We walk, read, make and tell with...
is a co-creative process and a narrative walk as part of the project “On Routes and Roots” (2023). This project was realized with the women of the knitting and crochet club who gather at the community center Den Deigem in Mechelen.

“I wanted to recognize, value, and make visible the importance of this maker community by learning from them, listening to their stories, and giving these stories back to them in the form of a narrative walk in their neighborhood.” 
— Laura Eva Meuris

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Fanzine From Issue Nr.2 On Routes and Roots

 


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Inside Garden — reimagining being here
Creation of a magical garden environment in The Greenhouse with partner Wouter Hellin,
Greenhouse team, and a growing network of collaborators; Explored inner and outer gardening, mapping personal cosmology and developing immersive environments that articulated new mythic frameworks, systems of meaning, and relational approaches working with the cosmic and ancestral field (BE).

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Field-kiln making celebration
A two-day and weekend happening centred on working with clay and on creative processes inspired by wandering and relating to the land.

The happening concludes with a firing celebration in an open fire (field kiln) at an outdoor location, where participants witness the transformation of their handmade clay objects and how these objects begin to express their own stories, while a collective story may also emerge... 

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Tidal Confluence performance ritual


(..)These plants passed through the many hands that have been reciprocating and engaging with the river. This braid was an offering of care and it went back to the SZenne, floating and holding our story of connection with the river.(..)

Allowing interconnected streams to branch and rejoin, dividing and intertwining the threads of our story,... this braid emerged as a gesture of care, for the Alliance formed along the river, for the SZenne itself, for all the water bodies that compose our ecosystems and merge together within these waters.

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Map for tracing and weaving the future 
At 27 and a half, I set out on long, wandering walks—deliberate, conscious, searching. 
The world felt strange: customs, objects, even myself. I moved from place to place, from identity to identity.

I spoke with spirits, plants, animals, objects —everything that seemed alive around me. 
And then, one day, a single blade of grass drew my attention. It whispered: “Wandering soul, you have been here before. In the past that is now the present, you left traces for yourself.
Ask yourself: what can you do for yourself, what can you do for the whole? Find the traces, place them on a map, and let them speak to you.
You will always find your way.”
— Laura Eva Meuris

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Nizhónígo Yííkado - We Walk in Beauty
For the project Nizhónígo Yííkado We Walk in Beauty taking place in Belgium between November 17th and December 18th 2022, Valentina Bianchi and Laura Eva Meuris curated and designed a zine.


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Harvesting Darkness : Gates of ECHO
Here, humans are not (in the traditional humanist perspective) a being separated from the nature; rather, they are symbionts sharing the process with other entities and with the entire setting. Thus, humans become citizens of Terrapole where culture, technology and nature become one again.

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Tracing the past weaving the future since 2018 — 2025

About
Laura.meuris@gmail.com

Laura Eva Meuris is a Belgian dancer and visual artist.
She also works as a performance artist and choreographer. 

Within a purpose-built nomadic architecture, she engages participants in acts of making together and artistic interventions that emerge through entanglements with animals, plants, and other non-human entities.This nomadic makerspace for co-creation, traditional craft, and research foregrounds co-growth as a central organizing principle. Drawing inspiration from mycelial networks — subterranean fungal systems that interconnect trees and sustain forest ecosystems — Laura investigates concepts of relationality, interdependence, and storytelling through an open artistic methodology.

Her practices are inherently hybrid, unfolding differently in each iteration, and oriented towards relationality, dialogue, and embodied gestures of care.

Her work materializes through:
I. The creation of environments that facilitate dialogue and encourage participatory engagement.
II. The creation of visual universes in which objects and artefacts function as tangible traces of processes of co-making and storytelling. 

Taken as a whole, her practice can be understood as rhizomatic, branching into choreographed events, craft-based making rituals, kaleidoscopic mappings, publications, exhibitions, and other artistic actions.



Projects  2025
  • Spinning Threads, Growing Horizontally, Nurturing Relationships.On Roots and Routes.
    Exhibition, VAN ALLE DOMEINEN THUIS, Werkplaats Immaterieel Erfgoed (BE)
  • Essay: The Role of Stories, Oral Traditions, and Cultural Expressions
    VAN ALLE DOMEINEN THUIS, Werkplaats Immaterieel Erfgoed (BE)
  • Confluence – Performance Ritual
    With Natural Contract Lab for Szenne Still Here, ongoing co-creation with a transdisciplinary group (BE)

2023
  • Spinning Threads, Growing Horizontally, Nurturing Relationships. On Roots and Routes.
    Exhibition, mARTa, during Open mARTa and Open Monumentendag (BE)
  • String Telling – Performance
    Jester meeting place for visual arts, 
    C-MINE (BE)
  • Spinning Threads, Growing Horizontally, Nurturing Relationships.On Roots and Routes. Exhibition, Bijloke Wonderland, Ghent (BE)

2019–2022
  • Inside Garden – Reimagining Being Here (Autonomous Research) Creation of a magical garden environment in 
    The Greenhouse with partner Wouter Hellin, Greenhouse team, and a growing network of collaborators; Explored inner and outer gardening, mapping personal cosmology and developing immersive environments that articulated new mythic frameworks, systems of meaning, and relational approaches to the cosmic and ancestral field (BE).

2019
  • Re-Calling The New Dionysian Festival, Nadine Laboratory for Contemporary Arts (BE)
  • Choreographer and Performer,
    The Melancholy of Marissa Cooper, DJ and dance collective (CEZ)

2017
  • Choreographer and Performer, And I Want to Remember All of Your Shapes
    Horizontal choreography experiment with Zuzanna Zabkova, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Catalina Insignares, Mor Gur Arie, and Tanja Sljivar (GER)
  • Organizer, Newfoundland Temporary Community
    International artist gathering of 60 participants and local community in an industrial greenhouse near Mechelen,
    supported by Artenova/De Talentenfabriek, H-30, and the City of Mechelen (BE)

    2018
  • Choreographer and Performer, Harvesting Darkness was a 5-hour performance walk presented during Witch Day and the full moon, and later in spring at Futura Gallery in Prague. Created by Zuzanna Zabkova, Lucie Micíková, Nik Timková, Kata Halmen Bodoki, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, and Eva Prieckova (CEZ).

    2015–2020
  • Choreographer and Performer, #onlyloveisreal
    A long-term research project on intimacy and self-care, created in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Pawel Dudus and composer Luiza Schulz Vazquez. 

    We presented this work in Theatre Studio and the Grand Theatre in Warsaw (PL), KAAP in Ostend (BE), BRUT/Imagetanz in Vienna (AT), Niech (Nie) Szczezna Art Exchange in Wroclaw (PL), Mecenasi Tanca in Bytom (PL), WUK in Vienna (AT), Hof van Busleyden in Mechelen (BE), and CAMPO in Ghent (BE).

    We also taught workshops at KAAP Creative Compass in Ostend (BE), Mecenasi Tanca in Bytom (PL), Tanzquartier in Vienna (AT), and the Explore Festival in Berlin (GER).

  • 2013–2017
    Choreographer, WILD AT HEART – Jungle of Young Creators. A care platform where young people could experiment with dance, choreography, and performance(BE).

Artistic residenties and awards  2025

Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Archaic Beginnings, Stadsatelier – Ghent, Belgium
Artistic residency as part of the VIERNULVIER Festival Openbare Werken.

2022

DE SINGEL, International Arts Centre – Beyond the Spoken: Unacknowledged Loss, Barbara Raes – Antwerp, Belgium
Invitation to collaborate with a selected group of artists to develop sustainable and innovative artistic practices at the intersection of art, ritual, and care.

2019

MeetFactory, AIR Residency Programme – Prague, Czech Republic
Development of personal artistic practice. Supported by the Flemish Delegation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

2019

SE.S.TA – Centre for Choreographic Development – Prague, Czech Republic
Participation in the interdisciplinary incubator The Obscurity as Darkness, Queerness, Invisibility.

2017

Artenova Talentenfabriek – Mechelen, Belgium
Development of the seminar Creative Spaces, focusing on creating shared space in Mechelen.
Collaboration with De grond der dingen, Klimaan, Lijm, Hof van Busleyden, Artenova, and H-30.

2016–2017

Huggy Bears Residency Programme – Vienna, Austria. Collaboration with dancer and choreographer Pawel Dudus.

2016

Awarded DanceWEB Scholarschip – Vienna, Austria Under the mentorship of visual artist Tino Sehgal and Louise Höjer.

2016

ImPulsTanz – Vienna, Austria


Education

2019 – 2023
KASK & Conservatorium, School of Arts, HOGENT – Ghent, Belgium
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Fine Arts, magna cum laude

2008 – 2010
Codarts Rotterdam, Rotterdamse Dansacademie – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Bachelor’s degree in Dance

2001 – 2007
Royal Ballet School of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium
Secondary School Diploma

Dance Projects 
2009–2017

During this period, I worked as a dancer for, among others, Benoît Lachambre, ImPulsTanz (Vienna, AT), Les Ballets C de la B (BE), Noord Nederlandse Dans (Groningen, NL), Akemi Takeya at ImPulsTanz (Vienna, AT), Anouk van Dijk DC (Amsterdam, NL), and Anna Reti & Ido Batash in a collaboration between Trafó House of Contemporary Arts and SIN Cultural Center (HU),...  






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