A Two Dogs Company & KASK present:

THE LOST ONES
(after Samuel Beckett)

An Architecture of Loss

In Samuel Beckett's The Lost Ones, characters search for their lost ones in a space without an exit. They seem to follow unwritten rules. They are the result of the architecture and dynamics of their surroundings. This environment has something hellish: space, light and sound have a merciless effect on the seekers. Their search seems futile: recognition and memory are absent in this world. And yet they continue: nonsensically, bored, playfully, madly, endlessly. 

One could also look at it another way: maybe the figures are not so much the seekers as the ones who are being sought, the ones who are missed. Like silhouettes in a white space, they are the holes in our emotional architecture. Somewhere in our memory, in our body, these 'lost ones' wander. They are connections that are no longer made but that are still sought. The world of The Lost Ones is then an architecture of lack, of a loss and longing for something absent that rages through the brain and the body. The figures' absurd searching in this environment is a consequence of that longing and missing. As long as we yearn for them, the people we miss are lost - in us. In the same way, we ourselves may be both seekers and seekers. Will this circle ever be completed, will this desire ever be at rest? Or is it rather like two parallel lines and do the paths of seeker and sought only cross in infinity? 

CREDITS
Concept and Direction: Kris Verdonck
Performance: Toon Acke, Lise Bolikowski, Lotte De Keyzer, Marah Haj Hussein, Emma Van Ammel, Sophie Anna Veelenturf, Maria Zandvliet, Fiene Zasada, Lieselot Siddiki, Luca Persan
Dramaturgy: Kristof van Baarle
Costumes: Eefje Wijnings
Soundscape: Oscar Claus

A collaboration between KASK – School of Arts and A Two Dogs Company

The Lost Ones is a project in the frame of  the three-year research project at KASK – School of Arts by Kris Verdonck and Kristof van Baarle, focusing on the performative and dramaturgical convergences between the work of Samuel Beckett and Noh-theater.  

10 November 2021 - 20:00
11 November 2021 - 20:00
12 November 2021 - 20:00

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cloud piano plays the keys of a piano based on the movements and shapes of the clouds. A camera pointed at the sky captures video of the clouds. Custom software uses the video of the clouds in real-time to articulate a robotic device that presses the corresponding keys on the piano. The system is set in motion to function as if the clouds are pressing the keys on the piano as they move across the sky and change shape. The resulting sound is generated from the unique key patterns created by ethereal forms that build, sweep, fluctuate and dissipate in the sky.

David Bowen - cloud piano
Le Tetris

15.11.21 - 19.11.21
Central Station, Antwerp (B)

29.11..21 - 03.12.21
Central Station, Brussels (B)

CREATION: 10:00 - 17:00
PRESENTATION: 17:00 - 18:30

Concept I Musical Director: Benjamin Haemhouts
Librettist: Gaea Schoeters 
Composer: Annelies Van Parys 
Director: Fanny Gilbert Collet
Cast: Members Jong Ensemble Opera Ballet Vlaanderen & International Opera Academy 

Gaea Schoeters and Annelies Van Parys create an opera in a glass container in the station, based on your story and that of fellow travelers! In collaboration with Casco Phil and EUROPALIA. Come and visit them, leave your story in the yellow letterbox or mail info@transparant.be.

The history of our continent is largely the outcome of the overwhelming need of human beings to travel and the perpetual movement it generates. As vessels of this human movement, train stations are home to the many stories brought about by the flows of travellers that pass through them and the small and large events that take place there. Lost & Found aims to establish a dialogue between the train stations and the variety of local stories that live there - from intimately personal accounts to public matters. Mini operas developed over the course of several days will transform these stories into audio, visual and kinetic experiences for passers-by and travellers.

The team with librettist Gaea Schoeters, director Fanny Gilbert Collet and composer Annelies Van Parys works in a creative space - a transparent glass box in the station itself - from which the artists can observe what is happening outside their box and allow passers-by to witness in real time a part of the creative process.
Every day there are pop-up shows between 5 pm and 6.30 pm based on the interactions of that day. The final composition will bring together the daily opera fragments and take the form of a continuous performance in which musicians and singers will share the result of this experience.

CREDITS
Production: Muziektheater Transparant, Casco Phil and EUROPALIA
In coproduction with: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (Antwerp and Brussels), IOA International Opera Academy (Antwerp and Brussels)

With the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and SNCB (Antwerp and Brussels)

MORE INFO
Casco Phil
Muziektheater Transparant
EUROPALIA TRAINS & TRACKS

growth rendering device
This system provides light and food in the form of hydroponic solution for the plant. The plant reacts to the device by growing. The device in-turn reacts to the plant by producing a rasterized inkjet drawing of the plant every twenty-four hours. After a new drawing is produced the system scrolls the roll of paper approximately four inches so a new drawing can be produced during the next cycle. The system runs indefinitely and the final outcome is not predetermined.

David Bowen - growth rendering device
Artifice Numérique

CONVERSATIONS 02012 by Lawrence Malstaf is included in the group exhibition YI - A Chair at ZHI Art Museum in Chengdu (ROC). This is an innovative exhibition that evokes the reflection on the complicated relationship between Chair and Man in history. Different identities in different social relationships have personified their chairs, and vice versa. Chairs also reflect the characteristics and social class of the owners. When chairs are placed in our society, they automatically react as inter-medium, exchanging with the space, the life, the authority, the professions, and the personalities, etc. Thus chairs have become the all-embracing manifestation of human society.

Based on this theme, it is a combination of exhibitions that play with a joint force of modern and contemporary and performing art by 22 artists from more than 10 countries across the world.

CONVERSATIONS 02012 by Lawrence Malstaf.
A couple of vibrating chairs are slowly moving and turning randomly through the space. They seem to search and reject each other with soft humming sounds. When a visitor passes by or sits down, the chairs hesitate and then carefully try out different patterns. The patterns are not designed; it is a self-organising system where new compositions and new behaviour arises spontaneously through the duration of the installation.

YI - A Chair  at ZHI Art Museum

Commissioned by the Hamsunsenter in Norway, Lawrence Malstaf is currently developing two new installations inspired by the infamous novel ‘Hunger’ written by Knut Hamsun in 1890. 

The works will be installed in the award winning museum designed by the American architect Steven Holl. One of the structures is an articulating network of woven springsteel strings and wool. 

Hamsunsenter
Lawrence Malstaf