In Gilgamesh, director Mesut Arslan combines solid drama with the refreshing power of improvisational theatre. The result: a vivid overall experience that leaves behind gripping images. A story about the world, humanity and the 'primal epic' of Gilgamesh that dissolves the boundaries between actors, scenography and audience. Gilgamesh brings together lessons from ancient history, the drama of an epic and the freshness of improvisational theatre to create a stimulating overall experience. With Daphne Agten and Layla Önlen playing all the roles with their charisma and humour between and with the audience. Read more... 
 

Beyond the Black Box lands in Antwerp for a second time! The festival that breaks out of boxes and colors outside the lines of classical genres presents a new four-day program that will take place in different corners of the city. We bring together artistic practices that maneuver at the intersection of disciplines, exploring their boundaries and forging new connections. They break open existing conventions and seek hybrid forms.  

This year we show work by Bart Lodewijks, Müge Yilmaz, Huseyin Umaysiz, Fleur Khani, Kevin Trappeniers, Sophie Guisset, Ira Brand, Carolina Mendonça & Catalina Insignares, Anna Schlooz & De Refuge, Hanafubuki, Viva Los DJ'S.

Beyond the Black Box invites makers and the audience to experiment with form, space and time. The festival challenges you to look differently. Be surprised by work in unexpected places or moments, forget your set of beliefs and come and experience with an open mind what art can also look like! Stay tuned for more announcements!

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In preparation of Beyond the Black Box (Antwerp), Huseyin Umaysiz and Christoph De Boeck join forces again to investigate further the universal frequencies that surround us. 

Huseyin Umaysiz approaches the universe as a living organism in which every object, substance and living being has a vibrational frequency. Thus, each of us consciously or unconsciously engages physically with the world we live in. To make the universal frequencies visible, audible and tangible, Umaysiz chooses the davul - an organic percussion instrument from Turkey - as a performer.

'Davul' explores how vibrations alter the consciousness of our humanity through drum, voice, body and image in an attempt to understand our actions and communication as social beings. Amid an installation by Christoph De Boeck, communication is reinvented and Umaysiz engages in a discussion with the past. Read more...
 

QBX - Sad Birds Pavilion - Huseyin Umaysiz
Hauptsache Frei Festival in monsun.theater, Hamburg (DE)

"Every story has a starting sound. Ours sounds like that." With a first sound, the two Kurdish performers take us into a story of birds, migration, love and civil war. Their starting point is the novel of the same name by Bakhtyr Ali, set in southern Kurdistan. They build bridges between traditional Kurdish narrative techniques, following the beauty of this language, and sensual elements such as smell, sound and music. They dig into their body memory, play with light and shadow and ask themselves: What makes us us?
 

border_less ARTBOOK DAYS - KYKLÀDA.PRESS (David Bergé)
ARTER, Istanbul (TR)

border_less ARTBOOK DAYS aims to showcase artists, galleries, initiatives and institutions that have publications and work with texts. The event fosters the fields of art publishing and art-book making and become a common ground for introductions and interactions between artists, art professionals, print houses, and the public alike.  

kyklàda.press is a small, self-sustained and interdependent publishing organ based in Athens, driven by a trans-disciplinary group, producing a series  of books in English resonating with  phenomena in the Aegean Archipelago. Driven by a trans-disciplinary team and directed by David Bergé, kyklàda.press explores material, critical, and experimental forms of writing...