Flipchart #17 – Am I Live?
Flipchart #17 – Am I Live?
Flipchart is an evening of curated research instead of finished artworks. This edition looks at the intersection of performance and everyday situations.
This Flipchart episode invites artists to play with the boundaries of their performance and theatre practices. While some perform only on stage, others see a conversation with an (un)comfortable environment as a performance request.
Valerio Conti looks at everyday objects, such as vacuum cleaners, and makes them perform in a traditional performance setting. Tingyi Jiang, in collaboration with Niccolò Angioni and Luka Smišek, will present language and performance as a medium to find a balance between sound and sense, signal and noise, narrative and poetry. Maria Voortman and Roberto de Jonge will investigate the essence of movement beyond a choreography style and boundaries between disciplines through an interactive lecture.
Valerio Conti
Valerio Conti, originally from San Marino, is an artist, architect, and musician currently living in Den Haag. By adopting a polyphony of media, Valerio explores intimate experiences that transcend the boundaries between the virtual and the physical., Exploring subjectivity and objectification, Valerio weaves together subconscious collective pornographic memories, loneliness of desire, and the ubiquity of screens.
‘collective moans of a vacuum cleaner’ is a work that features a collective attunement of household appliances and people. The project merges an installation component with a performative aspect, exploring pornographic processes and inter-human intimacies. A series of unfolding elements that sit between images and sculptures are scattered throughout the space, participating in the choir.
Tingyi Jiang
Tingyi Jiang is a multidisciplinary artist and performer based in The Hague. She graduated from the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Art and the Conservatory of The Hague. Tingyi is deeply interested in ‘performance as a means of engaging with the world’, a concept she explores through her practice, what she calls “situation-specific performance.” She creates new theatrical situations that blend reality and fiction.
Tingyi is the winner of the iii-Residency Award 2024, the outcome of which we will see at this edition of Flipchart. Next to the materiality of voice, she plans to develop a technical system/instrument and performance score that hold the potential for unpredictability or even breakdown. She will be collaborating with a musician Niccolò Angioni and a scenographer Luka Smišek.
Maria Voortman and Roberto de Jonge
Maria Voortman and Roberto de Jonge formed a choreographer duo in the 80s/90s. From their shared background of postmodern performance art and classical ballet, they developed their own style of movement. Their dance language was both conceptually driven and emotional, with everyday movement alongside pointe technique. Originating from images and concepts from modern life, containing urban mental mindsets that clashed with primal desires.
After years of making other art and theatre and discovering other disciplines, they want to use the lecture at Flipchart to investigate the essence of movement beyond style and boundaries between disciplines. Next, to introduce their work, they will show video snippets and will experiment with the audience to make dance interactive. The example they use is the opening scene from their last dance solo Laat Me Met Mij Mee Gaan’ (1998). The (dance) language therein consists of recognising but not understanding gestures.
Curator Leon Lapa Pereira is a cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans. Through anthropomorphising, methods, relational worlds and biological processes are translated into movement, robotic agents and performances. Besides his practice within performance, he co-founded the WASTELAND Festival, the interdisciplinary residency program Resonant Bodies in Georgia, is a teacher at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague and a Creative Producer at the Embassy of the North Sea.
Flipchart is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.
