Point Blank is a visual theatre performance in which the narrative is constructed by using paparazzi-style photographs of everyday situations. 

The 19-year-old Nada has been secretly observing people for years, taking ‘spy-photos’ of them, capturing their private moments. The core of her interest is to trace the various life-strategies that people follow. She wants to map out the options for herself. Driven by this curiosity, she becomes witness to a wide range of – at times extreme - human behaviour.

The performance is an occasion for Nada to structure her ‘archive of possibilities’. Together with the audience she contemplates the images, and looks for the implications and patterns that emerge. She aims to get a comprehensive overview and to reach a conclusion: the vision of a life worth pursuing. 

Point Blank premiered in 2007 at the KunstenFestivaldesArts in Brussels, and has since been performed at various theatres and festivals in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Hungary, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, the United States, Ireland and Poland. It continues touring in the coming year.

In addition to the theatre performance Point Blank, a serries of workshops is held. On June 25, 26 and 27 a selected group of artists collaborated during a workshop by Frank Theys. For 3 days the photographers and Theys traveled the city of Shanghai with the aim to collect "spy" pictures of which a selection will be used in the fictional frame of the theatre performance. On Sunday July 4 a second workshop will take place on dramaturgical strategies. A discussion on Point Blank will be held and the dramaturgy behind it will be explained >>read more

Photographers: Katya Knyazeva, COCA  戴建勇 (Dai Jianyong), Sheen 陈晓珊 (CHEN Xiaoshan), Jit Chuang 钟元杰 (Zhong Yuanjie) 

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