Thomas Bellinck (Recklinghausen, 1983) studeerde taal- en letterkunde aan de KU Leuven en regie aan de drama-opleiding van het RITCS in Brussel. Sinds 2009 creëert hij performances en installaties op basis van audio-opnames, met een sterke focus op staatsgeweld en herinneringspolitiek. Hij was mede-oprichter van theatergezelschap Steigeisen, artistiek productieplatform ROBIN en The School of Speculative Documentary. De stem van vingers maakt deel uit van de reeks Simple as ABC, waaraan Thomas werkt sinds 2015. De reeks zoomt in op het grensbeleid van de Europese Unie en bevat o.a. ook een interviewmusical over grensbewakingstechnologie en een steeds evoluerend mensenjachtmuseum.

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Toneelwerk

Simple as ABC #8: Museum der Menschenjagd |
  München – 2025
Barzakh – samen met co-auteurs in detentie – 2024
Simple as ABC #7:  De stem van vingers – samen
  met Reza Adib– 2023
Simple as ABC #6: Museum van de mensenjacht |
  Antwerpen – 2022
Simple as ABC #5: Mobility Management Machine
  – 2021
Simple as ABC #4: Musée de la chasse aux humains |
  Tunis – 2019
Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt*– 2019
Simple as ABC #2: Keep Calm & Validate – 2017
Simple as ABC #1: Man vs Machine – 2016
Memento Park – 2015
De onkreukelbare – 2012
Lethal Inc. – 2011
Billy, Sally, Jerry & the .38 Gun – 2010
Fobbit – 2009


* de tekst is geschreven samen met Reza Adib, Ghassen Ayari, Farouk El Ouerghi, Karima Ganji, Parisa Heidari, Chamseddine Marzoug, Mounir, Fatemeh Mousavi, Javad Mousavi, Ervin Shehu, Yiouli Vitou, Ghazi Weld El Ka, Abir Zarrouki

Thomas Bellinck

Barzakh

The Arabic word barzakh refers to a border space between two worlds in which deceased souls must wait in a state of sleep for a final judgment before they can travel further. It is a recognisable situation for people who are awaiting trial in pre-trial detention, as becomes apparent from conversations between them and theatre maker Thomas Bellinck. During workshops in some Belgian prisons, they write a new performance together and determine what is presented on stage. The opera repertoire serves as a starting point: in operas we often see criminal acts and incarceration in a romanticised way, but does this correspond to reality? Composer Osama Abdulrasol translates the material from the workshops into music for singers and chamber orchestra. Barzakh questions the world views that emerge from operas and takes a critical look at the prison system.

Translation. thomas bellinck, mahdieh fahimi, sarah van camp

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Reza Adib Thomas Bellinck

The Voice of Fingers

For several years now, theatre-maker Thomas Bellinck and journalist Reza Adib have been working together long-distance. This distance is not a choice, but the result of a border regime that facilitates the international movement of one of them and obstructs that of the other. A journey that takes one of them eight hours, takes the other eight years. Since it is nearly impossible for Thomas and Reza to share the same stage, they’ve written a highly personal text for two performers. From the ridges and grooves that criss-cross the skin of their fingertips, they zoom out. To a world where skin patterns unlock laptops. And where fingers are commandeered by governments as measuring instruments - to determine who is welcome where.
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Thomas Bellinck Reza Adib

De Stem van Vingers

For several years now, theatre-maker Thomas Bellinck and journalist Reza Adib have been working together long-distance. This distance is not a choice, but the result of a border regime that facilitates the international movement of one of them and obstructs that of the other. A journey that takes one of them eight hours, takes the other eight years. Since it is nearly impossible for Thomas and Reza to share the same stage, they’ve written a highly personal text for two performers. From the ridges and grooves that criss-cross the skin of their fingertips, they zoom out. To a world where skin patterns unlock laptops. And where fingers are commandeered by governments as measuring instruments - to determine who is welcome where.
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