The Silencing of the World (werktitel) gaat uit van de constatering dat het massale uitsterven waar we mee te maken hebben echt betekent dat de wereld stiller aan het worden is. Hoe positioneren we ons ten opzichte van deze stilte? En wat kunnen we ons erna voorstellen?

David Weber-Krebs (BE/DE)

David Weber-Krebs (BE/DE) is an artist and a researcher based in Brussels. David explores various contexts as a basis for an experimental process questioning the agency of the spectator on the work of art. Recent performance works include The Actual Event (2020), The Death of Ivan Ilyich (2021), and The Silencing (2022). Recent visual art installations include Immersion (2014) and The Earthly Paradise (2017). David is the curator of the series of performative conferences On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors (with Jeroen Peeters) in which they address this question: how are the arts (its questions, forms, research and discourses) challenged by climate change? He is the initiator and editor of the book And then the Doors Opened Again (Onomatopee, 2020) in which, in the heat of the first Covid lockdown, 75 authors imagine their first theatre visit after the lockdown. David is affiliated with KASK & Conservatory / School of Arts as a doctoral artistic researcher.