Ghost boy

Letters and video installation, 2017​
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What is your relationship with your own body?
Is the body actively acting, or merely a carrier?
What if you are in the service of your own body?
What is the impact of a physical profession on your own intimacy?

As a performer, Karel often experiences a sense of emotional prostitution. After all, you give what the audience needs. As a result, he wondered how a male sex worker experiences his physical task. He, therefore, engaged in correspondence with male sex workers from various Belgian cities. Karel puts their world next to that of a dancer. What binds them is the question of how it feels when your body navigates between being the object and/or the subject?

GHOST BOY looks for the moment that the intimacy of the performer becomes the viewer’s intimacy.