jan Fabre (born 1958, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian
multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and
designer.
He studied at the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and
the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Between 1976 and 1980 he wrote his
first scripts for the theatre and made his début performances.
Between 1976 en 1980 he wrote his first texts for the
theatre and did his first solo performances. During his 'money-performances' he
burned money and wrote the word 'MONEY' with the ashes. In 1977 he renames the
street where he lives to "Jan Fabre street" and fixes a commemorative
plaque "Here lives and works Jan Fabre" to the house of his parents,
by analogy to the commemorative plate on the house of Vincent Van Gogh in the
same street. In 1978 he makes drawings with his own blood during the solo
performance 'My body, my blood, my landscape'. In 1980 'The Bic-Art Room' he
had himself locked up for three days and three nights in a white cube full of objects,
drawing with blue Bic ballpoint pens as an alternative to Big art Established
in 1986, Troubleyn/Jan Fabre is a theatre company with extensive international
operations, with its home base in Antwerp, Belgium.
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