©Thomas Seest
Benjamin Vandewalle studied at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp and graduated at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels in 2006.
Vandewalle starts from the idea that the way we perceive the world determines how we think about this world and thus also act in it. By changing the way we perceive reality, we can challenge our thoughts and actions in and about the world we live in. By choreographing the gaze , Vandewalle makes the audience aware of the potential of the world we inhabit everyday.
All installations and performative acts in this project deal with how we perceive our everyday reality and questions how our senses operate when we observe, experience and engage with our surrounding environment and the people who are part of it. By choreographing the gaze, Vandewalle makes the audience aware of the potential of the world we inhabit everyday. Vandewalle uses the human body as a tool to manipulate our gaze and manipulate our experience of the public space. By using the body of spectator, the spectator becomes a performer. By participating to his installations or interventions Vandewalle wants to learn the spectator/performer new strategies and methods do engage with our everyday reality. All installations are characterized by a multisensorial physical experience. They are all different, yet several elements resonate between them. In that sense, all installations amplify each other’s effect. And most of all, they can only function or come to life when people activate them.
