relationship to architecture and (personal or global) disaster. This project started out with the desire to carry on a work based on vibrations produced by sub-bass sounds. It was experimented in a previous installation called Je d’espace. Similarly to the Back-and-forth performance, the body is very much engaged in the process of shaping the...Read more

Meanwhile, (installation)

Co-creation — digital art — Installation — 2016
Meanwhile, questions our relationship to architecture and (personal or global) disaster. This project started out with the desire to carry on a work based on vibrations produced by sub-bass sounds. It was experimented in a previous installation called Je d’espace. Meanwhile, in it’s installation version is an extension and also a trace of the performance project bearing...Read more

Gaëtan Rusquet

Unity

Performance — sound & voice experiment — 2016
Unity is a solo performance, a sound experimentation, vocal, white noise, bees recordings in lemon tree fields, the word «one» repeated as a mantra until its meaning transforms. From the individual to its disappearance in the mass, from singular to plural – the sound, the vibration – are used here as tools to question the nature...Read more

Based on an almost true story. S02

Co-creation — Installation — Performance — Sculpture — 2015
_active air & sound performance, created at iMAL – Center for digital culture and technology (Brussels, Belgium) in March 2015_ #S01remix #ultimate crisis touch #battlefield recording #papers #chaff  #drone #laser #tower An arranged collection of disaster and recourses personnals and collectives (the permanent apocalypse according to JG Ballard versus a lolcat’s armada), and some technological...Read more

© Hichem Dahes

based on an almost true story. S01

Co-creation — Installation — Performance — Sculpture — 2013
based on An Almost True Story. S01 is a Euro-American science fiction comedyby Lucille Calmel & Gaëtan Rusquet based on An Almost True Story. S01 is a response to the relay command “Crisis? What crisis?” in a fitted collection of personal and collective disasters and actions (a permanent apocalypse according to JG Ballard versus a chorus of...Read more

based on an almost true story. (Sculpture)

Sculpture — 2014
Sculpture created in continuity with the performance : based on an almost true story. S02 Material : Paper, laser cut DATE 2014 – Group exhibition «Youth», Maison Particulière, Brussels(BE)

Pastorale

durational — Installation — Performance — 2011
Pastorale is a response to the Antoine Pickels’s invitation to share the space of the great hall from Les Halles de Schaerbeek for the Trouble Festival. With eight performers, the artists were invited to produce a three hour durational performance,under the title : The Great Gallery of Living Sculpture, in daylight, with no sound amplification. As in...Read more

© Mathias Nouel

back-and-forth

Installation — Performance — Sculpture — 2010
Back-and-forth is a performance based on a comical tool which is derived from its usual purpose : the balloon sculpture. Gaëtan Rusquet uses this tool as a sound and scuptural material.

De deux choses l’une

durational — Performance — Sculpture — 2009
De deux Choses l’une (It’s one of two Things) is a durational and sculptural performance which questions the notions of heritage, remembrance and oblivion. Originally it was made to be performed in parallel to Eglantine Chaumont’s performance Tu me tues (You’re killing me).  Both performances have the same kind of ritualised use of the matter as...Read more

Je d’espace

digital art — Installation — Performance — sound experiment — 2009
Je d’espace is a sound installation – sometimes performed – which dematerialize reality to the sight through a physical device that, with the use of sub-bass and it’s mecanical effect(the vibration), transforms the limits of the matter.   In a dark room, at the center of the space is a four-sided column made of one way...Read more

© Elodie Timmermans

D’ici là

Performance — public space — 2009
A baroque and ghostly figure blindly crosses different locations, connecting indoors and outdoor spaces, private and public, through walking and groping. Spectators or witnesses are invited to follow them on their wanderings. Two versions of this performance exist, one by day and one by night. The daytime version’s path is defined by the direction of...Read more