ARTAUD3000

After his successful directorial debut MAMA DADA, about dada poet and very first performance artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Ludwig Bindervoet now makes an ode to the most notorious play innovator and prophet of performance art: Antonin Artaud. Like Artaud, Bindervoet is a director, actor and writer and so he directs, adapts and performs Artaud's never performed sci fi-libretto Il n'y a plus de firmament (There is no more firmament; 1933) into ARTAUD3000, an end-time story set in the future.

An unknown planet is heading af Earth. We check humanity in injury time. Ominous and funny. As Artaud's doppelgänger, Bindervoet takes us on a journey in a sensual palace of mirrors, past hallucinatory dream images, psychotic atmospheric sketches, and the cacophony of mass hysteria. ARTAUD3000 is a performance as cosmic as it is intimate, in which the body speaks, the mind breathes and the heart thinks, an unvarnished and unpredictable paean to the irrational. A tapped, whimsical, (multi-)linguistic and visual movement performance. Anti-intellectualistic, physical, and intuitive. A much-needed antidote in polished times.

Bindervoet's MAMA DADA was nominated for two awards: Performer Elvis de Launay for the Theo d'Or for most groundbreaking play performance and costume designer Carmen Schabracq for the first-ever Designer Award.

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