Sarah Vanhee (°1980, Oostende, BE)
Sarah Vanhee is an artist, performer and author. Her transdisciplinary work travels inbetween civil spaces and institutional art fields. She worked in open fields, prisons, private living rooms, theatres, on public canvases, in corporate meeting rooms, etc. Recent works include, amongst others, Mémé (stage performance), bodies of knowledge (school), undercurrents (intervention), collected screams (lecture-performance), Unforetold (stage performance), The Making of Justice (film), Oblivion (stage performance), Untitled (meetings in private houses), Lecture For Every One (series of intrusions), ... While strongly embedded locally, Vanhee's work has been presented widely internationally in diverse contexts such as Wiener Festwochen (AT), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), FTA (Montreal), Festival d’Automne (Paris), Festival Actoral (Marseille), PuSh Festival (Vancouver), Jihlavava IDFF, Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven), Centre Pompidou (Metz), Short Theatre (Rome), iDans (Istanbul), Printemps de Septembre (Toulouse), Forum Alpbach, Noorderzon (Groningen), Theater Frascati (Amsterdam), Contour (Mechelen), etc. She co-published Untranslatables and wrote The Miraculous Life of Claire C and TT, as well as other texts. She regularly collaborates with CAMPO (Ghent) and Hiros (Brussels). Vanhee was founding member of Manyone vzw and BOK vzw. She holds a PHD from ARIA (Antwerp University) and KCA (Antwerp Royal Conservatory). Vanhee is currently active on words service. At words service, a words provider freely assists everyone who wants to say or write something but cannot find the words. Meanwhile, Vanhee is developing two new creations that both engage with sexuality: a video installation with longer living people; and a stage-piece with teenagers.
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