© Olivia Mortier

The Albert Canal has been broken.
The mill pound is reaching its highest level.
And the water is flowing into town.
The value of posh houses is degrading.
The rich citizens are fleeing upward. To the mine terrils.
And once again Genk becomes one giant swamp.
With small pathways, small steamy dirty pubs.

Emigrant Ivan Vrambout returns to Green Genk and looks over the city in the text performance Blubber. From a quite unusual location he unbridles his fantasy and his (dis)pleasures on it. Blubber is a hallucinating phantasm about water, a wet dream of chaos and disorder that make the city centre bubble and swirl.

On invitation of art centre Tor, Action Malaise created the theatrical lecture Blubber - Chaos in de stad Genck, in which Ivan Vrambout articulates his criticism on the urban development of Genk. Blubber was presented on 3rd and 4th December 2004 in the Molenvijverpark in Genk.

Text / Lecture: Ivan Vrambout
Music: Jan Naveau
Dramaturgy: Bart Capelle
Scenography: Olivia Mortier
Production: Kunstencentrum TOR / Action Malaise