Multidisciplinary artist Lieselot Siddiki invites you into her wild universe with the first 4x4: 'Life in a Dead Circus'. Her world pulses with obscene hedonism, grotesque tenderness and raw vitality, a chaotic playground where beauty and decay collide. This is not a show but an open laboratory, a noisy carnival of performances, sensory installations, music and rituals that evoke a haunting sense of the uncanny. Expect hypnotic dance, DIY sound rituals, latex masks, glowing toys and anarchic noise acts. As curator, Siddiki creates a delirious space where recognition meets estrangement, celebrating creative chaos and unfiltered wonder.
In this 4x4 night Lieselot Siddiki opens the doors to her dead circus for one night only. In this doll-house of the uncanny she has invited artists whose work evokes eerie feelings of recognition. These hidden familiar things that have undergone repression and then emerged from it…
The spaces in De Vooruit will function like an old, haunted house. Most performances will have no clear beginning or end. It will be personal, DIY, emotional, unpolished, loud, and sweet as a butter pie. Once you enter the dead circus, you’re free to wander for 2,5 hours. Order a skinny bitch at the bar and go listen to Lieselot's brother Silas Siddiki playing the piano like he’s being chased by the devil in a room we created based on our (confusing) family history. There is Mr Marcaille, a raw and heavy hardcore punk one-man band playing cello and a set of two kick drums who will do a 15 min concert. Or you can spend all your time in the emo girl bedroom of Courtney May Robertson’s ‘HUNTER – OFF RECORD!!!’ SAD. HORNY. ANGRY. SHAMELESSLY!!!!! She invites you into an intimate arena to witness the charged rituals between her and her hyper-realistic silicone doppelgänger; this time, from a dangerously close range. POW! POW!
In the regal setting of the balzaal there will be HELLFILLER the freenoise band of Lieselot's father’s evil twin brother. In the offspace there will be the screaming textile work of Iraqi artist Sura Muayad Al-Ibraheemi in which pain is disguised as celebration. There is the iconic Daisy Ray often described as cartoonish as well as cerebral, Daisy offers a live performance with a surreal and ironic spirit! In the last room there will be a personal experiment: Truthful’ together with Oscar Claus, Inci Gül Civelekoglu and Joeri Happel we will summon the demons of ‘The Truthful’ in a durational sound and lamentation experiment.
