Kris Verdonck
Kris Verdonck is a theatre director and visual artist.
Kris Verdonck (born 1974) studied visual arts, architecture and theatre. His creations are positioned in the transit zone between visual arts and theatre, between installation and performance, between dance and architecture. He wrote and directed theater plays and dance performances, music productions, produced media installations, sculptures and video works.
Between body and object.
Over the course of history, the relationship between man and machines has repeatedly been compared to his relationship with God. The essence of godliness is to have control over everything, to achieve omnipotence. The human, as an imperfect, unpredictable, uncontrollable and mortal being, longs for the domain of the perfect, the controllable and the immortal. The human longs for the mechanical; he wants to make the robot or be the robot in order to escape from his own imperfection and mortality.
When the differences between people and things, between ‘subject’ and ‘object’, disappear, when the boundaries between the museum and the theatre, vanish, when things are no longer simply dead and people are no longer simply alive, the white cube and the black box become interchangeable. The result may well be an infinite Beckettian grey, where everyone, everything is lost, where the notion of truth is non existent.