May 7–July 8, 2021
For the first time the programme of Kunstenfestivaldesarts can be experienced not only in Brussels, but is composed of a series of newly commissioned projects, accessible from afar: a new musical composition and visual concert by Chassol; The Wake by The Living and the Dead Ensemble; Pieces of a Woman by Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Weber; Violence by Léa Drouet; Mariano Pensotti; Sorour Darabi; and the world premiere of The Interrogation by Edouard Louis and Milo Rau, performed live several nights from Brussels.
The festival also has an online public programme, Stream of Thoughts, accessible on the festival’s website and inviting, among others, Saidiya Hartman with Okwui Okpokwasili; Fania Noël-Thomassaint; Cecilia Vicuña with Sonali Gupta; Chassol; Amanda Piña with Rolando Vasquez.
During the month of May, the festival presents a series of projects in Brussels, in installation and outdoor formats, adapted to health restrictions. Zone de Troc by Pélagie Gbaguidi; a new exhibition and performative guided tour by Walid Raad; the installations by Korakrit Arunanondchai, Hamza Halloubi, Sara Sejing Chang (Sara van der Heide), Joris Lacoste and ICTUS, and Ayaka Nakama; outdoor performances by Radouan Mriziga, Amanda Piña, Lia Rodrigues, Romeo Castellucci.
A second part of the festival takes place in July in theatres with new performances by, among others, Faye Driscoll, Wichaya Artamat, Marcela Levi and Lucia Russo, Nacera Belaza, and a new performance by Lina Lapelytė conceived for an outdoor swimming pool.
The 2021 edition of the festival is dedicated to the memory of Frie Leysen (1950–2020).
All information and tickets on kfda.be.
With: Pélagie Gbaguidi, Walid Raad, Sarah Vanhee (bodies of knowledge), Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chassol, Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Weber, Nadia Beugré, Akira Takayama, Rossella Biscotti, Léa Drouet, Mariano Pensotti, Sara Sejing Chan (Sara van der Heide), Hamza Halloubi, Radouan Mriziga, Amanda Piña, Sorour Darabi, Lia Rodrigues, The Living and the Dead Ensemble, Romeo Castellucci, Edouard Louis and Milo Rau, Joris Lacoste and ICTUS, Ayaka Nakama, Adeline Rosenstein, The School of Contamination (Dina Mimi, Salvatore Calcagno, Roland Gunst, Nikima Jagudajev), Faye Driscoll, Jaha Koo, Wichaya Artamat, Marcela Levi and Lucia Russo, Nacera Belaza, Marcus Lindeen, Lina Lapelytė, and Stream of Thoughts, a public program with, a.o. Saidiya Hartman, Okwui Okpokwasili, Fania Noël-Thomassaint, Cecilia Vicuña, Sonali Gupta.
