Aggressively Modern Times

Ferre Marnef

Premiere

Wed 17 Jun and Thu 18 Jun

17 Jun

20:00

De Koer

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18 Jun

20:00

De Koer

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A gentle punk gesture against the Rules of Art.

What if Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times were filmed today? Not in a factory, but in the field of the arts? Together with Femke Gyselinck, Maya Mertens (Vieze Meisje), Jeroen Van der Ven and Lawrence Mcguire (Hogobogobogo), Ferre Marnef explores what capital means within the fluid labor model of today’s freelancer.

The performance is a visual and sonic collage that drags the present onto the stage: the city as machine, the artist as brand. Caught between functioning and failing, the team of Aggressively Modern Times searches for ways to escape the polished logic of the creative industries.

A hybrid of concert and performance, and at the same time a gentle punk gesture against the Rules of Art.

Duration: TBA

Copresentatie met De Koer

In Ghent

Ivan Put

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Ferre Marnef is a maker whose work moves between music, graphic design and theatre. For ten years, he collaborated with Louis Janssens within the collective Desnor, creating performances such as Ideale Plaats, #BOS, Galileo and Toverberg. As an actor, he joined tibaldus, contributing among other things to the complete Gombrowicz trilogy. He has also collaborated in various roles with companies and artists including Ontroerend Goed, buren, Ilan Manouach and Miet Warlop. Musically, he currently focuses on his experimental band Sergeant, whose debut was released on STROOM and whose second album Symbols will be released in 2026.

Credits

by & with Femke Gyselinck, Ferre Marnef, Lawrence McGuire, Maya Mertens & Jeroen Van der Ven dramaturgy Marie Peeters production Sergeant co-production Kunstenwerkplaats KWP thanks to Mooni van Tichel, a e i o u, CAMPO, KVS & Pilar