You are invited to celebrate the festive opening of WOMBTOMBS by Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot at MU Hybrid Art House.

Cocoons like bandaged shelters suspended in an undulating landscape with hidden small pools. The landscape is an in-between space, a bardo, of dust that becomes dust again, just as everything that lives becomes dust again. Or becomes liquid.
Floating, bearing, lifting, carrying – intricate life, retreating into a 'carrier bag'. Seemingly dead on the outside, but bubbling, transforming, incubating inside.
We move past it, mourning the soup of life, working our way through the compost heap, where we digest the old and make space for ...

Vanessa Machado de Oliveira calls this guiding of the irreversible dying process of our toxic society 'Hospicing modernity'. Inspired by her thinking Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot asks visitors to come together in the organic and technological cracks of our disintegrating world in order to caringly help it to its end. They are supported by Bolivian artist and shaman Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, who colours the landscape with polyphonic sound sculptures and regularly presides over mourning rituals in which the audience can participate.

19:30 DOORS OPEN
20:00 START