A special version of PoroCity at Frascati

A special version of PoroCity at the Frascati on May 2 & 3: the performance does not take place on stage but the whole building becomes part of it. PoroCity takes the audience on a journey through the labyrinth of stages, backstage spaces, offices and hallways. We will be moving through the spaces of Frascati and around it the way we normally do not. An extended PoroCity programme includes the installations Through the Looking Glasses and Rapid Air Displacement Nr. 3 and two evenings of PoroCity talks with invited guests. More info and tickets here

PROGRAMME 2 & 3 MAY - FRASCATI:

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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

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Premiere PoroCity by Andrea Božić en Julia Willms | TILT

Première of the new performance PoroCity by choreographer Andrea Božić and visual artist Julia Willms at the Burgerweeshuis (Orphanage) designed by Aldo van Eyck in collaboration with BPD and Frascati in Amsterdam with a tour along a series of special locations in the city and further. Premiere at the Burgerweeshuis 24-25 March 2018 and Frascati 2-3 May 2018. Tickets via Frascati

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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.

PoroCity premieres at the Burgerweeshuis (Orphanage) designed by the Dutch designer Aldo van Eyck and further appears on a series of special locations in Amsterdam, Netherlands and internationally and is on tour until March 2019.

Performance dates PoroCity:
•    21 & 23 March try-outs, 20.30 hrs, 24 (première) & 25 March 2018 at 18.30 and 21.00 hrs (tickets via Frascati)
•    2 & 3 May Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam (two performances a day)
•    June 2018 Zagreb Dance Week Festival
•    June/September 2018 Burgerweeshuis in collaboration with GET LOST, Amsterdam
•    20-22 July Over het IJ festival, Amsterdam
•    13-15 December La Casa Encendida, Madrid
•    February 2019 Theater Ins Blau, Leiden

Further dates and info: Calendar and FB TILT

Credits: Concept, script, choreography and space: Andrea Božić and Julia Willms; Performers: Matthew Day and Julia Willms; Light: Vinny Jones: Sound: Robert Pravda; TILT management and production: Marieke van Beuren; Technician: Paul Beumer; Publicity: Daisy Benz Thanks to Mala Kline and all the dreamers who have shared their dreams with us

Produced by TILT, residency: Kunstcentrum BUDA. The performance is made possible by the financial contribution of the Performing Arts Fund (Fonds Podiumkunsten), the Amsterdam Fund for the Art (Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst), Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stadsdeel Oost and the SED. Thanks to Frascati and BPD.

The Burgerweeshuis (Orphanage) (1960) was designed by one of the most famous 20th century Dutch architects Aldo van Eyck to provide accommodation for 125 orphans. The building looks like a casbah or a labyrinth, composed of innumerable interior and exterior spaces interconnected in a complex order and merging into one another almost imperceptibly. In Van Eyck’s vision, the private and the collective were closely linked and the boundary between the building and the city had to be broken down. The Burgerweeshui has just undergone a major restoration and transformation and will soon be open to the public.

BPDis one of the largest European area developers and has been investing in art and culture for decades. BPD has made the Burgerweeshuis available to PoroCity.

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Spectra | Salon: The Void, the Dream and the Night Sky

Spectra | Salon: The Void, the Dream and the Night Sky
Friday, 15 December 2017 at 19.00 hrs

Spectra | Studio, Marci Panis, Marcusstraat 52 | 1D, Amsterdam

Let us gather in a Void – An empty space. A vacuum. An opening. A gap.
Let us gather in a Dream – A space we visit in our sleep.
Let us gather in the Night Sky – The great black vault over the earth.

Let us gather in Vodrenisky.

The Void, the Dream and the Night Sky Spectra | Salon is part of the series of evenings we are hosting this autumn and winter. We open up our studio to guests to explore the porous and fluid spaces we inhabit, produce, embody, imagine, adapt to, demolish, re-construct and share.

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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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Spectra | Studio Opening: The Cube, the Salon and the Aquarium

Spectra | Studio Opening: The Cube, the Salon and the Aquarium
Friday, 8 September 2017 at 19.00 hrs
Marci Panis, Marcusstraat 52 | 1D, Amsterdam

Let us gather in a Cube – a hollow symmetrical three-dimensional shape with six equal sides.
Let us gather in a Salon – A (with)drawing room in a house where guests assemble and may be entertained.
Let us gather in an Aquarium - a glass-sided tank in which living organisms are kept for exhibit or study.

Let us gather in an Aquaculon.

The Cube, The Salon and the Aquarium is the first Spectra | Salon in the series of evenings we are hosting this autumn. We open up our studio to explore the porous and fluid spaces we inhabit, produce, embody, imagine, adapt to, demolish, deconstruct and share.

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Artists: Carsten Becker, Andrea Božić and Julia Willms

Spectra – space as an organism is a long term artistic practice and research into the 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.

A building is a slowly unfolding event.

Ingredients of the evening:

The Cube – an immersive audio-visual installation for a room
Undoing What We Know |I  – attention and space exercise
Paper Architecture – paintings
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Opening 19.00-23.00
Live Undoing What We Know at 20.00

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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Light Dark Light Heavy Archive at Reina Sofia Museum and Artea

Andrea and Julia are presenting a new project at the invitation of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and Artea. Light Dark Light Heavy Archive consists of two interrelated parts: a dream mapping performance Walk on Water and a performative talk: What is stored in an archive? Is it an infinite library of information stored in books, objects or artworks?  Or is it codified experiences, knowledge, insights, sensations and their embeddement in the context that originated them. The knowledge stored in the archive can only be transferred once it is embodied and situated in the here and now. Can we look at artworks not as something to be archived but as archives of knowledge in themselves that need to be unpacked in order to be kept alive.

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Light Dark Light Heavy Archive is a performative reflection on archiving attention, weather and dreams.

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A Mile of Wool - Episode 1

Andrea and Julia are developing contours for a new project A Mile of Wool in the first phase of research at Spectra Studio and presenting Episode 1 at Come Together 3 at Frascati. A Mile of Wool - Episode 1 is a choreography for a mile of wool, moving bodies, the theatre space, lights, colours and the audience present in it. Weaving spaces - resilience - organism. It is part of the long term project Spectra – space as an organism where the whole space and the audience’s presence in it is part of the work. There is no position outside. We are not in the space but we are space. Supported by DAS Research and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. With Setareh Fatehi Irani, Oneka Phon Schrader and Vinny Jones.

Spectra Lab at DAS Research: Archiving Light

In January 2017, Julia and Andrea are working with Vinny Jones, hosted by DAS Research at the Grootlab theatre space.  We are looking into the relationship between light, memory and value: recording daylight and re-playing it during sunset, working with a sliding scale of daylight in overlap with the artificially produced lighting in the theatre space. Spectra - space as an organism research is supported by the research grant from DAS Research.

Come Together #3

Three days with performance makers from Amsterdam.

On the 18th, 19th & 20th of January 2017, the third edition of COME TOGETHER takes place in the Frascati theatre in Amsterdam. Fifty performance makers from different fields will come together to share ideas and present their work.

Download the programme booklet here

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Order your tickets here.

What started in 2014 as a mini-festival by initiators/peers Nicole Beutler, Keren Levi and Andrea Božić, to gather and show their work alongside each other, grew into a second edition in 2015 including works by Amsterdam artists of all generations and disciplines such as music, dance and contemporary art. 

We are now at the beginning of a new arts funding period - an exciting time full of uncertainty and questions - COME TOGETHER # 3 grows again and acts as an appeal to the Amsterdam art field to come together and demonstrate that the field is still very much alive and kicking. COME TOGETHER # 3 is a performed manifesto and celebration of the many innovative contemporary makers that Amsterdam hosts. Over these three days approximately 50 independent choreographers, musicians, artists, dramatists and thinkers from different generations and backgrounds come together to share knowledge, develop concepts, meet coleagues and present their ideas to the public. The participants will utilize the space and time in a way that has not been possible elsewhere in our current and recent climate. The works will offer a range whether it is a short try-out performance, an interdisciplinary dance piece, a multimedia lecture, a workshop, an artistic manifesto or a performance in print; rough, unpolished, exploring, visionary and challenging. During COME TOGETHER #3 both creators and audiences get the chance to discover and experience the work in all its facets within one context.

COME TOGETHER is produced by NBprojects and NeverLike in co-production withTILT, Frascati and BAU and supported by Veem House for Performance and ICK.

 

ALL DAYS
WhyNot, Matias Daporta, The Roof MOHA, Plaatsbepaling Liesbeth Koot, HOPELESS AFFAIRS Clara García Fraile

DAY 1 | 18 JANUARY
18:30 – 19:10 SYNK Pinho², João Pinho & Francisco Pinho, Frascati 1 THE WISDOM OF CROWDS, Orion Maxted & Nathan Fain, Fras 1
18:50 – 20:20 Improvised Feminism Margo van de Linde, Office Nes 71
19:15 – 19:45 WTF Keren Levi, Frascati 2
19:15 – 19:45 ROYALTY Zhana Ivanova, Frascati 3
19:50 – 20:20 WTF Keren Levi, Frascati 2
19:50 – 20:20 ROYALTY Zhana Ivanova, Frascati 3
20:50 - 21:20 BROTHERS Robert Steijn & Angela Schubot, Frascati 1
20:50 - 22:20 Improvised Feminism Margo van de Linde, Office Nes 71
21:25 – 21:55 UKIYO Jesus de Vega & Chai Blaq, Frascati 2 | A Müsfik Can Müftüoğlu & Cherish Menzo, Frascati 2
21:25 – 21:55 WILD HORSE RUN Andrea Hackl, Frascati 3 | GENDER|GENESIS Christian Guerematchi, Frascati 3
22:00 – 22:30 UKIYO Jesus de Vega & Chai Blaq, Frascati 2 | A Müsfik Can Müftüoğlu & Cherish Menzo, Frascati 2
22:00 – 22:30 WILD HORSE RUN Andrea Hackl, Frascati 3 | GENDER|GENESIS Christian Guerematchi, Frascati 3
22:50 – 23:20 BACK Riccardo Guratti & Aleksandra Lemm, Frascati 2
22:50 – 23:20 OBJECT Ivgi & Greben, Frascati 3 | Please Me Please Liat Waysbort, Frascati 3
23:25 – 23:55 BACK Riccardo Guratti & Aleksandra Lemm, Frascati 2
23:25 – 23:55 OBJECT Ivgi & Greben, Frascati 3 | Please Me Please Liat Waysbort, Frascati 3
00:00 – 00:30 OBOL LE/EL LOBO Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frascati 1

CONTINUOUS:
A Body of Text Anni Kaila
SPIN Hillary Blake Firestone & Allison Isadora
THE NOMADRY PROJECT Sarah Manya
BINARY CODE Tom Parkinson


DAY 2 | 19 JANUARY
18:30– 19:00 LOVE RESEARCH Astrit Ismaili, Frascati 1
18:50 - 20:20 Improvised Feminism Margo van de Linde, Office Nes 71
19:05 – 19:45 WILD THING Truus Bronkhorst, Frascati 2 | Still Life Ester Natzijl & Fabienne Vegt, Frascati 2 | SAFE PIECE Valentina Campora, Frascati 2
19:05 – 19:45 Paper Ensemble #13 Jochem van Tol, Frascati 3 | Untitled Fransien van der Putt & Vera Sofia Mota, Frascati 3
19:50 – 20:30 WILD THING Truus Bronkhorst, Frascati 2 | Saving Private Aeon Ester Natzijl & Fabienne Vegt, Frascati 2 | SAFE PIECE Valentina Campora, Frascati 2
19:50 – 20:30 Paper Ensemble #13 Jochem van Tol, Frascati 3 | Untitled Fransien van der Putt & Vera Sofia Mota, Frascati 3
20:50 - 22:20 Improvised Feminism Margo van de Linde, Office Nes 71
21:00 – 21:30 A MILE OF WOOL – Episode 1 Andrea Božić & Julia Willms/ TILT, Frascati 1
21:35 - 21:55 LakeLand Oneka von Schrader & Susanna Brenner, Frascati 2
21:35 - 21:55 LOSSLESS Assi Weitz & Rob Gradison, Frascati 3
22:00 – 22:20 LakeLand Oneka von Schrader & Susanna Brenner, Frascati 2
22:00 – 22:20 LOSSLESS Assi Weitz & Rob Gradison, Frascati 2
22:35 Assemblage Series – Assemblage #2 Matthew Day, Frascati 2
22:35 Docu Table Schwalbe, Frascati 3
23:15 - 00:00 ELECTO-POP CONCERT Lester & Niko, Frascati 1

CONTINUOUS:
Pop up poems Jochem Naafs
BINARY CODE Tom Parkinson
DAYLIGHT CHAMBER Nienke Scholts & Maria Roessler


DAY 3 | 20 JANUARY
18:30 – 19:00 Table Talk: "Against Interpretation" Igor Dobričić, Frascati 1
18:50 – 20:20 Improvised Feminism Margo van de Linde, Office Nes 71
19:05 – 19:40 AKELARRE #1 Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Frascati 2
19:05 - 19:40 LINKING Jija Sohn & Andrea Zavala, Frascati 3 | FOLD/UNFOLD Patrick Schmatzer & Sally O'Neill, Frascati 3
19:45 – 20:20 AKELARRE #1 Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Frascati 2
19:45 – 20:05 FOLD/UNFOLD Patrick Schmatzer & Sally O'neill, Frascati 3 | LINKING Jija Sohn & Andrea Zavala, Frascati 3
20:50 – 21:25 GEORGIC SONG SEEDS nº1 & 2 Sarah van Lamsweerde & Esther Mugambi, Frascati 2 | SEE Áron Birtalan, Frascati 2
20:50 – 21:25 A LECTURE IN II PARTS: PART I, The World is a Vampire Clara Amaral, Frascati 3 | NO SUNSET Esther Arribas, Frascati 3
20:50 - 22:20 Improvised Feminism Margo van de Linde, Office Nes 71
21:30 – 22:05 GEORGIC SONG SEEDS nº1 & 2 Sarah van Lamsweerde & Esther Mugambi, Frascati 2 | SEE Áron Birtalan, Frascati 2
21:30 – 22:05 A LECTURE IN II PARTS: PART II, Everything is Everything Clara Amaral, Frascati 3 | NO SUNSET Esther Arribas, Frascati 3
22:10 – 22:40 SQUARE DANCE Nicole Beutler, Frascati 1
23:00 – 23:45 À la Carte Performance Webshop Nina Jan & Urša Sekirnik, Frascati 2
23:00 – 23:20 FALL IS DROPPING WHEN FALLS IS DROPPING WHEN FALLS FALLS Isadora Tomasi, Frascati 3
23:25 – 23:45 Measurement Jihyun Youn, Frascati 3
23:50 – 00:15 DON’T WORRY BE YONCÉ Stephanie van Batum & Stacyian Jackson, Frascati 1
00:15 – 00:45 O.T.T.O.T.T. (On The Tip Of The Tongue) Genevieve Murphy, Frascati 1

CONTINUOUS:
W Magdalena Ptasznik
Dreampath Erin Hill
DAYLIGHT CHAMBER Nienke Scholts & Maria Roessler

 

 

 

 

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Undoing What We Know: Dramaturgy As Cosmology-in-the-Making in the The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance

Andrea Božić and Julia Willms have contributed the text Undoing What We Know: Dramaturgy As Cosmology-in-the-Making to the book The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance edited by Konstantina Georgelou, Efrosini Protopapa, Danae Theodoridou, published by Valiz. The book comes out in Januayr 2018. Order it here.

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'There is a growing interest in the notion and practice of dramaturgy, which is often discussed either as the work of the dramaturg, or as the compositional, cohesive or sense-making aspects of a performance. Drawing on such views, The Practice of Dramaturgy addresses dramaturgy as a shared, politicized and catalytic practice that sets actions into motion in a more speculative rather than an instructive way.

With contributions by Una Bauer, Simon Bayly, Andrea Božić, Nicola Conibere, Guy Cools, Augusto Corrieri, Konstantina Georgelou, Ivana Müller, Betina Panagiotara, Efrosini Protopapa, Joachim Robbrecht, Jonas Rutgeerts, Nienke Scholts, Arabella Stanger, Danae Theodoridou, Julia Willms, Jasna Jasna Žmak

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Spectra: The Passage: Episode 1

A new performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT

10-11 November 2016, 19.00 hrs, Frascati, Amsterdam

Space as an organism.

A building as a mental construct.

A performance as a passage.

We are happy to invite you to the Episode 1 of The Passage, a performance that passes through a theatre in collaboration with the weather and the city. For The Passage, we have been collecting dreams – our own and other people’s nighttime dreams and daytime projections – mapping and weaving them into narratives of spaces. The performance is a passage through a labyrinth of spaces in and around Frascati that is both internal and external at the same time.

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The Passage: Episode 1 is the first version of the performance that marks the end of the research phase and that will evolve into a larger performance in 2017. It will be followed by a conversation with the audience.

The Passage is part of Spectra – space as an organism, a long term project we have been developing the past year where we engage with the whole space and the audience’s presence in it as part of the work. There is no position outside. In Spectra, we are not in the space but we are space. Spectra is a practice, a cosmology-in-the-making and a friendship.

 

Concept, choreography, spatial design and performance Andrea Božić and Julia Willms  Artistic collaboration and production support Marta Krešić and Lana Šprajcar Light and technical support Marion Tränkle With many thanks to Mala Kline who introduced us to her dream practice. With many thanks to the dreamers Erin Hill, Marta Krešić, Orion Maxted, Lana Šprajcar, Catarina Vleira, a.o.

Produced by TILT. Spectra project development has been made possible by the financial contribution of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, the Mondriaan Fund and the research subsidy of DAS Research.

 

A passage is a space in-between spaces. A no man’s land.  It is not a space. It is a passage. An arcade. A tunnel. A cave. A womb. Here I am a traveller. A hunter. A spy. A migrant. A voyeur. There are other passengers around. We are passengers to each other.

It could happen that we stay in the passage forever. We would keep travelling. We would keep passing. The passage might take us someplace we do not know yet. We would keep travelling to go places we do not know yet. Places we do not know yet what they are. We would keep passing to go places where we do not know yet who we are there.

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