NOON collective
And now the beginning is somewhere else

In 2025, NOON collective began developing And now the beginning is somewhere else – a performative installation that will evolve throughout the season 2025-2026. After a premiere at Beyond the Black Box in Antwerp in May 2025, a first series of adaptations of the installation takes place at the Zwarte Zaal of KASK & Conservatorium.

Over four days, NOON opens the doors of this immersive installation to the public. On Wednesday afternoon, students are invited to immerse themselves in a series of activations. On Thursday and Friday afternoons, visitors can explore and experience the installation, while on Thursday and Friday evenings, the work unfolds as a live performance.

On Sunday, NOON presents the first trial of And now the beginning is somewhere else: NEW LANDSCAPE STORIES – an extended version of their performative installation, developed in the atmosphere of a lab. And now… invites you in a shared landscape where performance and practices mingle, shaped by the impressions, interactions and transformations of the week. A shared Sunday afternoon to rest, play and imagine where it started, all over again.

About And now the beginning is somewhere else

And now the beginning is somewhere else is an immersive performative installation – a space you are invited to enter.

Through an extreme landscape, made out of the logic of foam, you make your way in between suspended time, traces of water and petrol. It seems like nothing can happen here. Yet, with time what simmers under the surface unveils itself. Balancing between stillness and motion, the landscape unravels its memories and narratives, from a long time ago - or maybe, now.

‘And now the beginning is somewhere else’ is a performative installation where you are invited inside of. Through sound, light, choreographic elements, and through polypropylene, living beings, water and foam, a world of interwoven relationships begins to emerge."

About NOON collective

NOON is a multidisciplinary collective creating performative installations rooted in questions of how we might be together differently. Their work explores encounters between human and non-human forces, shifting bodies, and the search for – or perhaps the emergence of – new forms of symbiosis. Through layered, sensory experiences, NOON invites us to imagine new modes of connection, cohabitation, and transformation. www.nooncollective.be

Practical information

• Zwarte Zaal, KASK, Louis Pasteurlaan 2, 9000 Ghent
• Activations for the students of KASK on Wednesday 17.09.2025 between 1 and 5pm
• Open Installation Thursday 18.09.2025 and Friday, 19.09.2025 between 12 and 4 pm.
• Performance on Thursday, 18.09.2025, 8:30 p.m.
• Performance on Friday, 19.09.2025, 8:30 p.m.
• Laboratory ‘And now the beginning is somewhere else : new landscape stories’ on Sunday, 21.09.2025 between 2 and 5pm, possibility to go in and out.

Reserve here a spot for the performance. The entrance is free.

Credits

concept/performing: Iris Donders, Delphine Mertens

concept/(end) direction: Judith Dhondt

performing/creation: Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek

sound creation: Lucie Grésil

space development: Eline Harmse

first object development: Edie de Vere

costume creation: stef assandri

light design: Caroline Mathieu

dramaturgy: Sara Manente

choreographic assistant: Anja Röttgerkamp, Janka De Waele

production: Emma Steurs

graphic design: Joram De Cocker

polypropylen research: Elena Vloeberghen

Co-production C-TAKT, KAAP & SoAP

With the finan­ci­al sup­port of the Flemish Government and Stad Ghent

Supported by BUDA, CAMPO, KASK & Conservatorium (HOGENT – Howest), KIOSK, De School van Gaasbeek, de Koer, de Verffabriek, A Two Dogs Company, Mouvance ASBL, Kunstenwerkplaats pianofabriek, and Garage 29