Voicing Pieces
Begüm Erciyas
dates
Sat 14.03, 00:04
Sat 14.03, 00:04
Sat 14.03, 00:04
Sat 14.03, 00:04
Sat 14.03, 00:04
location
DE SINGEL
duration
30 min.
language
ENG
Info
In Voicing Pieces, Begüm Erciyas explores the political and poetic power of the voice and the act of speaking. In the seclusion of a soundproof hut, you are given a simple script and become a spectator to your own voice. The act of simultaneously speaking and listening leads to a theatrical and choreographic experience that is created afresh with every participant. The voice is dissociated from the body. It becomes a place for action, a surprise, a performance.
Is your own voice not always misleading and uncomfortable? Rather than finding yourself again in the stranger, Voicing Pieces invites you to discover and embrace the stranger in yourself. A liberating experience.
Credits
concept Begüm Erciyas | realization Begüm Erciyas & Matthias Meppelink | dramaturgy Marnix Rummens | live-operation Eric Desjeux, Marc Melià & Begüm Erciyas | text Matthias Meppelink, Begüm Erciyas & Jacob Wren | set Tim Vanhentenryk, Lena Buchwald & Barbara Greiner | artistic collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias | production management/PR Barbara Greiner | production Begüm Erciyas & Platform 0090 | coproduction wpZimmer (Antwerp), STUK (Leuven) & Tanzfabrik Berlin/Tanznacht Berlin
Jury
Voicing Pieces allows you to discover the stranger in yourself, that “je est un autre” – I is somebody else. It’s magical and unforgettable!
—Jury report
Pers
A long journey, although it doesn’t last more than half an hour, which ultimately brings you back home to yourself, to your own voice. And never again will it sound like it did before. Magical.
—De Morgen