In campfire, Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis take you onto the stage, where you are immersed in a bath of sound and light. Listen in on a conversation taking place beneath a strange constellation, and traverse different environments – or is it always the same space, yet experienced differently each time?

Between the field of vision of a shrimp, the wandering arms of an octopus and the inside of a womb, a field of perspectives opens up. Ancient animal paintings, firing synapses and out-of-body experiences pass by as attempts to think beyond human consciousness. Can we imagine how bodies different from our own perceive the world?

Their residency at BUDA is their last before they premiere at the SPRING Performing Arts Festival. They are constructing their full scenography and lighting setup for the first time and will mainly be fine-tuning it there.

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.