Zone X
Performance - Kyoko Scholiers
What will our descendants think of our present time, in about a hundred years or so? What will be left of us? That is the question Kyoko Scholiers asks in her Zone X, a futuristic touristic city walk. The show is set in 2124. Guide Miko takes fifteen spectators on a walk through an area that was shielded from the world after The Disaster of 2034. Time has stood still there, the locals still live there as in the 2020s. Walking through this vibrant ruin of the early 21st century, Miko dissects our traces with passion and wonder. She mercilessly skewers our contemporary thinking and actions, holding us under the microscope as the bizarre creatures we will turn out to be to our descendants.
Kyoko Scholiers is an artist, theatre maker and actress. Her recent theatre work probes human fragility and resilience and the influence of time on humans. For Zone X, Scholiers devotes herself to a meticulous preliminary study and will engage in discussions with sociologists and future researchers, among others. She has asked Bjorn Eriksson to compose the soundscape.
Coproduction MoMeNT, KAAP, IN SITU/C-takt, NEXT Arts en Festival // With support from: De Vlaamse overheid, Stad Antwerpen, Corso, De Grote Post // Thanks to: Universiteit Antwerpen, Stedelijk Lyceum Cadix, De Kunsthumaniora, OKAN
The creators
Kyoko Scholiers
Concept and regie
Kyoko Scholiers
Text
Tom Hannes
Text
Bjorn Eriksson
Music
Daisy Ip
Actor
Maya Mertens
Actor
Taka Shamoto
Actor
Nathalie Delcroix
Singer