Benjamin Verdonck

Benjamin Verdonck: theatre maker/ performer/ visual artist / writer. Perhaps the best way to describe Benjamin Verdonck is to call him a storyteller. The feeling of disconnection with his audience in theatre guided Benjamin Verdonck outside: to the public. As an artist he wanted to interact, with his surroundings and their socio-political context. His ‘artistic activism’ was the result, his way to step away from the polarization of activism and create a new third space to give impulses to the community and create a new audience. In Bara/ke, Verdonck’s residency period in a treehouse at the Bara square in Brussels, this is demonstrated, which he later on takes to a new level by staying in a ‘bird nest’. His most recent work: ‘Even I must understand it’ combines his indoor and outdoor actions and lets them co-exist. Here as well as in his entire practice, he searches for a way to make art exist within reality and add to reality, rather then to reflect on it.