FULL - A deluded state of mind

Liesbet Hermans

In A Deluded State of Mind, an intimate performance in public space, Liesbet Hermans explores the relationship between our bodies and our minds. According to her, we have similar thought patterns, but how much impact do they have on our lives? And what would happen if we give these thoughts the attention they desire?

Join her on an intriguing walk through the city. Through headphones, you listen to the inner world of the person following you. You hear thoughts about themselves, about their place in the world and about humanity. Silences and spontaneous associations alternate in an ongoing dialogue between the body’s impulse and its restless mind. By setting out together, we discover our own thinking tendencies and a shared sense of togetherness emerges. Or are we just lonely individuals?

Liesbet Hermans (b. 1981, BE) is a social designer and transdisciplinary artist.
She graduated as a designer from Luca School of Arts with a performance on body language and objects. She then trained in physical theater and contemporary dance.

Her artistic practice breathes from a pioneering spirit. On the border between performance and installation, preferably in public space or atypical playgrounds, she explores aspects of our everyday reality. The key question in her practice is: where have we forgotten to be human?

Her work combines a fascination with pigeonholing and rules with the need to test and subvert patterns of thought. In this way, she recalls a state of being human that is vulnerable, doubting, connecting. By disconnecting practices and concepts from their usual context, Hermans entices spectators and collaborators to make new connections to rethink fixed beliefs and structures.

CREDITS

Concept and direction: Liesbet Hermans
Performance: Danielle Huyghe, Aliénor H, Davis Freeman
Dramaturgy: Gustav Koenigs, Mesut Arslan
Artistic advice: Benjamin Vandewalle
Text: Thoughts from all of us
Voice over: Davis Freeman, Christine Verheyden
Sound design: Mattias De Craene
Sound editing: Bart Heijnen
Production: Posthuman
Coproduction: Platform 0090, C-Takt, Arts center KAAP

With the support of the Flemish government and the city of Genk
With thanks to C-MINE, Arts center STUK, Kunstenwerkplaats Brussel, Arts center VIERNULVIER, La Geste, Le Bamp, Post X, Sabam for culture, Eddie Guldolf, Stefano De Notarpietro, Gitte Hendrikx, Marcia Liu, Elie Tass

Organisation:KAAP