Hans Bryssinck
Hans Bryssinck
° lives and works in Brussels
A graduate from the Ghent Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Hans Bryssinck crowned his studies with a performance staged at the 2000 edition of the acclaimed Time Festival. He took a postgraduate degree at DasArts in Amsterdam. Ever since his work travels two different paths. On the one hand he produced several theatrical solo works. On the other hand he embarked on various close collaborations with Diederik Peeters, Danai Anesiadou, Dolores Bouckaert, Werner Hirsch, Christoph Hefti... (amongst others) with whom he realized projects that range from performative and theatrical works to video and installation art. He works as a dramaturge, a performer and a set designer for various companies and he's a guest teacher at KASK.
Projects
2011
“Yes, and I personally met the devil at least three times face to face.”
This musical performance focuses on a machine that apparently produces confusing near-death experiences and on a Rumanian singer that believes herself to be somewhere in between life and death. She’s being watched by three dark figures from an intermediate world...
2010
A tale about the quest for a giant carrot and an imaginary three-headed monster.
‘Zanahoria’ is a lecture about the proverbial carrot one holds in front of a donkey in order to make it move. For the follow-up of their cult-hit ‘Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep, he waits…’ (2007), Bryssinck & Peeters (at that time still with Danai Anesiadou) went...
2009
In these Safety Instructions Hans Bryssinck holds speeches in which he attempts to say something truthful. Because he fears to say something truthful and because he fears loneliness he invites a guest alongside an object or a machine that relates to them. This can range from bikers (motorbike), cyclists (bike) and green workers (chainsaw) to...
2008
One Man Snow is a late night act in which the entertainer is haunted by his bygone past. He re-lives moments from some other showbiz career, dreams about a show that he himself would have liked to see. There are fantasies and there is paranoia. He enters the show of his absurdist nightmares, haunted by the ghosts of entertainment. Secretly he’s...
2008
Hans Bryssinck invited Werner Hirsch to mount a series of photos based on found footage and biographical imagery. In those photos they play with coincidence and the fact of finding oneself somewhere in between. Werner will really be in between everything: in between other things, but also between the devil and the deep sea and between pillar and...
2007
Where have the discrete charms of the bourgeoisie gone? In their enigmatically titled ensemble piece "Chuck Norris Doesn't Sleep, He Waits", Danai Anesiadou, Hans Bryssinck and Diederik Peeters take turns performing the cinematic chores of decadence, basing their taut, absurdist skits on filmic representation of ennui-stricken jet set life.
A...
2005
Over the years, the young performer Hans Bryssinck has accumulated snapshots of friends and family and records of his projects. In Silent Manifesto you see a slide-show using several projectors. In between times Bryssinck tells of minor incidents and greater events.An intimate performance that reflects on the little idiosyncrasies of the human...
2005
Sterven in Stijl (To die in style) is a solo by Hans Bryssinck and Dolores Bouckaert. Sterven in Stijl shows an actress wandering round between various scenes that increasingly head for her death: fragments of memories, lost loves and a last confession.
English spoken
2003
Los Viernes was scripted as one full day of urban experiences throughout Mexico-City; driving around, meeting people, giving lectures in universities, doing guided museum tours etc. On Friday the 21st Bryssinck & Peeters acted out the script and turned it into a performative experience. Exactly one week later, on Friday the 28th they tried to...
• Past dates •
26.02.2011
Kunstencentrum België • Hasselt • Belgium
18.02.2011
Brakke Grond [Something Raw]
11.02.2011 - 12.02.2011
Beursschouwburg • Brussels • Belgium
12.02.2010 - 28.03.2010
De appel • Netherlands
15.01.2010 - 16.01.2010
Beursschouwburg • Brussels • Belgium
02.10.2009 - 04.10.2009
BRXLBRAVO 2009 • Brussel • Belgium
02.10.2009
Beursschouwburg • Brussels • Belgium
12.09.2009 - 07.11.2009
Netwerk [Time as activity] • Aalst • Belgium
02.05.2009 - 03.05.2009
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm [Plateaux Festival]
25.03.2009 - 28.03.2009
Beursschouwburg [On y danse] • Brussels • Belgium
08.06.2008
Théâtre National de Strasbourg [Festival Premières] • Strasbourg • France
05.04.2008 - 06.04.2008
La Ferme Du Buisson [Labomatic Théâtres] • France
01.04.2008
Tweetakt Festival • Utrecht • Netherlands
05.02.2008 - 06.02.2008
Brakke Grond [Something Raw]
17.11.2007
Les grandes traversées
20.04.2007 - 21.04.2007
Vooruit [T:mefestival] • Gent • Belgium
30.03.2007
Kunstencentrum Nona • Mechelen • Belgium
07.06.2006 - 09.06.2006
Beursschouwburg • Brussels • Belgium
16.02.2006 - 17.02.2006
[something raw festival]
20.09.2005 - 21.09.2005
Vooruit • Gent • Belgium