EVIDENCE IN MOTION
EVIDENCE IN MOTION
11.03.2022
doors: 18:30
event: 19:00 – 22:00
iii workspace
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There is no life without any motion or movement – inspired by this, thespectrum.space creates an interdisciplinary playing field in the form of a curated evening for performative works. The program questions “revolution” as balance and concentric movements by exploring the influence of gravitation in the physical and emotional world.
Participating artists and audience explore together what movement and the sensory experiences of motion can be. EVIDENCE IN MOTION offers space for artistic experiments and tryouts for emerging and renewed artists and makers alike. And allows the outcomes to range undefined from being in the process, in-between start and result and up to fully developed, where the audience and artists can find the traces of the ideas proposed through the presented experiments, tryouts, or perhaps fully developed works. In the program thespectrum.space invites artists and makers whose performative work can be found at the intersection of art, science, and society and between contemporary and popular culture. EVIDENCE IN MOTION presents performative works and installations that make us question reality, reconsider the current, and highlights how artists, performers, and audience can move and learn together. The workspace of iii and its underlying philosophy would offer the ideal stage to facilitate experiments of this kind. A space in which different understandings of a topic can emerge and engage with one another, both platforms can enter in a dialog.
“The motion of an object around a point, especially around another object or a center of mass.”
Following the definition of revolution as mentioned in the quote above and as can be found in most dictionaries as the departure point for its first edition – the program aims to question the concepts of balance and concentric movements and explores the influence of gravitation in the physical and the emotional world. Just like the earth moves around the sun and gravitates in perfect balance with it; how can bodies react to one another and find a balance between them, and what makes us gravitate towards one another? Through the lens and movement of the participating artists thespectrum.space aims to explore answers together. In its first edition, EVIDENCE IN MOTION welcomes five solo, inter-human, and human to object-related works from performers active in the field of light, sound, improvisation, dance, and movement.
About thespectrum.space
thespectrum.space is a multidisciplinary platform designed to understand contemporary culture. As a nomadic platform, it creates spaces in the digital and the physical realm to explore, investigate and learn together. Through the eyes of upcoming and renewed artists who question structures of power and society at large within their multidisciplinary practices, thespectrum.space aims to understand current time’s societal questions and find answers to them together. It grows and develops its own programs in line with the artists and collaborates at the intersection of contemporary and popular culture. Throughout the last year thespectrum.space has independently produced three physical exhibitions in different formats and locations (ranging from a solo up to group shows with 28 participating artists) and performance evenings, panel discussions, and digital programming totaling up to more than 800 visitors in the last year.
About the curator Yannik Güldner:
Yannik Güldner is an auto-didact curator currently based in The Hague. After studying economics and political science, he redirected his profession due to the pandemics’ drastic influence, and founded thespectrum.space, a platform investigating the intersections of contemporary and popular culture. Following an autodidact approach towards curation, he aims to explore rather than dictate how the current can be seen by curating environments across the borders of disciplines. Opening new communication channels and understandings through hosting and facilitating spaces for exchange and communication are at the heart of his practice. He creates digital and physical spaces to explore, investigate, and learn with the audience and collaborating artists. Within his work, Yannik aims to question structures of power and society at large through the eyes of upcoming and renewed artists within their multidisciplinary practices.
Participating artists:
“As the basis of my practice I have always considered my attraction to danger, through which, as in a sacred event, I step in with intent in order to strip away the lingering burden of fear, and therefore trauma. Incorporating various multimedia elements, my immersive installations function purely as vessels that set sail towards the sublime; the incomprehensible feeling of fear derived from pending physical or moral threat. Belonging to a certain community, or living in society, means that we have been burdened with the trauma of our ancestors, on an evolutionary, national, and personal level. It is a cyclical phenomenon that consecrates fear within our individual and collective subconscious. My practice, therefore, could be seen as one ever-changing rite, with one constant: catharsis, which aims at challenging that cycle. A rite that is experienced communally, depending on the willingness of each participant to let themselves be challenged, bodily and psychologically, through the means of the immersive spectacle.”
Tingyi Jiang and Dima Ibrahim:
In the collaborative project between Tingyi Jiang and Dima Ibrahim remodel space into a sonic apparatus. Spatial exploration through movement and sound builds a scenario in which these two listen, illuminate, tangle, merge, break and search the balance under gravitation to create continuous feedback.
Tingyi Jiang is a visual artist and performer based in The Hague. She is currently studying at the ArtScience Interfaculty at the Royal Academy of Art and Conservatory The Hague. She composes different media, material, space, and herself to create a certain situation, self-directing environments, which trigger the audience’s actions. She challenges the art-and-spectator relationships by creating a viewing-in-action experience that explores the dynamic between the individual, its environment, its collective, and its social system.
Dima Ibrahim works in the field of sonic movement together with the visual aspect of sound.
Currently studying at the ArtScience department at the Royal Academy of the Arts and Conservatoire in the Hague. Exploring the states of overstimulation and saturation, sources of outside noise are sought after to be implemented in auditory and visual compositions – creating semi-independent systems to reproduce distress or resonance. His performances often include a performative research on the subject of mindfulness in contemporary overstimulation.
Bjarte Wildeman (1998, NL) is intrigued by bodily motion, the physical experience, altering these experiences and biohacking, and researches (primarily) through performance installations. He creates performances and unconventional choreographies with the mechanisms which are found in and define the body and through which the Body relates to the surroundings. He builds and uses choreographic and kinetic apparatuses to highlight and facilitate/enable these movements.
He is currently working with i.a., expansion through restriction, mutualistic and interdependent movements, and the kinetic relation between the Body, the apparatus, and these elements. Through his work, he aims at the inter-and intra-individual sensation, physical awareness, connection to the surroundings, and understanding and developing ways of understanding and altering kinetic experience.
After growing up together as Dutch-Iranian siblings, Diane Mahín and Manuel Groothuysen returned to their place of birth to develop as performance makers at Maastricht, Institute of Performative Arts. They were both educated in social sciences and humanities before shifting to the live arts. When working as a collective, Diane and Manuel connect strongly in their existentialist and absurdist view on everyday (inter)actions, their urge to imagine and build sound worlds, and their explicit and static visual language. They are fascinated by the way in which humans are subject to the manipulation of (non-)human agents. This results in performative works which give form to behaviors of humans which emerge in fabricated and inevitable patterns, such as their inescapable union as siblings. Both artists feel absurdity and liberty, but also tragedy and toxicity within these patterns.
Lara Silva Santos, Ellisa de la Serna Gallego, Yaara Yaniv, Arefeh Hekmatpanah, Leon Lapa Pereira, Andrzej Koniecn create consistency within the ever-changing paradigm of time and space, through their multibody performance “Carrousell”. It is the body between bodies that is filled with sound, noise, and words that disentangle the process of discovering. In ever-changing settings the group explores the gap in connections, that is the sphere which they call their playground.
This program is supported by the Municipality of The Hague and the Creative Industries Fund NL
