Benjamin Verdonck opens Flemish Theatre Festival: artists must be environmentally aware #tf2010

We had completely forgotten about the environment. While the streets in the Netherlands are flooded and some Dutch people are already talking about Pakistani conditions, here it's mainly about looming austerity measures and disintegrating Christian Democrat power blocks. 'Today's artists must relate to environmental issues' is therefore a remark we do not expect to hear from an artist in the Netherlands. We do have other things on our minds. So for the environment and art, we have to go south. For Cobra, a Flemish arts channel, explains performance artist Benjamin Verdonck out with which statement he tonight the Flemish theatre festival will open. This only makes us more curious as to what Joan Nederlof next week will go on to say when they will have the Dutch theatre festival opens.