PLAYS: DE EIGEN LEGENDE – Mike Pro

Living up to your own legend is man’s only obligation. Everything is one. And if you want something, the whole universe conspires to make sure you realise your dream. 
(The Alchemist)

Lockdown. April 2020. Faced with ourselves. Contact with the outside world is mainly digital. Mike Pro is forced to engage with himself. A search between expectations and own interpretations. Dealing with silences. Consciousness of one’s own thinking. What is that, thinking? And to what extent is it determined by background, upbringing and own choices? Moving between those choices and expectations, we are almost forced to pick a box. Or can we escape this just in time to avoid even more division?

DE EIGEN LEGENDE With all the resources of the internet, Mike Pro makes his way through the mystical branches of the world’s religions. Instead of listening to what others say about spirituality, he explores on his own in his YouTube laboratory.

Concept, text and performance: Mike Pro – Technique: Valentijn Weyn – Music and soundscape: Julius Rox – Production: Cindy Doolaege – With support from: Fameus, City of Antwerp, WIPCOOP/Mestizo Arts Platform and Arenberg – With thanks to: Nadia Benabdessamad, Stef Depover/WALPURGIS
Foto’s: Victoriano Moreno


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