The Politics of Scenography: Disrupting the stage

Abstract

In 2009 Flemish theatre maker Thomas Bellinck got involved in the protest of a group of paperless immigrants in Brussels. What started as an unnoticed hunger strike in an underground parking, with the help of Bellinck transformed in a public protest on a historical meaningful square in the city centre: nine hunger, with no legal status, conducted by Bellinck sang the ‘Brabançonne’, the Belgian national hymn. Not much later, and to almost everybody's surprise, the protest action was selected for the 2009 edition of the Flemish Theatre Festival. Instead of putting the protest on stage, re-enacting it, at the opening's night of the festival Bellinck delivered a text in Brussels’ Kaaitheater, somewhere between a political speech and a theatrical monologue raising pressing questions about the relation between art and activism.

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