“What Are We Fighting For?” is a co-creative project that focuses on encounters and dialogue in public space, through participatory formats and physical interaction.

With a series of open workshops and collective creative moments, we want to bring together Ghent residents – and in particular people who do not (yet) know each other – and explore sensitive and relevant questions about identity, emotion, conflict, cooperation and collective imagination.

The project focuses on developing new forms and frames that bring people into interaction with each other in a playful, physical and performative way.

Inspired by The People Speak‘s projects, we give it our own interpretation through topics such as anger, identity, humor, group dynamics, physicality and safety.

We aim to explore the limits of theoretical emotions as much as we like to expand creativity to its most physical expression. Art is meant to be experienced at its most visceral facet. We are but mere executors of performatic behaviours. We have been told that “unpleasent?” emotions need to be as fast as possible out of our minds, but what if we got the chance to deep dive into them?

• Introduction session: The people’s speak Talkaoke
• Workshops
  • Fight Love
  • Small Acts of Violence
  • Monster Rave
• Co-creative process
• Showcase @ Festival van de gelijkheid

>>>more on events here