ARTAUD3000 - Ludwig Bindervoet

After his successful directorial debut MAMA DADA, about Dada poet and very first performance artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Ludwig Bindervoet now pays tribute to the most notorious theater innovator and prophet of performance art: Antonin Artaud. Just like Artaud, Bindervoet is a director, actor and writer and so he directs, adapts and plays Artaud's never-performed sci-fi libretto Il n'y a plus de firmament(There is no longer a vault of heaven; 1933) to ARTAUD3000, an end-time story set in the future.

An unknown planet is heading towards Earth. We see humanity in stoppage time. Ominous and funny. As Artaud's doppelgänger, Bindervoet takes us on a journey through a titillating mirror palace, past hallucinatory dream images, psychotic atmospheric sketches, and the cacophony of mass hysteria. ARTAUD3000 is a performance that is as cosmic as it is intimate in which the body speaks, the mind breathes and the heart thinks, an unslick and unpredictable paean to the irrational. A crazy, whimsical, (multi)lingual and visual movement performance. Anti-intellectualistic, physical, and intuitive. A much-needed antidote in polished times.

Bindervoet's MAMA DADA was nominated for two awards: Performer Elvis de Launay for the Theo d'Or for most groundbreaking stage performance and costume designer Carmen Schabracq for the very first Designer Award.

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