Moni Wespi
- participatory performance
During Feral, a group of slow performers attempts to camouflage itself in Jette and Schaerbeek's public space.
SLOWED LANDSCAPES
SLOWED LANDSCAPES is a project that explores the power of slowness by creating installations that are at once performative, in situ and participatory. The aim is to blend the human body into its environment: public space.
Moni Wespi prints photographs of urban and natural surfaces on textiles. Using these textiles, she designs combinations that camouflage the participants by taking on the colour and texture of the landscape in which the performance takes place.
SLOWED LANDSCAPES proposes a more horizontal relationship between humans and nature: trying to become part of it rather than forcing it to adapt to our needs. It is no longer the environment that is shaped, but us. The awareness of ‘being part of the environment’ is the central idea of this project.
Slowness is a central element of Moni Wespi's visual work through the practice of micromovement. Faced with the ever-increasing speed of our daily lives, the idea here is to suggest a slowing down in the public space.
Vidéo documenting other iterations of SLOWED LANDSCAPES.
Call for participants
Moni Wespi is currently forming an inter-generational group of performers. We are still looking for 5 senior volunteers who want to (comfortably) transform themselves into rocks in public spaces in Jette and Schaerbeek.
Workshops will be held on Thursday 11 and Saturday 13 September, with public performances scheduled on Wednesday 17, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 September (exact times to be confirmed).
To get involved, contact us at cifas@cifas.be
Moni Wespi
Moni Wespi is an international choreographer, art director and visual designer. In her choreographic practice, she creates images through radical scenographic choices, combined with her movement research. In 2007, Wespi founded the company LOUTOP, with which she created an entirely new and innovative stage project, that toured internationally between 2007 and 2014. In 2010, she was awarded the Zürich GRANT award for her work with LOUTOP. In 2011, she joined the collective Asphalt Piloten, an artistic open cell and award-winning company of artists from different artistic and geographic backgrounds.
Since 2014, she has been enlarging her artistic career with international collaborations. The choregrapic visual art project MOVING PORTRAITS was born in collaboration with the video artist Lucia Gerhardt and presented as a video installation. Since 2019, the project has taken different performative and interactive forms, where the audience takes the place of the performer such as in MOVING BLING and STEP IN SET.
Moni Wespi works from a multidisciplinary approach, elaborating visual concepts for performers, musicians and fashion designers. She takes part in the creation and definition of their visual identity, developing costumes and set designs and offering support for videos, photographs and stage projects.