Description How to make work today? Kris Verdonck does so through an ongoing investigation into the relation between subjects and objects. From different perspectives (performer, costume designer, director, dramaturg, spectator, scholar), this book approaches the question of how objects perform beyond their category and how human performers approach a more ‘object-like’ state of being on stage. Verdonck’s co-creative method (with both human and non-human elements) implies a fundamental questioning of the medium in which the work is developed. ‘This is a book of our times. When we most need complicated responses to the status quo, when we need to take the time to explore what is often experienced as the unprecedented “new” world we are inhabiting, the work of Verdonck gives us both complexity and time. The documents in this book respond to this complexity and need for time with nuance, deep thought and necessary provocation. A truly remarkable achievement.’ Professor Helena Grehan, Murdoch University, Australia CONTENTS: Preface GUY GYPENS (Kaaitheater, KANAL – Centre Pompidou) How to Make Work Today? KRISTOF VAN BAARLE PETER ECKERSALL MACHINES & ATTITUDES Hanging in the air as if frozen … MARIANNE VAN KERKHOVEN Persona ex machina: Kris Verdonck’s sincere object-actors ANDY LAVENDER About Marionette Theatre HEINRICH VON KLEIST, translated by Frank Hentschker with Margaret Araneo Elegy for a Future End: on Kris Verdonck’s IN VOID CHARLOTTE DE SOMVIELE Interview PETER ECKERSALL KRISTOF VAN BAARLE KRIS VERDONCK Inside/Out: Kris Verdonck and the Ontology of the Box SARAH BAY-CHENG Kris Verdonck’s UNTITLED: Actor-Machines and Dismal Work PETER ECKERSALL LANDSCAPES & ATMOSPHERE Thinking Materially: Verdonck in the Anthropocene CARL LAVERY Conversation: We Just Don’t Seem to Understand It JEAN PAUL VAN BENDEGEM KRIS VERDONCK The Poor Old Sun: A Note on Kris Verdonck’s DETAIL PETER ECKERSALL Posthuman Landscapes MAAIKE BLEEKER Still Life in Fast Forward: Verdonck’s STILLS in Athens EDWARD SCHEER ZERO DIMENSION Beyond a Nonmodernity: Questioning the Human/Non-human Divide SARAH LUCIE Figures Performing Prototypes of Composite Bodies: Kris Verdonck’s Ontological Politics of Time and Movement CHRISTEL STALPAERT S’entendre parler: The Acousmatic Monologue as Acoustic Mirror in the Work of Kris Verdonck TAWNY ANDERSEN Text: PRESYNCOPE End-Time Attitudes KRISTOF VAN BAARLE SOMETHING (out of nothing): Notes on the text KRISTOF VAN BAARLE Text: SOMETHING (out of nothing) KRIS VERDONCK: THE WORK List of Works 176
