Unlock the City! Thomas Verstraeten

Seefhoek Series and other projects

02/04/2025, h. 17:30
Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, Edificio 11, Spazio Patio

Thomas Verstraeten, a member of the FC Bergman theatre company, is collaborating with DAStU Politecnico di Milano on a five-day workshop that combines urban exploration and performing arts. The workshop is part of UNLOCK THE CITY!, a project which reflects on how performing arts, combined with scientific research, can become a tool for rethinking the urban landscape.

This conference will provide an opportunity to dicuss his work on urban exploration through artistic practice Apart from his activities with FC Bergman, Thomas Verstraeten has a solo art practice that navigates the border between performing arts and visual art; his approach combines storytelling, model-making and animation to capture urban dynamics.

As part of the UNLOCK THE CITY! project, Thomas Verstraeten has realised a seven-part location project called Seefhoek Series. This series is an ode to this extremely heterogeneous district in the northern part of Antwerp, where he himself lives. Verstraeten examines a different aspect of his neighbourhood, only to lift it out of its context, turn it around, take it apart, enlarge it, isolate it, and then finally reintroduce it into that same urban context.

Relatore

Thomas Verstraeten

Responsabili

Antonio Longo, Chiara Nifosì, Teresa Di Muccio

Photo Credits: Seefhoek Series. Mythe van Sisyphus © Wannes Cré