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Thomas Bellinck


Born in 1983, Thomas Bellinck places the question of Europe at the heart of his work. Standing at the crossroads between performance, the visual arts and film, he is known in particular for his work focusing on power, politics and systemic violence which he explores with professional actors, non-professional actors, scientists, etc.

 

 

Thomas Bellinck studied German Philology in Louvain and graduated as a theatre director from the RITCS, the Brussels school for audio-visual and dramatic arts. Selected for Het Theaterfestival 2009 for a political initiative with illegalized immigrants on hunger strike, he opened the festival with a speech entitled We were dying and then we got a prize. The same year, he co-staged a play with inmates at the Leuven Auxiliary Prison. In 2010, Thomas Bellinck co-set up the Steigeisen theatre company. Under the flag of Steigeisen, they staged the performances entitled Fobbit, Billy, Sally, Jerry and the .38 Gun, Lethal Inc., De Onkreukelbare and Memento Park. Thomas Bellinck also performed in the Frank Nuyts opera Middle East (Muziektheater LOD) and, with patients at the Sint Jan de Deo psychiatric hospital, worked on Berg. In 2013 Thomas created Domo de Eŭropa Historio en Ekzilo at KVS in Brussels. The museum then travelled to other European cities, including Rotterdam, Vienna, Athens and Wiesbaden. In 2015, he co-established the Brussels-based ROBIN, a production structure for tailor-made artistic work. From 2017 onwards, Thomas Bellinck has been a PhD researcher at KASK / School of Arts at the University College in Ghent,  where he is a founding member of The School of Speculative Documentary. He developed Simple as ABC, a series of performances and installations about the ‘Western migration machine’. In April 2018, the second instalment, Simple as ABC #2: Keep Calm & Validate, a musical about the digitalization of migration management, premiered at Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille and began touring Europe. Thomas is currently working on the next chapter, Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt, which will premiere in April 2019.

Édition 2018

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