Playground

PICK UP VOICES balances on the boundaries of a shadow play, a lecture presentation and a performance. It seeks to find new ways for alternative history rooted in orality. The source material derives from interviews with artists who participated in Crash Landing, an interdisciplinary improvisation series in the mid 1990s. Christine De Smedt, who curated Crash Landing (together with Meg Stuart and David Hernandez), replays interview excerpts as if she were a human recording device. She jump cuts through different philosophies and temperaments while channeling the voices of the others through the filter of her own timbre and body. Myriam Van Imschoot accompanies the stories and opinions being told, with the overhead projector.