Artists

Every WIPCOOP edition there are new artists who participate. Here you will find an overview of all artists who have participated since 2009. Since 2019, each of them gets a page. On it you will find information about who they are and which performance they presented as a work in progress (and possibly further realized or will realize later), as well as photos of this. Do you want to know more about an artist, or do you need their contact information? Send us an email.

 

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Lucía Giannoni

That Works // Ǫue funcione is a participatory research project in which Lucía Giannoni works with LGBTǪ+ communities and resistance groups outside the mainstream in search of new forms of coexistence. The audience is invited to actively participate in a playful and sensory journey of discovery filled with interactive games and immersive choreographic structures. Together […]

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Ana Luz Ormazábal

Ana Luz Ormazábal is a director, stage researcher, playwright and academic at Universidad Valparaíso, UNIACC and Universidad Católica. She is founder and artistic director of the collective ANTIMÉTODO op, with which she performed and directed productions such as Concierto, Agnetha Kurtz Roca Method, Ópera, Al Pacinoen María Isabel. With ANTIMÉTODO, Ana Luz was invited to […]

Gokhan Kizilbuga

Gökhan Kizilbuga

Es Kamen Menschen An intimately and visually explores the lives of guest workers. With personal stories, historical facts and projections, Gökhan Kizilbuga portrays the harsh reality of this existence far from home: loneliness, bleakness and isolation. The performance is not only an artistic representation, but also a social document that highlights the valuable contribution of […]

Souhaïla Amri

With her debut show, L’Ombre du Figuier (working title was: Histoires et Histoire), Souhaïla Amri wants to highlight forgotten stories. Inspired by her family (history), she explores how we remember those who came before us. Through storytelling, proverbs and symbolic objects, the play mixes true stories with invented ones, bringing our predecessors to life. The […]

Maria Dafneros & Purni Morell

Maria (Australia/Leuven) and Purni (UK/Antwerp) explore what is and is not allowed on stage. Can a woman say what she really thinks? Or only what the public likes to hear? In this loose adaptation of Lorca’s Yerma, they play with the idea of unsympathetic characters, outdated ideas and uncomfortable silences in the theater. This is […]

Nata Mandaria

In moederwittevrouwen თეთრი დედა ქალები, Nata Mandaria plays with the social image of women. The moederwittevrouw is a pure young housewife who serves her husband and raises her child. She is everything the patriarchy expects of her, and nothing more than that. The condescending Georgian term: ‘დედა ქალი’ refers to young girls who serve the […]

Ayoub Sadik

“Hottentottententententoonstelling” may sound like a funny tongue twister. The word refers to the Khoikhoi, also known as the Hottentots, an indigenous people in South Africa. This designation, originally used by Dutch settlers and inspired by the dance rituals of the Khoikhoi, is now seen as a derogatory term that mocks the culture and identity of […]

Wang Ping-Hsiang

Ping-Hsiang Wang is a Berlin-based theater director from Taiwan. His signature aesthetic focuses on transforming normal everyday landscapes into fantastic digital realities. His work presents narrative as a full sensory experience and combines multiple performative elements using text, sound, movement, live streaming video, objects, documents and scenography.

Nitish Kumar Bhardwaj

Nitish Kumar Bhardwaj is an actor, director and writer of poetry and plays.
He studied multimedia and animation where he researched the anthropological approach “rasā” through dramaturgy and how it can touch audiences.

Hüseyin Umaysiz

Sad Birds Pavilion takes you on a long term journey in Kurdistan. A poetic encounter with the melody of a language, it’s sound and resonance. Sad Birds Pavilion takes you back to the past and present. Following the traces of a traditional Kurdish tale, you will be introduced to the musical beauty of the language […]

Anke Somers & Mélissa Diarra

‘PARASITE PARADISE’
THE EARTH PARADISE White beaches, swaying palm trees, sweet fruits galore.
These images may well come to mind.
But does such a perfect, carefree place actually (still) exist?
And where exactly can you find it?

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