Ernst Maréchal

Ernst Maréchal

Bio

Ernst Maréchal is an audiovisual artist, performer and songwriter. His focus is on co-creation and on how we can make diverse voices resonate and give meaning in public space by bringing them together. He tries to understand and represent the dramaturgy of these encounters by searching for artistic forms to hold traces of them, from a participatory observation and activation.

In the recent past he was founder and artistic director of Manoeuvre, a co-creative arts space in Ghent. Before that he created together with other artists and with many new Belgians (in collaboration with Globe Aroma & Kaaitheater) the projects: The Table Kitchen, Made in Belgium and Blue Key Identity. A shared research into the possibilities of integration as a dialogical process.

Now he is active as an artistic (PhD) researcher at RITCS School of Arts/VUB where, with the trajectory Social Recordings, he searches for the relational power of sound, for feedback as communication, for forms of open listening that enter into dialogue with the unknown and the antagonistic and for how, despite the differences, we are subject to (but also contribute to) the sonic space we share.

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