performance, 2008
duration 20’56”, clip 7’08”
at LOKAAL_01 Antwerp 12/04/2008, 8pm
curator Frederik Vergaert
camera Pablo Bollansée, Olmo Claessens
photographs Tomas Uyttendaele
bodypaint Anaïs Bollansée, advise Inge Grognard

THE TABLE EXERCISE is an alchemical exercise.
The meeting of various elements brings about reactions on several levels.
The acts are performed with great caution and in the right order, as in a   shamanistic ritual. 
“What you were doing makes me think about a ritual for the death. A cremation.
You were performing a ceremony, a ritual of sorrow.” (Anke Schäfer, artist, Germany)
"I love it and I’m always surprised when a work existing  in my system starts to live a life of its own when I perform it” (MJB)