Real Performance stages a repetition exercise in a contemporary shared office space. The exercise is designed to teach actors to build authenticity, with the expression of spontaneous real emotion as the goal of each new performance. In the video, the exercise is pushed beyond its normal time constraints, forcing the two actors beyond the controlled limits of their training. At regular intervals, a series of lines selected from management textbooks are incorporated into the otherwise improvised exercise. In highlighting the language of emotional leadership, Real Performance visualises the gap between two perspectives on empathy: as a method of extracting value from labour and as an intense and transformative force that can produce an alternative kind of space, conjured up in plain sight, spontaneously available to anyone as resistance to instrumentalization.

On 2 November Real performance is part of the opening programme.

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What else is on the programme?

See the timetable to visit the other programmes with your Festival Pass (5-days) or Day Pass (1-day). With the passes you can also visit the festival exhibition The Curse of Smooth Operations at the IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] and Steenweg 26.

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