On a beach near Calais a young refugee prepares himself to swim across the Channel, towards his new future. 
The new text by author Gaea Schoeters is mirrored by recently recovered Shakespeare-text. Composer Annelies Van Parys uses the Shakespeare-text as a libretto for a cycle of songs, which set the refugee theme in a historical perspective. 

Het Kanaal (teaser) by Katelijne Verbeke

Text Gaea Schoeters Composition Annelies Van Parys Direction Gable & Romy Roelofsen / Het Geluid Maastricht Actors Katelijne Verbeke & Adams Mensah Vocalist Naomi Beeldens Lute/guitar Maarten Vandenbemden Scenography Anneleen De Causmaecker

On an evocative concert trail, music and image drive, interrupt and contrast with each other. Double bass player Peter Jacquemyn enters into a dialogue with performance artist Sigrid Tanghe. Composer Annelies Van Parys was inspired by Luc Tuymans' Angel for a new work on a text by Gaea Schoeters. Cellist Arne Deforce and calligrapher Brody Neuenschwander close with an intriguing performance.

Compass 02005 is an orientation machine to wear around your waist. It directs you left and right while walking. It guides you through virtual corridors, rooms and doors programmed in the physical exhibition space, or any location. The apparatus imposes an attraction or repulsion on your waist, like you are in a magnetic field. You can explore this environment and discover a tactile architecture. The machine is programmed to make you follow an invisible map but you can choose between resisting to the machine or giving in and letting yourself be guided.

Ivo van Hove directs Ed Lyon and Silvia de La Muela in Leoš Janáček 's The Diary of One who Disappeared. Annelies Van Parys composes an answer to this intriguing tale about detachment. 

Viva Arte Viva
Curated by Christine Macel 

For her first opera, Private View, the composer Annelies Van Parys chose to take as her starting point Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Rear Window, about a murder in a block of flats. 
Her collaboration with the librettist Jen Hadfield, scenarist Gaea Schoeters and director Tom Creed led to the creation of a pioneering opera that won several awards. Private View breaks with tradition, above all in the video installation by the Collective 33⅓.

Aernoudt Jacobs is a sound artist and artistic director of Overtoon, a Brussels based sound art platform.

Aernoudt Jacobs' work is both phenomenological and empirical. It originates from acoustic and technological research and investigates how sounds still can yield sonic processes which will trigger the perceptive scope of the observer. Jacobs' installations focus on a central question: how can the complexity, richness and stratification of our direct, daily environment be translated into something that can really be experienced?

water surface by David Bowen is an installation that connects the gallery space to current conditions on the surface of the oceans all over the world. As wave levels and structures fluctuate in globally distant locations, the installation reflects this activity by creating continually varying three-dimensional patterns in a matrix of LED lights.    

water surface and 46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m  by David Bowen are included in Re-embodied: From Information to Sculpture a group exhibition at the Telfair Museum in Savannah (US).