crowdkill
Anthony van Gog

crowdkill is a physical experience - for performer and audience alike. What happens when the body is overwhelmed by space and sound? What remains when the body finds no other point of recognition than the body itself? Find out in a space filled with four huge subwoofers and an intense soundscape to which the body surrenders.

Theatre newspaper on crowdkill:
“It is a penetrating experience that comes in, not least because of the overwhelming, overpowering sound from the woofers. When Evangelos Biskas (performer ed.) wallows and the sound evokes the same association, movements and personal experience briefly melt together, or at least they touch.”

“When you sit in the hall, you move in a circle, with a number of speakers around you. Through these, bass tones in particular can be heard clearly and you as the audience are in the middle of the sound. In the middle, where Biskas dances, there are four microphones, which pick up the sounds of his movements. Van Gog: ‘We try to make his presence felt by the audience in sound. So that you almost dive into his body and thus end up in a kind of ambiguity. Are you inside his body, or outside it? Are you watching someone or feeling something in your own body?”
(Excerpt from interview with Anthony van Gog by Mina Etemad)

Anthony van Gog (Riemst, 1996) graduated from the Performance course at the Toneelacademie Maastricht in 2019. His work moves at the interface of theatre and performance art, allowing body, sound and space to play a game over and over again. In addition to his artistic practice, Anthony is pursuing a master's degree in Philosophy at the University of Antwerp.

Read here Mina Etemad's interview with Anthony on crowdkill.