SIET RAEYMAEKERS
Born in 1989 in Mol, Belgium.
Lives and works in Antwerp
and Brussels.
Siet Raeymaekers loves to challenge herself as much as to challenge her audience, and most preferably both at once. In each of the many environments in which she performs, Siet takes into account the architecture and all the inherent idiosyn-
crasies, adapting or working towards a specific performance situation. Her performance pieces are simultaneously nonchalant and elegant; Siet performs with body and soul, with or without a narrative.
Performance by Everyone for Everyone, 2012
An anonymous happening in Brussels. Two weeks before the event Siet asked various people to write her a performance score with a time frame of max 3 minutes and a spatial frame of 4 square metres. There were two rules only: she would mind these parameters and only use her own body. She did not look at these scores until the moment of the performance. At that point, she started following the descriptive or abstract instructions. Due to an interruption by the police she wasn’t able to perform all the scores, but the police then inadvertently featured in the grand finale. Time and space were (politically) destabilised for a moment as they became part of the scene. Precariousness prevailed.
Performance by Everyone for Everyone, 2012
An anonymous happening in Brussels. Two weeks before the event Siet asked various people to write her a performance score with a time frame of max 3 minutes and a spatial frame of 4 square metres. There were two rules only: she would mind these parameters and only use her own body. She did not look at these scores until the moment of the performance. At that point, she started following the descriptive or abstract instructions. Due to an interruption by the police she wasn’t able to perform all the scores, but the police then inadvertently featured in the grand finale. Time and space were (politically) destabilised for a moment as they became part of the scene. Precariousness prevailed.
Nature Morte à la Madame May; performance, 2011
Photo: Bart Grietens
Siet moves through the various physical stages that occur after death – from palor mortis to putrefaction. The stage is bare with only the projection of a rubbish tip on the back wall. Siet takes her position in front of the screen and becomes part of the scenery as she performs as the flesh and bones of Madame May, once a femme fatale, now just leftover chicken…
Nature Morte à la Madame May; performance, 2011
Photo: Bart Grietens
Siet moves through the various physical stages that occur after death – from palor mortis to putrefaction. The stage is bare with only the projection of a rubbish tip on the back wall. Siet takes her position in front of the screen and becomes part of the scenery as she performs as the flesh and bones of Madame May, once a femme fatale, now just leftover chicken…
CIRCLES; video, 2011
Meet Madam May; performance, 2010
photo: Hylke Gryseels
Meet Madam May; performance, 2010
photo: Hylke Gryseels
JACOB WREN
Born in 1971 in
Montreal, Quebec.
Lives and works in Montreal.
Travels profusely.
Jacob Wren is a writer and maker of eccentric performances. His books include: Unrehearsed Beauty, Families Are Formed Through Copulation and Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed. In February 2011, Jacob completed his most recent novel: Polyamorous Love Song.
As co-artistic director of Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART he has co-created: En français comme en anglais, it’s easy to criticize, Unrehearsed Beauty / Le génie des autres, La famille se crée en copulant, and the ongoing HOSPITALITÉ / HOSPITALITY series.
In 2007, on the invitation of Sophiensaele (Berlin) Jacob adapted and directed Wolfgang Koeppen’s 1954 novel Der Tod in Rom, and in 2008 he was commissioned by Campo (Ghent) to collaborate with Pieter De Buysser on An Anthology of Optimism, which toured Europe in 2009 and 2010.
Entities in which Jacob Wren engages:
PME-ART
RADICAL CUT
LE QUARTANIER
AN ANTHOLOGY OF OPTIMISM
Reviews:
BACK TO THE WORLD
GOOD READS
ADVENT BOOK BLOG
PORCHLIGHT LITERARY MAGAZINE
ELIMAE
CCLaP
REVENGE FANTASIES OF THE POLITICALLY DISPOSSESSED; PUBLISHED BY PEDLAR, 2010
An Anthology of Optimism; performance presentation, 2009-2010
Unrehearsed Beauty; published by The Coach House Press, 1998