16.05.19 / showing
FR/AN
During a long period of time, Benno interviewed very different people asking them to define him. People that had bigger or smaller knowledge about him or a different kind of knowledge, like his mother, his doctor, a shaman, strangers in the street. At the end of his quest, that became the performance «i (to be defined)», Benno understood one thing: if you want to have «The chance to find yourself», you have to find someone else first. In his new piece, two migrants — who come from very different backgrounds, who do not know each other, who came to Brussels hoping to improve their working — and living — conditions, who both try to find out more about each other, themselves and their respective artistic practices, despite an evident cultural gap separating them — aim to stage a common performance, staging a free adaptation of the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. One is originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Jovial Mbenga. The other is a german-speaking Italian from South-Tirol, Benno Steinegger.
A first public presentation of «The chance to find yourself» starting with extracts from «i (to be defined)», as if both pieces respond to each other, confront each other and complete the picture of an artist investigating himself through the eye of the other.
CONCEPT: Benno Steinegger
PERFORMANCE: Benno Steinegger, Jovial Mbenga
SUPPORTS: WorkSpaceBrussels (BE), Mestizoartplatform, spazioK, A.C. Codice Ivan, Garage29.
Benno Steinegger is part of the G — Incubator.