Farida Amadou / Melissa Mabesoone / Louis Vanhaverbeke / LOUD

Recovery begins in the soil. At least, that’s the starting point for musician Farida Amadou and performance artists Melissa Mabesoone and Louis Vanhaverbeke in Soil Biographies. Drawing on their own experiences, they create a sensory performance in which queer imagination, mental resilience, and rural sounds converge. Each of them has their own reason to lower their gaze. As a farmer’s daughter, Melissa Mabesoone witnessed how the soil literally sustained her livelihood. This holds true for all of us, but in a hurried society, that connection is often buried. To rediscover this direct bond with the earth, Louis Vanhaverbeke turned to farming. As a Black musician, Farida Amadou digs into the roots of the blues genre and seeks a new kind of rural music that defies clichés. Soil Biographies is a hybrid landscape of sound, movement, and transformation. A place where music becomes a nurturing language. An invitation to feel together and reconnect with the earth.