T-2123

Premiere - Friday
11:00 - 18:00
Saturday
11:00 - 18:00
Sunday
11:00 - 18:00

If it turns out that sea levels rise much higher than expected by 2050, many cities will not be ready to manage the flooding. The year is 2123. The water is relentless, everything is inundated, massive amounts of information has been lost irretrievably. Bruges is no exception. Everything has been washed away, humanity itself is adrift, it no longer has an identity. Then, one day, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a floating time capsule full of voices and sounds from the distant past is fished out of the water.

During an audio tour, the public is transported to the year 2123. T-2123 makes the historic centre of the city reverberate with the lost sounds from the capsule. It is a journey that intertwines the past and future. Are we in 2023 listening to the future or is anno 2123 replaying the past? Little of what we see around us in 2023 will exist in the voices and sounds of 2123. We learn to listen, but differently. By listening differently, we see things differently.

This listening tour tries to imagine life after a climate catastrophe, and in so doing, raises questions about our relationship with the past and the present.

Theme

T-2123 was inspired by Rik Poot’s sculpture The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Located in the Arentshof in Bruges, it depicts the riders who herald death and disaster and destruction all over the world: humanity should maybe think about preparing for the worst. It’s an unexpected and strange sight in the peaceful, touristic heart of the city. Where Poot announces the apocalypse, T-2123 explores what happens in the aftermath. How does life look after Bruges is flooded and its population has fled? What new reality may dawn?

Credits

Voice, concept & direction Barbara T’Jonck

Performance Ibtissam Boulbahaiem & Veroline Vanderbeek

Sound design Walk Tom Van den Brande

Sound design detail sound fish Sander Villers

Mixing voice Michaël Verlinden

SonicMaps Advisor Donia Jourabchi

Scenography Elias Cafmeyer

Costume Layla Kirsta
Residence Het Entrepot, wpZimmer
Coproduction Reiefestival

Thanks to Franciska Devloo, Rita Devloo, Pieter T’Jonck, Mieke Vandemoortele, Martha Balthazar & Lore Sommereyns
With the support of Het Entrepot en Concertgebouw Brugge

Barbara T’Jonck (°1994, Leuven) is a theatre maker with a background in philosophy. She is active as a performer, dramaturge, writer, facilitator and more, in a variety of fields: from socio-artistic work and documentary theatre to smartphone choreography and opera. Recurring themes in her work include fictional collectivity, the dramaturgical meaning of a voice and strategies that stage an activating or critical setting.

Artist Elias Cafmeyer (°1990, Roeselaere) finds inspiration for his visual work from his fascination for urban development. He creates sculptures and location-specific installations for and about the public space, using the urban landscape as a metaphor for the urban social fabric. Cafmeyer also collaborates with other artists, with curators and with exhibition platforms in order to develop scenographies for exhibitions and theatre pieces. Elias Cafmeyer has exhibited at, among others, S.M.A.K. (Ghent) and Kunsthal Extra City (Antwerp). He has also worked with the City of Ghent and the City of Antwerp on installations for the urban space. He has been invited as a solo artist for exhibitions at Keteleer Galery and mariondecannière (Antwerp). Cafmeyer has had the opportunity to show his work in The Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy.