NTTent DAY 1

Meet Alva Ishii

🎪 Installation
🎪 Free
🎪 Entrance hall Schouwburg (continuous)

Come meet Alva Ishii: a promising artist you’ve probably never heard of. Don’t worry, Alva is totally new to the scene. NTGent is developing a fully digital house artist who will give interviews, create plays and join the artistic board.

Alva Ishii's development is an exploration of new technologies on stage. An example of radical imagination, NTGent's new leitmotif, which at the same time forces to question new technologies. What does AI do to us? What critical questions are we not asking? And why do we leave the development of AI to entrepreneurs?

To whom belongs the heart of the city? (5pm)

🎪 Debate
🎪 For free
🎪 Inside the tent

On the eve of the local elections, NTTent opens with a debate on the decline of public spaces. Squares, streets and neighbourhoods where, regardless of age, origin or background, we should be allowed to feel rooted or at least welcome. Unfortunately, the centre of our city nowadays is taken over by hordes of tourists and a proliferation of hotel and catering chains. Residents are becoming outsiders: extras in a Disney film to the backdrop of historical heritage with the allure of an amusement park.

How can we stop this disneyfication and gentrification? What public space is not yet dominated by commerce and consumption? Which places can we recapture? How can we truly turn Ghent into a city where everyone belongs?

Wie Oud Wordt... - Yves Degryse & Bart Baele / BERLIN (6pm)

🎪Installation
🎪5 - 15 euros (pwyc)
🎪De Foyer (Schouwburg)

In Wie oud wordt... [Those who grow old... ], the audience takes part in an information meeting of the Association for the Rejuvenation of the European Continent. The board hopes to spread its ideas. An intense listening experience under the motto ‘Those who grow old have themselves to blame’. Or as Dutch leading newspaper NRC Handelsblad puts it: "In barely ten minutes, BERLIN creates a wonderful tragicomedy around old age."

True Copy - Yves Degryse & Bart Baele / BERLIN (8pm)

🎪Performance
🎪15 - 28 euros
🎪Schouwburg (main hall)

In this critically acclaimed performance, new house artist BERLIN merges worlds on stage. One man struggles to hold his own amid a web of lies - or are they variations on the truth? The protagonist is Geert Jan Jansen, a master forger who managed to swindle the art world for more than two decades. So convincingly that Picasso and Appel unsuspectingly issued certificates of authenticity to works he created. True Copy  shows the internal radar work of a complex man and, in the same breath, exposes the hypocrisy within the art world.

Prompt Up the Jam - EmbrAIce / NTGent & S.M.A.K. (9:30pm)

🎪AI-battle
🎪Inside the tent
🎪For free
🔥PREMIERE 🔥

A unique event in which four creative teams create intriguing images using AI tools. The teams are given four specific tasks; the audience chooses the winning images. Presenter Robin Broos engages with experts on the impact of new technologies on the future of art and artists.