A world-changing festival with performances, music, talks, spot-on happenings and statements…
What?
Global warming, the financial crisis, famine, drought and overpopulation…
The end is near, but don’t despair: Vooruit will save the world!
Artists and experts from different disciplines will launch proposals to save the world, put the threat in perspective or blow up the whole thing.
Well-aimed happenings, bold statements, bizarre turns, sophisticated utopias and biodegradable references.
Who?
Philippe Quesne, Sponsored by nobody, Antonia Baehr, Antoine Defoort, Daniel Linehan, Kristof Kintera, Helen Evans & Heiko Hansen, Martin Kaltwasser & Folke Kobberling, Antoine Schmitt, Michel de Broin …
Don’t miss it! But take the bike.
Background
The third edition of our annual festival the game is up! in March 2009 wants to do more than introduce a curious audience to powerful international work that is little known (in
Flanders).
Just like the previous years, we’ve decided to stick to the theme structure in 2009. Under the working title “How to save the world in 10 days” we ask questions about our future prospects, the social and political design of our future and how art can contribute to it. We’ve attracted artists who look for new (great) stories in a post-postmodernist reflex, artists who do not stop believing in what’s yet to come, but reformulate it or put it in a different perspective.
During this 10-day festival, artists from the worlds of the stage, music, media arts and much more will formulate proposals. From small interventions to grand utopian visions, from ecological labs to socio-political dystopias. It’s a given that this festival won’t save the world. But as Marge Simpson once said to her husband Homer: “I do not hate you for failing, I love you for trying.”
Previous editions
At the previous edition of the game is up! we welcomed the preaching American Reverend Billy, forged billboards with The Billboard Liberation Front and showed the Superamas trilogy: “Funny, deadpan, ironic and totally OTT.” (Ellen, Vooruit community member)
View pictures and clips of the previous edition on www.vooruit.be/thegameisup08
Read more about the history of the game is up.
Look at the game is up again: You’re about to do something you shouldn’t and Art for sale.
We wish to thank our partners in the project “Arts Centre of the Future”
In the framework of Transdigital this project is supported by
- Tags
- festival
- ideaal
- mediakunst
- milieu
- performance
- the game is up
- toekomst
- Artists
- Angelo Vermeulen
- Annemie Maes
- Ansatz der Maschine
- Ant Hampton
- Antoine Defoort
- Antoine Schmitt
- Antonia Baehr
- Daniel Linehan
- Davis Freeman
- Dirk De Ridder
- Dirk Roofthooft
- Dirk Van Hulle
- Dror Feiler
- Eric De Volder
- Erwin Stache
- FoAM
- Folke Köbberling
- Halory Goerger
- Hans Bryssinck
- Heiko Hansen
- Helen Evans
- Jean Paul Van Bendegem
- Jean-Jacques Cassiman
- Jefta Van Dinther
- Jozef Dumoulin
- Julien Maire
- Kapotski
- Kris Verdonck
- Kristof Kintera
- Lander Ghyselinck
- Luc Steels
- Marc Vanrunxt
- Marianne Van Kerkhoven
- Martin Kaltwasser
- Mette Ingvartsen
- Michel de Broin
- Moose
- Naeem Mohaiemen
- Natalie Jeremijenko
- Pamelia Kurstin
- Peter Cusack
- Philippe Quesne
- Rodrigo Fuentealba
- Samuel Beckett
- Sponsored By Nobody
- Vivarium Studio
- Yutumitu
