About the part that art plays in a globalising society

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Sébastien Hendrickx

Sébastien Hendrickx (BE) is a performance artist. Alongside making new versions of his current narrative piece Moddertong (2022-…), he prepares for Palace of Justice, a performative portrait of the Palace of Justice in Brussels. His debut performance The Good Life (2021) was an immersive trip imagining the concept of ‘the good life’ in times of profound ecological mutations.

Over the past fifteen years, Sébastien Hendrickx has been active as a playwright for NTGent, Toneelhuis and KVS, an art critic for different magazines and a teacher at KASK/School of Arts in Ghent. He is currently doing artistic research at KASK on cosmograms, which are objects representing cosmologies or total worldviews. From 2014 to 2022 he was part of the editorial team of the theatre magazine Etcetera. As an activist he was involved with Extinction Rebellion and initiated campaigns Het Burgerparlement on democratic innovation, and More Than Enough on post-growth policies.


Agenda


Performance: Moddertong
A performance by artist Sebastién Hendrickx about the climate crisis