{"id":40765,"date":"2026-10-01T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/?post_type=voorstelling&p=40765"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:38:22","slug":"de-vader","status":"publish","type":"voorstelling","link":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/voorstelling\/de-vader\/","title":{"rendered":"De Vader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using a playful, physical language, Marieke Schraepen and Sophia Bauer turn August Strindberg\u2019s bourgeois drama De Vader<\/em> (1887) on its head. With their (perverse) feminine imagination, they take over this violent worldview and transform it from within. <\/strong><\/p>\n

De Vader<\/em> is based on the play of the same name by August Strindberg (1887). In the original plot, Adolf, the head of the household and a career soldier, finds himself in a deep crisis after his wife suggests that he may not be the real father of their child. What is the patriarch worth if he has no power over his own flesh and blood? At the end of the play, Strindberg\u2019s hero dies in a straitjacket, mentally ill and broken. Wife and daughter are left behind, triumphant.<\/p>\n

Together with Anna Franziska J\u00e4ger and Rodrigo Batista, Marieke Schraepen and Sophia Bauer are rewriting the patriarchal legacy of De Vader<\/em>. They take Strindberg\u2019s fear of obsolescence as their starting point: what would a world without men look like? Through a love-hate relationship, they reveal fluid, alternative forms of (male) authority.<\/p>\n

They draw inspiration from feminist performance art and pornographic clich\u00e9s from the 1960s to the 1980s. Alongside the framework of the original text, they incorporate Strindberg\u2019s theoretical pamphlets and diary extracts. They translate these into contemporary forms: video diaries, deepfakes, bodily rituals. They amplify the protagonist\u2019s self-obsession and situate it within a broader social trend. Can we still reverse our collective flight inwards \u2013 towards our \u2018self\u2019, our privacy, our private sphere \u2013 and build a bridge to the other?<\/p>\n

With their playful, physical language, Marieke & Sophia turn Strindberg\u2019s paranoid male script on its head. Their (perverse) female fantasy takes over Adolf\u2019s violent worldview and transforms it from within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40765","voorstelling","type-voorstelling","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/voorstelling\/40765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/voorstelling"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/voorstelling"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/voorstelling\/40765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40766,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/voorstelling\/40765\/revisions\/40766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}