KUNSTENPLATFORM PLAN B

Pim Cornelussen

A kind of Silence

During his Veldwerk I programme, Pim Cornelussen developed Een soort van Stilte (A Kind of Silence), a study of ecological amnesia. How do we deal with the mass extinction of other organisms in our time? How did the world look through these other eyes, in these other bodies? In the form of a walk in which you, as a spectator, step into the shoes of an extinct (or endangered) animal species, you got to know extinct animal species intimately. During a public walk in Bruges, for example, you met the wild horse, an extinct precursor to the horse we know today. A Kind of Silence is an exercise in cross-species empathy, a search for how we can feel what we have lost. You can still take the walk; information about it can be found here. 
 

BIO

Pim Cornelussen (born 1989, Netherlands) studied Philosophy at Ghent University and theatre directing at RITCS in Brussels, where he focused on dramaturgy and writing. From 2013 to 2016, he was editor-in-chief of the Flemish literary magazine Kluger Hans. He was also a member of the theatre collective Dividu and is a programme maker at the Dutch theatre festival Festival Cement in 's-Hertogenbosch. In his practice, he is interested in the borderland between artistic imagination, philosophical reflection and scientific proximity.

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Credits

Idea and creation: Pim Cornelussen
Voice: Marjan de Ridder
Music: Janis van Heesbeke
With thanks to: Nina de Vroome, Kim Snauwaert
Production: PLAN B
With support from: Workspacebrussels, KONVOOI, KAAP

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