Flipchart #3: Agency

Flipchart #3: Agency

Event18.06.2022iii workspace, The Haguehostcollaborativeperformancesocialspace

18/06/2022
Doors at 18:30
Event starts 19:00
iii workspace
Tickets HERE

Residents Mári Mákó & Sofie Kramer and Nina van Hartskamp will be taking part in this edition, as well as Kunrad, Maria Komarova and Robbi Meertens.

Agency is something we can give, take or experience. Following Latour “agencies are part of an account; they are given a figure of some sort; they are opposed to other competing agencies; and, finally, they are accompanied by some explicit theory of action” (2005:52). This third evening of Flipchart searches for the agencies we are surrounded by and engage with. From Pole-dance to the molecules in the air, from light to sound; we are invited to doubt what we see, but to trust what we feel.

Flipchart is an event series mixing lectures and performances, a cabinet of curiosities where transitions are fast but the pages are infinite. The series offers a stage for experiments in the field of Art, Science & Technology, where making meets thinking. Visitors are presented with a snapshot on the creative process of artists and researchers within and around iii’s community. 

Mári Mákó
Mári Mákó is a composer and sound artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In her solo practice she plays with live electronics, which she combines with acoustic sound sources: voice, amplified instruments and objects. In her performance she is looking for unconventional music practices to give space for her own compositional processes.
Along with that she is designing her own performative tools with sensors and self-built oscillators. With her inventive musical instruments, her music has been described as a mix of the roots of industrial music, experimental electronic and glitch music contrasted with drone textures.

Sofie Kramer
Sofie Kramer is theatre-maker, performer and writer. She forges her personal experiences into shredded fairytales and mutilated myths as an attempt to tell coherent, big stories against better judgement. The fighting body is a returning theme in her work; the body that tries to fight time, gravity, the gaze of the other. She shows these fights in strongly visual, interdisciplinary performances in which physicality and sound play an important role.

Nina van Hartskamp
Nina van Hartskamp is a mixed media artist. She graduated in 2020 at Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her projects are research based and combine text, textiles, organic materials, photography, film, audio and performance and focus on the relationship between humans and their environment. They often develop through interactions with people and places in her direct surroundings. Such places include her local neighbourhood, a Hungarian village, her mother, a museum, people’s bedrooms, a lover, a train station, ect.

Robbi Meertens
Robbi Meertens is a sound artist and musician. With simplistic means, he creates instruments, installations, sound walks and performances in which he tries to find otherworldly soundscapes. His work often balances on the borders of composition/improvisation, order/disorder and control/chance. Currently, he is researching different modes of listening and sounding by doing specific performative exercises and experiments.

Kunrad
Kunrad studied Electronic Composition and ArtScience. He makes performances, compositions, installations or a combination of those. Kunrad tries to increase the value of the everyday by illuminating the small sounds of our surroundings. As an artist he asks himself: How do I bring the small phenomenon to the public, the impact of a single drop of water to that of a waterfall?
Kunrad has developed a new artwork, a modulair system of dispensers full of small brass tubes. You will witnes a work in progress of this performative installation, a rain of metal. What is it like to stand inside a chord?

Maria Komarova
Maria Komarova is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Belarus, who engages mainly in the field of post-dramatic theatre, scenography, sound and visual arts. She focuses her artistic practice on the exploration of the agency of objects, various inanimate entities and discovery of ways of their interaction. Often, she works with the principle of rethinking primary functions of things and conscious misuse of existing technologies. Maria is one of the founders of the theatre group PYL, the International Festival of Performative Art in Minsk (Belarus) Performensk and a music band kaine anung.

About the facilitator:
Leon Lapa Pereira is performance researcher and community program facilitator for iii. In his facilitating role he tries to merge making and thinking with an intergenerational environment. In his own practice he develops experienceable ecologies between humans and “the vegetable Other”. Through anthropomorphising methods, relational worlds, biological and evolutionary processes are translated into kinetic installations, robotic agents and performances. 

Flipchart #3 is presented by iii with financial support from Creative Industries Fund NL and The Municipality of The Hague.

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