“Arms wrapped around one another like a resonant mycelium — understanding each other without having to think alike.”

Mycelium emerges from a simple tension: proximity does not arise from agreement, but from attention.

Through voice, string quartet, guitar, electronics, dance and poetry, a contemporary ritual unfolds in which bodies, sounds and voices meet. Individual trajectories intersect, touch, and drift apart again. Original compositions by the artists of Chimaera merge with the boundary-pushing sonic worlds of Giacinto Scelsi and Jean-Paul Dessy.

Inspired by the work of Antony Gormley, Mycelium explores the dynamic interplay between performers, audience and space, transforming the museum into a breathing, resonant network.

Do we need to feel the same in order to experience something together?

 

 
KMSKA LAAT: Chimaera x Gormley

Location: KMSKA, Antwerp

Performance date:

Thursday June 18, 2026 – 20:30

AIR Festival Merksemdok
Performance dates:
Friday November 21, 2025 – 18:00
Saturday November 22, 2025  – 14:00 & 18:00

creation: Chimaera collective 

performers:

dance, vocals: Silke Hamers

viola, vocals: Esther Coorevits

guitar, electronics, vocals: Arto van Roey

cello, vocals: Ceres Lauwers

violin, vocals: Lotte De Munck

violin, trombone,  lyra, vocals: Fedra Coppens

dance, vocals: Lischa Chen