DEMONstratio

In 2015, an X-ray revealed that the famous Black Square by Kasimir Malevitsj (1915) carried a racist inscription hidden beneath layers of paint. Not even abstract art appears to be free of politics. It is precisely this tension the three black performers are concerned with in DEMONstratio. Within the sleek lines of a perfectly lit square, they seek an incantatory counterbalance in the subconscious power of voice and movement. Light and dark, reason and feeling, certainty and uncertainty: sharp binary opposites are there to transcend them.

“Een voorstelling als een röntgenscan”

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Credits

Concept Milø Slayers | Performers Sophie Sénécaut, Eli Mathieu, Milka Kongi | Light Luc Schaltin | Projection Ulysse Navarro, Geminay | Costume Céline Shen | Dramaturgy Yasen Vasilev | Urban dramaturgy Marie Umuhoza | Theoretical dramaturgy Tunde Adefioye | Sound design Milø Slayers | Production Kunstenwerkplaats KWP | Co-production Kunstenwerkplaats, KAAP, Charleroi Danse, STUK | Thanks to Wouter Hillaert, Lucile Calmel, Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Stephane Bourhis, Dries Douibi, Femke Gyselinck, Maria Dogahe, Afi Maghouti, André van Praet, Ayoh Kré Duchâtelet, Kaaitheater, VierNulVier, BUDA, Ultima Vez | With the support of the Flemish Community