©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

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

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