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"In my life politics don’t disappear but take place in my body."Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School
#touchingbodies
Four times a year, Radiant Nights is a space for creation and experimentation, free from conventions. For two whole days, artists take over a part of the building. Their work is diverse, radical, exciting and surprising. Radiant. Radiant Nights offers an insight into the arts landscape of today and tomorrow and features both large and small-scale work, ranging from the obscure, to the fragile, to the experimental. At its core are versatile artists who seek out the in-between space beyond binary thinking. The spaces in between different disciplines, themes, genres and bodies. In this first edition, the body itself takes centre stage.
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JIJA SOHN / ANTONIA STEFFENS / LUCY WILKE / JULIA REIST / ONEKA VON SCHRADER
LANDS OF CONCERT
FRI 15 - SAT 16 OCT
19:00
In a performative setting, the audience is invited to be part of a landscape of ‘sublime acts’. Lands of Concert is an artistic playground. Through this performance, Sohn and her artistic partners try to develop a new sustainable system: a system that primarily focuses on care, meaning and the needs and perspectives of others.
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ALEX BACZYNSKI-JENKINS
UNTITLED (HOLDING HORIZON)
FRI 15 - SAT 16 OCT
20:00
In 2019, the London-based choreographer and artist Alex Baczynski-Jenkins was a guest at the Venice Biennale with Untitled (Holding Horizon). His practice unfolds a ‘politics of longing’: relationships are less the means to and more the end of a choreography. There is a strong aspect of interdependence and collectivity. Of queerness.
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BRANDY BUTLER
AVOIRDUPOIS
FRI 15 OCT
20:00
In her first solo work, the American performance artist Brandy Butler asks pressing questions about the body and weight in our society.What do we project onto the weight of a body, and for whom are we actually measuring it? AvoirDuPois, “the weight of things”, is a critical performance that brings together movement, text, music and physical experimentation.
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RORY PILGRIM
SOFTWARE GARDEN
SAT 16 OCT
20:00
The British artist Rory Pilgrim won the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2019 for his film The Undercurrent. Software Garden explores the relationship between technology, disability and care in times of rising inequality, nationalism and political isolationism. The performance is somewhere between Kabuki theatre, a pop concert and a space for political action.
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OBSCURE
CLOSING PARTY
SAT 16 OCT
23:00
More details and the definitive line-up TBA.
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€ 5 FOR EACH PERFORMANCE
(The different performances on one evening can be combined with each other.)
Covid Safe Ticket is not required for these performances.
TICKETS & MORE INFO
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VISUAL DESIGN
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Event Venue
DE SINGEL International Arts Centre, Desguinlei 25, 2018 Antwerp, Belgium, Antwerp
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