colour me mountain
—artistic interventions
A five-month research led by Lili Sels VanBavaerts, in collaboration with artist Florencia Orlandino, engaged with the social living site Sint-Lambertusberg in Brussels. Through a series of artistic interventions in and around the apartment blocks, the duo collaborated with the neighbors living at the site. A project carried out with the support of community center Op-Weule and the VGC.
I Will Not Bury My Romantic Soul
—performance during Celestial Bodies Festival (Reykjavik, IS)
A performance by Lili Sels VanBavaerts, created during her Master in Performing Arts,
based on the legacy of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark.
concept & performance by Lili Sels VanBavaerts - performers Zofia Blanka Tomczyk, Michelle Saenz Bu & Inga Steinunn Henningsdóttir - mentorship by​ Alexander Roberts, Steinunn Ketilsdóttir & Satu Herrala​ - thanks to the artistic advice of Michikazu Matsune​​​​, Kate McIntosh, Florencia Orlandino, Ian Sinclair, Loren Rubicana, Haraldur Jónsson & Eva Rún Snorradóttir​ - special thanks to María Arnardóttir, Elsa Mencagli & Yann Leguay - collaboration on costumes by Tanja Huld Levý Guðmundsdóttir​
UNI Beautysalon
—open atliers, installation & ongoing performances
UNI Beautysalon, is an artistic and experimental beautysalon created by Lili Sels VanBavaerts in collaboration with Elise Gyshelen and Florencia Orlandino, presented during the participatory arts festival ENTER BXL in dialogue with the neighborhood Laken in Brussels (BE).
UNI Beautysalon is a project that is established in collaboration with children and children organizations located in the area Bockstael, Brussels. The proposition of the beautysalon is to reflect as a collective head on the meaning of beauty in our society.
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During the residency period various propositions were held in the saloon to build on its visual character. To construct a space where bodies can move as they really desire, evoking sensations that resonate deeply into the interior body by external proposed textures. At the end of the residency, a four days festival was held where we celebrated in the form of an ongoing performance and sensory installation, including one-to-one performances as well as collective actions. ​
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Dancing Darlings: Lili Sels VanBavaerts, Elise Gyshelen & Florencia Orlandino - Special Thanks: Ilse Schoonackers, Steffie De Cuyper, Tarek Lamrabti, Bie Vancraeynest & Dorien Herreman ​​- Supported by Flanders State of the Art, Demos vzw, GC Nekkersdal & Enter BXL
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Dancing Darlings
—performance journey & installation
Dancing Darlings is an art installation, a labyrint with many different rooms, and one-to-one performances created by Lili Sels VanBavaerts in collaboration with visual artist Elise Gyshelen.
A performance journey that reflects on the relationship between the self and the other, the interior and exterior. Dancing Darlings talks about the desire to be loved. The desire to structure a self. Stage and audience intertwine when spectator and performer get lost in a voyeuristic game of watching and being watched.
During four days different people were invited to go, alone and for one hour, on a journey with three performers within a sensorial multimaterial labyrinth. The visitor follow performers that tell their stories through moving images that unravel through touch with objects & other bodies, creating together with the visitor an unique ritual.
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Dancing Darlings: Lili Sels VanBavaerts, Elise Gyshelen & Sanne Weber - Mentorship: Bart Capelle, Ruud Gielens & Geert Opsomer - Special thanks: Myrthe van der Mark, Silke Reyntjens, Emre Ku, Nora Vanderstraeten, Yann Leguay & Christopher Rupprecht - Supported by Royal Intstitute for Theater, Cinema and Sound ​​
HOUSE
—performance journey & installation
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House is a one-to-one performance that runs in cycles of one hour and went on for 12 hours in a row, taking place in the artist's own home, created by Lili Sels VanBavaerts. A work that was made to digest feelings of grief in realtion to a life that didn't become to be.
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Performer: Lili Sels VanBavaerts with assistance of Matteo Scheur - Mentorship: Geert Opsomer & Ruud Gielens - Special Thanks: Brigitte Baeken, Oscar Claus & Lieselot Siddiki ​ - Supported by Royal Intstitute for Theater, Cinema and Sound