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KIDNAPPED – A PROLOGUE + RETINA MANEUVER

Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne / Ping-Hsiang Wang
DOUBLE BILL
Fri 21.02.2025 and Sat 22.02.2025
21.02.2025
and
22.02.2025
  • 21.02.2025
    20:30
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOX
    Tickets
  • 22.02.2025
    20:30
    KVS, Brussels
    KVS BOX
    Tickets

On February 21 and 22, KVS presents this double bill for the cultural adventurer. With Kidnapped – a prologue and Retina Maneuver, you’ll experience two groundbreaking performances in one evening. Your ticket grants you access to both creations – a win-win!

KIDNAPPED - A PROLOGUE

RODRIGO BATISTA & MARIANA SENNE / MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, WIPCOOP & CAMPO 

  EN, PT      THEATER    

KIDNAPPED is a work in progress for a speculative metaphor: in our illusory world of neoliberal ‘freedom’, we are all, in some sense, kidnapped. Dragged along by ideologies, identities, technologies, political systems, predatory relationships, competition, capital, structural inequalities, … In other words: we are abducted by the deep-rooted subconscious power of colonialism and capitalism, trapped between the concrete absurdity of globalised macropolitics and the duplicitous, often elitist, longing for micropolitical solutions.


RETINA MANEUVER  

PING-HSIANG WANG / TATWERK | PERFORMATIVE FORSCHUNG 

  EN     THEATER, LECTURE PERFORMANCE    

At the last WIPCOOP edition, Ping-Hsiang Wang made his mark with this multimedia solo lecture performance. In Retina Maneuver, he investigates how Taiwanese millennials’ perspectives on conscription and military violence have evolved in the past ten years, through a queer lens. He dives into his digital archive in order to uncover his inexplicable obsession with the iconic pop song Girl on Fire … The deeper he digs, the more memories surface of his time in the Taiwanese army, ten years ago.

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Credits

KIDNAPPED – A PROLOGUE CONCEPT Rodrigo Batista IN SAMENWERKING MET / EN COOPERATION AVEC / IN COOPERATION WITH Mariana Senne REGIE / MISE EN SCÈNE / DIRECTION Rodrigo Batista PERFORMERS Mariana Senne & Rodrigo Batista COLLABORATION IN TEXT Luiz Pimentel COLLABORATION IN SOUND Cainã Vidor COLLABORATION IN VIDEO Kathleen Kunath RESIDENCIES Studio Alta, wp Zimmer, workspacebrussels, Campo, Piano Fabriek MET DE STEUN VAN / AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE / WITH THE RESEARCH SUPPORT OF Flanders State of the Art, Mestizo Arts Platform/WIPCOOP, and Detheatermaker RETINA MANEUVER CREATIE & PERFORMANCE / CRÉATION & PERFORMANCE / CREATION & PERFORMANCE Ping-Hsiang Wang (Taiwan) DRAMATURGIE / DRAMATURGY Wan Shi (China) ARTISTIEK ADVIES / ASSISTANCE ARTISTIQUE / ARTISTIC ADVICE Kang-Hua Chang (Indonesia/Taiwan) DECOR & KOSTUUMONTWERP / CONCEPTION DÉCOR & COSTUMES / SET AND COSTUME DESIGN Yi-Ju Chou (Taiwan) LICHTONTWERP / CONCEPTION LUMIÈRE / LIGHTING DESIGN Raquel Rosildete (Brazil) PRODUCTIEMANAGEMENT / GESTION DE LA PRODUCTION / PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Michael Rade (Germany) PRODUCTIE / PRODUCTION Ping- Hsiang Wang CO-PRODUCTIE / CO-PRODUCTION TATWERK | Performative Forschung MET STEUN VAN / AVEC LE SUPPORT DE / WITH THE SUPPORT OF Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the residency program at PACT Zollverein (Essen), funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Mestizo Arts Platform/WIPCOOP, 2022 Thinkers’ Partner Project (TP Project,) Thinkers’ Studio