In What We Trust: explanatory notes

NOT TO BE MISSED

Belief in two eras and two keys – that’s what you’ll hear in *In What We Trust*. For this unique, multimedia project, Anton Bruckner’s music is interwoven with a new score by Frederik Neyrinck.

After all, in the nineteenth century, things were still simple: for all life’s problems, you turned to the church. Today, things are rather different for young people. What do they still believe in? How do they seek their place in this world? These crucial questions occupied the creators’ minds. Author Maud Vanhauwaert, video artist Bas Van Hoeck and composer Frederik Neyrinck himself set off with six young people from the Ghent-based workshop LARF! on a journey from Noorderhoofd to Bruges. It was a challenging journey during which they tried to formulate answers to these complex questions along the way.

The video footage from that journey is one of the pillars on which this new production rests. On the one hand, in the form of stylised images of the pilgrimage; on the other, interviews were conducted with the young people in the evenings. Their answers cut through the music, both centuries-old and brand new.