The OHNO Cooperation Conversation
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THE OHNO COOPERATION CONVERSATION ON THE O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O. ONTOLOGY 
With: Maarten Seghers and Jan Lauwers 
Camera: Bart Baele 
Production: Needcompany 
Commissioned by SPIELART 2007 (Munich) 

THE OHNO COOPERATION CONVERSATION ON THE O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O. TAUTOLOGY 
With: Maarten Seghers and Jan Lauwers 
Camera: Gert Verboven 
Production: Needcompany 
Commissioned by FIDENA 2014 (Bochum)

In 2007, the choice Maarten Seghers and Jan Lauwers made, of sharing the role of fool in the shape of the OHNO COOPERATION, inspired them to make an intense video portrait lasting 17 min. 46 sec., called THE OHNO COOPERATION CONVERSATION ON THE O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O. ONTOLOGY. Their aim in this video portrait was to emphasise the role of the artist and the artwork in society. In the video Maarten Seghers and Jan Lauwers hold a conversation about art and theatre. They live in an army tent and manifest themselves wherever necessary to ask questions through theatre, music and art. Their motif is ‘nothing is certain and everything is different’. A conversation between two generations, about whether to explain an artwork or not, which seeks tenderness through incomprehension. 

Seven years after THE OHNO COOPERATION CONVERSATION ON THE O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O. ONTOLOGY, Maarten Seghers and Jan Lauwers are meeting up again to hold a second conversation: THE OHNO COOPERATION CONVERSATION ON THE O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O. TAUTOLOGY. This new meeting has been composed so that the words and sounds occupy the silences in the previous conversation, whereby the two conversations together make a piece of music and the content is given new meaning. The two performers, like black shadows, dance a new interpretation of their artistic dialogue and thus for 17 min. 46 sec. reinterpret their conversations.

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THE OHNO COOPERATION CONVERSATION ON THE O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O. ONTOLOGY 
With: Maarten Seghers and Jan Lauwers 
Camera: Bart Baele 
Production: Needcompany 
Commissioned by SPIELART 2007 (Munich) 

THE OHNO COOPERATION CONVERSATION ON THE O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O. TAUTOLOGY 
With: Maarten Seghers and Jan Lauwers 
Camera: Gert Verboven 
Production: Needcompany 
Commissioned by FIDENA 2014 (Bochum)

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May 2014
21 MayBochum DEDeutsches Forum für Figurentheater / FIDENA
22 MayBochum DEDeutsches Forum für Figurentheater / FIDENA
September 2015
11 SepGaasbeek BEde School van Gaasbeek
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