Intro

This Playground is already the twentieth edition. In 2007, we announced the festival as follows:

‘Today, more and more artists are exploring the boundaries between different disciplines. Playground focuses specifically on the intersection between visual art and the performing arts. This new international live art festival brings together performances, installations and actions that, through their object-based character, their engagement with the audience or their radically different formats, depart from established forms of presentation.’

This description is still true. Today, the field of live art or performance has evolved into an even more important and experimental domain within the arts: a playing field increasingly sought out by artists and organisations alike, precisely as a space for direct encounters between bodies and artworks.

A very warm welcome to Leuven for this twentieth edition of Playground!