PoroCity journeys further through the city. After the Orphanage House by Aldo van Eyck, Frascati and ROC TOP NDSM school, a special version for Huize Frankendael – the only remaining 17th century estate of Amsterdam. On 8 and 9 October 2018, the whole building and the gardens become part of the performance. PoroCity takes the audience through a labyrinth of spaces inside and outside. In collaboration with the Frankendael Foundation and Frascati. More info here
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