The 2023 edition of WIPCOOP brought together an international company of promising artists. What happened to their work after that? We look back at the trajectories of Melisa Diktaş (Amsterdam), Eli Mathieu-Bustos (Brussels) and Ping-Hsiang Wang (Berlin), and how their careers continued to grow after WIPCOOP. Melisa Diktaş is a dancer and maker who develops […]
Speech Lapse: Exhibition No. 4 was created in response to the “Woman – Life – Freedom” uprising that began in Iran in September 2022. The project tracks the written aftershocks of protest: diary excerpts, coded chat logs, notes at the edge of receipts, time-coded transcripts of spoken texts. Every document carries risk and offers resistance […]
Ping Hsiang Wang examines identity and gaze “Ping, in Retina Maneuver, looks at himself in the mirror ánd thus also morphs our gaze. I would almost dare call that the shortest definition of exciting art… So I sincerely hope that more people in our theatre area will still get to see this solo.” – Wouter […]
Pieces of a Man is a monologue by David Labi about his father. A performance that balances between storytelling and stand-up comedy. In English.
When “Girl on Fire” is no longer just a pop song but a marching tune for soldiers going to war, Ping-Hsiang Wang wonders, will his fragile memories then be destroyed by the fire of war? Retina Maneuver is a solo lecture-performance that springs from Ping’s inexplicable obsession with Alicia Keys’ pop song “Girl On Fire”
Have a Safe Travel tells the story of a train ride.
That ride could be banal.
Until three policemen stop Eli Mathieu-Bustos and ask for his passport.
