Simon Allemeersch / Lucinda Ra
Rabot 2
How are the residents of the now-demolished towers faring? ‘Rabot 2’ tells their story.
“How are things going?” This question is the starting point for artist Simon Allemeersch’s new creation. The solo project ‘Rabot 2’ builds on ‘Rabot 4-358’, about his stay in one of the Rabot towers. Now Allemeersch seeks out the people he collaborated and lived with at the time. From their story, he zooms out to a bigger story about private and public wealth. What do we need for a good and dignified life, and what role can architecture, urban development and policy play in this? Allemeersch describes ‘Rabot 2’ as a ‘subjective documentary’. In the performance he merges live sound, documentation, music, theatre and video footage into a single entity. And he again collaborates musically with Rudy Trouvé. In the meantime, the final Rabot tower has been demolished…