Troubleyn / Laboratorium

Hardcover | 20.5 x 1.02 x 25.5 cm | 224 pp

Yale University Press | 2016 | 9780300220124

This book peers into Troubleyn / Laboratorium, the workspace, collective art space, and creative incubator of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre (b. 1958), whose performances, staged since the 1980s, have brought him international acclaim and recognition. 

Expressing the collective aims of Fabre’s theatre company, Troubleyn / Laboratorium functions as his workspace as well as a nurturing environment for the activities of his theatre company and young artists alike, in which artists are free to develop and materialise their creative impulses. 

The building, situated in a progressive multicultural neighbourhood in northern Antwerp, houses a uniquely integrated collection of art works from international visual artists, writers, theatre makers, and philosophers, with whom Fabre feels a close affinity and whose works represent the overall cooperative spirit of the space itself. Fostering an environment that is as progressive as the artist’s varied oeuvre, Troubleyn / Laboratorium provides the grounds for an idealistic hotbed of artistic activity and this publication offers a glimpse of that possible utopia.