BLIK

Sara Vertongen & Het nieuwstedelijk’s open-air performance BLIK was conceived as a city walk through Leuven city centre.
The occasion was the New Horizons – Dieric Bouts Festival Leuven. Just as Dirk Bouts explored the possibilities of realism and depicting the real world to make the spectator empathise with the message of the image, Het Nieuwstedelijk wanted to make the participants of the city walk question their own gaze by letting them literally experience someone else’s perspective. The way someone perceives a situation, experiences a space and dares to move or show themselves is coloured by previous experiences. Everyone is trapped in their own truth but once you have seen something different, it cannot be ‘unseen’.

Premiere on September 2024 in Leuven

 
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