KMSKA LATE - Chimaera & Gormley

What happens when art, the body, space, and technology come together?

With Mycelium, Chimaera brings nature into an urban and museum setting. Ritual regains its place as a contemporary, shared experience. Through voice, music, movement, poetry, and scent, a sensory landscape emerges in which biodata—subtle bodily signals—are also transformed into sound. The audience is invited to slow down, listen, and actively become part of a network of resonance, movement, and presence.

Antony Gormley’s work takes the human body as its starting point, not as an expressive image, but as a physical presence that makes the space tangible. His sculptures invite us to look at space, scale, and place differently: the body as part of a larger whole. The architecture of the KMSKA provides a powerful framework for this.

In dialogue with Gormley’s sculptures, Chimaera explores how their ‘biodata’—small electrical and physical impulses—can be translated into sound, movement, and ritual actions. This creates a lively interaction between sculptures, performers, audience, and space, temporarily transforming the museum into a breathing, resonating network.

Chimaera is an interdisciplinary performing arts collective that works at the intersection of art, philosophy, and biology. The collective functions as an open and flexible network where different creators, disciplines, and generations come together.

Occupancy

Silke Hamers – vocals, dance
Fedra Coppens – violin, trombone, vocals, electronics
Lotte De Munck – violin, vocals
Esther Coorevits – viola, vocals
Ceres Lauwers – cello, vocals
Arto Van Roey – electric guitar, vocals
Lisha Chen – dance