Inside the installation the eyes slowly get used to the darkness and you are sucked into a desolate world. Human relations assert themselves in a small chamber which stands out sharply against the outside world. Every twenty minutes the action restarts for another spectator. The performers keep playing uninterruptedly; for them it becomes an act that lasts for hours.
 
The spectator in PLUTO I is a privileged but lonely witness. (...) Where other individual performances are often aimed at creating intimacy, Van Welden does the pole opposite. He lets us come very near, in order for us to then feel more sharply just how far away we actually are.
(Evelyne Coussens, 'Touching from a distance', Corpus Kunstkritiek / VTI)
 
OLDENBURG (DE)  |  Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
PAZZ 2010  |  25-26-27-28-29-30 APRIL 2010
Concept  | Sound:  Karl Van Welden - Performers: Stefaan Claeys  |  Julie Descamps  |  Krijn Hermans - Assistant  |  Operator: Wannes Gevaert - Light design: Jelle Moerman - Coproduction: Bâtard Brussels 2009  |  Atelier 30
 
BRUSSEL (BE)  |  Beursschouwburg  | A. Ortsstraat 20-28  
BÂTARD BRUSSELS  |  22-23-24 OCTOBER 2009
Concept  | Sound:  Karl Van Welden - Performers: Stefaan Claeys  |  Julie Descamps  |  Krijn Hermans - Assistant  |  Operator: Wannes Gevaert  - Light design  |  Operator: Jelle Moerman - Coproduction: Bâtard Brussels 2009  |  Atelier 30