Expanded Performance: The Belgian Job
Sunday 16 December 2012, from 3 pm
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Finissage of Expanded Performance
Photo album of this event: click here
An afternoon with performances by Dynamics-Of-Performance and students from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK). The performance by The Belgian Job by Dynamics-Of-Performance starts at 4 pm sharp! The other three performances (Surplus People by Gaby Felten; May I leave the table? by Charlotte 't Hart and Ben Terwel; and Approximation by Ludmila Rodrigues)
can be viewed (and experienced) from 3 pm. For more information on the separate performances scroll down.
Dynamics of Performance - The Belgian Job
4-4.30 pm - starts at 4 pm sharp!
Dynamics-Of-Performance are excited to announce a new work that aims to
steal a show taking place in the heart of Belgium and relay it live to
Stroom Den Haag. This delicate operation is so secret that the full
details cannot be disclosed until the start of the event. Attendance is a
must if you are to fully appreciate this unusual occurrence.
Dynamics-Of-Performance aim to take the concept of illegal file-sharing
out of the Internet and into the real world. Stroom will become a crime
scene. Undercover plagiarizers will operate behind enemy lines. La Monte Young's Composition 1960, number 6 provides
the starting point. This piece was a precursor to Fluxus, a tendency
that defined the term 'intermedia', creating a synthesis of music,
theatre, visual art, composition, and poetry. The piece switches the
roles of audience and performer, inviting the performers to become
audience members. According to the most popular scientific models, the
Universe will eventually contract, resulting in a new Big Bang that will
produce an entirely new Universe completely beyond our comprehension.
Similarly, Dynamics-Of-Performance think that in order to expand
performance, performance must first be contracted. An early definition
of 'originality' was 'to go back to origins', and this is what they
intend to do.
Dynamics-Of-Performance is a new interdisciplinary collective based
within the Master of Artistic Research program of the Royal Academy of
Art and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Their aim is to research
approaches to performance in various fields through practical
experimentation.
Gaby Felten - Surplus People
from 3 pm ongoing
Gaby
Felten is the 4,523,619,693rd person in the world, and a representative of the widely unseen demographic of Surplus People.
Surplus People are competent human beings with a variety of skills which are currently not in use thanks to the present structure of our
economy. This afternoon Gaby Felten will set up a temporary Department of Surplus Person Affairs
in the foyer of Stroom Den Haag. Visitors can complete a short survey
and have an informal chat with Gaby, possibly leading to the discovery
of dormant skills. Visitors can also find out the approximate number
that corresponds to them out of the 7 billion people alive today, by
using their birthdate as a coordinate. They will receive a card with
this number to take home.
Charlotte 't Hart en Ben Terwel - Can I leave the table?
from 3 pm ongoing
Can I leave the table? is a social experiment to investigate audience participation. Charlotte 't Hart, a performance artist who is researching table situations, and Ben Terwel, an artist who has been designing artistic (board)games joined forces to create this work for Expanded Performance at Stroom Den Haag. Two persons are seated at a table. One of them is offering the other a piece of cake. The person refuses and starts folding a paper airplane instead. Is this a performance, or a game? And are you audience, or more?
Ludmila Rodrigues - Approximation
from 3 pm ongoing
Approximation
is a set up which invites people to discover a communication via touch.
Ludmila Rodrigues explores ways of engaging people into play. While
playing they share movements and find new expressions. By connecting
their hands to the Approximation system they enter a game of mirrored
experience. Differently from the other senses, touching is always
mutual, one touches and is touched. It requires proximity, it relates to
curiosity and trust. During this exchange of perceptions the limits of
the participants' bodies are blurred. They become performers, but the
tension of the experience happens inside the two of them.
LINKS
www.koncon.nl
www.kabk.nl
www.tinamustao.com (Ludmilla Rodrigues)
- 16 Dec '12
- Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
photo: poster design: Anna Moreno
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag
photo: Stroom Den Haag