Machine Made Silence: The Art of Kris Verdonck

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Edited by Peter Eckersall & Kristof van Baarle

 

Published by Performance Research Books January 2020. Soft cover, 192 pages, colour images

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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

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Weight 0.639 kg