Centre for Contemporary Performing Arts

One of the most frequently asked questions on Google is: "What do I do to be normal?" Usually, we are told what is abnormal but the limits of normality remain vague and nondesript. In his latest project, Louis Vanhaverbeke explores the frontier of normality in both its imaginary and literal sense. People build isolation cells, prisons and schools to set the limits of normality and differentiate themselves from the others. To what extent does this spatial approach endanger our freedom and our personality? What stands between a safe space and a potentially unsafe one? Who decides what is inside these limits and what is outside? As a true maintenance technician, Vanhaverbeke fills the stage with fences, storage containers and a fuse box. He builds, drills and assembles while his music may be trying to express what actually bothers him. He uses his hand-assembled constructions to open doors through walls and to open windows through mirrors, thereby also metaphorically transforming his inner space.