Cinema, Podium en
Werkplek in Kortrijk
← to all podium performances

Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis

campfire

Fri 25 Sept
Performance
Duration: 1 hour
Budascoop

18:30 – 19:30 campfire (in English, without surtitles)
21:30 – 22:30 campfire (in Dutch, without surtitles)

Combine this performance with a panel discussion on visions of the future, fears, concerns and fantasies.

CUBO
buy tickets →

In campfire, Bosse Provoost & Ezra Veldhuis take the spectators on stage, where they are immersed in a bath of sound and light. We listen in on a conversation that takes place under strange stars, and traverse different environments — or is it the same space, but 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. Millennia-old 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?

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.

Play dates

“The performance installation ‘Campfire’ transports you into the dreamy, contemplative state that can arise during late-night conversations – for example, around a campfire.” — De Theaterkrant
“The work of Bosse Provoost and Erza Veldhuis is like a display case in which you take your place. Here, you yourself are part of the scenography – a campfire is just a fire if no one is sitting round it.” — De Theaterkrant

Concept & light Ezra Veldhuis, Bosse Provoost Sound design Benjamin Cools Scenography seating & costumes Helen Van de Vloet Dramaturgy Dagmar Teurelincx Outside eye Jonas Baeke Voices Anna Franziska Jäger, Joeri Happel, Benjamin Verdonck Internship costumes Valérie Volfová Technical coordination Sil Verdickt Text Bosse Provoost Scenography lighting Ezra Veldhuis Production Hiros Coproduction SPRING Performing Arts Festival, C-TAKT, Kunstencentrum BUDA, KAAP, Perpodium With support of Kaaitheater, c o r s o, Kunstenwerkplaats, CAMPO, de Vlaamse Overheid Special thanks to Musia Mwankumi, Marieke Schraepen, Playground (STUK & M, Leuven)

Subscribe to our newsletter

Follow us!

@kunstencentrumbuda