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Bildraum

Atelier Bildraum (Steve Salembier & Charlotte Bouckaert)
Wed 30 Oct 20:30
30 Oct
20:30
  • 30 Oct
    20:30
    On tour,
    Unidram - Potsdam (DE)
    Past event

Bildraum is a performance in which architecture and photography, past and present coincide; a live scenography in which Charlotte Bouckaert & Steve Salembier of Atelier Bildraum perform as technicians of the imagination.

Bildraum can be translated as ‘image space’; these are the two elements that Steve Salembier and Charlotte Bouckaert work with in this performance with an open narrative structure. Together, they create a kind of ‘architecture walk’ before the eyes of the spectator: using her camera Charlotte moves across the various spaces Steve has built up using scale-models. In this way they gradually create images, frameworks in which personal memories unfold, a story that is built up like a photo album. The result is projected onto a large screen at the back of the stage. Bildraum is a performance in which architecture and photography, past and present coincide; a live scenography in which the two artists perform as technicians of the imagination. This piece is the first collaboration for the theatre of architect Steve Salembier and photographer Charlotte Bouckaert.

Part of

Atelier Bildraum creates performances, installations and scenographic spaces. Photographer Charlotte Bouckaert and architect Steve Salembier work together, each using their own medium, to create new stories. For their first theatre piece, Bildraum, they received the Big in Belgium award at Theater aan Zee (Ostend) in 2015 and the Total Theatre Award in Edinburgh in 2016. Atelier Bildraum is ‘artist in residence’ at the production house LOD muziektheater in Ghent (Belgium). Their second performance, In between violet and green, premiered in March 2017.

While the rooms/ spaces tell the story of the activities and situations that take place in them, the scale-model and the photographic image isolate that story and thus present a concentrated and focused experience of a captured moment. It is the spectator, with his capacity for emphasis, who, in the course of this process, and between the still images, creates a story that links everything together.

Steve Salembier & Charlotte Bouckaert about 'Bildraum'

Credits

concept & performance Atelier Bildraum (Charlotte Bouckaert & Steve Salembier) sound Duncan Speakman technicians Pino Etz, Christoph Donse dramaturgical advice Marnix Rummens production Pianofabriek Kunstenwerkplaats coproduction LOD muziektheater (tournee 17/18, 18/19, 19/20), Beursschouwburg, WPZiMMER en de Vlaamse Gemeenschap met de steun van Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan Productions, Theatre Royal Plymouth in cooperation with Summerhall met dank aan ZSenne Artlab, Julie Pfleiderer, Bas Schevers, Tibo Vandenborre, Philip Janssens, Xavier Catry en Destelheid