Cette activité se déroule en anglais.

En collaboration avec Rainbowhouse, Tels Quels & Europalia Indonesia.

In Belgium and at the present time, the human mind structures the landscape of fellow beings into men and women. We think this binary split has existed since the dawn of time, everywhere. How many times do we refer to famous hunter-gatherers and their gender patterns as the image and origin of present-day society ? And yet, contradictions and complementarities abound ! Whether it’s elsewhere on the globe or deep in the past… Traditions evolve from one point to another in space and time.

Indonesia offers us such examples : could we structure the landscape of fellow beings not in two but five different genders ? What a magnificent opportunity to shatter boundaries and evolve our vision/binary division ! If we remove the need to choose between two genders, we no longer have to talk about « gender issues » but genderS. We can still suggest new answers to this question. And what better way to do this than to draw from other traditions ?

Arco Renz is artistic director of Brussels based dance company Kobalt Works, creating choreographies in Europe and Asia. An important aspect of his activities is the development of research and exchange between European and Asian artists. Since 15 years he is engaged in collaborative performance projects of very different nature in Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Japan… 

Monsoon, a series of research and collaboration platforms bringing together Asian and European artists is an on-going project with editions in Europe, Asia and Australia. 

Arco Renz studied dance, theatre, and literature in Berlin and Paris before joining the first generation of P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. He has been invited to curate the EUROPALIA Indonesia performing arts program.

www.kobaltworks.be

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