Immeuble
Creator of work: Kristin Rogghe (Brussels, Belgium)
Performers: Ales Cucek, Albert Quesada, Androa Mindre Kolo, Christian Botale, Florence Casanave, Gisela Stamm, Marisa Cabal, Pierre Kams, Rek Kandol, Zaventen
Camera: Blanca Lista, Matthias De Groof, Joop Pareyn & Kristin Rogghe
Editing: Iris Vrints & Kristin Rogghe
Concept & realisation in Kinshasa: Matthias De Groof & Kristin Rogghe
Special Thanks to: Mungongo Ya Sika

Immeuble is a videowork that brings a building – normally perceived as a static and immobile thing – into movement, by introducing contemporary dancers in its empty spaces.
The videowork combines and confronts images filmed during an improvisation performance by European dancers in a big building in Brussels, with the images of a similar performance organised with African dancers in a similar building in Kinshasa. How do the dancer’s bodies respond to the architecture of the building and its urbanistic context? How does the viewer relate to the differences and similarities he percieves?
Two cities, two buildings, two cultures, two cameras, many bodies.

Kristin Rogghe (°1983, Belgium),
an artist with a philosophical background, active in the fields of video, performance, installation and writing. Her practice is driven by a fascination for unfamiliar aspects of human realities, (hi)stories, experiences. A method she often uses is to connect the familiar with the foreign, the ordinary with the odd.

Whether on stage, in an exhibition context or on the screen, her work can be characterized as transdisciplinary, collaborative and research-based. It was shown a.o. in Brussels (Wiels Off Site), Antwerp (Mayday!Festival, Monty_ABN), Bruges (Entrepot), Mechelen (Passage), Ghent (Music Art Film Festival), San Francisco (San Francisco Art Institute), Berkeley (Worth Ryder Art Gallery, UC Berkeley) and Windsor (Media City Festival).

Kristin Rogghe studied philosophy at the universities in Leuven (Belgium) and Lisbon (Portugal) and acquired a Master in Visual and Audiovisual Arts at the Brussels’ Art Institute Sint-Lukas, department of Transmedia. She currently lives and works in Brussels.