Let’s Hack the Clocks!

At a time the very rhythms of our daily lives are fragmented, destabilised, rushed or suspended…

At a time ecological and social disasters, the depletion and extinction of part of the human race are accelerating, we urgently need to pause briefly in a bid to measure the weight of these chronopolitics – the politics of time – at the intersection of domination.

Emma Bigé, Ife Day, Cy Lecerf Maulpoix, A. Livingstone, Dénètem Touam Bona (FR/DE/CA)

Starting from a double need for analysis and for aesthetic-cum-political proposals, this day devoted to temporal interactions aims to reflect on those timelines that have shaped the development of colonial and heteropatriarchal capitalism and historically fractured collective memories and bodies.

Moreover, the day will equally aspire to highlight other histories, other practices woven from minority experiences, tales of sabotage, of transmutation of rhythms inflicting violence, poems and rituals of presence in the world clamouring for care and our emancipations.

Concept for the day: Cy Lecerf Maulpoix.

Programme :

Infos

DATE	CONTENU
2023/04/210915	21.04.2023 09:15 > 18:00 La Balsamine, Brussels

Day of reflection

Co-presented with La Balsamine.

Program

Hilal Aydoğdu (BE), Nicola Bertazzoni (IT), Emma Bigé (FR), Tatiana Bohm (BE), Cassils (CA) & SJ Norman (AU), Bénédicte Davin (BE), Ife Day (FR), Olga de Soto (BE), Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer (BE), Chris Korda (US), Cy Lecerf Maulpoix (FR), Gillian Jane Lees & Adam York Gregory (UK), Jennie Klein (US), Les gens d’Uterpan (FR), Les sœurs h & Maxime Bodson (BE), A. Livingstone (CA/DE), Emilio Lopez-Menchero (BE), Carole Louis (BE), Monali Meher (IN), Theano Metaxa (GR), Virginia Mastrogiannaki & Alexandros Plomaritis (GR), Benjamin Muzart (BE), Dénètem Touam Bona (FR), Dries Verhoeven (NL) + Fragile ! (Matilde Gazeau Frade, Garance Maillot, Kimia Nasirian, Clémence Péguy)

Trouble #12 « It’s about time » 

Trouble #12, « It’s about time » : it’s the question of time (and especially the time we allow for ourselves, that we give to relationships and to works so that they can resonate) that will be at the heart of the Brussels biennial of performance. To survey notions of historical time, stolen time, out-of-time, time loops, generational differences, protracted periods … or on the contrary, very brief moments. Are you losing your bearings? It is high time that Trouble comes back to trouble you!

Full programme

Partners

In partnership with KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Charleroi danse, La Balsamine, Maison des Arts, ENSAV – La Cambre, Halles de Schaerbeek, GC Ten Noey, Ateliers Mommen, Fondations 312, ESA Le 75, W-B T/D, Calame, Femma, Wiegwijs, Radio Panik, Institut européen de la culture arabe and Infini théâtre.

With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Service de la danse, Service des arts plastiques and Promotion de Bruxelles), Creative Europe programme of the European Union (project « Time For Live Art »), Commission communautaire française, Région de Bruxelles-capitale (Image de Bruxelles), City of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Embassy of Canada, Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, Performing Arts Fund NL, Pro Helvetia, ENSAV – La Cambre.

About

The Performance Event in Brussels is Back!

Launched in 2005, TROUBLE has ever since been the international performance event in Brussels. As of 2019, Studio Thor has been organising and producing the Festival, with its studio and environs in the heart of the city’s popular commune of Saint-Josse serving as its nerve centre. TROUBLE is held every two years, in the odd years.

Trouble: philosophy

TROUBLE has retained the ingredients that ensured its previous successes. With its dense and wide-ranging program, the five-day long event focuses on numerous artistic proposals that are both out-of-the-ordinary and differ from routine formats. Performances involving the human body, yet created by artists whose roots are in the visual arts, contemporary dance, experimental theatre, oral poetry, music or the night scene… for a vibrant mix of artistic families and audiences. Instead of spectacle/s meant for mere consumption, real-life experiences are on offer: self-involvement, risk-taking, vulnerability, interactivity, finely balanced between local personalities and artists from elsewhere–– and often discoveries. To ensure a more diverse vision of art, our program gives pride of place to women, queers, racialized and minority groups. We also offer a platform to young artists, thanks to the collaboration with the performance course at Brussels’s renowned visual arts school La Cambre (ENSAV). While the Festival incorporates a demanding reflective aspect, it by no means excludes an engaging playful dimension!

TROUBLE #11 | 2021
TROUBLE #10 | 2019

(Pas si) Fragile! 2024
(Pas si) Fragile! 2022
(Pas si) Fragile! 2020

Box Office

PAY WHAT YOU WANT

4-day pass: 30 > 60€ (full price: 40€)
1-day pass: 8 > 21€ (full price: 12€)
1 performance: 5 > 10€ (full price: 8€)
1 performance – free price: 0 > 15€ (full price: 8€)

Booking & tickets

Access

Studio Thor

49, rue Saint-Josse, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

STIB: métro 2/6 (Madou), bus 29/63/59 (Saint-Josse), bus 57 (Gutenberg)

Villo: station Place Saint-Josse

Vélo: merci d’attacher vos vélos place Saint-Josse.

Le Studio Thor est le centre du festival Trouble.

Contacts

info@thor.be

+32 (0)2 223 26 00

Places

Studio Thor – rue Saint-Josse 49, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

GC Ten Noey – rue de la Commune 25, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Institut Européen de la Culture Arabe – rue de l’alliance 2, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Ateliers Mommen – rue de la Charité 37, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Fondations 312 – rue Royale 312, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Place Saint-Josse, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Chapelle de l’Abondance – rue de l’Abondance 25-31, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

La Balsamine – avenue Félix Marchal 1, 1030 Schaerbeek

La Maison des Arts – chaussée de Haecht 147, 1030 Schaerbeek

KANAL (K1) – avenue du Port 1, 1000 Bruxelles

Square Marie-Louise, 1000 Bruxelles

Digue du Canal, 3 – crossroads with Dante street, 1070 Anderlecht