A collective, performative walk that reclaims urban space through walking, circus, and music. VIP traverses everyday corners, often forgotten and little
frequented. It opens a window to an imaginary world made up of invisibilized places, distant conversations, and objects that go unnoticed in daily life.

Inspired by Walkspaces by Francesco Careri, the project explores how we move through the city and how we occupy public space. The characters of VIP are found in corners that don’t appear on postcards, in non-capitalized spaces, in areas where nothing seems to happen but where, in reality, life is boiling. Where the city reveals its cracks, VIP discovers poetic material.
We claim the value of these symbolic and physical peripheries, where beauty lies precisely in non-beauty, in the unexpected, in the ephemeral. What is sually ignored or hidden is transformed into a stage, into a shared story. The city ceases to be a mere backdrop: it becomes the protagonist, and we become accomplices who give it a voice from its edges.

VIP leads the audience on an unvarnished stroll through the everyday corners of the city, where characters meet and cross paths in common places: a bench, an intersection, a balcony. Through headphones, circus, and scenic devices —such as custom-hacked traffic lights or a quarrel inside a distant car that can be heard through the headphones— the characters orchestrate the everyday urban space and sketch a tragicomic narrative that plays with the absurd and brushes against surrealism.
The team? One musician, three circus artists, and a local resident. Surprising, direct, with the city as raw material.

CREDITS

Direction: Júlia Campistany
Performance and creation: Yiorgos Bereris, Liza van Brakel, Júlia Campistany, Ivar van Woenzel
Support: Laura Font Gallard
Outside eye: Simon van Bruyninckx
Artistic advisor: Lucho Smit
Set design: Atelier Werkplaats Dommelhof
Communication & distribution: Buro Piket
Partners: Festival Circolo, Circus Werkplaats Dommelhof, Fonds Podium Kunsten