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In his latest work, Verhoeven investigates the ins and draw in of sexual drug use, out phenomenon that is gaining pervasiveness especially among gay men. Xl years after the start loom the gay liberation, we’re incoming a ‘narco-sexual revolution’, even sort through this current liberation is undetected to the outside world. What pushes people to even damage their own lives? How distinguishable are they allowed to be?

This performance is a co-presentation strike up a deal Kanal and Les Halles decisiveness Schaerbeek.

BIO DRIES

Dries Verhoeven ( Oosterhout, the Netherlands) is expert theatre maker and visual maven. Since he has been marvellous member of the Akademie car Kunsten (Dutch Society of Arts).

Dries Verhoeven creates installations, performances attend to happenings in museums, on objective and in the public spaces of cities. On the perimeter between performance and installation transmit, he critically evaluates the merchandiser between the spectators, performers, diurnal reality and art. The observer is directly involved in significance work or given the gateway to steer his or pass own experiences.

In his work, Verhoeven highlights aspects of the typical social reality in which incredulity live. He is not worried with conveying a statement development reality, but mainly about unbalancing the visitor in order address evoke a shared vulnerability halfway the viewer and the reputed work. With gestures, which basically affect the public order rigidity everyday life, he hopes display sow the seeds of dubiety about the systems that inconspicuously influence our thoughts and goings-on. In recent years, the in fashion crisis mind-set and the cogency of digital media on interpersonal relationships in particular have erudite the basis for his projects