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Orange Night is a slow-motion immersive durational spectacle visible to the naked eye simultaneously to many viewers.

The choreography is based on a mathematical score. It is an episode in a larger series of our lunar eclipse performances titled Saros 134 taking place since 1 April 1550 and ending on 28 May 2030. This is episode number 27 out of 72. The next upcoming performance with the same geometry and similar geography takes place on 22 February 2073.

Orange Night is a ritual of endings and beginnings, darkness and illumination.

It features prime time for rituals of prophecy, protection and divination. The good and bad deeds one does during this performance are multiplied tenfold. Those who pray will have no troubles this year. The full moon energy is available three days before and three days after the event. Consider carefully what you wish for and write it out beforehand. For security reasons, there will be an increased presence of the police in the streets as the performance intensifies behavior.

Take a moment to revel in the dark: 21 January 2019.

Seats for the performance in the Earth’s shadow are unlimited but visibility depends on your area. The premium seats for the performance are in North America, South America, the eastern Pacific Ocean, western Atlantic Ocean, extreme western Europe and extreme western Africa.

Seat distribution map here

Performance times for Europe:

Monday, 21 January 2019

Beginning: 4:33
Peak: 6.12
End: 7:50

The piece begins at 4.33 as a tribute to John Cage’s piece 4.33.

Local times vary.
For the precise schedule and more information on your viewing location click here
 

Entrance: free. Latecomers admitted
Best viewing conditions: Outdoors, in the dark, in clear skies.
Dress code: warm clothes and a blanket
Viewing instructions: the spectacle is visible to the naked eye

Join the special guided viewing within the frame of the exhibition Painting the Night at the Centre Pompidou Metz guided by Andrea Božić and Billy Mullaney. An outdoor walk deep in the night of the 21st of January 2019 and breakfast afterwards. Meeting point: Centre Pompidou Metz, time 4.30-6.30 Bring warm clothes with you! Blankets and breakfast are provided.

For more information on how to attend the live viewing click here

Watch the preview trailer here

Watch the documentation of a previous performance here

Cloudy where you are? Follow our online live stream from various locations on the Earth here

Orange Night is an immersive durational spectacle for three celestial bodies and an observer that deals with the questions of drama, control, authorship, solarization, darkness and illumination, transformation, personal responsibility and engagement in space-wide events.

This is the fifth performance in the series of our collaborations with the night sky titled: Night Sky: Further Investigations Into Choreography, part of a larger series of collaborations with the weather titled Telling Future.

From the press:

‘When the lights, the Sun and the Moon are ‘eclipsed’, we are in the dark and events are hidden and shadowy. Secrets emerge and what’s unknown comes to light.’

‘Stunning and awe-inspiring.‘

‘You get a true sense of the solar system moving – and that in itself is a really dramatic experience.’

Enjoy the darkness.

 

Follow these links for our other performances in collaboration with the weather and the night sky
 

Credits:
Concept and choreography: Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the Moon, the Sun, the Earth and the weather Guides: Andrea Božić and Billy Mullaney

Produced by TILT at the invitation and with the financial support of the Centre Pompidou Metz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PoroCity is back at the Huize Frankendael for the Museumnacht Amsterdam 2018 with a special programme in collaboration with Suzanne Sanders and the Frankendael Foundation on 3 November 20.00-02.00.

Porous Night at Huize Frankendael programme:

20.00 & 20.30 Curator's tour (guided tour)
Julia Mullié, curator of the exhibition The Image of a Private Collection, will give two guided tours of the exhibition in collaboration with the Young Collectors Circle.

21.30 & 22.30 & 23.30 & 00.30 PoroCity (performance)
Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT take the visitors on a PoroCity journey: they weave the dreams collected from various people into the building of Huize Frankendael merging the dreams, the building, its gardens, the audience, the present and the past, other artworks and accidental passers by, fiction and parallel realities into the performance. With Matthew G Day and Julia Willms (performance), Robert Pravda (sound installation), Paul Beumer (light installation)

20.00-02.00 Through the Looking Glasses (audio-visual installation, ongoing)
Enter the light and sound installation based on Ganzfeld effect by Andrea Božić, Julia Willms and Robert Pravda | TILT and subdue yourself to a no-space experience. The eyes see no visible borders of the space, the ears hear no recognisable sound of the environment – the body enters a no-space. A similar training is undergone by astronauts preparing for travel in outer space.

20.00 - 02.00 Billy Mullaney: Welcome, I Have Been Expecting You (performance)
Evoking Frankendael’s historic garden hermit, tonight’s Garden hermit, Billy Mullaney, will be conducting one-on-one oracular performances in a secret location on the grounds of Huize Frankendael. You will be guided there by a stranger when it is your turn. Garden hermits were hermits encouraged to live in purpose-built hermitages or rockeries on the estates of wealthy land-owners during the 18th century. Encouraged to dress like druids and remain permanently on site where they oculd be fed, cared-for and consulted for advice or viewed for entertainment.

22.00-1.00 DJ Gleemaiden (Áron Birtalan)
Bitter-sweet dance tunes & 80's synth by Gleemaiden in the Koetshuis. Gleemaiden is Áron Birtalan: an artist, musician and part-time druid based in Amsterdam. Drowned in walls of reverb, shrouded in veils of echo, Gleemaiden's sets are harbingers of bittersweet dance tunes. Lush weeps, spellbinding rhythms and other curious sounds from an antique future. Oh, and cheap claps.

All night: vegetarian goodies by Huize Frankendael, restaurant Merkelbach - Pearl barley risotto with pumpkin and black kale chips.

All night: Huize Frankendael - the building and its gardens: the last 18th century estate house of Amsterdam

Tickets: https://museumnacht.amsterdam/tickets/

More info and tickets here
 

20 July at 19.00 and 21.30

21 July at 16.30 and 21.30

22 July at 16.30

 

FREE ENTRANCE | RESERVE: The entrance is free but it is necessary to reserve the ticket beforehand by sending an email to reservations@getlost-artroute.com with date, time, and number of people. There is limited capacity.

Facebook event here

Dates & times:
- Thursday July 22, 20:00 (fully booked)
- Friday July 23, 18:30 & 21:00
- Saturday July 24, 18:30 & 21:00

More information about GET LOST Art route

More information about Public Art Amsterdam

'As a spectator and a 'walker’ you experience a strange mix of personal memories, your own social and historical references and associations, combined with the wonderful logic of dreams that have their own architecture.' ★★★★ Theaterkrant

The performance is in English.

 

FREE ENTRANCE | RESERVE:
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The entrance is free but it is necessary to reserve the ticket beforehand by sending an email to reservations@getlost-artroute.com with date, time, and number of people. There is limited capacity. Facebook event here

'As a spectator and a 'walker’ you experience a strange mix of personal memories, your own social and historical references and associations, combined with the wonderful logic of dreams that have their own architecture.' ★★★★ Theaterkrant

The performance is in English.

Dates & times:
- Thursday July 22, 20:00 (fully booked)
- Friday July 23, 18:30 & 21:00
- Saturday July 24, 18:30 & 21:00

Read about The Cube here   Watch The Cube trailer here

 

 

· Dream Logic - On 2 May, together with Erik Willems and Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, we will be examining what happens when we take the organic structures and the logic of dreams seriously as a way of thinking about our relationship to our surroundings; the structures we build, nature and one another. What happens if we claim the domain of dreaming as a way of reimag(in)ing the here and now? We will also discuss the porous relationship between artist and audience, between art and the public space: how does this third space arise, through art?

Erik Willems is a hypnotherapist and NLP trainer with his own practice in Amsterdam: Hypnoworks. He also teaches and gives various workshops, lectures and training courses. His background is in the theatre: as an actor and theatre-maker, he has created and/or performed in various productions with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, NNT and Stichting Nieuwe Helden, among others.

Dr. Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink is a teacher and researcher in Theatre Studies at the University of Utrecht and an editor for the scenographers’ network Platform Scenografie [Scenography Platform]. She is also involved in (PhD) research into ‘nomadic theatre’, as part of which she is investigating different forms of mobility and uses of space in contemporary (location-specific) theatre.

· Urban Environment and Mental Mapping – how can we redefine our urban environment on the basis of a psychological approach to space?
The discussion on 3 May will concentrate on the relationship between social processes and urban development, between imag(in)ing and architecture. We will talk with urban psychologist Sander van der Ham and Charlie Clemoes (Faile Architecture) about the identity of the urban environment and the process of Mental Mapping: the hyper-individual selective representation of reality. How do you experience a space, an area, the city? How does perception of the city take place and how does architecture relate to perception, and to the psychology of the city? This time, we will claim the space to investigate whether it is possible to redesign the urban space.

Sander van der Ham works as an urban psychologist and advisor throughout the Netherlands, including for urban consultancy STIPO and ‘sense of home’ specialists Thuismakers Collectief [Homemakers Collective]. His research and expertise operate particularly at the intersections of developments in cities and psychology, community building and residents’ participation, the sense of home and public space. He co-authored the book ‘De stoep, ontmoetingen tussen huis en straat’ [‘The Sidewalk: meetings between home and street’], which sees the sidewalk as a space where a liveable, pleasant city begins.

Charlie Clemoes writes and talks about architecture, culture and social issues. Originally from England, he now lives and works as a writer in Amsterdam. He is the editor of Failed Architecture and part of Amsterdam-based art&design platform fanfare, where he develops podcasts. He also works as a ‘Cultural Streetscaper’ with Kantar Futures.

Aukje Verhoog (dramaturge and Fringe Director Amsterdam Fringe Festival) will moderate both evenings.

More information here

18:30 & 21:30
POROCITY
a performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms

ongoing
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASSES
an extended version of the installation based on Ganzfeld effect (no space experience)
by Andrea Božić,  Julia Willms and Robert Pravda

ongoing
RAPID AIR DISPLACEMENT Nr. 3
a sound installation by Robert Pravda

20:00
(following the 18:30 performance)
CONVERSATIONS AROUND SPACE AS AN ORGANISM

two evenings of talks with invited guests moderated by Aukje Verhoog:

- 2 May - Dream Logic
Together with Erik Willems and Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, we will be examining what happens when we take the organic structures and the logic of dreams seriously as a way of thinking about our relationship to our surroundings; the structures we build, nature and one another. What happens if we claim the domain of dreaming as a way of reimag(in)ing the here and now? We will also discuss the porous relationship between artist and audience, between art and the public space: how does this third space arise, through art?

- 3 May - Urban Environment and Mental Mapping
How can we redefine our urban environment on the basis of a psychological approach to space? The discussio will concentrate on the relationship between social processes and urban development, between imag(in)ing and architecture. We will talk with urban psychologist Sander van der Ham and Charlie Clemoes (Faile Architecture) about the identity of the urban environment and the process of Mental Mapping: the hyper-individual selective representation of reality. How do you experience a space, an area, the city? How does perception of the city take place and how does architecture relate to perception, and to the psychology of the city? This time, we will claim the space to investigate whether it is possible to redesign the urban space.

PoroCity
Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT

PoroCity is a performance as a journey based on mapping dreams into special architectural locations. The familiar but elusive logic of dreams merges with everyday reality and, in their overlap, a third space emerges – a porous space we do not know yet. A space where anything is possible.

PoroCity weaves the dreams collected from various people into a larger dream narrative. Two performers alias ‘dreamers’ lead the audience through a labyrinth of spaces and map the dreams as though they take place in the here and now. PoroCity moves through a series of special architectural buildings as a living organism, in Amsterdam and further, such as Burgerweeshuis designed by Aldo van Eyck, Frascati Theatre and other iconic locations. Each location is a unique experience where the dreams, the location, the building, the audience and the space itself are woven into each other and become part of the performance. The whole series becomes a performance in itself: a unique journey through the city.

Until spring 2019, PoroCity will appear on a series of special and unexpected locations in Amsterdam, Netherlands and internationally. Check the Calendar for dates

PoroCity is a performance as a journey based on mapping dreams into special architectural locations. The familiar but elusive logic of dreams merges with everyday reality and, in their overlap, a third space emerges – a porous space we do not know yet. A space where anything is possible.

PoroCity weaves the dreams collected from various people into a larger dream narrative. Two performers alias ‘dreamers’ lead the audience through a labyrinth of spaces and map the dreams as though they take place in the here and now. PoroCity moves through a series of special architectural buildings as a living organism, in Amsterdam and further, such as Burgerweeshuis designed by Aldo van Eyck, Huize Frankendael, Frascati Theatre and other iconic locations. Each location is a unique experience where the dreams, the location, the building, the audience and the space itself are woven into each other and become part of the performance. The whole series becomes a performance in itself: a unique journey through the city.

Works by: Andrea Božić, Carsten Becker, Julia Willms and Robert Pravda in collaboration with the weather and the night sky Dream mapping guest: Clara Garcia Fraile

Spectra – space as an organism is a long term artistic practice and research into attention and space and how their organisation affects our sense of embodiment, emergent realities and infrastructures by choreographer Andrea Božić and visual artist Julia Willms with Spectra | Studio as its base.

Ingredients of the evening:

Fireworks – especially for the occasion, we have prepared a special winter spectacle, a performance in collaboration with the Geminid meteor shower and the weather.

Through the Looking Glasses – an immersive audio-visual installation and an inverted cinema based on the Ganzfeld effect.

A Double  – a live dream mapping session with Clara Garcia Fraile. Mapping a nighttime dream into the architectural space as though it takes place here and now. Dream mapping sessions are part of the making process of our new project PoroCity, which will premiere in March 2018.

A Card Game – a game of encounters and an exercise in desocializing for two players

Paper Architecture ¬- paintings

Opening 19.00-23.00
Live dream mapping session at 19.30

Entrance free, drinks are available for an affordable price, cash only.

Produced by TILT. Spectra | Salons are made possible by the financial contribution of the Gemeente Amsterdam / Stadsdeel Oost. Supported by DAS Research and Marci Panis.

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