Performances: Connected but Invisible and The Paradox of Connection

Connected but Invisible: A Live Discussion on Information Poverty

How does it feel to be unable to find or understand important information? In this performance, the artists make this tangible by hosting live online meetings with various civil society organisations – directly from the museum.

This gives the audience a unique insight into the world of information poverty: what challenges do people experience every day, and how can art help to make these experiences visible? Through interaction with organisations, it becomes clear how information poverty can lead to exclusion, but also how connection and understanding are made possible.

This performance invites you to actively participate, reflect on the importance of information in our lives, and experience how digital communication can create both barriers and opportunities.

The Paradox of Connection

As researching performers, Arnout and Zohal start from their observations in the neighborhood, where people live in close proximity yet might still feel lonely. In a seemingly domestic setting, they explore how different forms of attachment appear in the search for connection.

Arnout and Zohal navigate as two parallel lines that run alongside each other but never cross each other. Their paths reveal two extremes within the same struggle for connection. While Arnout loses himself in the longing for physicality and closeness, Zohal tries to preserve her integrity by keeping her distance. She is physically present, but withdraws from the grip of expectations, systems, and loneliness.

The performance reveals how people living under one roof, within a shared space, can still live their lives without truly connecting. It is a game of searching and feeling one’s way, of attempts at rapprochement that do not lead to genuine connection. What becomes visible is the silent disruption that can exist within a family: the tension of being together yet remaining alone. In this fragile encounter, Arnout and Zohal explore how closeness does not automatically lead to connection, and how the attempt to connect sometimes actually reveals the distance.