I would like
Sara made an answer to Isabel. A performance about the gaze.
About the difference between naked and nude, about lust subject and object. About showing and not showing, shame and sensuality. The dialogue resonated further in the minds of Isabel and Sara. This felt so precise.
What if they shared this with others? An invitation to artist friends followed. Isabel and Sara performed, each time for very small groups, in the privacy of a naked derelict space. Fine reactions came from the artists. That it felt very special, that intimacy in times of skin hunger. And whether they could also formulate a response? Like a silent sensual chain letter, the idea expanded, from artist to artist. The answers took their own form: performance, theatre, art...
A conversation ensued. Not only about intimacy and erotic imagination, but also about the beauty of playing for a small audience, averse to numbers and returns. Is there still room for such formats in the performing arts? Can it be less, rather than always more? Is this a performance at all, or a performance in edition?
Tim Vanheers, 2020, Ghent