Moni Wespi - Slowed Landscapes - Stones, 2024, Installation view at Theater op de Markt, Hasselt. Courtesy of the artist
Slowed Landscapes (exhibition performance)
“You’re now becoming a stone in between stones.
Moving in another timescale.
Take your time, why would you hurry?”
- Moni Wespi
Slowed Landscapes is a performative, participatory, in-situ installation exploring the power of slowness. The proposal is to blend the human body into its environment, to propose a more horizontal relationship between humans and nature. In the STUK Entrance Hall, Swiss-Belgian choreographer, art director and visual designer Moni Wespi created a landscape of stones. Moni Wespi uses fabric prints to design her art, outfits that blend performers and participants into their surroundings — or conversely, the landscape itself becomes a performer. Facing the ever-increasing speed of our daily lives, slowness is a central element of Moni Wespi's visual work, through the practice of micro-movement and stillness. Boundaries blur, connection rises, time slows down, and all that remains is presence. Just being there.
Would you like to watch from afar or join them, and become a stone amongst the other stones for a moment? Can you manage to turn inward amidst the hustle of the Entrance Hall? A stonecoat and an audio track (15min) will set you on your way.
Enjoy the slow ride.
PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOP
The installation will be activated by performers on two occasions during Artefact 2026.
Tu 12 Feb: Opening Artefact
20:30 - 22:30 continuous performance with Pieter Ampe, Anne-Charlotte Bisoux
Su 1 Mar: Workshop & Performance
10:00 - 13:00: workshop led by Moni Wespi
14:30 - 16:00: performance by workshop participants
_ongoing performance installation - accessible to all ages
Concept and Visual Creation: Moni Wespi
Performers: Pieter Ampe, Anne-Charlotte Bisoux
Audio: Pieter Ampe/ François de Saint Georges
Production: Plusieurs
Creation - Partners : In Situ, C-Takt, Zona K, Theater op de Markt, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Cifas, La Bellone
Moni Wespi © CARTE BLANCHE Pieter Ampe
Moni Wespi
°1977, Boston, USA
Moni Wespi is an international choreographer, art director and visual designer. In her choreographic practice, she creates images through radical scenographic choices, combined with her movement research. In collaboration with video artist Lucia Gerhardt, Wespi developed the choreographic visual art project Moving Portrait, created as participative and inclusive art processes, presented throughout Europe as video installations. She loves to divert attention away from the stage/black or white box and blur the boundaries between audience and art object/performer. Since 2019 the Project starts taking performative and interactive forms, where audience takes the place of the performer such as in Moving Bling, Step in Set, and most recently Slowed Landscapes.
Moni Wespi lives and works between Brussels and the Swiss Alps. Her work is supported by a.o. In Situ European Network of Art in Public Spaces (EU), C-Takt, Theater Op de Markt, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, La Bellone and CIFAS (BE), Zona K (I), Riverbero (CH).
