Maria Degrève - Lost Persons Area (De Langste Dag)

A tumbling body wanders through the city. With Lost Persons Area , Maria Degrève takes us in tow through the old city center of Ostend. The artist assumes a vulnerable pose, again and again, as a silent form of resistance. There is power in repetition! We follow her body as it tumbles in a city that lets its own history fall. Onderste-Boven, Bouleversé, Upside-Down! A flash of bewilderment during my first route through the historic city center of Ostend. Deliberate neglect, vacancy, deterioration and decay of cultural and architectural heritage. A violent strategy that leads to demolition followed by construction pits and craters. Voids, voids, voids, a war image in the urban landscape lingered. The performance ‘Lost Persons Area’ as a response. Flailing legs and buttocks in the air. A fuchsia skirt. A tumbling, inverted, fragile body. A nod to the fallen angels of Dirk Bouts and to the grotesque figures from the shells and huts of Bosch and Bruegel. - Maria Degrève PRACTICAL We take a trip through old Ostend. Duration: 50 min PAY WHAT YOU WANT Art belongs to all of us. That is why you determine the entrance fee yourself at De Langste Dag. Do you have a little more to spend? Then you help keep the threshold low for someone else. Thank you for your contribution! DISCOUNT MU.ZEE Upon presentation of a purchased ticket for De Langste Dag, you get a €5 discount on your entrance ticket at Mu.ZEE. ABOUT THE LONGEST DAY From sunrise to sunset. Artists move in and between Mu.ZEE and KAAP in Ostend. Various performances, some continuous. One visible and loud, the other barely perceptible. The actions follow the rhythm of the sun, the tides, and the clock. It will be a long day, almost the longest. Only when the sun sets does the happening end… and the afterparty begins.