Performance
En quête des marges fluctuantes
Guy Woueté
23 Sep 2021
The event is over
During the three Brussels Days, the Cameroon artist Guy Woueté and performers Medina Tokalic and Bela Juttner, hold up banners in the public spaces. The banners that contain thoughts and texts, some of which were written by Woueté himself, fluctuate between poetic quotations and political claims/slogans.
During En quête des marges fluctuantes, the bodies of performers are put to work in public spaces for eight hours a day, thus challenging how passers-by view work and working conditions. What does 'work' mean today? What does statutory working time mean in a society where the people who work the most do not always have a job? With this sit-in performance, Guy Woueté refutes the well-known motto "work more in order to earn more" and considers forms of visibility for those who work most without being benefiting from the 12 protective mechanisms associated with having a job. A situation that has been exacerbated over the last months of the pandemic, and against which no action has been planned.
D'autres représentations ont lieu de 11h à 19h :
- Le 22 septembre, Place Maurice Quentin
- Le 23 septembre, Boulevard Richard Lenoir
Guy Woueté (1980, Douala, Cameroon) works in Antwerp and Douala. He studied sculpture and painting in Douala, Paris and Brussels (ERG) and won the Thami Mnyele Foundation Award in 2006. His career has since taken on a more international dimension, and he was awarded a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam (2009-2010). Using history as his primary material, Woueté seeks to shape a new future in which people see and understand themselves differently. In his videos, drawings, paintings, and installations, he engages us in a reflection on what we might learn from the past. His work has been exhibited around the world, including at the Lumumbashi Biennale (2019), Addis Foto Fest (2018), Dakar Biennale (2018), S.M.A.K. in Ghent (2018), Havana Biennial (2009), New Museum in New York (2009), and various film festivals in Rotterdam, Montreal and Toronto. In 2018, he was one of eight candidates for the Vrienden van het S.M.A.K. | Coming People Prize (a biennial prize awarded by the Friends of the S.M.A.K. to one of the young artists who have just graduated from a Belgian institute of higher learning in the visual arts.
When
12pm - 7pm
Where
Performance de Guy Woueté
© Bea Borgers