About Jaha Koo Jaha Koo (he/him) is a South Korean theatre and performance maker, music composer and video artist who lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. His artistic practice oscillates between multimedia and performance, bringing together his own music, video, text and robotic performers or objects on stage. He is known for the Hamartia Trilogy – Lolling and Rolling (2015), Cuckoo (2017) and The History of Korean Western Theatre (2020) – a long-term exploration of the political landscape, colonial history and cultural identity of East Asia. The trilogy addresses structural issues in Korean society and examines how an inescapable past continues to shape the present. His most recent work, Haribo Kimchi , premiered in June 2024 at Tangente St. Pölten in Austria and is currently touring internationally. He is now developing a new creation, Born to be K to be POP, scheduled to premiere in early summer 2027. Koo studied Theatre Studies at Korea National University of Arts (BFA, 2011) and completed his MA at DAS Theatre 2016. He is an associate artist of LOD muziektheater, Theater Utrecht, CAMPO and Seoul Performing Arts Festival.
About CAMPO CAMPO is a Ghent and internationally-oriented arts centre that develops, produces and presents innovative and daring forms of contemporary (stage) art. It is at once an antenna, catalyst and instigator of innovative artistic quality that is locally embedded, nationally relevant and globally resonant. CAMPO is an incubator for artists and arts organisations. Through talent and trajectory development, dialogue, flow and participation, we are a connecting hub in an ecologically conceived artistic network. CAMPO crosses generations. A focus on new voices and space for established names reinforce each other. CAMPO aims to surprise, move, reflect and engage (inter)national audiences by bringing together innovation and experience in theatre, dance, performance and crossover. It develops and opens up oeuvres. CAMPO is a driver of cooperation. It forges alliances inside and outside the arts sector. From an artistic heart, it generates social connection, urban embedding and (inter) national dialogue. CAMPO aims to be a reflection of a multi-voiced society both on stage and in terms of its audience. It breaks and opens frames of thinking and listens to makers, society and audiences, with both feet in reality.
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