audio performance

SIMPLE AS ABC #3

THE WILD

HUNT

2019 | ROBIN (Brussels) & Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens)

A cloud of Arabic, English, Farsi, French and Greek voices gathers in an imaginary museum. Their bodies are held up elsewhere, but here the absent storytellers recount lived histories of hunting. Sampling from hours of recordings collected around the Mediterranean, The Wild Hunt pieces together a many-voiced portrait of today’s human-hunt taking place within the framework of the EU’s border policies.

CONCEPT & DIRECTING Thomas Bellinck CONCEPT INSPIRED BY Grégoire Chamayou’s ‘Manhunts: A Philosophical History’ TEXT Reza Adib, Samaneh Arian, Aristotle, Ghassen Ayari, Thomas Bellinck, Rihab Chaabane, Farouk El Ouerghi, Karima Ganji, Parisa Heidari, Chamseddine Marzoug, Mounir, Fatemeh Mousavi, Mohammad Javad Mousavi, Racist Violence Recording Network, Marwen Sammoud, Ervin Shehu, Yiouli Vitou, Ghazi Weld El Ka, Abir Zarrouki PERFORMANCE Reza Adib, Ghassen Ayari, Farouk El Ouerghi, Parisa Heidari, Chamseddine Marzoug, Mounir, Mohammad Javad Mousavi, Ervin Shehu, Yiouli Vitou, Ghazi Weld El Ka, Abir Zarrouki et al. DRAMATURGY Esther Severi ARTISTIC COLLABORATOR Jeroen Van der Ven SCENOGRAPHY Camille Lemonnier LIGHTING DESIGN Lucas Van Haesbroeck TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Arthur de Vuyst STAGECRAFT Marie Vandecasteele

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Celine van der Poel PRODUCTION Yalena Kleidara, Sandra Oklobdzija, Francesca Pinder, Aisha Zaied RESEARCH & PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE Hayfa Ghozzi, Pafsanias Karathanasis, Bilel Melki, Amal Rouissi, Georgia Spyropoulou, Laurien Versmissen INTERPRETING Reza Adib, Hayfa Ghozzi, Rym Haddad, Pafsanias Karathanasis, Amal Rouissi, Georgia Spyropoulou, Aisha Zaied TRANSLATION Farbod Fathinejad, Yalena Kleidara TRANSCRIPTION Farideh Ghalandari, Yalena Kleidara

PRODUCTION ROBIN vzw & Fast Forward Festival / Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens) CO-PRODUCTION Dream City / L’Art Rue (Tunis), Kaaitheater, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels) WITH THE SUPPORT OF De Grote Post (Ostend), KASK / School of Arts of University College Ghent, LabexMed / Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (Marseille), The Flemish Government and The Flemish Community of Brussels

THANKS TO Halima Aissa, Simon Baetens, Louise Bergez, Marc Bernardot, Hassen Boubakri, Sana Bousbih, Ismael Cissé, Omar Fassatoui, Hamma Weld Hamida, Louis Janssens, Lobna Jlassi, Ebia Joel, Lotfi Karoui, Wafa Kanzari, Khalid Koujili, Malek Lakhal, Mostfa Lakhdher, Lorena Lando, Leon Konda Ler, Mohsen Lihidheb, Mahdi Mabrouk, Jalel Mahmoudi, Ahmed Mansour, Brigitte Marin, Fatma Mathlouthi, Stéphanie Poussel, Fanny Robles, Isabel Mohedano Sohm, Imed Soltani, Timo Sterckx, Loes Swaenepoel, Carine van Bruggen, Naomi Van Der Horst, Eleonore Van Godtsenhoven et al.