“During our residency at BUDA, we would like to make the end of our performance All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, to find out what the middle might be. We are further developing our scenography, which includes a steaming cable river and hills of ballet floor. Benne Dousselaere continues to work on the sound design, based on California Dreamin’ by The Mamas & the Papas, We’re Lost in Music of Sister Sledge and At Last I Am Free of CHIC. With the performers, we explore a performativity in which one’s own body is a vessel for diverse nonhuman intelligences.”

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Bosse Provoost (BE) & Ezra Veldhuis (NL)

Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost have been explo­ring the bor­der­lands bet­ween the­a­ter, per­for­man­ce and instal­la­ti­on art together sin­ce 2018. Their work is infu­sed with a fas­ci­na­ti­on for light, spa­ce and scenography. Through com­po­si­ti­ons of light shifts, sound pat­ches and silen­ces, they cre­a­te ever-chan­ging spa­ces popu­la­ted by semi-human-loo­king figu­res. Theater spa­ces are ener­gi­zed into ‘envi­ron­ments’, in which meta­the­a­tri­cal and eco­sys­te­mic logics diver­ge.

Poetry is not only at the ori­gin of most of their work (Celan, Christensen, Brautigan…), the per­for­man­ces are also con­struc­ted fol­lo­wing poe­tic prin­ci­ples and can be read as sce­nic poems. Between 2017 and 2021 they cre­a­ted the per­for­man­ces Matisklo (2018), SUN-SET (2020) and Indoor Weather (2021) at Toneelhuis.

Currently, the artis­tic prac­ti­ce of Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost is sup­por­ted by Hiros. Their first work with Hiros was All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2023), the sta­ging of an idyllic/dystopian “cyber­ne­tic mea­dow”, as drea­med up in a Richard Brautigan poem of the same name.