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/

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.

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

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'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.

 

· 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

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.