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We are happy to annouce two installations by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT at Cinedans Fest, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

Opening: 20 MARCH | 18:00 - 22:00 | Foyer Cinema 1, Eye Filmmuseum
Exhibition: 21 - 24 MARCH | 11:00 - 22:00 | Foyer Cinema 1, Eye Filmmuseum

Civil Twilight - Choreography for 450 nm and 600 nm
Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT
Video-light installation
Video projection, light, mirror floor
14 min loop
2022

 

The video-light installation Civil Twilight - Choreography for 450 nm and 600 nm works with the palette of the night sky colours, a deep indigo-violet-blue and deep orange-red ranges, the shortest and longest wavelengths visible to human eye. It features a cube-like shape in constant movement that plays with the perception of colour and shape. It combines infrathin layers of colour light projected across several surfaces, creating a perceptual continuum between a 2D video image and 3D projection screens, the shape constantly affected by a flux of merging colour fields. Civil Twilight plays on the concept that color does not exist by itself but emerges in an interplay between the light, the surface and the perceving eye.

More information about the installation here

More information about the festival here

 

Through the Looking Glasses
Andrea Božić, Robert Pravda, Julia Willms | TILT
Audio-visual installation
Several persons installation, white glasses, light, sound,
4 min loop
2022

Through the Looking Glasses is an audio-visual installation based on the Ganzfeld effect, a sensory immersion within the space of colour and sound. The eye sees no recognizable spatial border or shape but a uniform colour field. The ear hears no recognizable sound related to the outside space but a continuous noise wave. ‘Looking outside’ becomes ‘looking inside’. The visitor is taken to ‘no space’: an intimate sensory immersion environment and an inverted cinema.

More information about the installation here

More information about the festival here

An interdisciplinary evening exploring the overlaps between dream, gameplay, theatre and performance, how they guide and inform us in our waking lives and what agency they lend us. With input and a conversation with guests: Mala Kline (choreographer, writer, certified practitioner and teacher of Saphire™ imagery and dream work) and Marijn Lems (theatre and game critic); and the first in-progress sharing of The Premonitions Bureau #1 by Billy Mullaney and The Premonitions Agency Dream Movement Capturing Session (research sharing) by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms plus end of the year get together and drinks.

 

At TILT | Studio, Marci Panis, Marcusstraat 52 | 1D, Amsterdam
Friday, 15 December 2023 at 19.00 – 23.00 hrs
Entrance free. Donations welcome.

 

Spectra | Salons are in-disciplinary art evenings across performance and visual art that explore the questions of spectatorship, imagination and spectacle and how they are intertwined, embodied and felt in the era of globalism and digitalisation. Hosted by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in the TILT studio and the Salon of Marci Panis, Amsterdam, the Spectra | Salons feature a series of in-progress sharing sessions, experiments and conversations which follow our and our guests current artistic research processes and questions.

The Premonitions Bureau #1 (in-progress)
By Billy Mullaney

The very first issue! Weird tales and spooky stories ripped straight from the arcane files of the Premonitions Bureau itself! Intrigue! Betrayal! A pair of dream detectives flung beyond the reaches of time and space! Occult mystery and hair-raising suspense! Their first adventure! Will they save the day? At what cost??

(The Premonitions Bureau #1 is a narrative experiment towards a theatre/comic book hybrid)

The Premonitions Agency Dream Movement Capturing Session (research sharing)
Presented by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency

Have you ever wondered about the untapped potential of your dreams?

Welcome to the very first test version of The Premonitions Agency Dream Movement Capturing Session. This experimental government agency initiative aims to collect citizens' dreams and analyze them to predict and affeect real-life events and possible futuer scenarios. We are excited to collaborate with the Premonitions Agency as part of the research for our new performance Within Cells Interlinked. In this Salon, we are sharing the first research of our dream movement capturing method.

 

Produced by TILT. Spectra | Salons are made possible by the financial contribution of the Gemeente Amsterdam / Stadsdeel Oost. TILT receives structural subsidy from the Amsterdam Fund for the Art for the period 2021-2024. Supported by Marci Panis.
 
Follow our website and social media for the dates of the other Spectra | Salons and programme updates:
http://www.tilt.zone/node/59
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https://www.instagram.com/tilt.zone/
 
www.willmsworks.net    www.andreabozic.com www.billymullaney.com

We are very happy to announce audio-visual Zandloper [Hourglass] by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms is part of the group exhibition Sand - Resource, Life, Longing at Museum Sinclair Haus in Bad Homburg, Germany.

Opening Sunday 24 September 2023, 12 hrs

Exhibition 24 September 2023 - 11 February 2024

Glass is made of sand. Glass is hard enough to protect us but it shatters with incredible ease.  It is made from opaque sand, yet it is completely transparent.  It behaves like a solid material but it is also a liquid in disguise.

 

Zandloper [Hourglass] is an audio-visual installation as an interface that plays on the visitor’s gaze towards the space and the environment they are in, featuring sand as a central player. The installation creates a membrane between the cinematic and the physical space where the edges of the work extend – potentially indefinitely. Zandloper [Hourglass] features a mesmerizing cycle of exploitation, co-dependency, opportunism, fantasy, dream, fiction and habitual reality.

More information about the work here

About the exhibition:

The exhibition Sand - Resource, Life, Longing is dedicated to sand as an indispensable raw material, a material that is all too often banalized, and shows its diversity and its emotional and material significance for our society. It shows the sedimentary rock in its different structures, qualities and dimensions. The exhibition zooms in from the large, poetic expanses of the sandy landscapes to the microscopic components, making facets visible that are not visible to the human eye at first glance.

With works by: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Ole Bielfeldt, Ferhat Bouda, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Jochem Hendricks, Irenaeus Herok, Laurent Mareschal, Vik Muniz, Jenny Natusch, Jacques Pugin, Sim Chi Yin, Micha Ullman, Julia Willms & Andrea Božić, Stefanie Zoche

More information about the exhibition here

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Museum Sinclair Haus
Löwengasse 15
61348 Bad Homburg v.d.H.
Germany

Opening times: Tue–Fri 14-19 hrs

 

We are happy to announce Spectra | Salons are back! Join us for the upcoming series of evenings:

Spectra | Salons are in-disciplinary art evenings across performance and visual art that explore the questions of spectatorship, imagination and spectacle and how they are intertwined, embodied and felt in the era of globalism and digitalisation. Hosted by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in the TILT studio and the Salon of Marci Panis, Amsterdam from September to December, the Spectra | Salons 2023 feature a series of in-progress sharing sessions, experiments and conversations which follow our and our guests current artistic research processes and questions.

Spectra | Salon: Erotic Fan Fiction, Dreams and Premonitions Agency

An evening of the first in-progress versions of The Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting Session (test version) by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms and Harry Potter and the Delicious Brunch (in-progress) by Billy Mullaney plus conversations and drinks.

Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 19.00 – 23.00 hrs
TILT | Studio, Marci Panis, Marcusstraat 52 | 1D, Amsterdam

The Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting Station (test version) presented by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the Premonitions Agency

Have you ever wondered about the untapped potential of your dreams?

Welcome to the very first test version of The Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting Station. This experimental government agency initiative aims to collect citizens' dreams and analyze them to predict possible future scenarios. We are excited to collaborate with the Premonitions Agency as part of the research for our new performance, "Within Cells Interlinked."

How it works:

Your dreams are a treasure trove of untapped creativity, and we are here to uncover their mysteries.

1.     Volunteer Participation: Participation is entirely voluntary.

2.     Public or (Semi) Private Sessions: You can decide whether you want your dream collection session to be public or (semi)private.

3.     Specially Designed Questions and Instructions: You will be guided through a set of specially designed questions and instructions to help recall, embody and describe your dream in as much detail as possible. This process aids in the accurate recording and interpretation of dreams.

4.     Session Recording and Drawings: Each dream collection session will be meticulously recorded and drawings will be made preserving the essence of your nocturnal adventures.

5.     Data Storage and Analysis: The dreams and drawings collected will be stored securely within the Premonitions Agency's archive. Our team of experts will analyze your dreams to identify patterns, recurring themes, and possible future scenarios.

The Premonitions Agency Dream Collecting Station seeks to explore the potential of dreams in predicting future scenarios. Your participation is crucial to our research and we assure you that your data will be handled with the utmost care and confidentiality. Thank you for being part of this groundbreaking experiment.


 
Harry Potter and the Delicious Brunch (in-progress) by Billy Mullaney

Billy has recently been researching erotic Harry Potter fan fiction as the absolute lowest contemporary literary form.
He is curious about the communities that have sprung up around generating and sharing such texts, the mode of address with which they are written, and what might be "read" beyond the stories themselves. He is particularly interested in the use of fan fiction as personal fantasy fulfillment (using the protagonist as a stand-in for themselves and often having nothing to do with the source material), and how these stories can become indeed more legible as portraits of the author. Harry Potter and the Delicious Brunch is a short in-progress sketch exploring such a spectacle of self-indulgence, and which *might* develop into a performance in the future(!)

 
Entrance free. Donations welcome.
How to get there: http://marcipanis.nl/wordpress/contact
 
Produced by TILT. Spectra | Salons are made possible by the financial contribution of the Gemeente Amsterdam / Stadsdeel Oost. TILT receives structural subsidy from the Amsterdam Fund for the Art for the period 2021-2024. Supported by Marci Panis.
 
Follow our website and social media for the dates of the other Spectra | Salons this fall:

www.tilt.zone
https://www.facebook.com/TiltIndisciplinaryArtPlatform
https://www.instagram.com/tilt.zone/
 
www.willmsworks.net    www.andreabozic.com www.billymullaney.com

 

 
 

 

 

We are very excited to announce the premiere of The Glory Machine by Billy Mullaney, associate artist at TILT, at Veem House for Performance on 1 April 2022.

Try out: 31 March 2022 - 20.00 hrs
Premiere: 1 April 2022 - 20.00 hrs
2 April 2022, 20.00 hrs

Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam

The Glory Machine is a theatre performance consisting of filming and editing a promotional trailer for the performance itself. The audience observes the rapid-fire setup and recording of eighty microscenes, which are simultaneously edited and arranged live by an editor into a short trailer video. The piece was inspired by the ways in which we curate and perform idealized versions of ourselves online through social media platforms and beyond. By privileging the development of web presence over the performance itself, The Glory Machine archly proposes an all-in investment into "cultural capital, responding to (by playing along with) the labor obligatorily required to generate online presence and social media outreach. Conceived as a virus, The Glory Machine follows social media logic, producing its own promotional material to reproduce itself indefinitely.

"It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books, setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them."

- Jorge Luis Borges, introduction to The Garden of Forking Paths

In the press:

"The attention economy is eroding and taking over politics, the media and other departments of the public domain from within. The Glory Machine offers no real resistance or a solution. It very lovingly puts its finger on the sore spot. Well worth it." Theaterkrant Critic's Pick, read the review HERE

Best new text/choreography/libretto of 2022 - Fransien van der Putt - Theaterkrant

Since 2021, Billy Mullaney is an associated artist at TILT. He performs in How to Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) and TILT produces his new work The Glory Machine, in co-production with the Veem House for Performance and Productiehuis Theater Rotterdam.
 

 

The Glory Machine by Billy Mullaney | TILT at Het Het Huis x Kikker and Frascati:

14 April, 20.00, Het Huis Utrecht (Het Huis x Kikker), Utrecht, The Glory Machine by Billy Mullaney
25-26 April, 20.00, Frascati, Amsterdam, The Glory Machine by Billy Mullaney

 

How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) goes to Oerol Festival, Terschelling!
9-18 June 2023

We are very happy to announce How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) our performance in collaboration with the moon at Oerol Festival on Terschelling! We are making a special outdoors version at the Bostheater. 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.

Especially for the performances at Oerol, we have prepared the exact same night sky as it was in 1605, the year witch-hunt ended in the Netherlands and the year 2061, the year of the fist human settlement on the moon.

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.

Tickets

Friday 09 June: 21:00 hrs
Saturday 10 June: 15:00 and 21:00 hrs
Sunday 11 June: 15:00 and 21:00 hrs
Monday 12 June: 21:00 hrs
Tuesday - rest day
Wednesday 14 June: 21:00 hrs
Thursday 15 June: 15:00 and 21:00 hrs
Friday 16 June: 15:00 and 21:00 hrs
Saturday 17 June: 15:00 and 21:00 hrs
Sunday 18 June: 15:00 hrs

In the press:

Critic's Pick, Theaterkrant: 'With How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), Andrea Božić and Julia Willms manage to contemplate on the concept of reality in a fascinating, alienating and meditative way. In doing so, they showcase the power of theater and imagination, ending with a pun: how can you escape the theatre?'

 

 

How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is back in Frascati! A performance by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms in collaboration with the moon.

More information and tickets: here

The peformance 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. Especially for the occasion of the premiere at 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.

'How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) is a philosophical, poetic and comic performance about the power and limits of our imagination.' Theaterkrant, Critic's Pick

'With How To Exit A Reality (Attempt 1 of 19), Andrea Božić and Julia Willms manage to contemplate on the concept of reality in a fascinating, enstranging and meditative way. In doing so, they showcase the power of theater and imagination, ending with a pun: how can you escape the theatre?' Theaterkrant

Andrea is presenting her long term research at the THIRD Annual Forum, DAS Graduate School Amsterdam as part of the THIRD Annual Forum on 28 October at 18.00-20.30. From Wednesday 26th October until Saturday 29th October, artists researchers of the cohort 3 of THIRD composed by Catalina Insignares, Nikita Maheshwary, Igor Koruga, Cecilia Vallejos, Andrea Božić, Áron Birtalan, and Amanda Piña will present their ongoing projects in individual sessions.

Location: DAS Graduate School 26-29 October 2022, program distributed from 10:30 to 21:30.

More information and to sign up: here

 

Andrea will give an introduction into her artistic practice led research that investigates the co-constitutive relationship between attention and space: how – through altering their logic - a new ‘imaginal’ space might appear in their overlap. It works towards developing a cosmology of attention and modes of spectatorship – an experience of an expanded range and quality of perception and attention - practiced through artistic work as an interface with the world.

Working through ‘differentiated attention’, ‘weaving spaces’ and ‘mapping dreams’, the research explores the overlaps of spatiotemporal logic in dreams, gameplay and cosmology in site-responsive collaborations with architectural structures and their given systems and their spectatorship apparatus. It seeks to blur the edges between the stage and the world to consider the co-constructedness of the theatre and the world as imaginal spaces.

The performative show-and-tell research presentation will include excerpts from the performance How To Exit a Reality (Attempt 1 of 19) and from the colour and light installations The Light Archive and the Looking-Glass House in collaboration with Julia Willms and Billy Mullaney and a response to the research by Konstantina Georgelou, Joe Kelleher and Billy Mullaney.


Programme

Wednesday 26th October
9.30 Doors open
10.00-13.30 Áron Birtalan - morning session The Unquiet Veil
17.00-20.30 Áron Birtalan - afternoon session The Unquiet Veil

Thursday 27th October
10.00 Doors open
10.30-13.00 Áron Birtalan - landing and study session for The Unquiet Veil
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
16.00-21.00 THIRDtalks launch with Amanda Piña, Cecilia Vallejos and Catalina Insignares (incl light diner)

Friday 28th October
10.30 Doors open
11.00-12.30 Cecilia Vallejos - Practical Knowledge
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.30 Cecilia Vallejos intro ongoing video installation Amsterdam, april 2020 video work
16.00-17.45 Igor Koruga - Closeness of touch
18.00-20.30 Andrea Bozic - How To Exit a Reality: Cosmologies of Space, Attention and Spectatorship
20.30-21.30 Light diner

Saturday 29th October
10.30 Doors open
11.00-12.30 Nikita Maheshwary - session 1 Me&You: In a Dialogue
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30 Nikita Maheshwary - session 2 Me&You: In a Dialogue
16.00-17.00 Áron Birtalan - A Tear for the Devout to Fondle and Kiss - Strange Attractions at the Edge of the World
18.00-20.30 Catalina Insignares - Roaming around the vultures, listening to the dead
20.30-21.30 Light diner

 

 

Andrea Božić and Julia Willms | TILT are taking part in This Art Fair presenting an interdisciplinary range of our works: audio-visual installation Through the Looking Glasses, digital photo collages Solid States: Orange and Gray, documentation of The Cube and our new video-light installation Civil Twilight: Choreography for 450 nm and 600 nm, Carsten Becker's drawings and more.

This Art Fair focuses on artists presenting their work themselves, showcasing more than 120 artists from up-and-coming to established working in a variety of media from painting to performance and from video to photography.

Thursday 7 July 2022 - 11.00-19.00 hrs
Friday 8 July 2022 - 11.00-19.00 hrs
Saturday 9 July 2022 - 11.00-19.00 hrs
Sunday 10 July 2022 - 11.00 - 18.00 hrs

More information, programme and directions:

https://thisartfair.com

Tickets are cheaper online than at the door, you can order them here:
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Produced by TILT, realised with the financial contribution of Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Tijlfonds and Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst