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Frames
Not Standing & Alexander Vantournhout
How defining is a frame for a painting? What if you remove the frame? Or vice versa: what if you remove the artwork and just look at the frame? 'Frames' explores this relationship between frame and art, placing Not Standing’s physical movement art in outdoor visual frames.
Alexander Vantournhout and his three co-performers focus once again on movement art in its purest form. Meticulously, the four performers build ever-changing body sculptures in the viewing frames. Bodies intertwine, hang from and climb on the frames, walk upside down, and defy both gravity and your imagination. Each movement is a continuous search for balance, focusing on cooperation and body control.
The observer can view all this from all sides: from the front, side, and even from below. Perspectives tilt and physical logic seems to disappear. During MAD Festival, Frames invites you on a journey along the historic docks to explore choreographic installations that challenge and blend art and perspectives into physical poetry in public spaces.
Credits
- Concept & choreography: Alexander Vantournhout
- Created with and performed by: Chia-Hung Chung, Axel Guérin, Emmi Väisänen & Alexander Vantournhout
- Dramaturgy: Sébastien Hendrickx & Rudi Laermans
- Research collaborators: Charlotte Cétaire, Mélusine Lavinet-Drouet, Petra Steindl & Esse Vanderbrugge
- Prints: Daniel Henry Studio
- Metal Constructions: Willy Cauwelier
- Wooden constructions: Bram Dobbelaere
- Tourmanagement: Frans Brood Productions
- Company management: Esther Maas
- Technique: Bram Vandeghinste, Bert Van Dijck, Lukas Vanhoutte
- Technical team on tour: Bram Vandeghinste, Bert Van Dijck, Siebe Coorevits, Lukas Vanhoutte
- Production & tourmanagement: Janne Coonen & Kiki Verschueren
- Communication: Kiki Verschueren
- Production: Not Standing
- Co-production: Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER Gent (BE), De Hallen van Schaarbeek (BE)
With the support of
De Tax Shelter van de Belgische Federale Overheid, via Flanders Tax Shelter, de Vlaamse overheid, Fondation BNP Paribas voor de ontwikkeling van zijn projecten.
Special thanks to
Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, le CENTQUATRE & de Stad Roeselare