And now the beginning is somewhere else - Noon Collective

And now the beginning is somewhere else is a new work from the transdisciplinary collective NOON where you are invited into an ecosystem based on the logics of foam.
Here all different kinds of foams, thoughts, movements and sounds intermingle and make space for moments of curiosity and rest- creating a playground where each visitor can find their own pace and discover this universe.
Being a material that moves in different environments, the foam formulates questions around the concept of ‘nature’ and further on the organic-artificial binary. From this being the collective starts to think and play with the relational space, as the main characteristic of the structure of the foam is to host others.
As I woke up, there was the strangest awareness of my body –
I remember feeling my outside strangely in(wards)
as if my edges were inside as well and things could run outside of me, but inside of me,
but also, -and this was the newest part-, sink into me, become me.
Coaching : Anja Rottgerkamp
Costumes : Steffi Assandri
Concept/external eye : Judith Dhondt
Graphic design : Joram De Cocker
Light : Caroline Mathieu
Objects development : India De Vere
Performer/concept : Delphine Mertens, Iris Donders
Performer : Janka De Waele
Scenography and curtains : Eline Harmse
Sound design : Lucie Gresil
Picture by Pommelien Koolen
Supported by : BUDA, CAMPO, C-TAKT, De School van Gaasbeek, KAAP, de Koer, Green Corridor, Garage29, SoAP, de Verffabriek, Two Dogs Company and de Vlaamse Overheid
Thanks to : Arno Huygens, Atoma, Benjamin Mertens, Bram Coeman, Carly Rae Heathcote, Ching Shu Huang, Elena Vloebergen, Eva Dermul, Geneviève Roberti Lintermans, Géraldine Haas, Gert Jan Stam, Giette Hulsbosch, Gilles Pollak, Heike Langsdorf, Hugo Bergs, Laboratoire d’écologie des systèmes aquatiques (ULB), La ferme du Colombier, La Souplothèque, Léa Roger, Leontien Allemeersch, Mathilde Villeneuve, Merel Vercoutere, Milan Van Bortel, Nathalie Gypens, Nick Steur, Nicolas Garcia Baino, Pommelien Koolen, SoAP, Sparewheel, Urtė Groblytė, Valerie Paredis, Ward Dupan.
And all our thinking/creating inspirations such as Karen Barad, the Maas & the Maaslab, Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, Donna Haraway, sea foams, Mette Ingvartsen, Melanie Bonajo, Katrien Oosterlinck, and many others.

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