Bodies, Performance, Instruments

This edition of Flipchart follows the idea that not only active performers themselves determine the outcomes of the presentation, but that there are more-than-human influences that play a big role. While all three performances of this evening seem to be duets, there is more to it. There are instruments, there is space with an atmosphere, acoustics and light as well as observers. Whether a boxing performance from Yun Lee & Marcelo Daza, a performer-connecting instrument with Ran Perry & Mehrnaz Khorammi or a light-based music performance of Rafaele Andrade & Adam Pultz.

Rafaele Andrade & Adam Pultz

Rafaele Andrade [Curitiba – Brazil, 1994] is a composer and performer in the field of experimental music, designing her own string-based instrument, Knurl. Her artistic practice has focused on finding a sense of momentum-craftsmanship for music composition and artistic identity, while working on projects and artwork that reveal social transformation and environmental awareness.

Adam Pultz is a double bass player, composer, and improviser working in the field of acoustic and electronic sound. His work spans live performance, sound installations, sound for dance, theatre, film, multimedia, sculpture, algorithmic design, and instrument building. With Halldór Úlfarsson, he has created the FAAB (Feedback-Actuated Augmented Bass).

Sound Energy Harvest
Could you harvest energy through the sound of an electro-acoustic instrument? Sound Energy Harvest is a light-based music performance and research project between Knurl and FAAB based on the processes of energy harvesting and storage, and reflecting on renewable energy sources. Rafaele and Adam will share their findings and related discussions regarding the exploration of energy harvest through their own music instruments.

Ran Perry & Mehrnaz Khorammi

Ran Perry is a musician and sound artist from Israel, currently based in The Hague. In search for creation processes that emerge from collaboration, he asks how music can grow from, and exist through co-dependence among its participants. The body, with all of its organs, and as a whole, is guiding — venturing towards the occult of the human body, with its less-explored territories, movement and voice.

Mehrnaz Khorrami is an Iranian electroacoustic composer and musician currently based in the Netherlands. Mehrnaz’s artistic practice focuses on designing sound installations, audiovisual performances, and live electroacoustic improvisation. In her work, she incorporates sounds from custom-made acoustic instruments, urban spaces, and synthesised sound generated and manipulated by creative coding.

Be Du
BeDu (translated: ‘in a duo’) is a string instrument for two people. When we wrap BeDu around our waists, strings are drawn between us, from belly to belly. The bodies are bonded together, and movement — voluntary, involuntary, and everything in between —  travels along the strings. Each participant carries a dual part of being both the player and the resonator, inhabiting the other, in continuous circulation.

Yun Lee & Marcelo Daza

Yun Lee is a US born, Hong Kong raised artist and curator mostly working with lecture- performances, sound, digital culture, and workshops. They are concerned with how our technologically filtered ways of seeing and hearing both limit and extend the ways we compose and categorise the world and what it means to be human. Yun was not allowed to do any martial arts training as a child. As an adult they fell in love with boxing and MMA and have been training for several years.

Marcelo S. Daza is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Chile in 1991, currently based in Berlin. He works as a musician and sound/installation artist in Theatre/Performance collectives, dance companies and as a soloist. As an artistic director, Marcelo has created different platforms for emerging artists, presenting works at festivals, theatres, digital platforms and as well as street interventions. He has trained as a boxer for the past 3 years. His practice looks for shared sensorial experiences and to open space for artists who are not considered in Berlin’s networks.

Masked Rituals

A boxing match where two fighters (Marcelo Daza and Yun Lee) unravel the layers of their socialized masculinity, driven by the friction between a need for touch and a fear of intimacy.

The two performers engage in rituals of protection before facing off in a fight to exhaustion navigating the lines between attraction and repulsion, intimacy and violence. The commentary starts off narrating the fight before shifting into generated text on capitalist masculinity, and melting into nonsense.

Curated by Leon Lapa Pereira

A cross-disciplinary performance researcher who develops experienceable ecologies between humans and more-than-humans. Through anthropomorphizing; methods, relational worlds and biological processes are translated into movement, robotic agents and performances.

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