Love the live experience but want to experience more than in ‘the black box’ of the theatre and ‘the white cube’ of the museum? Then Festival Beyond the Black Box: Exploring Live Arts is your favourite. During this festival, which we have been organising since 2019, Flemish Culture House de Brakke Grond bubbles and churns with art that stretches our perception.
From dancing walls, collective reading sessions and massage performances, to an ambient deep listening ritual and a trip in a vacuum suit: the works appeal to all the senses, do not allow themselves to be pinned down to one genre or discipline and always arise on the spot. The entire building is used for this voyage of discovery, right down to the broom cupboard. When you perceive not only with your eyes but with your whole body, a performer, object or space - just like the world - turns out to have unexpected sides and dimensions.
As a festival, Beyond the Black Box is also a meeting place for artists, programmers, organisers and other professionals.
The 2025 edition will take place from 30 January to 2 February.
Festival Beyond the Black Box is a programme by Vlaams Cultuurhuis de Brakke Grond, in collaboration with Platform 0090, C-Takt and SoAP Maastricht.
