No Therapy
Teletext is the Dutch-language electropop duo of Sascha Bornkamp and Leonore Spee. Since 2017, they have been creating work at the intersection of text, theatre, and music. No Therapy is also a concert that, as they themselves put it, “forgets its own form” — and in all the best ways. Teletext navigates between worlds, pulls characters out of the shadows, and lets alter egos collide. Empathy tries to outdo irony, and self-care trips over self-mockery. This is not therapy. Or is it? This performance, created in collaboration with bassist Sam D’hondt, will officially premiere next year, but during Explore the North you’ll get an exclusive preview.
A recurring thread in Teletext’s work is the search for the emotionality hidden within the angularity of the Dutch language — as in Nobuya, a live album built from WhatsApp sentences, or Voor de Verandering, a musical narrative featuring, among others, Vitja Pauwels. Together with artists such as Jonas Govaerts and FULCO, they have given literary classics a new shape — from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land to Van Ostaijen’s De Aftocht. And in 2024, Het Nieuw Antwerps Liedboek was released: a contemporary reworking of the 1544 songbook, featuring contributions from more than thirty artists.