Misunderstanding is a way to reveal and to create other realities: to hear and imagine something other; to interpret differently; to juxtapose perceptions; to resist to what is given or said; to build up parallel temporalities. It is the stakes of poetry, of counterpoint, of resistance, of uncertainty, of alternatives and of fictions. Marcos & Pauline think of misunderstandings in this project as something to be considered, something valuable. They see it both as a visual & choreographic tool more then a subject of work.

What if the misunderstanding is the origin, the starting point of the project? The mechanism by which we produce and create? And that defines situations and relationships to work with?

Marcos Simoes & Pauline Brun were joined in this project by a fortunate misunderstanding and have decided to embrace it by turning it into the tool and the purpose that ties us in this collaboration.

The project Tie-Tool starts from these questions and will be developed into the form of a performance exhibition or an exhibited performance.

Marcos Simoes (PT/BE)

Marcos Simoes (PT/BE) is a Brussels-based choreographer, performer and weaver. Even though the body is the material from which he works, he uses different media such as drawing, video, image, textiles, and objects. His performances are rites of relations, in the form of hybrid objects between the visual and the performative. Relationships are a strategy to unveil what exists in between things, to open up holes and meanings we are not in control of.

Pauline Brun (FR)

Pauline Brun is a choreographer, performer, and visual artist. Her work, which bridges visual art and choreography, plays with different media, exploring the body with self-mockery and absurdity. Trained at the Conservatory of Nice, Villa Arson, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and ex.e.r.ce at the CCN in Montpellier, her work unfolds in the form of shows, performances, videos, drawings, and installations, including Scruffy Shot (2018), Poutre (2020), Raide d’équerre (2022), Tie-Tool created with Marcos Simões (2022), and Gna Gna Gna (Live) (2018-2024). In 2023, she was awarded a residency program at the Villa Kujoyama, where she explored the concept of Chindogu.

As a performer or set designer, she has collaborated with, among others, Fanny De Chaillé and Philippe Ramette, Alain Buffard (reprise Mauvais Genre), Pol Pi, Jule Flierl, Nina Santes, Adaline Anobile, Jonas Chéreau, Antoine Cegarra, Gaetan Rusquet, Charlotte Imbault, and Diederik Peeters. In parallel, she teaches performance at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. In 2021, she founded the company NO SMALL MESS with Bettina Blanc Penther.