Zoë Demoustier - Unfolding an Archive

During this residency, Zoë Demoustier works on the creation Unfolding an archive. She unfolds a visual archive of 2O years of war reporting. The man behind the camera is Zoë's father Daniel Demoustier. It is a search for a relation to the images of world events she grew up with, as a form of movement from afar and nearby. In an attempt to reconstruct, she brings the visual archive to life, dismantling the mechanisms hidden behind the images her father captured, and at the same time submitting them to a critical intervention. Whose history is this? Who is represented? Along the way, she creates a choreography of poses and gestures on a broken timeline of physical memories. Unfolding an Archive is Zoë's first solo performance. Her research for the performance started during her master education at RITCS (Regarding the pain of others - 2018) and during a master Cultural Studies at KU Leuven (2019). In the performances she makes use of a.o. the techniques from the tradition of mime corporel that she learned during her studies in Amsterdam. For Unfolding an Archive she works closely with musician Willem Lenaerts.

Credits
Performance: Zoë Demoustier
Dramaturgy: Elowise Vandenbroecke
Sound: Willem Lenaerts
Design: Annemie Boonen

Zoë Demoustier (°1995) is performer and choreographer. Her body is always the starting point of her visual performances. She links movement to topical and engaged subjects and creates documentary choreographic work. Zoë has created the performances nesten (fABULEUS/Anna Bentivegna & Ayrton Fraenk), Road to Nowhere (Forsiti’A/Yelena Schmitz), Born to be wild (Thespikon), Never Ending Roads (AHK). She worked as performer and assistant with a.o. kabinet k, Michiel Vandevelde, Alma Söderberg/Manyone, David Weber Krebs and Marcelo Evelin. In 2021 she was ambassdor for Dag van de Dans, for which she created Dansmakers van morgen together with De Zendelingen. At the moment she prepares the performance Wat was en wat nu (fABULEUS/Anna Bentivegna & Ayrton Fraenk) en starts new collaborations with Bronks and Ultima Vez.