Camping town was founded as an non-profit organisation in 2011 by historian and Artist Anne Dolorès Marcélis and designed as a hosting space by architect Ewoud Saey.
At first centered on alternative housing, playing on the duality of individual tree-houses within a common living space, mixing private and public spheres, nature and urban life, outside and inside… It has since evolved into an organisation keen to support performance arts and dance, alternative living and thinking, and shared experiences between artist and non artists within a creative process.
Camping Town is not a hosting facility for tourists or a residency for travelling artists, it is an organisation that sees within alternative and temporary housing the keys towards an interesting and innovative approach to creativeness, socialising, experimenting and the sharing of experiences in an urban and professional environment.
Staff
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Anne Dolorès Marcélis
Founder and coordinator of Camping Town, Anne Dolorès Marcélis is a performance artist, dancer and historian.She has published multiple papers on the social body, performance and women history. Her work is primarily centered on the passive/active body which can be seen in performances such as ‘Stone’ or "Les plantaisons". The performance ’Les Pisseuses’ plays with the positions of women in the nature or in the city. Closer to what she has done with Camping Town is ‘Niches Urbaines’ a project in collaboration with Raquel de Santana revisiting the notion of rest within the city and people sleeping in the streets. Anne-Dolorès Marcélis is a well known figure within the contact improvisation community and with Camping Town looks to support it even more through co-camping events and other workshops.