Performance Art in WGW #8
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Organised by ieke Trinks / PAE – performanceartevent.nl
Supported by Gemeente Rotterdam & Volkskracht & Weggeefwinkel Delen is Helen & Stichting Klangendum
With:
Nicola Unger (NL/DE)
Movies on repeat. Replaying memories
Thomas Körtvélyssy / Reàl Dance Company (NL/HU/DE)
us(American(a)s)
Larysa Bauge (NL/BY)
Werner van der Zwan (NL) & Inês Certo (NL/PT) & Otto Rissanen (NL/FI)
Bruxers Lullaby
Nicola Unger is a German multidisciplinary artist whose practice is a personal, idiosyncratic and performative strategy to uncover what is unknown to her, to understand the world and discover how things are connected. Working across installation, video and performance, she approaches each project with a sea of open questions.
Having studied at ATM Gießen and DasArts Amsterdam, and been associated with Productiehuis Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Unger develops her work project by project, moving between different forms and approaches. Her practice brings together technology, video projection, animation, documentary and historical material, with family as an inexhaustible subject. Working with technology and digital images creates an intimate, private space within her practice. She often learns and develops the necessary technical skills herself, allowing technology to become a means of discovering new forms of play rather than creating new narratives.
https://en.artoffice.info/kunstenaar/nicola-unger/portfolio/#subpages
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-maren-unger-b58591b/
US(American(a)s) is a series of short vignettes by Thomas Körtvélyessy each centred around a piece of pre-composed and pre-recorded music, used as found material from which the performance grows. Developed in response to conversations and encounters with friends in the USA, the work moves between art and politics, personal fascination and cultural influence. Through translations, crossovers and bridges, it embraces human existence in all its complexity, leaving space for ambivalence and openness.
Thomas Körtvélyessy has been working on re-forming dance for the 21st century through the sensorial experience of movement. His practice centres on empowerment, liveliness and communication, using crossovers, overlays and shifts in established orders to create new ways of making sense of the world through dance.
Reàl Dance Company is the name under which Körtvélyessy has created solo and group works since 1996, collaborating with various artists and working across contexts, from community dance to highly individual solo performances.
https://realdancecompany.org
Larysa Bauge is a Belarusian performance and live art practitioner, educator and researcher based in The Hague. Her work explores identity, gender, migration, labour and power, drawing from lived experience, including years spent as an undocumented migrant.
Originally trained as an orchestra conductor, she turned towards performance art, where the body becomes a site of resistance, rupture and transformation. Through durational and site-responsive performances, she uses minimal actions, repetition and presence to explore institutional control, visibility and embodied tension.
Bauge has presented her work internationally, including at Venice International Performance Art Week and Oslo Performance Art Festival. Her current research explores ‘trained patterns of violence’ and the potential of performance to question and disrupt embodied patterns shaped by institutional power.
https://www.haagsekunstenaars.nl/cv/80001
Performance artist and dentist Inês Certo invited Werner van der Zwan to collaborate on Bruxers Lullaby. Together with composer Otto Rissanen, they explore the performative and musical dimensions of bruxism: the unconscious clenching and grinding of teeth. Plaster casts of patients are mechanically driven, mimicking these movements. The performance at WGW Podium marks the first try-out of this piece.
Werner van der Zwan (The Hague, 1995) studied Fine Arts at WdKA and Philosophy at EUR. He creates robotic installations and sculptures from discarded objects, which he reanimates through de- and reconstruction, electronics and motors. His work explores how spectators perceive the ‘otherness’ of non-living things and how boundaries between subject and object might dissolve. His practice blends robotics, theatre and music. His work has been shown at Ars Electronica (AT), Meta.Morf (NO), Chaos Communication Congress (DE) and V2_ (NL). He lives and works in Rotterdam. ververwant.nl
Inês Certo (she/her) is a Portuguese artist and dentist based in Rotterdam. Since moving to the Netherlands in 2019, she has focused on photography, videography and performance art. Her artistic practice explores the possibility of creating her own scenes, diving into discomfort and peculiarness. inescerto.com
Otto Rissanen is a Finnish composer, guitarist and performance maker based in Rotterdam. His music combines Nordic jazz, minimalism and contemporary classical music with playful instrumentation and a surreal, absurd and uneasy touch. Drawing inspiration from philosophy, human and Finnish nature, and eccentric historical characters, his work contemplates individualism in a social context and the tragicomedy we call life. ottorissanen.com
Organised by ieke Trinks / PAE – performanceartevent.nl
Supported by Gemeente Rotterdam & Volkskracht & Weggeefwinkel Delen is Helen & Stichting Klangendum
With:
Nicola Unger (NL/DE)
Movies on repeat. Replaying memories
Thomas Körtvélyssy / Reàl Dance Company (NL/HU/DE)
us(American(a)s)
Larysa Bauge (NL/BY)
Werner van der Zwan (NL) & Inês Certo (NL/PT) & Otto Rissanen (NL/FI)
Bruxers Lullaby
Nicola Unger is a German multidisciplinary artist whose practice is a personal, idiosyncratic and performative strategy to uncover what is unknown to her, to understand the world and discover how things are connected. Working across installation, video and performance, she approaches each project with a sea of open questions.
Having studied at ATM Gießen and DasArts Amsterdam, and been associated with Productiehuis Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Unger develops her work project by project, moving between different forms and approaches. Her practice brings together technology, video projection, animation, documentary and historical material, with family as an inexhaustible subject. Working with technology and digital images creates an intimate, private space within her practice. She often learns and develops the necessary technical skills herself, allowing technology to become a means of discovering new forms of play rather than creating new narratives.
https://en.artoffice.info/kunstenaar/nicola-unger/portfolio/#subpages
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-maren-unger-b58591b/
US(American(a)s) is a series of short vignettes by Thomas Körtvélyessy each centred around a piece of pre-composed and pre-recorded music, used as found material from which the performance grows. Developed in response to conversations and encounters with friends in the USA, the work moves between art and politics, personal fascination and cultural influence. Through translations, crossovers and bridges, it embraces human existence in all its complexity, leaving space for ambivalence and openness.
Thomas Körtvélyessy has been working on re-forming dance for the 21st century through the sensorial experience of movement. His practice centres on empowerment, liveliness and communication, using crossovers, overlays and shifts in established orders to create new ways of making sense of the world through dance.
Reàl Dance Company is the name under which Körtvélyessy has created solo and group works since 1996, collaborating with various artists and working across contexts, from community dance to highly individual solo performances.
https://realdancecompany.org
Larysa Bauge is a Belarusian performance and live art practitioner, educator and researcher based in The Hague. Her work explores identity, gender, migration, labour and power, drawing from lived experience, including years spent as an undocumented migrant.
Originally trained as an orchestra conductor, she turned towards performance art, where the body becomes a site of resistance, rupture and transformation. Through durational and site-responsive performances, she uses minimal actions, repetition and presence to explore institutional control, visibility and embodied tension.
Bauge has presented her work internationally, including at Venice International Performance Art Week and Oslo Performance Art Festival. Her current research explores ‘trained patterns of violence’ and the potential of performance to question and disrupt embodied patterns shaped by institutional power.
https://www.haagsekunstenaars.nl/cv/80001
Performance artist and dentist Inês Certo invited Werner van der Zwan to collaborate on Bruxers Lullaby. Together with composer Otto Rissanen, they explore the performative and musical dimensions of bruxism: the unconscious clenching and grinding of teeth. Plaster casts of patients are mechanically driven, mimicking these movements. The performance at WGW Podium marks the first try-out of this piece.
Werner van der Zwan (The Hague, 1995) studied Fine Arts at WdKA and Philosophy at EUR. He creates robotic installations and sculptures from discarded objects, which he reanimates through de- and reconstruction, electronics and motors. His work explores how spectators perceive the ‘otherness’ of non-living things and how boundaries between subject and object might dissolve. His practice blends robotics, theatre and music. His work has been shown at Ars Electronica (AT), Meta.Morf (NO), Chaos Communication Congress (DE) and V2_ (NL). He lives and works in Rotterdam. ververwant.nl
Inês Certo (she/her) is a Portuguese artist and dentist based in Rotterdam. Since moving to the Netherlands in 2019, she has focused on photography, videography and performance art. Her artistic practice explores the possibility of creating her own scenes, diving into discomfort and peculiarness. inescerto.com
Otto Rissanen is a Finnish composer, guitarist and performance maker based in Rotterdam. His music combines Nordic jazz, minimalism and contemporary classical music with playful instrumentation and a surreal, absurd and uneasy touch. Drawing inspiration from philosophy, human and Finnish nature, and eccentric historical characters, his work contemplates individualism in a social context and the tragicomedy we call life. ottorissanen.com
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