How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) - premiere at SPRING in Autumn

We are very happy to present How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), a new performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the moon with a premiere at SPRING in Autumn, Utrecht on 28-29 October 2021. The performance 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.

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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

 

 

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Unverifiable Realities - a co-curated programmy by TILT and Veem House

Departing from the notion of “unverifiable realities” as a concept through which to attend to and explore the current times, Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT and Veem House have co-curated a programme presenting a constellation of artistic works across performance and visual art. We have invited artists whose work playfully merges gameplay, art and the world from very different perspectives, creating a situation of ‘unverifiable reality’ between these fields. Throughout the program the works on show propose transformative modes of engaging with and re-imagining the world through art while developing new artistic languages and unclassifiable forms of spectatorship.

 

 

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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

 

 

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Book release, A Card Game, Pulse Line – Nähe#3 – Gallery Obrist – ESSEN

Excited to announce the book release of the exhibition series NÄHE that we are part of with the works Pulse Line and A Card Game. The book will be presented at the opening reception of part three of the exhibition NÄHE #3 (seduce) on 18 June, 19 hrs at Galerie Obrist in Essen.

Exhibition NÄHE #3 (seduce): 18 June - 29 August 2021

Participating artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast and Annegret Soltau

Curator: Dr. Sabine Kampmann

With text contributions of Hannes Böhringer, Anja Herrmann, Sabine Kampmann, Joachim Landkammer, Torsten Obrist, Annette Pehnt, Frank Schmidt, Arthur Schopenhauer, Liane Schüller and Wolfgang Ullrich

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

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Pulse Line at NÄHE, Galerie Obrist

We are happy to announce that our film Pulse Line (2005) is part of the group exhibition NÄHE (Closeness) at Galerie Obrist
in Essen.

Curator: Sabine Kampmann

Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

Schedule of the NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition series March until August, 2021
19 March – 05 May 2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch)
07 May – 12 June 2021 NÄHE #2 – spüren (feel)
18 June – August 2021 NÄHE #3 – verführen (seduce)

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

More info about the exhibition here

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New performance: How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19)

We are working on a new performance How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) in collaboration with the moon with a premiere at the SPRING Performing Arts Festival in October 2021. More soon...

Image: Julia Willms

Day For Night: Ring of Fire

I am very happy to invite you to my new performance in collaboration with the moon and the sun: Day For Night: Ring of Fire.

For the 21st of June 2020, I have prepared a special summer solstice spectacle: for this dance, the moon passes between the sun and the earth creating a ring of fire. A moment of darkness on the longest day of the year.

The seats for the performance are only available for a select audience in Africa and Asia. We have arranged a live stream here

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It’s a special version of the Day for Night series, the fourth performance in the series of my collaborations with the night sky titled: Night Sky: Further Investigations Into Choreography, part of the larger cycle of collaborations with the weather titled Telling Future.


Performance time:

21 June 2020

Beginning: 3:45
Peak:06.40
End: 09:34
UTC Time

Latecomers admitted.

For the seats distribution overview, click here


Cloudy where you are?
Watch the live broadcast here


! Warning:
Looking at the Sun is harmful to your eyes at any time. Do not look at the Sun directly without protection! Doing so may result in immediate and permanent blindness.

Viewing instructions:
For instructions on how to build your own pinhole camera for safe viewing, click here
If you are not the D.I.Y. type, check in with your local natural history or space museum or your local astronomy club for where to rent or buy eclipse glasses.
In Benelux, order your glasses here

Day for Night is an immersive dramatic spectacle for three celestial bodies and an observer.

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.‘

‘Many cultures have perceived eclipses as change-inducing events. The eclipse of the sun is always a disruption of the normal order and a possibility of a new beginning.’

 

 

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Spectra | Salon: Unverifiable Reality

An evening delving into unverifiable reality with guests: performance by Tchelet Pearl Weisstub, a marathon of Tarot readings by Billy Mullaney, a pseudo-interactive installation by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms and a response and conversation with Konstantina Georgelou.
At Spectra | Studio, Marci Panis, Marcusstraat 52 | 1D, Amsterdam
Saturday, 7 December 2019 at 19.00 hrs

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Note (!): Billy’s Tarot readings start already the night before and take place for 28 continuous hours, every half hour from Friday 6 December at 20.00 to Saturday 7 December at midnight. Please check availability via this link and reserve your preferred time slot by sending an email to billymullaney@gmail.com

Entrance free. Donations welcome.

Updates via this link
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Programme

Beginning: 19.00 hrs

Future Present by Tchelet Pearl Weisstub with Haian Arshied
Performance at around 20.15

Welcome, I Have Been Expecting You – the hermit crossed with the three of cups by Billy Mullaney
Tarot readings, one-to-one durational performance – ongoing from 6 December at 20.00 to 7 December at midnight (every half hour for 28 hours)

Zandloper (Hourglass) by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms
Audio-visual installation – ongoing

A response and a conversation with Konstantina Georgelou and the artists
Around 21.00
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Welcome, I Have Been Expecting You - the hermit crossed with the three of cups by Billy Mullaney

I have read tarot cards for over twelve years, but only recently initiated a dramaturgical analysis of tarot readings as a performance practice, and even more recently was convinced to situate this practice in aesthetic spaces such as visual art galleries or theatres.

Of course all reality is unverifiable--however, tarot cards are perfectly suited (no pun intended) to take advantage of this condition. They encourage syllogistic thought by presenting a recombinant set of images, idioms, and statements that we commit to reading as self-representational.

Like any projective test, the mode of spectatorship promotes a gaze that unfolds and immediately prunes a web of connotations from its dense, arbitrary (but not random) symbology.

Unlike a projective test, it is spooky.

"Unverifiable Reality" points to a crucial mechanism of tarot readings as a site of performance. Because it's unverifiable, we are able to individually commit to reading each spread--after all, the unverifiable is also un-disprovable.

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Future Present by Tchelet Pearl Weisstub with Haian Arshied

These days, together with Haian Arshied (a musician I have been working with for the past few years), I am developing an immersive sculpture and performance called: Future Present.  In the coming Salon we will share the first baby steps of this new work.
Haian will be playing a theremin on low frequencies from The Schumann resonances  spectrum (7.38 HZ- 30 HZ) that are a set of peaks in the Earth's electromagnetic field. At the same time I will be amplifying the sound of my now pregnant body.

In our research, we summon ancient female deities in order to help us evoke a cyclical and maternal experience of time. We do this in order to counter an accelerating experience of time in which the landscape is increasingly occupied with Earthing Technologies. (Innovations that attempt to regulate environmental changes).

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Zandloper (Hourglass) by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms

Glass is made of sand. Windows are made of sand. Bulbs are made of sand. Wineglasses are made of sand. Concrete is made of sand. Asphalt is made of sand. Roads are made of sand. Parking lots are made of sand. Runways are made of sand. Swimming pools are made of sand. Railroads are made of sand. Walls are made of sand. Houses are made of sand. Buildings are made of sand. Electronics are made of sand. Cellphone screens are made of sand. Monitors are made of sand. Beaches are made of sand. Coasts are made of sand. Sea bottom is made of sand. River bottom is made of sand. Sand castles are made of sand.  Sand play is made of sand. Filtration in water-treatment facilities is made of sand. Septic systems are made of sand. Paint is made of sand. Nail polish is made of sand. Solar panels are made of sand. Wind turbines are made of sand. Billion dollar business is made of sand.


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

 

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How To Exit a Reality at Postdramatic Theatre Worldwide - Academy of Arts Berlin

How To Exit a Reality - A new performance in collaboration with the Moon by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT in collaboration with Billy Mullaney

We are presenting a new performance within the framework of the Post Dramatic Theatre Worldwide conference at the Academy of Arts in Berlin on the occasion of 20 years of the publication of Hans Thies Lehmann's influential book Post Dramatic Theatre. We are also taking part in the panel on the Artistic Positions Towards the Post Dramatic with Andrea Božić, Luciano Cáceres, Alexander Karschnia, René Pollesch, Falk Richter, Moderation: Bettina Masuch - full programme here

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Performance:

For the occasion of this conference and to celebrate the anniversary of the Post Dramatic Theatre book, we have prepared a special spectacle in collaboration with the Moon and the night sky. Especially for the occasion, we have prepared the exact same night sky image here in Berlin as it was in 1696, the year of the founding of the Academy of the Arts which is hosting the conference. Today, the moon is in the exact same phase (waning crescent) in the exact same spot in the sky and against the backdrop of the exact same constellation of the stars, making the exact same replica of the night sky as it was on 23 November 1696 – 323 years ago.

For the performance, we have collected real nighttime dreams, memories, scientific facts and future projections and woven them into a tapestry. The performance is based on the Metonic score: the Moon's 19 year cycle where the Moon returns to exactly the same place in the sky with the same phase every 19 years. How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is the very first version and an excerpt from what is to become a larger durational performance in collaboration with the moon.

Postdramatic Theatre Worldwide

Symposium

In 1999 Hans-Thies Lehmann’s ground-breaking essay Postdramatic Theatre was published, which provided an academic contextualisation – in concrete and accessible language – of the transformations underway in Western theatre since the late 1960s, of its expanded artistic means and of new approaches to the present-day in a world of rapidly shifting media and politics. The book was understood worldwide as an impetus for cultural opening. The symposium discusses the international resonance and perspectives of post-dramatic theatre in science and the arts.

 

 


 

 

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Solid States: Orange and Gray and Fireworks at Project: ARTspace in New York

We are taking part in the group exhibition at Project: ARTspace in New York with two digital collages Solid States: Orange and Gray and the performance in collaboration with the night sky Fireworks.

Opening reception: 23 October 2019, 7-9 p.m.
Exhibition: 23 October - 13 December 2019
Address: 99 Madison Ave, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10016

Artists: Andrea Božić, Hee-Seung Choi, Claire Harvey, Ben Pointeker, Julia Willms

Exhibition title: i will not be just a tourist in the world of images just watching images passing by which i cannot live in make love to possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy

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Sharing a poetic approach in embodying experiences moving between the physical world and that of the mind, five artists have created works in media ranging from painting and photography to video and installation. Under the title taken from Anais Nin’s diary, works navigate through multiple realms with different modes and densities of time, questioning and investigating borders between what is perceived as internal and external; and how these may fold and ripple into each other.

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Residency at DE-CONSTRUKT [projekts]

We are very happy to be artists in residence at DE-CONSTRUKT from 17 – 31 Ocotber 2019 in Red Hook, New York City

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During our time at DE-CONSTRUKT, Andrea and Julia will work on our current research into darkness and illumination as part of our project in collaboration with the night sky. We will work on some elements of our new performance in collaboration with the Moon - mapping, repairing and navigating dreams, histories and future projections into an urban environment. We will combine this with collecting video footage, photography and audio material of the urban cityscape and architectural environments working with the Red Hook area as a site of research and a case study. The research and material will later be processed for our upcoming installation and performance in collaboration with the Moon we will be developing in 2020.

On Sunday, 27th of October, we will host a DIN DIN dinner from 18-21 hrs. For DIN DIN, they will share their research in the form of a live dream mapping and dream navigating session with the guests. The guests are warmly invited to bring a night time dream that has made a particular impression on them and that they would be happy to share and explore in the session. Check FB event here

DE-CONSTRUKT projekts develops projects with local and international artists that support the cross pollination of ideas and experimentation among cultural diverse artists and audiences. Artists have an opportunity to produce new works individually or collaboratively with a focus on experimentation.

DE- CONSTRUKT provides space to create temporary work and encourages the formation of new networks. Our interest is in the process rather than final outcomes. We serve to support new ideas and new ways of expression to share with the local community at large and abroad.

 

 
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