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The peformance is based on the Metonic score: a cycle where the Moon returns to exactly the same place in the night sky and against the same backdrop of the stars every 19 years. Especially for the occasion of the premiere at SPRING in Autumn, we have prepared the exact same night sky in Utrecht as it was in 1603, the year witch-hunt ended in the Netherlands and the year 2059, the year of the fist human settlement on the moon. The half moon phase is the best time reverse circumstances.

For the performance, we have collected night-time dreams, memories, scientific models, moon rituals and SF fiction, all relating to the moon, spanning from the distant past to the deep-time future. The two performers take the audience on a journey through these different realities merging them with the architectural space of the theatre, so they all take place at the same time here and now.

How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a performance based on the escape room principle: we are looking for an exit but every time we find one, we end up in another reality. The two performers apply dream logic and gameplay to the world, approaching it as an existential virtual game – one that we can navigate, change, shift and play, or attempt to exit its logic. Every exit we take brings us to yet another reality – until even the space here and now becomes yet another fluid fiction.

'How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a philosophical, poetic and comic performance about the power and limits of our imagination.' Theaterkrant, Critic's Pick

'With How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), Andrea Božić and Julia Willms manage to contemplate on the concept of reality in a fascinating, enstranging and meditative way. In doing so, they showcase the power of theater and imagination, ending with a pun: how can you escape the theatre?' Theaterkrant

Andrea will give an introduction into her artistic practice led research that investigates the co-constitutive relationship between attention and space: how – through altering their logic - a new ‘imaginal’ space might appear in their overlap. It works towards developing a cosmology of attention and modes of spectatorship – an experience of an expanded range and quality of perception and attention - practiced through artistic work as an interface with the world.

Working through ‘differentiated attention’, ‘weaving spaces’ and ‘mapping dreams’, the research explores the overlaps of spatiotemporal logic in dreams, gameplay and cosmology in site-responsive collaborations with architectural structures and their given systems and their spectatorship apparatus. It seeks to blur the edges between the stage and the world to consider the co-constructedness of the theatre and the world as imaginal spaces.

The performative show-and-tell research presentation will include excerpts from the performance How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) and from the colour and light installations The Light Archive and the Looking-Glass House in collaboration with Julia Willms and Billy Mullaney and a response to the research by Konstantina Georgelou, Joe Kelleher and Billy Mullaney.

Programme

Wednesday 26th October
9.30 Doors open
10.00-13.30 Áron Birtalan - morning session The Unquiet Veil
17.00-20.30 Áron Birtalan - afternoon session The Unquiet Veil

Thursday 27th October
10.00 Doors open
10.30-13.00 Áron Birtalan - landing and study session for The Unquiet Veil
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
16.00-21.00 THIRDtalks launch with Amanda Piña, Cecilia Vallejos and Catalina Insignares (incl light diner)

Friday 28th October
10.30 Doors open
11.00-12.30 Cecilia Vallejos - Practical Knowledge
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.30 Cecilia Vallejos intro ongoing video installation Amsterdam, april 2020 video work
16.00-17.45 Igor Koruga - Closeness of touch
18.00-20.30 Andrea Bozic - How To Exit a Reality: Cosmologies of Space, Attention and Spectatorship
20.30-21.30 Light diner

Saturday 29th October
10.30 Doors open
11.00-12.30 Nikita Maheshwary - session 1 Me&You: In a Dialogue
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30 Nikita Maheshwary - session 2 Me&You: In a Dialogue
16.00-17.00 Áron Birtalan - A Tear for the Devout to Fondle and Kiss - Strange Attractions at the Edge of the World
18.00-20.30 Catalina Insignares - Roaming around the vultures, listening to the dead
20.30-21.30 Light diner

 

 

Thursday 7 July 2022 - 11.00-19.00 hrs
Friday 8 July 2022 - 11.00-19.00 hrs
Saturday 9 July 2022 - 11.00-19.00 hrs
Sunday 10 July 2022 - 11.00 - 18.00 hrs

More information, programme and directions:

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Produced by TILT, realised with the financial contribution of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Tijlfonds and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst

Looking-Glass House is a new work by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the moon: an audio-visual installation for the Arne Jacobsen Foyer at the Herrenhausen Gardens taking place every evening of the festival after the sunset. It takes the visitors on a parcour of spaces from outside the building to an immersive environment inside it and back outside to the night sky.

Especially for the occasion of the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Božić and Willms have prepared the exact same night sky above Hanover as it was in 1965, the year the construction of the Arne Jacobsen Foyer began. Throughout the festival, the moon passes through the exact same phases, against the same backdrop of the star constellations, making a replica of the night sky in 1965: growing towards a full moon to then disappear from the skies on the closing night of the festival. With a special event: a lunar eclipse above Hanover on the 16th of May.

The new light installation inside the AJ Foyer brings the palette of the night sky colours into the modernist glass-house building, expanding its architectural inversion of the inside outside spaces and the play of mirroring and reflections.

Inside the building, the visitors can enter the audio-visual installation Through the Looking Glasses,  sensory immersion within the space of colour and sound, a no- space experience based on the Ganzfeld effect.

More information HERE

Artist Talk: Sunday, 29. May 2022, 14:00 hrs
Anne Prenzler and Rainer Hofmann concerse with Andrea Božić and Julia Willms at KUBUS (Free admission, in English)

Credits:

Concept and audio-visual installation: Andrea Božić and Julia Willms
Animation and editing: Julia Willms
Sound: Robert Pravda
Technical development: Paul Beumer and Erik Denneborg
Software development: Nikzad Arabshahi

Through the Looking Glasses installation, which is part of the Looking-Glass House, is made by Julia Willms, Andrea Božić and Robert Pravda | TILT

Produced by TILT, realised with the financial contribution of KunstTestSpiele Herrenhausen and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Tijlfonds
The orginal version of Through the Looking Glasses was produced as part of Mars Landing - a Frascati Production in co-production with the Rathenau Institute and ICKamsterdam, and was realised with the financial contribution of the VSBfonds, the Dutch Performing Arts Fund and Fonds 1818.

The Cube is an audio-visual installation, an immersive environment for a white cube space where the entire room is part of the work. The installation re-organizes the apparatus of the white cube by overlapping the architectural space with images of the forces of nature at work.

For the KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, The Cube has found a perfect host at the municipal gallery Kubus, seamlessly fusing with it.

The Cube fills a wall with a video projection of the gallery space itself, extending and doubling the white cube space through central-perspective projection. A series of very slow cross-fades overlaps spectacular weather conditions, dramatic natural landscapes and animals into this extended space. The relative scales of a mountain landscape or a snail are modified to fit into the same white cube, making everything either too big or too small relative to the eponymous cube or the viewers: The mountain appears in miniature but the snail is a giant both in relation to the room and the spectator. The extended white cube does not remain unchanged by the forces and animals it contains, but the walls also break open so the visitor finds themselves at the top of a mountain or in an aquarium. The installation brings images into this white cube that problematize human relationship with and interventions into nonhuman systems. Alpine pastures and rocky mountain ranges which look like ‘wild’ nature but are in fact landscapes co-created artificially through cultivation’ and heavily exploited for skiing and other nature sports and tourism.

The installation overlaps a cinematic procedure with the architecture, intensifying the presence of the resulting imaginal space. The very slow cross-fades invite the viewer into deeply immersive states while underlining the actual room. One’s gaze shifts between these two poles, internalizing the environment: One is both here and elsewhere. The Cube is a moving sculpture, a choreography of gaze, a performance of space.

The Cube is based on analogic dream logic: By weaving the organic, architectural and digital spaces, both the continuity of materialities as well as the logic of space constantly shift, placing the viewer into a perspective which is always multiple, allowing for the experience of multiplicity, and to occupy several spacetimes at the same time.

Opening: Friday, 13 May 2022, 19 hrs

Exhibition: 14.05.2022 – 19.06.2022 - daily from 11.00-18.00 hrs*

Artist Talk: Sunday, 29. May 2022, 14:00 hrs
Anne Prenzler and Rainer Hofmann concerse with Andrea Božić and Julia Willms at KUBUS (Free admission, in English)

More information HERE

After the end of the KunstFestSpiele 2022, The Cube will be presented at KUBUS until 19 June. The installation can also be experienced as part of the Night of the Museums on the 18 of June.

Credits:

Concept, camera, installation Andrea Božić and Julia Willms animation Julia Willms sound Andrea Božić

Produced by TILT. Made possible by the financial contribution of the Mondriaan Fund, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich and the Amsterdam Art Fund. Supported by the Vienna Art Foundation.

'How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a philosophical, poetic and comic performance about the power and limits of our imagination.' Theaterkrant, Critic's Pick

The performance is based on the Metonic cycle where the Moon returns to exactly the same place in the night sky and against the same backdrop of the stars every 19 years. Especially for the performances at Frascati, we have prepared the exact same night sky in Amsterdam as it was in 1603, the year witch-hunt ended in the Netherlands and the year 2059, the year of the fist human settlement on the moon. We will enjoy two days of darkness: the new moon will temporarily disappear from the skies, accompanied by a full solar eclipse on the 4th of December – visible in the southern hemisphere. The new moon is the best time for prophecies and new beginnings.

4 December 2021, 14.00

5 December 2021, 14.00

Tickets

For the performance, we have collected night-time dreams, memories, scientific models, moon rituals and SF fiction, all relating to the moon, spanning from the distant past to the deep-time future. The two performers take the audience on a journey through these different realities merging them with the architectural space of the theatre, so they all take place at the same time here and now.

How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a performance based on the escape room principle: we are looking for an exit but every time we find one, we end up in another reality. The two performers apply dream logic and gameplay to the world, approaching it as an existential virtual game – one that we can navigate, change, shift and play, or attempt to exit its logic. Every exit we take brings us to yet another reality – until even the space here and now becomes yet another fluid fiction.

 

Concept, script, choreography, space design, video-light installation: Andrea Božić and Julia Willms

Script collaboration: Billy Mullaney

Performers: Billy Mullaney and Julia Willms

Animation: Julia Willms

Sound: Robert Pravda

Light: Vinny Jones

Management and production TILT: Marieke van Bueren

Technique: Paul Beumer, Erik Gramberg and Pablo Fontdevila

Media and production assistant: Kay Churcher

Publicity and sales: CASC

EarthMoon image: Julia Willms

Dramaturgy intern: Tery Žeželj

Photo's: Thomas Lenden and Andrea Božić

Trailer: Julia Willms

 

Produced by TILT, residency: Veem House for Performance. Made possible by the financial contribution of the Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Tijl Fonds, Kickstart Cultuurfonds, Horizon and DAS Research.

 

 

Especially for the occasion of SPRING in Autumn, we have prepared the exact same night sky in Utrecht as it was in 1603, the year witch-hunt ended in the Netherlands and the year 2059, the year of the fist human settlement on the moon. The half moon phase is the best time reverse circumstances.

For the performance, we have collected night-time dreams, memories, scientific models, moon rituals and SF fiction, all relating to the moon, spanning from the distant past to the deep-time future. The two performers take the audience on a journey through these different realities merging them with the architectural space of the theatre, so they all take place at the same time here and now.

How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a performance based on the escape room principle: we are looking for an exit but every time we find one, we end up in another reality. The two performers apply dream logic and gameplay to the world, approaching it as an existential virtual game – one that we can navigate, change, shift and play, or attempt to exit its logic. Every exit we take brings us to yet another reality – until even the space here and now becomes yet another fluid fiction.

Credits:
Concept, script, choreography, space design, video installation: Andrea Božić and Julia Willms
Script collaboration: Billy Mullaney
Performers: Billy Mullaney and Julia Willms
Animation: Julia Willms
Sound: Robert Pravda
Light: Vinny Jones
Management and production TILT: Marieke van Bueren
Technique: Erik Gramberg and Paul Beumer
Media and production assistant: Kay Churcher
Publicity and sales: CASC
EarthMoon image: Julia Willms
Dramaturgy intern: Tery Žeželj

Produced by TILT, residency: Veem House for Performance. Made possible by the financial contribution of the Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Tijl Fonds, Kickstart Cultuurfonds, Horizon and DAS Research.

28-29 October 2021, SPRING in Autumn, Theater Kikker, Utrecht  Tickets

3-5 December 2021, Frascati, Amsterdam Tickets

 

 

9-10 July, the work of artists Tchelet Pearl Weisstub, Tom K. Kemp and Clara García Fraile will be spread throughout Veem House, inviting into an encounter with, and a journey through the performances and the building, presenting a film documenting a search for unseen animals, a performative installation featuring a silent galop of a fragmented horse, and a role play game unpacking the images of the inner human body as a vast industrialised city.

8 July, Open Studio with Billy Mullaney. Currently in residency in Veem House to continue his research for Never Never Never Ever Never Never Ever Never Ever Ever EVER Ever EVER Give Up Unless It Gets Too Hard 2. This upcoming performance consists of filming and editing a promotional trailer for the performance itself. A crew painstakingly sets up a pre-scripted series of shots onstage, records them, and delivers the footage to an editor who assembles the trailer live.

6-7 July, Open Studio: During a residency at Veem House, Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT continue the research for their new performance How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19).  A performance in collaboration with the Moon based on the Metonic cycle, where the Moon returns to exactly the same place in the sky and against the same backdrop of the night sky star constellations every 19 years. The performance is based on the escape room principle: we are looking for an exit but every time we find one, we end up in yet another reality.

All the works in the programme propose a different mode of encounter or alternative engagements with the reality we might take as fixed.

https://veem.house/program/unverifiable-realities

 

 

https://www.galerie-obrist.de/en/naehe-3-verfuehren/

Book NÄHE (German/ English), release: 18 June 2021

More info about the exhibition here

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