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A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck

A Two Dogs Company is supporting the artistic practice of artist Kris Verdonck and his companions.

BIOGRAPHY / KRIS VERDONCK

Kris Verdonck (born 1974) studied visual arts, architecture and theatre and this training is evident in his work. His creations are positioned in the transit zone between visual arts and theatre, between installation and performance, between dance and architecture. As a theatre maker and visual artist, he can look back over a wide variety of projects. The artistic practi

ce of Kris Verdonck has developed and expanded in a very fruitful way over the last few years. His projects have been presented on stages as well as in museums in Belgium and abroad. This growth can only be consolidated if a small flexible organisation can follow up and structure the work on a permanent basis. Theatre is never made alone: it is no longer the work of one dog, but about the practice of several dogs that play together. That’s why Kris Verdonck has chosen a name inspired by Friedrich Torberg’s poem, ‘Spleen’: A Two Dogs Company. The company is structurally supported by the Flemish authorities and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).

15/01/2025

Hanako Hayakawa at Tanztage Berlin
at Sophiensaele Berlin

Saturday 18.01.2025 - 20:30
Sunday 19.01.2025 - 19:00

Hanako Hayakawa
LURKER
Subjected to endless streams of information, the figure of the lurker, commonly describing someone who reads the messages in a chat room without taking part, is also a figure that lies hidden, as if in ambush, observing, playfully hiding in the shadows and allowing for ambiguity to happen. Art as a form of camouflage. A form of relating to our surroundings in such a way that we almost disappear in the act.

Grounded in Nō, Butoh and the club dance form Para Para, “Lurker” proposes a Ghostly, empty, floating body, an unsettled being, reluctant to settle into (unhappiness of falling into) a singular identity, immersed in sensation and emotion.

Performed at deSingel Antwerp and now at Tanztage Berlin 2025.

Supported by A Two Dogs Company.
ATDC RES #4

Kris Verdonck Kristof Van Baarle
Technical support by Daniel Romero Calderon - Thomas Glorieux A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck

20/12/2024

Past & Future Artists in Residency + Open Call STAGES #2

At the end of 2024, we look back at three fruitful technical-dramaturgical residencies at A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck and look forward to hosting three new residents in 2025. These residencies are an essential part of ATDC's commitment to sharing its expertise, acquired over two decades of creating Kris Verdoncks work at the intersection of visual and performing arts.

In addition to offering technical research support from the technical team, residents can make use of the wood and metal workshop as well as a range of media devices in stock. If needed and desired, the ATDC team offers dramaturgical, artistic, productional and organizational advice.

In 2025 we welcome fyllenia grigoriou and Judith Van Oeckel. A third residency, STAGES, is co-organized with iMAL Art Centre for Digital Cultures & Technology, and reflects ATDC’s focus on transdisciplinary art practices.

Read more:

2024: Mooni Van Tichel, Hanako Hayakawa, Bárbara C. Branco - 2025: fyllenia grigoriou, Judith Van Oeckel + Open Call STAGES #2

20/11/2024

at A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck

NOON
'And now the beginning is somewhere else'

Through an extreme landscape, made out of the logic of foam, you make your way in between suspended time, traces of water and petrol. It seems like nothing can happen here. Yet, underneath transformation lingers. Balancing between stillness and motion, the landscape unravels its memories and narratives, from a long time ago - or maybe, now.

‘And now the beginning is somewhere else’ is a performative installation where you are invited inside of. Through space but also through sound, storytelling and choreographic work, the performance creates a world of interconnections, knots and threads.

And now the beginning is somewhere else is a performative installation of NOON collective that functions as an ecosystem. In it, the scenography and its materiality take a central role : developed as a variation around the logics of foam, the installation explores the relational space, which feels kind of viscous and where we are all intermingled.

Through space but also through sound, storytelling and choreographic work, the work harbors a world of interconnections, knots and threads. With playfulness, softness and yet some frictions, we intend to create an installation which feeds different kinds of encounters and emphasizes the porosity of human beings.
We invite the audience together with us into a sensorial experience.

09/11/2024

Today
17:00
A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck
Performance (En)fado
Bárbara C. Branco
STAGES post-residency
iMAL X A Two Dogs Company

iMAL is the Brussels’ centre for new media and digital arts. It aims to support and showcase artistic and creative practices based on digital media & technologies.

06/11/2024

This Saturday 9 November 2024
17:00
Performance (En)fado
Bárbara C. Branco
Post-residency STAGES
A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck
X
iMAL

Followed by a guided tour in the exhibition Fin et début / Einde en begin at iMAL

Saturday 9th November 2024 at 17:00: (En)fado performance by Barbara C. Branco - our first STAGES resident - at A Two Dogs Company/ Kris Verdonck, 41 Rue A. Lavallée, 1080 Molenbeek. Followed by a guided tour in the exhibition Fin et début / Einde en begin at iMAL, 30 Quai des Charbonnages, 1080 M...

14/10/2024

STAGES residency
Bárbara C. Branco
We are pleased to announce the first resident of our iMAL X A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck STAGES residency.
For the STAGES residency, a jury, composed of members of A Two Dogs Company and iMAL selected the proposal of
Bárbara C. Branco

Enfado (working title)

Bárbara C. Branco her project, temporarily titled Enfado, is inspired by a longing for the sea, that she will try to evoke through a performance incorporating a series of low-tech installations. « Sprinkled with hints of climate crisis fear, love for ecology and self-conscious and self-deprecating humour », Bárbara wants « to bring the Portuguese coast to iMAL ».

A Two Dogs Company noted that they appreciate how Enfado is « an authentic artistic gesture, with a real necessity behind it ». Together, we think that her proposal will make optimal use of the spaces, possibilities and knowledge of both organisations. We look forward to welcoming Bárbara and lending our support to her ideas!

STAGES is a yearly residency program initiated by iMAL and A Two Dogs Company.
Both organisations join forces to offer a transversal residency opportunity to artists and creators. As part of our firm commitment with the local artistic ecosystem, the selected project will benefit from the support, resources and expertise of both organisations in the fields of digital and performing arts. The residency will take place in both venues, at ATDC atelier & studio and at iMAL spaces and labs and will be accompanied technically and artistically by both teams.

19/09/2024

Straks om 17:00
Kris Verdonck in Pompidou Klara over EXHAUST / ajax | Kris Verdonck & A two dogs company: Kris Verdonck laat een benzinemotor ontploffen in hartje Brussel, en dat in het kader van , een visitekaartje voor de kandidatuur van Molenbeek for Brussels 2030.

Met Maartje Wortel, Kris Verdonck en Brigitte Herremans. De Nederlandse schrijfster Maartje Wortel stelt haar nieuwe roman Camping voor. De camping in kwestie bevindt zich op een militair oefenterrein en verzamelt een bont allegaartje aan gasten. Kris Verdonck laat een benzinemotor ontploffen in har...

14/09/2024

About EXHAUST at Festival Transart
Next Sunday at MolenFest: A taste of Molenbeek for Brussels 2030, Molenbeek for Brussels 2030!!!
Save te date: 22.09.2024

09/09/2024

05/09/2024

EXHAUST is all about the ex*****on of an internal combustion engine: over-revving a truck engine in a public space until it blows up. A marching crowd, a motor engine, an ex*****on: the opening of the 24th edition of Festival Transart on 12 September 2024 will be literally explosive.

28/08/2024

Elevations by Maxime Denuc in collaboration with Kris Verdonck at Meakusma Festival and STUK - House for Dance, Image & Sound

Meakusma Festival Eupen & STUK Leuven

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‘And now the beginning is somewhere else’ by NOON Collective is a performative installation where you are invited inside of. Through space but also through sound, storytelling and choreographic work, the performance creates a world of interconnections, knots and threads.

#EXHAUST #allgreeks ALL GREEKS FESTIVAL @ntgent @a_two_dogs_company @verdonckkris EXHAUST Execution of the combustion engine. The procession leaves on 4 May 2024 at 10:00 at Kinderrechtenplein Gent. The execution takes place at 11:00 at St-Baafsplein Gent. Welcome to the world premiere of EXHAUST / Ajax: the execution of the very last internal combustion engine! The explosion of the heart of a monstrous truck! The death row inmate is pulled by his judges on a cart. In front of the NTGent main hall, the sentence is read and carried out. The combustion engine is sacrificed on the altar of ecological catastrophe.Along the way, the procession stops at places where public executions took place in medieval Ghent or where the combustion engine caused irreparable damage, such as schools and busy intersections. Together with Ghentian citizens and climate action groups, the procession is burying the unbridled drive for economic growth and progress. As blinded and self-destructive as the venerable hero Ajax, the engine is succumbing to its tragic tunnel vision. #combustionengine #procession #execution#explosion #ecologicalcatastrophe #ecology #climate #art @kristof.van.baarle ©da-kuk Video by Pim Mannaerts

EXHAUST

EXHAUST 04.05.2024 Start 10:00 Kinderrechtenplein Gent #allgreeks NTGent A Two Dogs Company / Kris Verdonck Kris Verdonck

We had a blast in 2023! 💥 Thanks to everyone! Looking forward to 2024… @a_two_dogs_company @verdonckkris #art #contemporaryart #installation #installationart #performance #performanceart #theatre #dance #music #multidisciplinary #contemporaryclassicalmusic #film #artist #brussels #artiststudio #residencies #atwodogscompany www.atwodogscompany.org

Maxime Denuc created a new composition for BRASS by Kris Verdonck, a performative installation consisting of three automated sousaphones. BRASS #2 is a ghost orchestra. The three sousaphones play themselves, and appear to be floating. Their rotating movements create a slow-motion Doppler effect, whereby sounds sometimes come together and then move apart again. In BRASS #2, Kris Verdonck continues his research into theatre without performers. Given the increasing technologisation of society and the destruction resulting from war and climate change, the possibility of a world without people has never been so likely. The sound nevertheless has human features: breathing, blowing, ‘practising’ and warming up. The instruments are suspended in a dark room, in a perpetuum mobile – their material gleams, but the body they normally rest on is no longer there. Maxime Denuc is an electronic music composer based in Brussels. Kris Verdonck studied visual arts, architecture and theatre and this training is evident in his work. His creations are positioned in the transit zone between visual arts and theatre, between installation and performance, between dance and architecture. #art #contemporary #music #electronicmusic #krisverdonck #atwodogscompany #installation #performance #ghost #orchestra #sousaphones

#openingsoon #nextweek #upcoming #exhibition #exposition #EXTRACTIONS23 @a_two_dogs_company Read newsletter: www.atwodogscompany.org/newsletters/17/ EXTRACTIONS 23 2 - 17 September 2023 Saturday & Sunday 14:00 - 18:00 A Two Dogs Company  Rue Adolphe Lavallée 41 1080 Molenbeek (B) #photographs #sculptures #paintings #installations #performances Stephan Balleux Noemi Iglesias Barrios Judith Nangala Crispin Frederic Fourdinier Hermann Nitsch Sabrina Ratté Kris Verdonck Maxime Denuc Lucas Messler Anita Cappuccinelli Gert Aertsen Photocredit: Sabrina Ratté - OBJETS-MONDE I, 2022 With the support of: The Flemish Authorities, The Flemish Community Commission, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles #art #contemporaryart #installationart #kineticart #digitalart #music #theatre #livingobjects #ceramics #technoceramics #architecture #maquettes #lumachromeglassprint