Installation - Location project
Off-track 2021 - Benjamin Vandewalle

Choreographer Benjamin Vandewalle sees trains as huge analog cameras that film the landscape they move through. In our era of portable devices, these ongoing landscape-movies remain ever more often unnoticed.

For Europalia, Vandewalle designed three periscopic devices that offer three different perspectives on the landscape passing by. With these analog machines made out of wood and mirrors, he choreographs the spectator’s gaze rather than trying to choreograph what is seen. Flipping your body upside down, making you dive into a blurred field of colour, or making you witness the dancing cables above you.

Concept and direction Benjamin Vandewalle Technical support Gert Aartsen Music Yoann Durant Coproduction Europalia Trains & Tracks, SoAP Maastrich Executive production Caravan Production Brussels