Donkere beeld van een een vrouw die achterover leunt en op haar handen en voeten steunt, met touwen rond haar middel gebonden die aan een blauw zeil hangen.

Dark image of a woman leaning backwards, supporting herself on hands and feet, with ropes bound around her waist attached to a blue canvas.

Mimi Wascher - Relationality between matters - A transdisciplinary practice in the making

10.03.2026 — 16.03.2026

This research explores the relationship between the performer’s body and malleable bodily sculptures, placing them in active dialogue. Inspired by contemporary circus—where objects (e.g. a diabolo) are no longer mere tools of the performer, but are put in the center of attention breaking down the hierarchical relationship between performer and object—this transdisciplinary practice treats both performer and bodily sculpture as equally significant. Using suspension techniques and object manipulation the different bodies will move, restrict and support one another, creating different (power) dynamics and relationships.

My artistic practice is driven by an interest in looking at themes of desire, identity and queer relationship from a feminist perspective. I will engage with texts by Sara Ahmed, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Bojana Cvejic and Ana Vujanovic whose work will accompany me throughout this research.

TEAM / CREDITS

Thank you to my team of occasional collaborators: Anne-Lene Nöldner, Anna Zurkirchen, Ezra Veldhuis, Ruben Mardulier, Jacopo Buccino, Elliot Minogue-Stone
Thank you to Vera Tussing for mentoring this year’s research.
Thank you STUK (BE), kunstencentrum nona (BE), KAAP (BE) and Das andere Theater (AUT) for providing residency space.
Thank you to the Vlaamse overheid for granting me the beurs voor opkomend talent.

Mimi Wascher (she/her), born in 1995, is a Brussels based dance artist. She studied modern dance at Fontys Hogeschool (NL) and contemporary dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (BE). As a freelance performer she worked for Théo Mercier and Steven Michel (Big Sisters), Joan Jonas (Mirror Piece), Guy Nader and Maria Campos (Natural Order of Things), Ruben Mardulier (various works), Renan Martins (Lover’s Eyes) and the dance company tout petit (Niet Vallen & DRRRAAI).

As a maker, Mimi positions herself on the intersection of performing arts and visual art with contemporary dance as the foundation of her creative practice. Through collaborations with other artists the work branches out into various art forms, including contemporary circus, architecture, and applied philosophy. Next to her work as a performer and maker Mimi is a guest teacher for acro-dance at Fontys Circus and Performing Arts and has also been engaged in the artist run organisation voices of dance.