What if Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times were made today? Not in a factory, but in the arts sector.
“A story of industry of individual enterprise – humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness”.
(opening placard Modern Times)
Together with Femke Gyselinck, Maya Mertens (Vieze Meisje), Jeroen van Der Ven and Lawrence McGuire (Hogobogobogo), Ferre Marnef explores what work means within today’s flexible labour model of the freelancer. The performance blows apart the glossy façades of the entrepreneurs of the self in an attempt to get to grips with its own character.
Aggressively Modern Times brings sound and image together. It is both a concert and a theatre performance, while secretly wanting to be neither. This visual and sonic collage drags the artist-as-brand onto the stage, only to make a soft-punk escape from the Rules of Art.
(opening placard Modern Times)
Together with Femke Gyselinck, Maya Mertens (Vieze Meisje), Jeroen van Der Ven and Lawrence McGuire (Hogobogobogo), Ferre Marnef explores what work means within today’s flexible labour model of the freelancer. The performance blows apart the glossy façades of the entrepreneurs of the self in an attempt to get to grips with its own character.
Aggressively Modern Times brings sound and image together. It is both a concert and a theatre performance, while secretly wanting to be neither. This visual and sonic collage drags the artist-as-brand onto the stage, only to make a soft-punk escape from the Rules of Art.
van en met
- Femke Gyselinck
- Ferre Marnef
- Lawrence McGuire
- Maya Mertens
- Jeroen Van der Ven
dramaturgy
- Marie Peeters
production
- Sergeant
coproduction
- KWP
- VGC
thanks to
- Mooni Van Tichel
- a e i o u
- CAMPO
- KVS
- A Two Dogs Company
- Pilar
