PoroCity is back at the Burgerweeshuis by Aldo van Eyck especially for the Grand Opening of the GET LOST - art route 2018 as part of the opening weekend of the Public Art Amsterdam: Pay Attention Please! supported by the BPD Gebiedsontwikkeling! On 22, 23 & 24 June, the whole building once again becomes part of the performance.

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

More information about GET LOST Art route

More information about Public Art Amsterdam

'As a spectator and a 'walker’ you experience a strange mix of personal memories, your own social and historical references and associations, combined with the wonderful logic of dreams that have their own architecture.'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.

 

Very happy to announce The Cube is part of this year's Oerol Festival! Join us at the Terschelling Island at the Expeditions programme 16-24 June 2018. Location: Terschelling Oost: K. de Stoek

More information about the programme and how to get there here

Read about The Cube here   Watch The Cube trailer here

 

 

Frascati is hosting a special programme of talks with invited guests around the questions of space and porosity on 2 and 3 May at 20.00, as part of the PoroCity evenings.

In the two discussions following on from PoroCity, we will be investigating the porous third space forged and evoked in PoroCity. What are the possibilities for filling this space anew; for arriving at a new imag(in)ing? We will probe the relationship between architecture and dreams – between the psychology of a city and urban designs for this. We will discuss the criteria and associative designations used to refer to an area, a building and the hyper-individual experience of these.

· 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

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:

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

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

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.

Spectra – Space Is an Organism

Under the umbrella name Spectra - Space Is an Organism, Andrea Božić and Julia Willms explore the relationship between attention and an embodied experience of space: how the (re)organisation of attention and space affects one’s sense of ‘reality’ and the modes of spectatorship emerging from it. How – when the logics of attention and space are altered – might a new ‘imaginal’ space appear in their overlap?

We create installations and performance environments that (re)organise the logic of how the space functions, provoking an investigative gaze through an embodied experience of artificially constructed but real spaces. Our works overlap the spatiotemporal logic of dreams, the interactivity of game-play and the deep-time scales of cosmology and quantum physics with the space here and now. Incorporating the apparatus and the architecture of the site with visitors’ own presence as part of the work, we create a porous border between the work, the stage and the world. Our artworks operate as interfaces with the world – to consider the co-constructedness of art and world as imaginal spaces, where re-configured attention can be practiced and taken into the world.

We work in site-responsive audio-visual installations, performances, digital collages, drawings, game-play scores and collaborations with the weather and 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.

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
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.

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
And more

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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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.

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

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.