Down in the cave: not to be missed at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts

APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Thai director and visual artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul (1970) is being honoured. Fever Room (21 > 25/5), his very first theatre production, is premièring in Europe. Memorandum (6 > 28/5) is a retrospective of his films and video installations, and his Tropical Malady (2004), which won an award in Cannes, is being screened in the Zoniënwoud/Forêt de Soignes (16/5).

BERLIN
The BERLIN Theatre Company has spent years using the best of documentary film, theatre, and installation to tell penetrating stories about curious places in the world. For Zvizdal [Chernobyl - So Far So Close] (12 > 15/5), they travelled to a village in Ukraine, which after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl is inhabited only by a lonely old couple.

EDIT KALDOR
Hungarian-American theatre director Edit Kaldor, who is based in Amsterdam, is premièring Web of Trust (6 > 15/5) at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts. It is a “production” in which the central role is played by a computer screen that brings together a global network of web friends in the theatre.

YOUNES BABA-ALI
Brussels-Moroccan artist Younes Baba-Ali is installing his sculpture of satellite dish antennae, Paraboles, on the façade of the Ravensteingalerij/Galerie Ravenstein, and down in the road in an empty shop, he is reflecting on the daily life of illegal street vendors in Southern Europe in Vu’ cumprà? (6 > 28/5).

MÅRTEN SPÅNGBERG
Swedish choreographer Mårten Spångberg is coming back to Brussels after presenting La Substance, but in English here last year. Natten (13 & 14/5) will introduce audiences in the chapel of Les Brigittines to the black hole of the night during a seven-and-a-half-hour session with nine performers.

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
6 > 28/5, verschillende locaties/divers endroits/various locations, www.kunstenfestivaldesarts.be