You are an Object
to me
In different quantitative studies, scientists have examined how much time visitors in museums spend. The average time spent with an artwork lies between 10 and 15 seconds.
In ’11 seconds’, Charlotte Bouckaert looks at 1 photograph with her audience for 1 hour, the duration of the performance. That photograph shows the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. A generic exterior view of the museum on a clear day, photographed from the opposite side of 5th Avenue.
'11 seconds' is an ode to art itself, too artists and to the laborious attempts to say something meaningful about art.
PREMIERE : 22 & 23 March 2024
KVS BRUSSELS
CONCEPT AND PERFORMANCE: Charlotte Bouckaert
DRAMATURGY: Bart Van den Eynde
SOUND: Benjamin Dousselaere
MUSIC Nicolas Roseeuw
TECHNIC Christoph Donse
PRODUCTION: Platform 0090
CO-PRODUCTION: C-Takt, Toneelhuis
WITH THE SUPPORT: Workspacebrussels
THANKS TO: Zsenne Art Laboratory, De Grote Post
BE, 2020, 55 min
ENGLISH with SUBTITLES
PREMIERE: TONEELHUIS, Antwerpen
TOUR: Theater aan Zee, Oostende
C-TAKT C-MIne, Genk
Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Playground, STUK, Leuven
Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Paris
Kaap, Brugge
De Spil, Roeselare
KVS, Brussel
DasDas, ITF, Istanbul
REVIEW
Etcetera: Charlotte De Somviele
https://e-tcetera.be/11-seconds-charlotte-bouckaert-0090-toneelhuis/#
'The theater and photography seem to be opposites. They embody a tension between life and death, stillness and movement, past and present. In 11 seconds, however, Charlotte Bouckaert closes the gap by extracting a performance from one snapshot. It's a nice gesture: at a time when everyone is so compulsive about recording everything, Bouckaert tries to free the image from the clutches of representation, to trace it back to a material experience.'
Pzazz: Pieter T'Jonck
https://www.pzazz.theater/nl/recensies/lecture-performance/11-seconden-of-toch-maar-11-dagen
'You have to hand it to Bouckaert: she makes the audience look at that one image with attention for an hour, and she raises a lot of questions'
Theater newspaper: Tuur Devens
https://www.theaterkrant.nl/recensie/11-seconds/charlotte-bouckaert/
'A photo stops time. Charlotte Bouckaert gives the photo back time in her performance. 11 seconds have become a fascinating search ritual for different ways of looking and experiencing.
