HORIZON
In Horizon, acrobat Chloé Moglie plays with an elongated structure that is both sculpture and support. A performance that combines physical strength and poetry, defying the laws of gravity and balance.
ALLIAGE(S)
The Trio Xenakis unveil their new piece, conceived with visual artist Vivian Daval.
Iannis Xenakis transformed the art of his time by manipulating visual and aural space. Adélaïde Ferrière, Emmanuel Jacquet and Rodolphe Théry set up the Xenakis Trio in 2018 with the aim of furthering his ideas.
Des Madeleines dans la galaxie
Welcome to this sonorous igloo of copper climbing plants.
Trumpets, tubas, trombones... stretching out over your head and woven into a roof of wind instruments.
A structure with brass tubes and trumpets forms a cocoon of sound within which the listener is seated.
La Jeune Fille à la fenêtre
Eugène Samuel-Holeman's La jeune fille à la fenêtre is a sung monodrama based on a text by the writer Camille Lemonnier, a major figure in Belgian literature.
Come in, and please pay attention to the mess
Take BOB 361, a breathtaking living space, and seat an audience down in the front of three improvisers.
In the time it takes to bake a chocolate fondant, an acrobat, a trombonist and a double bassist get together and whip up a performance in which space and time are completely reorganised by simultaneous physical and sonic actions.
Avion Papier
Avion Papier is a caravan show at the crossroads of digital arts, music and object theatre.
Inside this mini cinema, the characters from an animation film escape and move about around the audience. Mechanical inventions rattle in our ears. We are not alone on this journey: a musician welcomes us into a childlike, dreamscape, juggling a variety of instruments to create a series of bright melodies.
Extant
Extant is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that explores the parallel universe of the ‘behind the scenes’ and the creation of a dance film performed in real-time.
E Dio si riposo' il settimo giorno
A creative and interactive project that investigates and celebrates family ties, understood as a common, collective endeavour. More process-focused than result-oriented, the experience proposed by Italian artist Silvia Costa sees four generations of a family engaged in sharing a task. A great-grandmother, a grandmother, a mother and a son are in front of a blank canvas. They have many colours at their disposal, brushes and pencils.
Les Souffles
Les Souffles is a choreographic and acoustic performance created in collaboration with contemporary dancer and musician Mathieu Calmelet, sound artist Octave Courtin and visual artist Ludivine Large-Bessette.
Waterbowls
PORTAL overstep with curiosity…
Two musicians. One from the East. One from the West. Lots of strings. Very many strings. And a voice. Melancholy. Indefinable longings. Nostalgia. Inspiration. Unity. Tears. Silence. Melodies that make you dream, cry and ponder. Rhythms like distant horizons, rousing forces and soothing currents.
Atmos
Atmos is a fluid project straddling the boundary between the visual and musical worlds, as much a visual installation as a collection of mechanical, air and water-based musical instruments. Within this ensemble, the performer acts, manipulates instruments and composes. Atmos reflects on the possible autonomy an instrument can have using physical phenomena such as gravity or the elasticity of materials.
Dans le pays d’hiver
Be seduced by the subtle, poetic world of Silvia Costa.
Pierrot Lunaire
Schönberg composed one of his most famous works, Pierrot lunaire, to texts by the Belgian symbolist poet Albert Giraud.
On Solitude
A personal reflection on solitude and music, performed by Thomas Baeté, viola da gamba and voice.
Artonov
Beauty of the Threshold, aesthetics of Limits
For its ninth edition, the Festival ARTONOV will focus on the concept of beauty of the Threshold and aesthetics of Limits.
In the East, especially in China and Japan, the notion of ‘setting limits’ is crucial to the conception of space-time and underlines the architectural aesthetics of homes, sanctuaries and even the design of gardens, landscapes and paintings.
In the West, the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements embraced this concept to develop a whole new architectural style. In 2023, a year dedicated to Art Nouveau, we thought it would be particularly interesting to ask our guest artists to focus on this notion.
This year’s programme then can be seen a sort of perambulation through the ideas of interior and exterior, between venues and artistic disciplines. What constitutes the ideal abode? What does the ‘elsewhere’ or the landscape represent in architecture? Posing these questions leads us to rethink the world around us.