7.6.2026 at 15–16
Tickets: 23 / 13 €
Ticket sales at Kiasma’s info desk 1h before showtime. Also a small quota of Pay What You Can tickets available before the show from the info desk.

A production by detheatermaker & CAMPO
The performance introduces a shapeshifter to dating apps.

About
Sex is now as much digital as it is physical; we’ve become interacting algorithms. Can we break the code that locks us into limiting patterns?

In the performance Zero Feet Away, theatre makers Tibau Beirnaert & Laurens Aneca explore the impact of hookup apps. They delve into how these apps reveal both the possibilities and the constraints of modern technology. They question whether the apps can create a new landscape of desires and challenge traditional, heteronormative structures.

The story is told from the perspective of a shapeshifter who craves sex and intimacy. To fulfill these longings the creature turns to hookup apps. Does the shapeshifter, who merely mirrors what others demand of them, eventually find their own form(s)?

I want to function with techniques,
to experience the intensity of my desire through them,
to multiply my faces by metamorphosing my subjectivity,
creating a body that is a revolutionary machine.
Paul Preciado
The performance is directed for adult audiences.
Doors will close at the start of the performance; no late entry is allowed.

Credits
Concept: Tibau Beirnaert & Laurens Aneca
Performance & choreography: Tibau Beirnaert
Direction: Laurens Aneca
Visual design & projections: Loes Vanneste
Costume design: Tobias van Nieuwenhove
Music: Seppe Vande Veire
Scenography: Tibau Beirnaert, Wim Clapdorp & Babette Poncelet
Dramaturgy: Lotte Vrancken
Outside eye: Pol Heyvaert
Pole dance coaching: Marlies Volckaert (Pole Arena)
Executive producer: detheatermaker & CAMPO
Coproduction: Monty & KAAP
Partners: TAZ, Sabam, deAuteurs & De Grote Post
Supported by: Flemish Government
Thanks to: Lieven Verkouille, Seppe Decubber, Matthias Velle, Korneel Coessens, Aaron De Pelsmaeker, Filip Brans, Geeraard Respeel, Lola Bogaert, Matilda Rasquin, Kristof Blom, Marika Ingels, Marijke Vandersmissen, Rob Hendrickx, Ans Van Gasse, Lennert Hoedaert, Thomas Dhanens, Stanzi Cresens, Lynn Van Hoydonck, Neri De Meester (Under Thy Skin), Corso, Rataplan, Mestizo Arts Platform & Walking Practice by Dolki Min

This performance is made with the support of the creation grant from TAZ/Sabam/De Grote Post, which Tibau Beirnaert received in 2023.

Artists
Tibau Beirnaert (2000, they/them) and Laurens Aneca (1992, he/him) met while studying at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent, where they both studied Drama. Their shared interest in queerness forms the essence of their artistic collaboration. Tibau takes on the role of maker, actor and performer, while Laurens acts as director.
Laurens greatly appreciates the player’s autonomy and tries to elicit Tibau’s imagination in various ways. For Tibau, their fascination with alter egos is a crucial element, as it allows them to constantly transform. These metamorphoses using wigs, lenses, prosthetics and (special effects) make-up allows them to question the rigid binarity with which gender is often approached.

Tibau and Laurens’ collective imagination is heavily influenced by fantasy and science fiction, which act as a window through which they view the world around them. Within the genres, they are exploring worlds imbued with an unprecedented diversity of laws and customs, often radically different from everyday reality. These explorations go hand in hand with a deep-seated desire for the strange, the eccentric, the wonderfully bizarre and the future.

Since 2023, they have been working on a trilogy focusing on intimacy. In the same year, their first production F A G G O T S premiered. This performance sensually explores Tibau’s queer utopias, told in several episodes. F A G G O T S was Tibau’s graduation performance at KASK & Conservatorium and was performed at Theater Aan Zee, LAFS and Festival Cement.