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A Night Called Quest is back! On Friday 29 and Saturday 30 August, De Studio kicks off its cultural season with an explosion of queer creations. Immerse yourself in a journey through performances, visual art, poetry, dance, installations, and music. Eleven emerging artists invite you into their worlds during this festival-within-a-festival, in collaboration with the Antwerp Queer Arts Festival.
Get swept away by a language-rich vulva celebration, laugh and move to the rhythms of a dancing stand-up comedian, lose yourself among kombucha scobies, and explore the boundary between organic and synthetic skin. From intimate textile collages to emancipatory scenography, subtle dance improvisations and activist imagery – A Night Called Quest is a full-bodied tribute to queer expression in all its forms.
Wander through the inspiring spaces of De Studio – from room to room, from exhibition to performance. The timetable will be released one week in advance, but make sure to arrive by 20:00 to experience the full program.
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Nata Mandaria
Writer, performer and socio-cultural worker Nata Mandaria explores femininity, migration and motherhood. She looks forward to using A Night Called Quest as a place where it's allowed to be grotesque, dirty and queer. Her performance will be a vulva party; you want to dive in, right?
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Ju.j.u
Ju.j.u is a dancer and stand-up comedian who seeks ways to blend these seemingly incompatible art forms. He strives for queer representation in the comedy world, and takes what he has learned there back into their dance practice. For A Night Called Quest he searches for the ultimate combination: stand-up, dance and theater on a queer stage.
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Sam Hawkes
Contemporary dancer Sam Hawkes is inspired by the subtleties of the world around her. In her work, she attempts to translate those impressions to the stage through improvisation. Participating in A Night Called Quest gives her freedom: in such a queer place, she does not have to justify her feelings and her ideas can develop in all honesty.
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Alexandra Bierlaire
Alexandra Bierlaire is an interdisciplinary maker and dancer working in Europe and the UK. Her solo performance focuses on the materiality of skin. In doing so, she zooms in on the smallest parts, beyond physical boundaries. This is how they discover the differences and similarities between the organic and synthetic worlds. They look forward to meeting other queer makers during A Night Called Quest.
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Iris Van der Borght & Juliette Volders
Iris van der Borgt and Juliette Volders bring together their diverse art practices in a shared research of queer bodies, intimity and activism. Iris' large, colorful paintings and sculptures are mixed with Juliette's small textile works and tattoos. Thus, during A Night Called Quest, they will explore a new visual language, where representation of queer identity is paramount.
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Ludo Dury
Ludo Dury is a scenographer, light designer, maker, and now: performer. From his interest in community and collective emancipation, he moves away from individualism. During A Night Called Quest he will create and present his first performance, with dance, words and audiovisual art!
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Fanny Wellens & Bobby Benzo Brown
Friends Fanny Wellens and Bobby Benzo Brown collaborate on their obscure visual art. They explore a sense of alienation and respond to the tensions between different beliefs and worldviews. During A Night Called Quest, they draw inspiration for their research from their queer identity, artist Robert Gober and the San Diego Blood Sisters.
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Delta van Melle
Visual artist Delta van Melle creates experimental work with a playful yet layered nature. They work physically and intuitively: with fingers, scribbles and spontaneous movements. Delta uses materials such as glass, wall paint, old drawings and scoby - the residue of kombucha, which represents growth, containment and social constructs. They will also work with this material during A Night Called Quest.
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