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Klaas Devos



As a young performance artist with backgrounds in music-, theater- and dance-study it’s rather hard to concrete my position in the everflowing contemporary performance scene. I combine my fascinations in presentation-arts by handling dance-theater, improvisation and multi-media in installations, These projects process in collaboration with other young artists and researchers. January 2008 I started the Post-graduate Performance training with my own research program vIrIon - the complete, infective form of a virus outside the host cell - based on the title of my last theater-dance production I created in context of my graduation at the Higher Institute for Dance in Belgium.
This researchproject lead me to the initiative to create a new solo inspired on the essential aspects of Performance Arts and questioning the role of the performer as a (scientific) researcher.


The contact with different choreographical styles and approaches; abstractivism - dance-theatre - contemporary dance and working on different methodologies as Improvisation - Laban - Bartinieff - BMC)  lead to a specific analytical approach to movement  and performance.
Some of the projects in which I participated:
Constanza Macras - I am not the only one, David Hernandez - Performance Hotel, Florence Augendre - Deep Surface, Filip Van Huffel - Electric Counterpoint, Marc Vanrunxt - Prototype.
The particular methodologies and aesthetics of these Choreographers were an influence and in some cases mentors for my personal artistic development.


Making a deeper research on the sensitive, energetic exchange between performers, environment and the perceiving "vIrIon" is an artistic and scientific Research that will unfold different productions:


Study in Space in 4 Chapters                                                   2007

3 Sequences of Betweeness
                                                     2008

Solo Sensations - Experimental Observatory                           2008 - 2009

Edit Sensations - Solo                                                             2008 - 2009





For more information and a deeper view on the material of the vIrIon performances go to the vIrIon project page.


my projects

vitrinePeacebody sessionsmadonnaDrama Queenshanging on the telephonevIrIon



EditS.

Klaas Devos -- Sat 1 Nov 2008 -- 0 reactions
I hope I can host all of you in a new solo dance-performance based on the vIrIon-research.




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Gewoon Evolutie

Klaas Devos -- Sat 1 Nov 2008 -- 0 reactions
You are all very welcome on the presentation of the new LAmpekAp Collective project:
Gewoon Evolutie.




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Perser

Klaas Devos -- Mon 25 Aug 2008 -- 0 reactions



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vitrine proposal

vitrine -- Klaas Devos -- Wed 4 Jun 2008 -- 0 reactions
I was thinking on how we can communicate our projects and processes of thinking within the group, but also reflect this to through the fourth wall of the vitrine. We will be sharing a lot of time in a closed environment and this togetherness carries two important notions that I would like to propose to work on in the vitrine project.

1/

As David Hume, Scottish philosopher, said: we are no more than bundles of sensations, without mental glue or a physic core to form a central self. Perhaps we seem to be individual selves because of our continuing, ever growing threads of memory which, most curiously, belong to us uniquely even for experiences we share with others. The ownership of memory comes home together with guilt – for how can we be blamed if our pasts are not part of us now? Similarly, why should we be praised for our deeds, unless we are – or at least own – the deed-maker? I suppose the ‘bundle’ notion seems inadequate because we see in people continuity of aims and purposes. We appreciate the justice of blame or punishment very much in terms of short- or long-term intentions. And we at least seem to be praising or blaming the same person, years later, though he may have changed beyond recognition – apart from private memories (which may be none too reliable) and his public name.

As together we create a shared memory during our time-space togetherness. I would like to propose to communicate our own thoughts, interpretations of situations, opinions on topics of conversations held during the day, to the outside of the vitrine. It's a small piece on the wall of the room (facing the window) where every participant can create a logbook. The logbook represents your personal communication to the outside of the vitrine on shared information of the inside room. This information is quiet personal and therefor only visible when the occupiers of the room leave.

In other words: I propose for everybody to unfold a logbook written in phosphorent markers (white on white wall), that are loaded during daylight and activate during the darkness of the night. In other words an opportunity to let out dark thoughts illuminate...




2/ My second proposal concerns communicating with the outside in a rather less spectacular manner: I want to propose we make an overview of the main topics we handle in discussion by writing them on the window (mirrored or not...). This overview will give an update of what is happening on mental level in the research and helps to created a notion of history for bypassing people; as you would read the newspaper to catch up the new items every morning. I would even extend the idea and open communication by putting the markers also on the sidewalk side of the vitrine. The writing will add a sense of time to the vitrine project and question the readability of the everyday, as the more frequent we make contact with a person the more information we gain of that character. The more information we gain of character, lesser we can see his/her presence and form.

read the small letters on the box.




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Feed me back

Klaas Devos -- Thu 17 Jan 2008 -- 1 reaction
I would like to use this blog for people who can share links, names or other references with me.
You can already find some of them under the pages of   "1 to 1"   on the   "vIrIron 2"  project-page.

Thanks,


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