Claire Stragier, a young performance and visual artist herself, circulating in the same Ghentian Avant-Garde circles, sat down with the duo. Out of a lengthy conversation on how they started, and on their research, she distilled a mosaic of scenes. In
A group of young artists rents a studio in Ghent together. They call it ‘De Schouwburg’ (The Theatre). They organize performance nights to show their work-in-progress to each other and their friends. On one of these nights Linde Carrijn was pe
Two young women walk through a museum of fine arts. Studying paintings. The frozen movement of Caravaggio, dramatically lit natures mortes, Morandi’s desaturation.
Linde Carrijn and Laura Vroom rehearse for a new performance at Vooruit. Long theatre curtains in the background. The curtains are borders, backdrop, walls, theatrical props, characters. As the duo moves from one rehearsal space to the other, they take
Three young women sit in the café of an art school. Laura and Linde talk to me about their performance research.
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