\u00b01977, Geneva, Switzerland, lives and works in Brussels.<\/p>\n
Christophe Meierhans was trained as a composer at the Amsterdam Conservatory and at the University of the Arts in Berlin, before he rapidly drifted towards performance and theatre. His first productions \u2014 realised mostly with the C&H collective from 2002 until 2011 \u2014 were essentially dedicated to a deconstructing and reconstructing of the basic social mechanisms which turn a person into a spectator (B\u00fchnenst\u00fcck, <\/i>2005, Konspiration, <\/i>2006). The collective then turned towards a practice of interventions in the public domain with Postcards from the Future, <\/i>which was <\/i>developed between 2007 and 2011 in different cities (Geneva – Points d’Impact <\/i>festival, Leuven – Playground<\/i> festival, and Metz – Centre Pompidou<\/i>) and culminated in 2010-2011 with a series of performances involving 9 different populations of the city of Brussels.<\/p>\n
Since 2013, Christophe develops an politically engaged and often participatory theatre, either on his own, as with the constitutional rewriting project Some use for your broken clay pots<\/i> or the anarchist cooking show Verein zur Aufhebung des Notwendigen – a hundred wars to world peace, <\/i>or in collaboration with other artists such as Luigi Coppola, with Fondo Speculativo di Provvidenza, <\/i>a monetary dispositive aiming at turning a festival audience into a political community, or Ant Hampton, with THE THING<\/i> an entirely automated 16 hour workshop-performance. His latest creation, Trials of Money, <\/i>turns the theatre into a court of justice prosecuting semi-humans.<\/p>\n
Since 2019, Christophe Meierhans has put his artistic practice in service of the ecological cause of the civil disobedience movement Extinction Rebellion. Christophe Meierhans is artist-in-residence at the Kaaitheater<\/i> in Brussels for the 2017-2022 period and was associated artist to the Nouveau Theatre de Montreuil<\/i>, Paris, from 2015 until 2017.<\/p>\n