Forest Silent Gathering

For Forest Silent Gathering, a group of audience members meet inside a forest at sunset and follow a soundtrack through headphones. An audio-social architecture is created, in which one can possibly be alone together. Changing distances invite to find new proximities. Absent figures become protagonists. As the communal space takes shape and transforms, Forest Silent Gathering makes us reflect on the bonds between people, forests and histories. What is it that keeps us together? 

Direction: Begüm Erciyas

Realised with: Matthias Meppelink, Jean-Baptiste Veyret Logerias, Maru Mushtrieva

Sound Design: Eric Desjeux

Dramaturgy: David Weber-Krebs & Jonas Rutgeerts

Research: Ayşe Orhon, Sara Manente

Prop design: Günbike Erdemir

Production: Hiros

Co-production: deSingel, STUK, Arcadia 2022, PACT Zollverein, Platform 0090, Kunstenwerkplaats

With the support of: Vlaamse Overheid

Thanks to: Homo Novus Festival, Musica Impulscentrum voor Muziek

27-30 April 2022          Premiere at Carta Festival, DeSingel, Antwerp

25-26 May 2022           Performances at Hear Here Festival, STUK, Leuven

8-10, 12-13 July 2022  Performances at Munich Kammerspiele

1 September 2022        Performance at Meakusma Festival, Eupen

April 2023                    Performances at Kaaitheater, Brussels