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Alice Van der Wielen-Honinckx (Brussels, 1989) is a performance maker, performer, dramaturge, and somatic practitioner. She holds graduate degrees in literary and performance studies from KU Leuven and Utrecht University, and a certificate in Fascia and Somato-Psycho-Pedagogy (Danis Bois Method).
In her performances and installations, Alice works with slow choreography, text, and other artists to create poetic spaces of resistance to the alienating and oppressive effects of neoliberal patriarchy—spaces that invite rest, intimacy, presence, and alternative imaginings nourished by an awareness of wider timespans and a sense of mutual affection between self and other, whether human or non-human.
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Alice's artistic practice builds upon embodied as well as academic research. In her thesis Aesthetic Boredom: Investigating the Experience of Slow Dance in a Society of Haste, she introduces the concepts of ‘deep perception’—after Pauline Oliveros’ deep listening—and ‘aesthetic boredom’ to articulate how engaging with slow choreography and performance can foster more resonant experiences of relation to time, our bodies & senses, others, and our direct environment—experiences that are valuable counterpoints to the alienating effects of neoliberal culture.​
Her study of slowness takes embodied shape in her solo performance Slow Visit (2024) and Creatures at rest (2021): a durational choreographic trio, presented in contexts at the intersection of visual arts and performance, including Dansand! Festival (Japanese garden, Ostend), Playground Festival (Museum M, Leuven), The Museum as Performance Festival (Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto), and the Brussels Biennale of Women in Art.
At the invitation of the multidisciplinary research and curatorial platform Slow Research Lab, she contributed to the publication Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection with a chapter entitled "Space as Atmosphere: Floating in a Molecular Bath". It was published in June 2021 by Valiz, Amsterdam.
With a grant from Flanders State of The Art and in collaboration with space-oriented artist Rita Hoofwijk, she conduced Slow Experiments (2022) in which she explores how to evoke embodied slowness through writing and voice recording.
With another grant from Flanders State of The Art and LE18 MARRAKECH, she initiated It’s Good to Talk With You, Mother: a participatory research project on slowness, textile crafting, and birth in collaboration with textile artists Berenike Corcuera and Janneke Raaphorst, researcher Malika Eloualy, art embroiderer Soumaya Simari, and the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bellarj. Emanating from this project, the participatory audio-installation Hi, Mom was presented at the Biennale for Women in Art: A Show of Resistance (Brussels, 2024).
As a dramaturge, she has collaborated with Evelien Cammaert, Stav Yeini, Benjamin Vandewalle, Francesca Saraullo, Zoltan Vakulya & Chen-Wei Lee, Jeanne Colin, Fabian Krestel, Hanna Erdman & Louise Dahl, and Maria Madeira.
She performed in works by Evelien Cammaert, Benjamin Vandewalle, Stav Yeini, and Les gens d’Uterpan.
Alice occasionally teaches dramaturgy at École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque (ESAC) in Brussels.
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