On 3 and 4 July, at MILL, Needcompany’s laboratory, we will be presenting a durational performance of 2 x 8 hours: The House of Our Fathers / Mothers of Inventions, a reimagining of a durational installation conceived by Jan Lauwers and Needcompany more than 10 years ago. Now the house is being realised in Molenbeek by Grace Ellen Barkey, Maarten Seghers and Jan Lauwers and 20 performers of all generations. It will be Corona-proof and full of the joy of the making.

On the basis of his lifelong archives, Jan Lauwers is building a monumental installation in which he reinterprets past works and materials and confronts them with art history.

If art does not penetrate the observer’s memory it does not exist.

If art does not penetrate the observer’s memory it does not exist.

If art does not penetrate the observer’s memory it does not exist.

If art does not penetrate the observer’s memory it does not exist.

In the museum installations (deconstructions) there are performances lasting a whole day, and the observer decides for himself how long he wants to watch a particular action.

If art does not penetrate the observer’s memory it does not exist.

Jan Lauwers’ art work has an independent existence, but receives support from Needcompany whenever his visual and theatrical worlds ...

Jan Lauwers’ art SUMMER EXHIBITION - GRIMBERGEN 2002 ...