TripSitting is a care initiative of co-supporting practices and intimate performances to be shared publicly. It creates contexts and holds space to enable experimental encounters with different environments, locations and collaborators in peripheral art spaces outside of institutional art contexts. This initiative was started by Nathaniel Moore and André Chapatte in Brussels in 2021.
For this rendition of TripSitting, Keith Hennessy and Nathaniel Moore co-create and co-produce an experiment in reciprocal corporeality, friendship, intimacy, dance, and not knowing. This performance will be musically supported by Jose Abad. This performance contains nudity
Keith Hennessy, is a frolicker, imperfectionist, and witch working in the fields of dance, performance, activism, affordable housing, gay sexuality, and teaching. Raised on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek lands in Canada and living since 1982 in Ramaytush Ohlone lands (San Francisco), Keith tours internationally. Hennessy’s work is interdisciplinary and experimental, motivated by anti-racist, queer-feminist, and anarchist movement. He engages practices of improvisation, ritual, collaboration, play, and protest to respond to the social-psychic impacts of political crises. With a focus on the politics of relationships, Keith has negotiated shared power and co-creativity with a lot of amazing people. Hennessy directs Circo Zero, co-founded the dance/culture spaces 848 and CounterPulse, and was a member of Sara Mann’s Contraband, 1985-1994. Awards include Guggenheim, USArtist, NY Bessie, Izzies, and multiple residencies in the US and Europe. His favorite place to be is dancing naked in water.
Nathaniel Moore is a Brussels-based artist with roots in the San Francisco experimental dance scene. They have shared their work in Brussels, Berlin, and San Francisco, and have worked for numerous choreographers in North America and Europe. In 2022 they completed A.Pass (advanced performance and scenography studies). Other current engagements include: working with the archive of Ponderosa alongside Stephanie Maher, Tripsitting with Andre Chapatte, and Trancing into the Collective Imagination: a group research with Stijn Smeets, Asher Lev, and Irina Lav. They are currently supported by the emerging artist research subsidy of Flanders.
