ABOUT PERENNIAL

PERENNIAL IS A TEMPORARY AUDITORIUM, THOUGHT OF AS A SALON, SHAPED AS AN EVENT. THE TERM “PERENNIAL” REFERS TO THE CYCLICAL BLOOMING OF PLANTS, AS WELL AS TO THE NOTION OF UNIVERSAL RECURRENCE OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS, THROUGH TIMES AND CULTURES. ASSUMING THAT FUTURE VISIONS ARE PROJECTED MEMORIES, SUBLIME AND OUTER WORLDLY PERSPECTIVES CAN ALSO BE CONCEIVED AS PROJECTED INTERIORS. PERENNIAL AS SALON AND AUDITORIUM WILL FUNCTION AS A MODEL OF THIS HYPOTHESIS AND THE DEPARTURE POINT FOR A VAST EVENING PROGRAM INCLUDING CHRISTIAN WALDVÖGEL, ETTORE SOTTSASS, JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS, MARK VON SCHLEGELL, GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI, ERIK THYS A.O


PERENNIAL IS A PROJECT OF ARNAUD HENDRICKX, MICHAEL VAN DEN ABEELE AND RICHARD VENLET.


PROJECT SUPPORTED BY: OPAK, WIELS, FAK.

AGENDA

FRI 27 MAY 18:00 - 21:00 WIELS
OPENING.


WED 01 JUNE 20:00 WIELS
HARALD THYS & JOS DE GRUYTER - FILM PREMIERE.


FRI 10 JUNE 20:00 WIELS
CHRISTIAN WALDVÖGEL - GLOBUS CASSUS, LECTURE.


WED 15 JUNE 20:00 WIELS
MARK VON SHLEGELL - THE SECRET LIFE OF A SENTIENT PLANT, READING.


FRI 24 JUNE 20:00 WIELS
NANAMI KOHSHOU - BUTOH PERFORMANCE


FRI 01 JULY 20:00 WIELS

ERIK THYS - SPACE AND THE SOUL, LECTURE.


WED 6 JULY 20:00 WIELS

DIRK DE MEYER - TERRAGNI'S DANTEUM, LECTURE.

PERENNIAL #4 - 24 JUNE 20H: NANAMI KOHSHOU - PERFORMANCE


PERENNIAL # 4



NANAMI KOHSHOU
PERFORMANCE 
FRIDAY 24.06.2011 - 8PM





Nanami Kohshou is a Butoh dancer and choreographer based in Paris. From 1982 he made music and theater before turning to Butoh in 1999. Ankoku-Butoh, or ‘Dance of darkness’, first appeared in Japan following World War II. Dancers such as Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno influenced by German expressionistic dance and Japan’s industrial and rural landscape, found a non-formal mode of expression that broke with the influence of Western classical dance and Japan’s traditional theatre. Like decaying Kabuki troupes Butoh dancers re-learnt their body from scratch finding techniques both mental andphysical to tap into its impulses and drives.

Organized in collaboration with Theo Cowley

Performance

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More info: http://www.wiels.org

FREE ENTRANCE


PERENNIAL is a project of Arnaud Hendrickx, Michael Van den Abeele and Richard Venlet.

Save the date:
Friday 01.07: Psychiatrist Erik Thys - lecture
! Change of date - Friday 08.07: Professor Dirk de Meyer – Giuseppe Terragni's Danteum

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