Through fragile, invisible, transparent elements, an exploration of writing as movement.

Gesture, voice and poetry are unstable materials, caught between appearance and disappearance, presence and erasure.

Garance Buxtorf

In this piece, Garance Buxtorf writes her poems with condensation on an old window hanging from the ceiling. A kettle on the floor produces steam: the writing appears, then fades away. Next to it, headphones play a sound piece. We hear her reading and singing her texts, mixed with other sounds. The words settle, overlap, and sometimes become illegible.

The audience guesses, recomposes, and invents another text through their eyes. The headphones create a special closeness: they isolate, draw you into the intimacy of the voice, into a more internal state of listening; it is speech that is not addressed directly.

Garance Buxtorf (they/them in writing, he/him in speech) is a 26-year-old poet, performer and sculptor whose work revolves around the practice of poetic writing in the form of performance and sound installations. They work focuses on sexuality, nightlife, the party atmosphere, non-binarity, friendship and urban landscapes. After completing a master’s degree at the École de Recherche Graphique (ERG) in Brussels, Garance Buxtorf are currently working on a collection of poetry and performances, and are involved in radio with the experimental collective P-Node.

Infos

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2026/04/251830 25.04.2026
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Duration: 20 minutes

Limited audience (15 per slot), booking required.

Note: References to gender-based and sexual violence (GBV) in the recording.

Program

Performers

Naya Alezina (ISAC), Garance Buxtorf (ERG), Selim Clérin (ERG), Yuna Choi (La Cambre), Garance Debert (ERG), Plume Ducret (Master Danse), Pierre Gosée (ARTS2), Maël Keppenne (La Cambre), Émilie Masson (AC’T), Vittoria Toscana (La Cambre).

The Next Performance Art Generation

Every two years, (Pas si) Fragile! takes the pulse of emerging performance art.

This spring, 10 performances fresh out of the oven and to be enjoyed on the same day, reflecting the moods of our time. More ironic than dramatic, more poetic than political, 10 escapades off the beaten track, away from overused themes and established formats.

Welcome to the fresh air!

Partners & support

(Pas si) Fragile! 2026 is a project led by Studio Thor, in collaboration with Infini théâtre, GC Ten Noey, Ateliers Mommen. With the support of Wallonia-Brussels Federation, WBI (Wallonia-Brussels International), WBTD (Wallonia-Brussels Theatre/Dance), Municipality of Saint-Josse.

About

(Pas si) Fragile! – the Next Performance Art Generation, the biennial springboard showcasing young artists involved in performance art, is back this spring.

With a different format for each edition of the festival, the audience gets to meet emerging artists who have recently graduated – or are about to graduate – from visual arts schools in Wallonia-Brussels. This year, these schools are La Cambre, ISAC, ERG, Master danse, ARTS2 (Mons) and the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai (AC’T).

This new edition will take place at Studio Thor and its surroundings and consists of a public programme of 10 performances on 25 April, from 5pm to 11pm.

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The 10 performances at a glance

Naya Alezina invites us into a state of prolonged falling, a perceptual slide towards the depths, passing through text-matter and the crawling of a body that stirs and distorts the gestures of celebrities – through a dark, stripped-down space lifted from below. 

 

Garance Buxtorf explores writing as movement, through poems written on the mist of a window and listened to individually on headphones. 

 

Selim Clérin proposes to challenge physical learning and educational systems through collective and participatory practice: from familiar arrangements to unfamiliar ones.

 

For many hours, Yuna Choi undoes one dress to make another: in this process stress, anxiety and expectation are expressed. 

 

Garance Debert embodies various domestic objects, in the manner of an internal and polymorphous cabaret, exploring the question of the ability to inhabit one’s body. 

 

Plume Ducret plays with her accomplice, folding a sheet of paper to connect with soothing territories: how can comfort be a resource for resistance?

 

Pierre Gosée, in a kind of ‘product demonstration’ of a cognitive visualisation interface, blurs the line between innovation, commerce and fiction. 

 

Maël Keppenne writes a text in real time, which is projected, where intimacy and eroticism heat up before our eyes, between text, body and desire. 

 

Émilie Masson uses live drawing and folklore in public spaces to question memory, transmission and the place we are granted or denied. 

 

Vittoria Toscana invites us to an immersive sound performance, where dance, light, sound and architecture interact, aiming to transport the audience into an heterotopic moment.

 

Box Office

Free entry for all performances, but reservation is required.

⚠️ Some performances have limited capacity.

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Practical Information

Admission to the performances is free, but reservation is required.

Doors open from 4:00 PM.

The bar is open in the foyer of Studio Thor.

Public transport (STIB): Metro lines 2/6Madou. Bus 29 / 63 / 59Saint-Josse. Bus 57Gutenberg

Villo! bike station: Place Saint-Josse

Locations

Studio Thor and Infini Théâtre
Rue Saint-Josse 49, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Ateliers Mommen
Rue de la Charité 13, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

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

Public space
from Studio Thor to Place Saint-Josse and Place Houwaert (itinerary TBC) – 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Contact

info@thor.be

+32 (0)2 223 26 00

For questions related to ticket reservations, please send an email directly to tickets@thor.be