TEXTS (EWOUT)
Congo II (Goma)
In the spring of 2019 Frederique Lecomte asked me to accompany her again to Congo to work with child soldiers. The work is in preparation for a show at KVS in the fall of that year.
ENTER BXL
I’ve been asked to document the process and the festival itself that takes place in Brussels in the spring of 2017. The festival is trying to reimagine an art festival in an extremely participatory way.
Congo I (Bukavu)
In 2013 I´m leaving for the east of Congo to work with child soldiers. I have been invited by Frederique Lecomte to join her. She has a lot of experience in the region and will prevent me from losing my sanity. My own kid is one month old at that time. I keep a correspondence with Tandie (the mother) who is at that point in time staying in Canada.
ESSAY PARTICIPATARY ART PRACTICES (Maastricht)
Ewout is doing a one year teaching degree at the theatre school of Maastricht. He is asked to write an essay to clarify his thoughts on participatory art practices.
WHERE WE ARE THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE DANGER
Ewout has been asked to write a theatre text for a social artistic organisation in the the West of Flanders. This is before the apocalypse. The title is stolen from René Char, from a poem called The Inventors