30 & 31.10.2015 | 18:30, 19:00, 19:30, 20:00 | WASP – WORKING ART SPACE AND PRODUCTION

In ROOM D, eight visitors are asked to enter a room and go stand on one of the white crosses on the floor. Through headphones they are given the assignment to close their eyes and imagine specific situations. These mental constructions vary from abstract to very personal. The participants for example get instruction to imagine themselves in another place, in another room, with other people.

Now and then one of the participants can open his or her eyes and change places. This way the participants sometimes come to stand face to face.
The combination of imagination and spacial composition, that is created by the visitors moving around, creates a game of human introspection, reflection and projection. In this work the personal reconstruction and perception of time are central. Every listener gets different instructions so alternative compositions and experiences can grow. For the visitor who is not participating, the work becomes a moving installation made out of the other visitors in the room. Watching and being watched, intruding in someone else’s head: In Room D every visitor enters the game of imagination in his own way and from his own experience.

Duration: 30`

Concept & Development: Roel Heremans

Voice: Emi Kodama

Production: Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek (Brussels)

In collaboration with: workspacebrussels (Brussels)

With the support of: the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels Capital Region (VGC)

Thanks to: Les Brigittines (Brussels)

Roel Heremans studied Radio at the RITS in Brussels and ArtScience in Den Haag. In his work he seeks for hybrid artistic forms in between performance, sound art, conceptual art, imagination, radio and literature. In Room D, an audio choreography for 8 participants, the imagination of the audience is guided by a narrators voice on a personal trip through a series of spaces, both actual and fictional, individual and collective.