16.09.2022
doors: 18:30
event starts: 19:00
iii workspace
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“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 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, where both platforms can enter into a dialog with the participating artists.

Within the theme of “amorphous beings” the participating artists explore fluid states of being and blur the lines of form and shapes. Creating a world in which their creations come alive, explore alternative realities, and escape the fixed definitions of human and more than human. They seamlessly merge performance, installation, audio, visual and sculptural elements in their work and create multisensory experiences for the viewer. Each follows their own narrative and brings their speculations to live within their work. Defining the undefined and shaping the unshaped by manifesting new realities within their narratives. Join us for an evening that will present works of Mette Sterre, Anou van Klaveren and Marieke Peeters.

 

Mette Sterre

Mette Sterre creates sculptural body masks that cover the wearer’s entire body. The way in which the complex body masks restrict and permit movement forms the basis of her performances, installations and films. Sterre investigates how the human contour can be disturbed in the broadest sense, both ideologically and materially, in order to question what more we can be, other than human beings.
Although the wearer is the one who animates the mask, it is the mask that dominates a new body language and thus demanding a different state of physical consciousness and embodiment of being from the animator. The activator/animator/mover of these bodymasks have to submit themselves to the work, creating a new body language for the non-human body, relating to carnivalesque and folkloric traditions, creating a live other worldly experience. The concealing mask makes its wearer unrecognisable, using DIY robots, voluminous materials and prostheses functioning as bodily extensions.
She values the physical qualities of the sensory perception of structures and textures. How does it feel for the wearer to embody the masks and how does the spectator perceive these creatures?

Anouk van Klaveren

Anouk van Klaveren (1991) works and lives in The Hague NL. Her work investigates the mythical and affective power of objects and costumes. Through performances and location-specific interventions, she analyzes the mysterious and absurd conditions under which objects acquire symbolic meaning. Educated at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague NL) and the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam NL), she further developed her work through various collaborations with, among others, the Zeeuws Museum, De Fabriek Eindhoven, Zuiderzee Museum and FashionClash Festival. She is co-founder of the collective and art-initiative Das Leben am Haverkamp.

Marieke Peeters 

Marieke Peeters (1997) is a visual artist based in Den Haag, NL. She creates immersive installations and sculptures that combine intensive material research with performance. In her practice she wonders how objects relate to one another while they always remain partly hidden from one another. In this eerie perspective the darker implications of things hidden also possess a soothing calm.

This program is supported by the Municipality of The Hague and the Creative Industries Fund NL