Performance: 'Bureau Des Pleurs' by Carla Adra
Schedule
Sat Nov 02 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
argos | Brussels, BU
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✨ In the last week of September, Carla Adra collected personal testimonies about work experiences from the argos team and cultural workers in Belgium. Together with two actresses, she will stage these personal accounts into a 4-hour immersive and interactive performance. This three-voice chorus in English will reveal the frustrations, complexities, strengths and vulnerabilities that are experienced by people working in the Belgian cultural sector.The Bureau des Pleurs is an evolving and site-specific performance. Its first iteration in 2019, as part of the 15th Lyon Biennale, involved collecting 267 stories recorded on the street and presented by the artist through a mosaic of videos. It was then hosted by the Palais de Tokyo in 2022 to gather testimonies from its team, which were reinterpreted in a multi-week performance.
Each work by Carla Adra (b. 1993, Toronto; lives in Paris) is a “first time”, a leap into the unknown, in an alliance between trust and “letting go”. She regularly works with testimonies that she gathers and develops ways to welcome “these words that have not found refuge” with the aim of “making audible what is disqualified”.
Carla exhibited work and performed at numerous places such as Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Marina Abramovic Institute (Amsterdam), the 15th Biennale of Lyon and Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain (Strasbourg).
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🔗 More information: https://www.argosarts.org/event/bureau-des-pleurs
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Where is it happening?
argos, Rue du Chantier 13, 1000 Brussel, België,Brussels, BelgiumEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
