Waxy Pith

An evening of tenderness and amusement

01 March 2011
19.30 – 22h

PROGRAMME

TIM DE KEERSMAECKER 19.45h | 20.10h

SHORT FILM: Die Vögelein Schweigen im Walde, 18’0″

A man relieves himself from his night time job as a warehouseman by pursuing his greatest passion: hunting. But sometimes nature is tough and unpredictable. ‘Die Vögelein Schweigen im Walde’ (The Birds in the Forest remain Quiet) is a film about loneliness, the craving for dominance and the search for a meaningful interpretation of existence.

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KURT RYSLAVY 20.30h | 21.15h

PERFORMANCE: An Act in Two Parts

Excerpt from text about the artist, by Hans Theys: It is as if the real Kurt Ryslavy is hiding behind all these layers, like the theatre director of the old days who invested in his own productions and followed the events on stage and in the auditorium from behind the ingeniously sliding coulisses. It is also possible that there is no director at all… You can try to look at Ryslavy’s work and enjoy the way humour and seriousness overlap in a game with the representative effect of objects and images.

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JACOB WREN 20.45h

SPOKEN WORD: Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed

Set in a dystopian near-future, Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed is a novel – a kind of post-capitalist soap opera – about a group of people who regularly attend ‘the meetings’. At the meetings they have agreed to talk, and only talk, about how to re-ignite the left, for fear if they were to do more, if they were to actually engage in real acts of resistance or activism, they would be arrested, imprisoned or worse. Revenge Fantasies is a book about community. It is also a book about fear.

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RAPHAEL ABSOLONNE 21.30h

MUSIC

RifRaf magazine: “SPOOKHUISJE is the nom de plume of Brussels musician Raphael Absolonne. His intriguing instrumental music is a meditative melting pot of psychedelic drones, Indian raga (not to be confused with ragga) and  experimental  guitar playing that are one step beyond the sahara-tunes of Tamikrest