WE LIVE HERE 2014: Mapping Spaces

We are proud and happy to present the WE LIVE HERE: Mapping Spaces, 2014 edition. As in the previous three editions, WE LIVE HERE will once again be gathering together a temporary community of professionals from the performing arts, visual arts and beyond, offering a space for encounters – a space to work and think together.

 

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Opportunities for reflection and experimentation are rare in the current climate of efficiency and market-driven economics, but ever since our first academy in 2011 we have been creating an alternative platform for artistic encounters, providing space and time to exchange, work and think together. Now it’s 2014 and in recent months we have found ourselves, and the independent scene as a whole, strengthened by many political changes that have caused a shift towards official recognition of the independently operating artist by Amsterdam’s political establishment. Partly in response to these ongoing developments we have decided to focus this year’s WE LIVE HERE on mapping the city, connecting places and activities, exploring ways of engaging with each other’s artistic activities and strengthening links between them.

 

The summer academy takes a slightly different form each year, shaped as it is by our interest in artistic exchange and our active response to the political situation, both inside and outside the field. This year we are inviting a small number of artists and makers for a continuous working session, during which we’ll regularly open our doors to interested visitors. The approximately twenty participants will spend four days together, exchanging models of working together, visiting locations in the city that provide alternative ways of living and working and participating in unexpected encounters and conversations which will surely happen in the “in-between” spaces.

 

Click here for the full programme: http://www.we-live-here.com/

 

WE LIVE HERE is an initiative of Nicole Beutler, Marijke Hoogenboom and Andrea Bozic and the 2014 edition is produced by NBprojects in collaboration with Tilt and the Performance Arts in Transition research group (AHK), and co-curated by Inge Koks. We are linked to Julidans Festival and supported by Studio DOK, the Performing Arts Fund (FPK) and the Amsterdam Arts Fund (AFK).

 

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Transmission in Theater der Zeit

Andrea Bozic wrote a text titled Transmission about the process of working on the cover of Rainer's Trio A, at the invitation of Sandra Noeth and the team of the Tanzquartier Wien, where we performed After Trio A as part of the SOLO? Festival, The Body and its Doubles. It is published in the March issue of Theater der Zeit in German. The English version of the text will be published on this website soon.

COME TOGETHER: Beauty, Bauhaus & The Beast

A festival of similarities and differences

Three Amsterdam-based choreographers Nicole Beutler, Andrea Božić and Keren Levi are organising the interdisciplinary festival COME TOGETHER: Beauty, Bauhaus and the Beast on 15, 16 and 17 May 2014. We have lived and worked in Amsterdam for many years and have come together increasingly to create space for exchange and reflection through art. This is the first time we present our work together. The three-day festival takes place at the Frascati Theatre and the Flemish Cultural Centre De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam.

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At the festival COME TOGETHER: Beauty, Bauhaus and the Beast, we present our works alongside each other and invite the audience to experience the multiple perspectives in a single context. In the space between the three performances –  their similarities, shared fascinations and differences – a fourth performance will come into being: a Zeigeist performance the audience is invited to discover themselves.

The festival presents three performances Intergalactic (An Attempt to Overcome the Binary) by Andrea Božić, Robert Pravda and Julia Willms | Tilt, The Dry Piece by Keren Levi | Neverlike and 4: STILL LIFE by Nicole Beutler | NBprojects & Theater Malpertuis and an elaborate further programme:

Thursday 15 May

20:00 – 21:00 4: STILL LIFE Frascati 1
21:30 – 22:30 INTERGALACTIC EXPO zaal, DE Brakke Grond
23:00 – 24:00 Paper ensemble Frascati 3

Continuous: Installation “A World” at Frascati 3 and The Smallest Sound At The Biggest Distance by Robert Pravda | Tilt

Friday 16 May

19:00 – 19:30 LOOKING THAT YOU LOOK, an introduction by Andrea Božić Frascati 3
20:00 – 21:00 INTERGALACTIC EXPO zaal, Brakke Grond
21:30 – 22:30 DRY PIECE Frascati 1
22:30 – 01:00 Party with DJ Alec Smart Frascati 3

Continuous: Installation “A World” Frascati 3 and The Smallest Sound At The Biggest Distance Robert Pravda, Tilt

Saturday 17 May


18:00 – 18:45 Talk with the makers Frascati 3
19:00 – 20:00 soup and bread (for 3 euro) Frascati café
20:00 – 21:00 THE DRY PIECE Frascati 1
21:30 – 22:30 4: STILL LIFE Frascati 1
23:00 – 23:30 No | me concert Frascati 3

Continuous: Installation “A World” Frascati 3 and The Smallest Sound, the Biggest Distance Robert Pravda, Tilt

Click here to have a look at the Beauty, Bauhaus and the Beast trailer!

 

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Spazio in Zagreb

We are going back to Zagreb. For the second time, Andrea Bozic and Julia Willms are leading a creative lab withing the framework of SPAZIO – A European network for dance creation 15.-22.02.2014 @ Zagreb Dance Centre, Zagreb, Croatia. Within the framework, we also perform Intergalactic on 21 and 22 February.

 

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SPAZIO is a European formation and creation program for young dance makers, focused on the interdisciplinary character of the dance discipline. It offers young makers a one year cycle of 5 residencies in all partner countries.

 

During the residencies the SPAZIO participants follow workshops, lectures, discussions, are coached in creative processes and are challenged to create new work based on these experiences. At the same time the project opens up this network of artists and art works to the local communities of the partners.

 

The residency in Zagreb will focus on the topic of “Dance and Interaction with New Technologies” and will also include a creative lab led by BADco.

 

SPAZIO is co-organized by: ICKAmsterdam – Amsterdam, the Netherlands; CSC DanceHouse – Bassano del Grappa, Italy; Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance – Zagreb, Croatia; Art Stations Foundation – Poznan, Poland.

 

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A World at the Big Amsterdam Art Calendar 2014

We are happy to be featured in the first edition of De Grote Amsterdamse Kunstkalender 2014 with our contribution for the 1st of May, the International Workers' Day:

A World With No Time.

The calendar is a great gift, with works by 365 artists, designers, photographers and architects.
For more information about the calendar and to order, click here

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A World is a manifesto by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | Tilt. The manifesto is an artwork and the artwork is a generator. For more information and to read A World, click here

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Intergalactic

We have been back in studio for a month rehearsing Intergalactic again in Amsterdam. Next week, we are rounding up the rehearsals at wpZimmer in Antwerpen before the performances at the Possible Futures Festival at Vooruit, Ghent and the NEXT Festival, Armentieres. Besides Intergalactic, we are presenting A World in different formats on various occassions. Click here for the dates and come by!

We Live Here 2013

This week, 8-13 July 2013, We Live Here: AnAcademy.

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With the contributions, working sessions, presentations, discussions and an excursion into 'hinterland' by BADco, DD Dorvillier, Robert Pravda, Bojana Cvejic and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Frederik Le Roy, Jefta van Dinther, Bertha Bermudez, Holger Nickisch.

 

http://www.we-live-here.com/

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The Avant-Garde Never Gives Up at Galerie Obrist, Essen

The Avant-Garde Never Gives Up at A World, a solo exhibition by Julia Willms in collaboration with Andrea Božić at Galerie Obrist, Essen.

29 June – 24 August, 2013

Opening reception on 28 June 2013, 19 h

A World at EY5, Duesseldorf

I am pleased to announce the opening of A World, an exhibition by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms. A World is a manifesto in the form of an artwork that changes shape according to the context it is presented in. Its first manifestation will take place at EY5 in Duesseldorf (D) as an audio-visual installation for an empty gallery space with a window to the street and a book.

Galerie Obrist @ EY5, 21-29 June 2013

Opening reception: 21 June 2013, 18 h, Opening Hours: Wed-Fri 12-18h, Sat 12-14h

Beginning in Kopenhagen

We performed Beginning in a full house on a special occassion at the invitation of the Croatian Embassy to Denmark to mark the event of Croatia joining the EU. The reception at the Design Museum Denmark was visited by some 150 guest, representatives of the Danish government institutions, foreign diplomats and the military, as well as of financial, cultural and educational institutions. For more information, click here.