SARA MANENTE, MOLD
The Museum as Performance – 8th Edition
17:30
A mold refers to two very different things: it is a type of fungus but is also a hollow container to cast a specific form or pattern. As a fungus it functions as a mycelial network that grows in ways that seem ungovernable: connecting, colonising, infecting, digesting, fruiting and producing spores. As a pattern it is a matrix, a form that shapes malleable matters. MOLD wants to stage the conflict between spontaneous proliferation and casting, between two different logics in the same body.
Drawing from a variety of practices -mycology, fashion, fermentation, dance and sculpture- MOLD approaches the theatre machine as a multiplicity of bodies. We want MOLD not only to be a performance but also a farm. An environment where dance, objects, audience, light, music, scents and costumes interact as living cultures. A garden dedicated to cultivating, abandoning, inoculating, braiding, duplicating, sprouting, warming up and letting rot.
10 SEP, 17:30
MOLD, 90’
Auditorium
11 SEP, 15:00
A MOLD SPILLOVER - Wanderings in the museum, 20’
Museum Galleries
Concept and direction: Sara Manente
Performance: Marcos Simoes, Gitte Hendrikx, Sara Manente
Music: Christophe Albertijn
Light: Estelle Gautier
Scent and costumes: Sofie Durnez
Mycelium: Deborah Robbiano
Dramaturgical advice: Jaime Llopis
Artistic advice: Edurne Rubio
Trailer: Luca Mattei
Production: Hiros
Co-production: C-Takt, WpZimmer, Kaaitheater, Kunstencentrum BUDA, WIELS, Far° Festival
With the support of: de Vlaamse Overheid
Thanks to: Kunst/Werk, Xing, Bart Van den Eynde, Simon Charlier, Günbike Erdemir, Natan @ Nãm Mushrooms
Image: Deborah Robbiano/MOLD
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Image © Susanna Hofer
Sara Manente is a choreographer, performer and researcher living in Brussels.
Her projects circulate around topics such as language/opacity/noise, hybrid/chimera/third.
Interested in narrowing the distance between the performer, the work and the spectator, she realizes works of different size and format: book launch, 3D film, written text, interview, choreographic piece, workshop, telepathic experience, etc.
Her two major dance pieces are Lawaai means Hawaai (2009) and Faire un four (2011), followed by a longer research project focused on ekphrasis and the critical relationship between dance and language: Spectacles (2016-18).
From 2012 to 2019, she has been working with Marcos Simões questioning notions of collaboration and the relation with the audience by making performances and workshops. This place, x: I liked B better/ y: I am 29 too, Tele Visions and Lava.
In 2019 she receives a research grant from the Flemish Authorities for Wicked technology/Wild
fermentation: “by linking practices of fermentation, feminism and artistic research, I am
interested in putting together techniques that transform thought, perception and doing (of togetherness) in live cultures and live arts.”
She is a regular dedicated mentor at the a.pass master program and she taught at KASK, ISAC, ZUYD and DOCH.
She has been working with and performing for Juan Dominguez, Kate McIntosh, Aitana Cordero Vico, Marcos Simoes, Jaime Llopis, Nada Gambier, Gaëtan Bulourde, Andrea Maurer, Begüm Erciyas and Beatrice Balcou.