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Platform BARRY (est. 2015) is an organically evolving and safe environment, home to the long-term artistic research and personal work of actor and lecturer in higher art education Karel Tuytschaever. BARRY is based in Antwerp, Belgium, but travels across borders.

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As a maker, Karel is mesmerized by physicality and embodiment in the arts. Physicality in terms of the relationship a person has with their own body. Embodiment; how one deploys their body as an artist to be part of, or arrive at, creating a work. By making, he asks questions about how we (can) look at bodies in our networked global visual culture full of body images.

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Karel investigates through an embodied practice how physicality is connected to image-making. That is why the creations move between performance and visual art in, from a need to approach the human figure from a different perspective - a difference of acting in or about physicality. This field of work stimulates each other and constantly seeks new forms and relationships. 

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Across disciplines, the artworks are characterized by employing a long-term rethinking of how the human body is engaged in the works. Karel explores intimacy as a practice of pursuing a more authentic and honest embodiment within the arts. Intimate connections don't come fast and in numbers. Therefore, his artistry is founded on a trust-building methodology of respectful and reciprocal encounters with his performers and collaborators.