PLAYGROUND 2011
For several years, Playground festival has been the best meeting point for
performing arts and visual arts. The black box of theatre and the white
cube of an exhibition inspire one another more than you would think.
It seems simple, though: stage projects have certain parameters. Spectators
do not move around, the duration is limited and you experience the
performance as a group. Visiting an exhibition space, however, is an
individual experience: visitors stay for as long as they like and can look
at the piece of art from all possible angles. But artists love breaking
through the boundaries of their own discipline, and that is where exciting
art emerges.
For this fifth edition, Playground takes a giant leap: it is no longer only
the ‘playground’ of arts centre STUK, but of Museum M as well. Together,
both houses of art give an even better insight in the zone between
performing arts and visual arts. In museum M, you can visit an exhibition
and discover the work of several live performers. STUK shows performances
that incorporate concepts typically used by visual arts.
Playground looks for limits, unravels codes and stimulates encounters
between different worlds of art. And all for the public to discover.
Welcome!