When Karel van Laere attended a six-hour surgery in a hospital, he saw surgeons using very precise laparoscopic instruments. In the heat of the moment, they made vital decisions hanging above the body, talking as they determined how much flesh to cut away. This improvisation continued to haunt the artist until he found a way to integrate it into a work. For this, he interviewed professionals about improvisation. Besides surgeons, he also spoke to a professional dancer, a police-man and a jazz pianist, to find out what role improvisation plays in their work. This resulted in the multimedia sound installation and performance Reach, in which a team of performers work live with laparoscopic instruments as if they are 'improvisational surgeons' to make excerpts from the interviews audible. 

Because even though the corona-pandemic is officially over, the virus is still making the rounds, as are all the stigmas and prejudices about the undead associated with infections. And it is important that we keep talking about it and process our collective trauma together. So why not let 'zombies' help us mythologize the lessons we have learned and the dance with viruses we have developed in a blockbusterstyle writingroom where we start making scripts together and imagine what happens after The End, when the screen goes black, the credits roll and the somber music plays?

The duration of the workshop is about one hour and attendance will be free.

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