Photo: Thomas Bellinck
Part of: Fast Forward Festival 6
Theater

FFF6 | The Wild Hunt

Thomas Bellinck

Dates

Tickets

5 — 7 €

Venue

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Sunday 12 May
Time
22:00
Venue
Main Stage
Day
Monday 13, Tuesday 14 & Wednesday 15 May
Time
18:00 & 22:00
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Onassis Stegi Friends & General Presale: from 24 AΡR 2019, 14:00

Full price & Neighborhood residents: 7 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 6 €
People with disabilities, Companions, Unemployed & Groups 10+ people: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

Information

Language: in Arabic, English, Farsi, French and Greek with Greek and English subtitles

Duration: 90 min

Introduction

Thomas Bellinck’s audio performance "Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt" unravels human hunting stories of today. How clear-cut or reversible are the categories of 'the hunters', 'the onlookers' and 'the hunted'?

Photo: Thomas Bellinck

The Wild Hunt

A cloud of voices gathers in an imaginary museum. Their bodies are held up elsewhere, but here absent storytellers recount histories of hunting. Some of these voices are heard. Many are not. All narrators are experts of a certain reality.

Theater-makers, journalists, politicians, law enforcement :we are all on the hunt for something. Sometimes it’s people. During this audio performance, you will hear snippets of Arabic, English, Farsi, French and Greek collected from around the Mediterranean. Sampling from hours of recordings, "Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt" pieces together a many-voiced portrait of today’s human hunt.

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The Wild Hunt
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  • The project, by artist and theatre director Thomas Bellinck, is based on research, collaborative story writing and recorde d interviews conducted around the Mediterranean.

  • The original inspiration for the work came from Grégoire Chamayou’s “Manhunts: A Philosophical History”. In this revealing study, Chamayou offers a history of human hunting from ancient Greece to the present.

  • The Wild Hunt refers to a supernatural phenomenon, the occurrence of which has been reported across Europe since the 13th century. Depicted as a group of ghostly hunters led by either a deity or mythological figure on horseback, the appearance of the Wild Hunt was thought to signal an upcoming catastrophe such as war or plague.

  • “The Wild Hunt” is the third instalment of “Simple as ABC”, a growing series on the Western mobility and border management machine. It follows a theatrical audio essay about cutting edge detection technology and a documentary musical about the digitisation of the European Union’s borders.

  • “Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt” is the second project that Thomas Bellinck will present within the framework of Onassis Fast Forward Festival. The first was “Domo de Eŭropa Historio en ekzilo”, which was presented in 2016 during the Fast Forward Festival 3.

Credits

Text
Said Reza Hosseini Adib, Samaneh Arian, Aristotle, Ghazi Ayari, Thomas Bellinck, Rihab Chaabane, Abir Farhat, Karima Ganji, Parisa Heidari, Mounir Karoui, Chamseddine Marzoug, Fatemeh Mousavi, Mohammad Javad Mousavi, Farouk Ouartani, Racist Violence Recording Network, Marwen Sammoud, Ervin Shehu, Yiouli Vitou
Artistic Collaborator
Jeroen Van der Ven
Direction
Thomas Bellinck
Dramaturgy
Esther Severi
Interpreting
Said Reza Hosseini Adib, Yasmine Bhar, Hayfa Ghozzi, Rym Haddad, Pafsanias Karathanasis, Amal Rouissi, Georgia Spyropoulou, Aisha Zaied
Lighting Design
Lucas Van Haesbroeck
Lighting Technician
Marie Vandecasteele
Performance
Said Reza Hosseini Adib, Ghazi Ayari, Thomas Bellinck, Abir Farhat, Karima Ganji, Parisa Heidari, Chamseddine Marzoug, Vasilis Mathioudakis, Mounir, Fatemeh Mousavi, Mohammad Javad Mousavi, Farouk Ouartani, Nikos Palaiologos, Orestis Seferoglou, Ervin Shehu, The 5th Grade of the 28th Elementary School of Athens, Yiouli Vitou
Production Management
Celine van der Poel
Production
Dimitra Dernikou, Yalena Kleidara, Francesca Pinder, Sandra Raes Oklobdzija, Aisha Zaied
Pyrotechnics & Set Technician
Niels Antonissen
Research & Production Assistance
Kaat Balfoort, Hayfa Ghozzi, Pafsanias Karathanasis, Bilel Melki, Amal Rouissi, Georgia Spyropoulou, Laurien Versmissen
Scenography
Camille Lemonnier
Set
Niels Antonissen, Guy Cuypers, Daan Roosen, Toneelhuis Decoratelier, Tim Vanhentenryk, Marjan Verachtert
Sound Design
Bart Celis
Sound Editing
Lars Morren, Emiel Redant, Johannes Ringoot
Sound Technician
Arthur De Vuyst
Stagecraft
Mathias Batsleer, Steven Bontinck, Ijf Boulet, Victor Dries, Johannes Rigoot, Diederik Suykens, Bert Van Dijck
Technical Production Management
Arthur De Vuyst
Transcription
Samia Amami, Sana Chamekh, Farideh Ghalandari, Amira Hamdi, Cyrine Ben Ismail, Yalena Kleidara
Translation & Surtitles
Yasmine Akrimi, Amal Boualga, Vassilis Douvitsas, Fahimi Hnazaee Fatemeh, Farbod Fathinejad, Iannis Goerlandt, Welid Hmeissia, Haythem Khamri, Yalena Kleidara, Marwa Manai, Anna Muchin, Eleni Nasiou, Juliane Regler, Mona Silavi
Production
ROBIN
Co-Production
Dream City/L’Art Rue (Tunis), De Grote Post (Ostend), Fast Forward Festival/Onassis Cultural Center (Athens), Kaaitheater, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels)
With The Support of
KASK/School of Arts of University College Ghent, LabexMed/Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (Marseille), The Flemish Community of Brussels, The Flemish Government
Concept inspired by
Grégoire Chamayou’s “Manhunts: A Philosophical History”
Additional Research Interviews
The Asylum Service, The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, The Hellenic Police
Thanks
Halima Aissa, Ifigeneia Anastasiadi, Dimitris Angelidis, Anonymous, Katia Arfara, Simon Baetens, Louise Bergez, Marc Bernardot, Moon Blaisse, Hassen Boubakri, Sana Bousbih, Dimitris Christopoulos, Ismael Cissé, Patrick De Coster, Johan Dehollander, Bert De Puydt, Omar Fassatoui, Apostolis Fotiadis, Jan Goossens, Hamma Weld Hamida, Louis Janssens, Lobna Jlassi, Ebia Joel, Wafa Kanzari, Khalid Koujili, KVS, Malek Lakhal, Mostfa Lakhdher, Lorena Lando, Leon Konda Ler, Mohsen Lihidheb, Mahdi Mabrouk, Jalel Mahmoudi, Ahmed Mansour, Brigitte Marin, Fatma Mathlouthi, Rosine Mbakam, Yonus Mohamed, Selma Ouissi, Kostis Papaioannou, Lefteris Papagiannakis, Clio Papapantoleon, Stéphanie Poussel, Fanny Robles, Eleni Spathana, Isabel Mohedano Sohm, Imed Soltani, Timo Sterckx, Loes Swaenepoel, Toneelhuis, Carine van Bruggen, Naomi Van Der Horst, An van. Dienderen, Eleonore Van Godtsenhoven et al.
Production