Description
How to make work today? Kris Verdonck does so through an ongoing investigation into the relation between subjects and objects. From different perspectives (performer, costume designer, director, dramaturg, spectator, scholar), this book approaches the question of how objects perform beyond their category and how human performers approach a more ‘object-like’ state of being on stage. Verdonck’s co-creative method (with both human and non-human elements) implies a fundamental questioning of the medium in which the work is developed.
‘This is a book of our times. When we most need complicated responses to the status quo, when we need to take the time to explore what is often experienced as the unprecedented “new” world we are inhabiting, the work of Verdonck gives us both complexity and time. The documents in this book respond to this complexity and need for time with nuance, deep thought and necessary provocation. A truly remarkable achievement.’ Professor Helena Grehan, Murdoch University, Australia
CONTENTS:
Preface
GUY GYPENS (Kaaitheater, KANAL – Centre Pompidou)
How to Make Work Today?
KRISTOF VAN BAARLE + PETER ECKERSALL
MACHINES & ATTITUDES
Hanging in the air as if frozen …
MARIANNE VAN KERKHOVEN
Persona ex machina: Kris Verdonck’s sincere object-actors
ANDY LAVENDER
About Marionette Theatre
HEINRICH VON KLEIST, translated by Frank Hentschker with Margaret Araneo
Elegy for a Future End: on Kris Verdonck’s IN VOID
CHARLOTTE DE SOMVIELE
Interview
PETER ECKERSALL + KRISTOF VAN BAARLE + KRIS VERDONCK
Inside/Out: Kris Verdonck and the Ontology of the Box
SARAH BAY-CHENG
Kris Verdonck’s UNTITLED: Actor-Machines and Dismal Work
PETER ECKERSALL
LANDSCAPES & ATMOSPHERE
Thinking Materially: Verdonck in the Anthropocene
CARL LAVERY
Conversation: We Just Don’t Seem to Understand It
JEAN PAUL VAN BENDEGEM + KRIS VERDONCK
The Poor Old Sun: A Note on Kris Verdonck’s DETAIL
PETER ECKERSALL
Posthuman Landscapes
MAAIKE BLEEKER
Still Life in Fast Forward: Verdonck’s STILLS in Athens
EDWARD SCHEER
ZERO DIMENSION
Beyond a Nonmodernity: Questioning the Human/Non-human Divide
SARAH LUCIE
Figures Performing Prototypes of Composite Bodies:
Kris Verdonck’s Ontological Politics of Time and Movement
CHRISTEL STALPAERT
S’entendre parler: The Acousmatic Monologue as Acoustic Mirror in the Work of Kris Verdonck
TAWNY ANDERSEN
Text: PRESYNCOPE
End-Time Attitudes
KRISTOF VAN BAARLE
SOMETHING (out of nothing): Notes on the text
KRISTOF VAN BAARLE
Text: SOMETHING (out of nothing)
KRIS VERDONCK: THE WORK
List of Works 176
