“Children must not play on this site”, [neighbourHOOD] 2011, London

Context of the performance: The Olympic games site has been exposed with nuclear radiation. To solve the problem authorities have decided to use washing soil machines to “wash the soil”, and after the “cleaned” soil…
“Any soil that was too contaminated to be cleaned was sent to a specially licensed landfill” in U.K.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827802.000-going-for-green-at-the-olympics.html

The performance happened inside a container boat located in the canal aside the Olympic Games fends. Washing Nature with Nature in order to recover Nature. A spreading cancer infiltrates the essence of Nature, growing towards a non-symbiotic interconnectivity between all kinds of life. There is no need to change or to wash the essence Nature, perhaps there would be an ultimate need to wash the soul of Human Nature.

Photography by Marco Berardi

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S.O.S. Space-ontology-station, APASS Research, De Singel

S.OS. rethinks space as a living organism, it is a poetic and symbolic exercise that proposes the illness of the space as a metaphor, revealing the spatial malfunctions and disabilities, its failing organs and metabolism. S.O.S is a semiotic analysis that transposes our understanding of physical illness to ‘illness’ as a property of space: as the visible outcome of the invisible symptoms the spatial organism, partly through human interference, carries within it.
Symptoms such as ‘damaged’, ‘abandoned’, ‘broken’, ‘bruised’, ‘wounded’, ‘forgotten’, are diagnosed through actions and interventions that make the metaphor visible, the moment meaning is produced out of the ordinary. In order to re-write the physical damage of the patient/space, the healing process uses concepts of topography and space surgery.
This research relates the singularity and weakness of humanity to the complex layering of nature’s politics and the impact of human interference within natural processes. It reveals the cataclysm of nature and its natural resistance against humanity.  Using the reference of the cordyceps (a kind of mushroom) as organisms that invade, alter and affect the behavior of the host, this station is a research-in-progress: an animist approach to reading the traces of life in the space.  

concept, performance Maria Lucia I collaboration Wouter Decorte I sound Simon Williams I Costume design: Tom Tom Van der Borght l produced by APASS I producer manager Marie Caeyers

Congé Festival, Budakunstcentrum, july 2010

S.O.S.MoBile Field hOspital
City-Re-think Of ill-nesS


The narrative content of the intervention is an extended reflection on the poetics of the city of Kortrijk as ill body.
Rethinking the city as a space that subjectively can suspend the metaphors of a living organism, the intervention of SOS Mobile Field Hospital, works as human mobile station, that encounter the illness as a property of the space: a ruthless appropriation of invisible symptoms on the functionality of organs and parts of the city/body. In order to make a diagnosis of symptoms such as damaged, abandoned, broken, bruised, hounded, forgotten...

Costume design Tom Van der Borght

City-Re-think of ill-ness, Summercamp electrified, Timelab June 2010

Rethinking the space as a space that subjectively can suspend the invariants and metaphors of a living organism.

The city as a body is a metaphor without logic and against order.
It's an approach that centers the space as a vulnerable body that needs to be restored, cured, changed.
The narrative content is extended into a poetic and symbolic reference to the illness of a living body.

The site-specific intervention encounter the illness as a property of the space: a ruthless appropriation of invisible symptoms on the functionality of organs and parts of a body/sapce.
The hilling process illustrate concepts of topography and space surgery in order to re-write the physical damage of the patient/space.

The performance works as a perception of living processes that emerges from an invasion of cells of horrid kind. The perception of symptoms such as damaged, abandoned, broken, bruised, hounded make part of the concept of space illness as phenomenon that suggests and suspends traces of life.

Special thanks to Tom van der Borght, Wouter Decorte and Timelab
Costume design: Tom Van der Borght

B.O.T. Boxes of Transiency, Fresh Festival, Buda kunstcentrum May 2010

The installation works as a living organism that suspends the traces of hidden fissures and equally preserve and maintain our existence.
Using healing as a metaphor, the clinical perception of human health condition, reflects the state of our planet earth.
An experiment, a laboratory that equally embraces the life of species.
Besides the ethical quest, it relates the singularity and weakness of humanity towards the layers of the politics of nature.
The installation encounter the illness as an effect of man impact on earth: a ruthless appropriation of invisible symptoms on the functionality of organs and limbs of human body and environment as a body.

The natural resources on our earth suspends a crucial and decisive role on the preservation of the living organisms race.
It holds the dual power of survival and extinction.

Our past, present and future reflects our passage into the life of nature. The human path on the earth is not longer dictated by the rationale respect and wisdom. This ideology in its extreme form, makes us decline the notion of mutual respect and raise interference on the cycle of natural systems.

It’s not sufficient to regard the impact of human behavior on the earth as a purely ethical matter. Because the interconnectivity of human beings and its natural environment it is, inherently, an ethical question. An individual action upon the politic and economic system.



Concept and direction: Maria Lucia Correia
Performers: Monia Montali, Timothy Vandewalle, Maria Lucia Correia
Sound Design: Simon Williams

B.O.T. Boxes of Transiency

Batard Festival, Brussels

Taking responsabilities and action in
the light of degradation of our planet is
primarily and inherently an ethical quest.
From individual creation
to a social consciousness.
Performers: Monia Montali, Timothy Vandewalle, Maria Lucia
Costume design: Anne Marie
Special thanks to: Luis Simoes

"How does it come alife and touch you so deeply"

Location: Landen, Tempus Arti Festival, Belgium
Curated by Tim Cleuren and Dirk Lambrechet
Guest curator: Jan Hoet
It started with a story from Kafka and it grows like a spider web in our sub conscious.
It provokes a contamination in our brain, and it become alive inside of our body.
The installation is a result of an environmental research that she has been attempting with her previous works.
The piece, centers in an attempt to make a diagnostic of our earth.
Alongside, she exposes a reflection about the approach that nature tries to maintain with the humans. Giving life, not only to other species, but to prolong the human race.
The aim is to inundate the spectator with a Land cancer.
A psychological game, presented by the confrontation between planet degradation and cancer.
In this chapter the cancer comes as a metaphor of the symptoms that the earth feels in our presence. Therefore, she presents a tree as an extended metaphor for her narrative, as a manifestation of our subconscient,
a reaction in our brains, a collective human reflection. The inescapable confrontation within the normal course of life.
The spectator is invited for a psychological game provoked by the image of a tree growing in his brain.
As if his brain is contaminated with a mortal disease.
On the subject of the consequences of deforestation, we will dive into a consciousness overflow.
Music composed by Simon Williams

Photographer: Carlos Cid Ruiz
Special thanks to: Jan"the engineer", Eric, Mia, Tim Cleuren and Anne Marie

Foam Contamination

Location: Antwerp, Echo.base, May 09
The installation works as an organic structure, which manifests the reflections of our subconscious. A sleeping space, a minimalist surface, in the vein of a laboratory, where bodies intersect the space, as if they've become only one element, one soul. A metaphor that reflects the body's metamorphosis in order to interconnect with the environment, the space. Consequently our body is a reflection of our measures. People are getting contaminated by diseases. Our skin is suffering, our lungs are becoming more and more fragile and our hearts will stop beating…. Therefore when we come to think about foam imagery, we can say that esthetically it has the same fragile power of humans but in the case of ocean foam pollution, it’s a sign of contamination, pollution and virus. A human extension, a foam contamination. Therefore to build something we have to see all the components of construction and deconstruction. To analyze foam we have to be able to make the decomposition, the cause of its existence and the way that it can disappear.
Photographer: Kim

B.O.T. - . “Boxes of Transiency”

Location: Festival Ithaka 09/ Leuvan
Is a video installation, where the aim of the project is an aware of destruction of our environment. In the installation the nature inside the glass boxes will transmit the suffer feeling of our land. The plants are contaminated by pesticides and nuclear radiation, mercury from industries. Making the change of birth to dead. In this hospital for plants the symbols represent “the inverse cycle of life”, with all the contrasts above the surface of the earth.
Are we living in a society full of powerful dragons ready to spit fire? The video transmits the significant environmental problems related to pollution. It shows the paradox of the chimneys of industries and the mouths of dragons installed in our land. The chimneys have the power of self destruction that kills little by little the heart and the breath of our life, Our Land.

“Crawling under your skin like a sleeping volcano” Echobase-Antwerp

Video and scenography:Maria Lucia

Performance: Maria Lucia and Severine Van der Stighelen

Just like air is to fire, feelings are to conflict. Breathing conflicts:

Contraditory tensions in a reality, where every being can be touched and surprised by connections, by the forces against the nude reality and the lost translation in the unexpected world of sensations.

“Breath in deeply” - National exhibition in Nepal Art council-Kathmandu 2008

Video and scenography:Maria Lucia

Performance: Maria Lucia and Timothy Vandewalle

Pollution aware. According the inventories, the main pollution factor is the poor quality of fuel and inefficient management of vehicles. The health impact of air pollution increase the number of patients suffering from respiratory diseases ..... We can’t breath...give us an oxigen mask...