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performing "Solar System" for the finissage of the exhibition „The Burnout Society“ during Museum-night, PontArte Gallery, Maastricht
Solar System, 2024
"Solar System" is a performance exercise in becoming receptive and responsive to the non-verbal communication of our surroundings.
Pondering on the difficulty of relating and connecting to our faced-paced modern world, I inspect the way we connect to our bodies and surroundings. With the "Solar System" performance I orchestrate an hour-long silent dialogue between performers and materials in search for modes of relating that foster feelings of meaning and of being part.
I use the allegory of a solar system: One person acts as ‘the sun’ and stands in the center of ‘the universe’. The other performers act as the ‘planets’ and orbit the sun. In silence they assemble their bodies and the material around the sun, creating the ‘solar system’. This assembling happens intuitively in response to the center performer and in resonance to the material. Within this second edition I focused in on the material glass, using only my glass objects and quartz sand and limestone - the raw materials for glass production. The performance is an exercise in becoming receptive and responsive to the non-verbal communication of our surroundings.
Co-performers: Lot Stalman, Brian Waltmans
photography by Xiun Graf
photography by Joris Hilterman
Glassscape, 2024
“Glassscape” is an installation work made of multiple hanging sheets of reshaped glass. This work is part of my ongoing research on resonance, serving as both a study and a playful exploration of the "sprachfähigkeit" (speaking-quality) of material.
In a world that continues to accelerate, many of us have immersed ourselves in digital realms, relegating the material world to a mere backdrop. We often instrumentalize our surroundings and rarely engage with them out of curiosity or a desire for connection. Through this installation, I aim to reignite contemplation about our dialogue with materiality. The glass, once unyielding, undergoes a 24-hour process of reshaping, slumping into soft, organic forms. In its creation, it speaks to us of slowness, of being touched, affected, and transformed. The resulting distortions and light reflections create a space that extends beyond the material corpus, revealing what was previously unseen.
Resonanzraum (en: resonance room/space), 2023
Resonanzraum was a series of intuitive performance exercises that I devised within my research for the book Traversing Glass. Coming from the question “How can I encounter this world that seems to be alienating itself from me by its pace?” I inspected the way we connect to our bodies and surroundings, searching for modes of relating that foster feelings of meaning and of being part. Over one weekend me and four participants explored and experimented with the concept of Resonance (sociological concept by Hartmut Rosa). The aim was to create a space with new rules and new ways of perceiving what is within and surrounding us. We performed for ourselves – watching, moving, eating, smelling, listening, speaking, and making.
Performers: Estella Tobinsky, Maarten Meijs, Levin Stein, Juanjo Perea, Milena Dahl