Slugs’ Garden

Performed by Thiago Antunes, Josh
T. Franco, Tuur Marinus, Gabriel
Schenker, Samantha van Wissen &
students of the ISAC (Institut Supérieur
des Arts et des Chorégraphies),
Académie royale des Beaux-Arts
de Bruxelles (ArBA EsA)
Research & concept Fabián Barba, Esteban Donoso
With the collaboration of Josh T. Franco
Textile scenography and playground design: Ana María Gómez

Slugs’ Garden is an immersive space for tactile contemplation. It’s a habitat to be calmly dwelled in, a playground of subtle sensations. It’s an intimate context in which we can consider our relation to our surroundings – to other people and other objects – and let it morph, unintendedly.

Slugs’ Garden is also the time to let us experience minute events of seemingly no consequence. Have you ever surprised yourself playing with a piece of paper that your fingers found lying somewhere? This is the time to let those small gestures mushroom to the centre of our attention, and become the core events of a meaningless universe full of sense.

Like a garden, it’s a space to spend some quiet time, having nothing to do or think about in particular. This slugs’ garden is there to be inhabited and to be played with; an exploration of the space, an experience of time. It’s to wear no shoes. It’s where things grow. It’s when we cultivate.

Text by JOSH T FRANCO

Presentation Kunstenfestivaldesarts,
La Bellone
Executive production Caravan Production
Co-production deSingel International Arts
Campus (Antwerpen), Life Long
Burning/workspacebrussels with the
support of the Culture Programme of the
European Union
With support of the Flemish Government,
the Province of Antwerp