Haribo Kimchi

A practitioner of hybrid performances blending text, music, video, and robotics, director, composer and video artist Jaha Koo invites the audience to the counter of a pojangmacha (포장마차), one of those small street stalls typical of Seoul. Open until late at night, it becomes the refuge of a gallery of colourful characters—eel, snail, gummy bar—each with their own stories, by turns touching and absurd. The flavour of a seaweed soup, the sharp sound of a knife slicing an onion, or the crackling of mushrooms simmering over high heat… In this snack bar, South Korean cuisine becomes the starting point for a great journey and a broad reflection on the paradoxes of cultural assimilation. 

한국 길거리 음식을 노점에서 요리하며, 자하 구는 여러 문화권 사이에서 살아온 개인적인 이야기와 위안을 주는 음식, 그리고 동화(同化)의 아픔을 하나로 버무려낸다. 

With Eel, Gona, Haribo, Jaha Koo et deux invités 

Concept, text, direction, music, sound and video Jaha Koo  
Dramaturgy Dries Douibi 
Scenography, research collaboration, and media operation Eunkyung Jeong  
Artistic advice Pol Heyvaert  
English proofreading Jason Wrubell 
Snail animation Vincent Lynen  
Stage management Korneel Coessens   
Lighting and video operator Jasse Vergauwe 
Sound operator Tom Daniels 
Production Wim Clapdorp 

Production CAMPO 
Coproduction Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Rideau de Bruxelles, Theater Utrecht, SPRING festival (Utrecht), Festival d'Automne à Paris, Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris), Tangente St. Pölten – Festival für Gegenwartskultur, & Espoo theatre (Espoo), International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hamburg), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Meet You Festival (Valladolid), Bunker (Ljubljana), Théâtre national et salle de concert de Taipei, Festival international de théâtre The Divine Comedy / Teatr Łaźnia Nowa (Krakow) & Perpodium (Antwerp) 
Avec le soutien du tax shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge via Cronos Invest & du gouvernement flamand