Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

From December 2008 we’ll keep it short, literally and figuratively speaking. One evening of Korte Metten shows you what usually can’t be shown in one evening: short performances, musical interventions, video, installations, readings, action and reaction…

Vooruit’s Korte Metten is a hothouse for all things small, short, temporary, hybrid or improvised, an open day for creative minds, adventures in the evening hours!

• GAETAN BULOURDE & VALÉRIE CASTAN – TO RECOGNIZE A COMMON OBJECT IS MAINLY TO KNOW HOW TO USE IT
  performance in progress

We all know a king by his crown, a cowboy by his hat…how do these symbols give us an identity?

• ERIC THIELEMANS & PHILIP METTEN – A SNARE IS A BELL
  concert/installation

Musician Eric Thielemans gives it his all on the snare drum in an installation by Philip Metten.

• JEROEN THEUNISSEN
  literature

In his latest novel Een vorm van vermoeidheid, Jeroen Theunissen describes how we always try to grab hold of our own shadow and desire what we do not have. He will give his interpretation of korte metten (short cuts).

• ANTOINE DEFOORT – LES FONTS BAPTISMAUX EN MARBRE DE VILLEFRANCHE
  video performance

In his video performances, artist Antoine Defoort summarizes live through the eyes of an outsider…

• JASPER RIGOLE – PARADISE RECOLLECTED
  film

Rigole makes a film collage with found 8mm footage: once of sentimental value to someone, now forever lost.

• CLAUDIO STELLATO – L’AUTRE #3
  performance

A short and intimate dance performance.