This performance has been cancelled
Imminence of Alliance
A performance evening by friends of Artists in Solidarity Netherlands.
“Time cannot outwear its face since it has no face!”* wrote late poet Nilgün Marmara in her poem Pavor Nocturnus or the Hollowed Sleeps. It’s been more than three months since life has been ruptured. The seasons changed but it is still Pavor Nocturnus in regions across Syria and Turkey hit by the earthquakes.
“They float, in clear and warm water, severely.”*
The February 6 earthquakes impacted a geography 10 times the size of the Netherlands. 12 million people were irreversibly impacted. Even if international solidarity has organized a major effort, support is necessary until people are back to their livelihoods.
Amongst perpetuity of disasters and political blockbusters, sustenance of solidarity on all fronts often falls vain but alliance is imminent. Embracing the need to support those who are invisible to the majority, Artists in Solidarity Netherlands continues to work on stretching the support once again. Come join us in this gathering at de Brakke Grond on 20 May 2023.
“The sea is pounding.”*
Alliance imminent.
*Fragments from “Pavor Nocturnus Ya Da Delikli Uykular” by Nilgün Marmara. Kırmızı Kahverengi Defter, Telos Yayıncılık, 1993, p. 24-27.
Program
Letter to N / Özgür Atlagan (30 min.)
Özgür will perform tracks from the album Letter to N, which brings together synths and field recordings with short stories and fragments of texts written between 2016-2021. Performance will be in Turkish, English translations will be projected. Letter to N was released as cassette tape in 2021 by Het Generiek and realized with the support of Hinderrust Fonds, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and SAHA.
Özgür is an artist living in Amsterdam. He wanders the halls of violence, servitude, eroticism, play and humor in his work, following the line of poetry. He recently expired as a resident at the Rijksakademie.
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Os Haan Paard / Bert Scholten (30 min.)
"Bert Scholten assigns new meanings to the historical rituals and customs associated with the koekplank (Dutch biscuit boards). Our local cultural identity, with its stories, customs and rituals, has always been subject to change. However, homogenisation over the years has lessened this malleability. Consequently, an antagonism surrounds the adaptation of widely accepted customs and rituals, while many others disappear almost without trace. In his work, Bert Scholten dusts the cobwebs off of such forgotten customs and brings them into the present." - Rianne Zijderveld
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(Best Song Ever) / vives lucía (10 min.)
(Best Song Ever) is a performative collection of moments of reorientation. Through tools such as late-night DMs and crying on the dancefloor, vives builds a concert on never-ending becomings: a concert about songs that could've never been written. An ecstatic and melancholic symphony about impossibilities, transformation, and suspended desire. In other words, the best song ever.
vives lucía is an Iberian artist based in Amsterdam. Their practice sparks from digitally mediated poetics as testimonies of intimacy and vulnerability. Their work is materialized in the convergence of text and image, and how these mediums intersect and inform one another. Ultimately, it is through an ode to the mundane and the infinite possibilities of reality that vives finds a healing potential in storytelling.
They're also half of the performing duo Content y Contenido with Ingeborg Kraft Fermin. In 2022, they graduated from Moving Image from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and recently have performed in institutions such as Perdu (NL), La Casa Encendida (ES), Matadero Madrid (ES), Galeria Zé dos Bois (PT), and the Grey Space in the Middle (NL).
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Performance / G (30 min.)
G is an artist based between Amsterdam and London.
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Performance / ghenwa noiré (30 min.)
ghenwa noiré is an Amsterdam-based performer and multimedia installation practitioner. She uses her body as a vocal and movement instrument to tap into utterances and gestures that are influenced by the social structure of Lebanon. She accompanies her performances and film based installation works using analogue loops in an attempt to revisit different forms of reality, and get past them. She interprets the social and domestic tensions embedded within oral history, gossip, and nonverbal cues in her narrated performances accompanied with music.
She investigates the branch of linguistics that is concerned with semantic satiation: The effect by which daily expressions used are washed out, as they are repeated and tokenized in the Lebanese society, where she grew up. As a tutor of journalists on storytelling and visual communication, she offers her skills to de-legitimise mainstream media and break free from the oppressive politics of the region.
To explore the notion of ‘being together’ ghenwa opened her studio for jamming sessions with friends using different mediums. These sessions are being live streamed on Radio AlHara. She partook in different musical jamming based initiatives, amongst them were at the Stedelijk Museum, Documenta 15, Framer Framed, and Radio AlHara.
With gratitude to all the participating artists who generously donated their works for the evening and to de Brakke Grond for all their support. All proceeds of the event will be donated to local organizations working in earthquake regions across Syria and Turkey.
