BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20957@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:In the Mouth of the Room DTSTAMP:20260419T191003Z DTSTART:20260515T180000Z DTEND:20260515T191500Z DESCRIPTION:Friday 15 May\n\n\nIN THE MOUTH OF THE ROOM\n\nGenre: A live co mposition of poetry\, sound\, and bodiesLineup: Luka Prelas\, Robin\nPleni o & more line-up tba | Curated and hosted by Sunni Lamin BarrowTime: 20:00 \n- 21:15 hrsTickets: € 12\,50 (vanaf) Regulier: €17\,50 | Student/CJP/<26 : €12\,50 |\nStadspas Groene Stip: €2\,50Tickets\n[https://plein-theater.s tager.co/shop/default/events/111653653]<>\n\nWhat does a room hold?\n\nWha t does it swallow\, refuse\, and amplify?\n\nAnd if the space speaks back\ , do we answer?\n\nIn The Mouth of the Room is a 70-minute performance pro gram where poetry\, music\,\nand movement unfold as a continuous act of li stening. Across four artists\, the\nstage becomes a living space\, one tha t breathes and responds\, and all who enter\nit become part of it.\n\nEach artist contributes to a shared composition where nothing fully begins or\ nends\, but instead circulates. A voice lingers. A sound stretches. A body \ninterrupts or absorbs. Works bleed into one another\, forming a single e volving\nlandscape for the evening.\n\nThe “mouth” is both metaphor and me chanism: a site of speech\, but also of\nconsumption and transformation. T he room listens as much as it speaks. Together\nwith the audience\, the ar tists shape what can be said and shared\, and what\nremains unsaid and uns hared.\n\nThis is an invitation to experience performance as something sha red and\nunstable\, where boundaries between disciplines dissolve\, and wh ere the audience\nis not outside the work\, but within it.\n\n\nARTISTS\n\ nmore line-up tba\n\n\nLuka Prelas (she/her) is a Croatian-bred\, Zaandam- based writer and spoken word\nartist. In her work\, she explores (her) hum anity - traumas\, loves\, struggles\nwith being a trans “other”\, and her solidarities with “other others” - through a\ntrans Lens.\n\nShe won a fem inist performance prize at the 2nd Queer and Feminist Awards in\n2023\, go t published in an Amsterdam-based magazine 'Issue' in 2024\, and was a\n20 25 Spoken Awards finalist. Luka thinks of her style as exorcism-like\, oft en\nangry\, seldom sweet\, with a sprinkle of nasty and a dash of hope.\n\ n\nRobin Plenio is a composer\, theatre maker and media artist.\n\nHe stud ied musicology\, cultural studies\, new compositional techniques at the\nU niversity of Hildesheim and at the HfMT Hamburg.\nHis performances and ins tallations often utilise documentary and biographical\napproaches that are interwoven into the theatre machinery whilst having a strong\nfocus on so und.\n\nRobins post digital approach towards his artistic practice opens u p a variety of\nartistic research fields like videogameart\, artificial in telligence\, sensor\nbased performances and embodied electronic music that become part of his\naesthetic repertoire. He treats compositional techniq ues not only as purely\nmusical but as concepts that can be applied to vid eo\, light\, movement or\ndramaturgy.\n\nHe understands artistic work as a collaborative and interdisciplinary process\nwhere he works in different constellations as a composer\, performer\, programmer\,\ndramaturg\, media artist\, activist or video designer.\n\nIn various constellations Robins work can be seen and heard at Ballhaus Ost\nBerlin\, Kampnagel Hamburg\, B otkyrka Konsthall Stockholm\, Lichthof Theater\nHamburg\, Sophiensaele Ber lin or Nationaltheater Mannheim amongst others.\n\nSince 2025 he continues his research in the DAS Theatre Program at the Amsterdam\nUniversity of t he Arts.\n\nHe lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/in-the-mouth-of-the-room GEO:52.3608907;4.9138063 LOCATION:Plein Theater - Sajetplein 39\, 1091 DB Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-oost,documentary,electronics,literature,live,music,oos terparkbuurt,performance,poetry,queer,reading,theater X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Friday 15 May

In the Mouth of the Room

Genre: A live composition of poetry, sound, and bodiesLineup: Luka Prelas, Robin Plenio & more line-up tba | Curated and hosted by Sunni Lamin B arrowTime: 20:00 - 21:15 hrsTickets: € 12,50 (vanaf) Regulier: €17,50 | St udent/CJP/<26: €12,50 | Stadspas Groene Stip: €2,50Ticket s<>

What does a room hold?

What does it s wallow, refuse, and amplify?

And if the space speaks back, do we answer?

In The Mouth of the Room is a 70-minute perfor mance program where poetry, music, and movement unfold as a continuous act of listening. Across four artists, the stage becomes a living space, one that breathes and responds, and all who enter it become part of it.

Each artist contributes to a shared composition where nothing fully begin s or ends, but instead circulates. A voice lingers. A sound stretches. A b ody interrupts or absorbs. Works bleed into one another, forming a single evolving landscape for the evening.

The “mouth” is both metaphor an d mechanism: a site of speech, but also of consumption and transformation. The room listens as much as it speaks. Together with the audience, the ar tists shape what can be said and shared, and what remains unsaid and unsha red.

This is an invitation to experience performance as something s hared and unstable, where boundaries between disciplines dissolve, and whe re the audience is not outside the work, but within it.

A rtists

more line-up tba

Luka Prelas (she/her) is a Croatian-bred, Zaandam-based writer and sp oken word artist. In her work, she explores (her) humanity - traumas, love s, struggles with being a trans “other”, and her solidarities with “other others” - through a trans Lens.

She won a feminist performance pri ze at the 2nd Queer and Feminist Awards in 2023, got published in an Amste rdam-based magazine 'Issue' in 2024, and was a 2025 Spoken Awards finalist . Luka thinks of her style as exorcism-like, often angry, seldom sweet, wi th a sprinkle of nasty and a dash of hope.

Robin Pleni o is a composer, theatre maker and media artist.

He studi ed musicology, cultural studies, new compositional techniques at the Unive rsity of Hildesheim and at the HfMT Hamburg.
His performances and inst allations often utilise documentary and biographical approaches that are i nterwoven into the theatre machinery whilst having a strong focus on sound .

Robins post digital approach towards his artistic practice opens up a variety of artistic research fields like videogameart, artificial int elligence, sensor based performances and embodied electronic music that be come part of his aesthetic repertoire. He treats compositional techniques not only as purely musical but as concepts that can be applied to video, l ight, movement or dramaturgy.

He understands artistic work as a co llaborative and interdisciplinary process where he works in different cons tellations as a composer, performer, programmer, dramaturg, media artist, activist or video designer.

In various constellations Robins work can be seen and heard at Ballhaus Ost Berlin, Kampnagel Hamburg, Botkyrka Konsthall Stockholm, Lichthof Theater Hamburg, Sophiensaele Berlin or Nati onaltheater Mannheim amongst others.

Since 2025 he continues his r esearch in the DAS Theatre Program at the Amsterdam University of the Arts .

He lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam.

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