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.<\/p>\n
‘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<\/em>.’\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Professor Helena Grehan, Murdoch University, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n CONTENTS:<\/p>\n Preface How to Make Work Today? MACHINES & ATTITUDES<\/p>\n Hanging in the air as if frozen \u2026 Persona ex machina: Kris Verdonck\u2019s sincere object-actors About Marionette Theatre Elegy for a Future End: on Kris Verdonck\u2019s IN VOID<\/span> Interview Inside\/Out: Kris Verdonck and the Ontology of the Box Kris Verdonck\u2019s UNTITLED<\/span>: Actor-Machines and Dismal Work LANDSCAPES & ATMOSPHERE<\/p>\n Thinking Materially: Verdonck in the Anthropocene Conversation: We Just Don\u2019t Seem to Understand It The Poor Old Sun: A Note on Kris Verdonck\u2019s DETAIL<\/span> Posthuman Landscapes Still Life in Fast Forward: Verdonck\u2019s STILLS<\/span> in Athens ZERO DIMENSION<\/p>\n Beyond a Nonmodernity: Questioning the Human\/Non-human Divide Figures Performing Prototypes of Composite Bodies: S\u2019entendre parler: The Acousmatic Monologue as Acoustic Mirror in the Work of Kris Verdonck Text: PRESYNCOPE<\/span><\/p>\n End-Time Attitudes SOMETHING<\/span> (out of nothing): Notes on the text Text: SOMETHING<\/span> (out of nothing)<\/p>\n KRIS VERDONCK: THE WORK<\/p>\n List of Works 176<\/p>\n\n\n
\nGUY GYPENS<\/span> (Kaaitheater, KANAL<\/span> \u2013 Centre Pompidou)<\/p>\n
\nKRISTOF VAN BAARLE + PETER ECKERSALL<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMARIANNE VAN KERKHOVEN<\/span><\/p>\n
\nANDY LAVENDER<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHEINRICH VON KLEIST<\/span>, translated by Frank Hentschker with Margaret Araneo<\/p>\n
\nCHARLOTTE DE SOMVIELE<\/span><\/p>\n
\nPETER ECKERSALL + KRISTOF VAN BAARLE + KRIS VERDONCK<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSARAH BAY-CHENG<\/span><\/p>\n
\nPETER ECKERSALL<\/span><\/p>\n
\nCARL LAVERY<\/span><\/p>\n
\nJEAN PAUL VAN BENDEGEM + KRIS VERDONCK<\/span><\/p>\n
\nPETER ECKERSALL<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMAAIKE BLEEKER<\/span><\/p>\n
\nEDWARD SCHEER<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSARAH LUCIE<\/span><\/p>\n
\nKris Verdonck\u2019s Ontological Politics of Time and Movement
\nCHRISTEL STALPAERT<\/span><\/p>\n
\nTAWNY ANDERSEN<\/span><\/p>\n
\nKRISTOF VAN BAARLE<\/span><\/p>\n
\nKRISTOF VAN BAARLE<\/span><\/p>\n