Double Bill: Spit + Scotch tape & Sound Body
Open: 19:30 - 21:20 hrs
Tickets: € 12,50 (vanaf) / Regulier: €17,50 | Student/CJP/<26: €12,50 | Stadspas Groene Stip: €2,50
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spit + scotch tape
“...so I guess the performance is a reclaiming of the agency of my actions, a little self choreography amid all this choreo-policing; I can make myself-- flex that free will baby, bump a track, react, acting is the only thing that makes any sense anymore.”
A continual series of songs to the self, spit + scotch tape is a raging analysis of ego, performance and humor through childhood nostalgia.
Raised in a family of artists and performers, Lillich // Krüger uses a self conversation and game of dress up to piece together memories and familial myths; the prom dress her mother made, the leopard pants her father partied in in Munich, the blouse her mother wore during her pregnancy, each transformation adds to the rolling motor of memory, longing and loss pulling from one story to another.
Rebecca Lillich // Krüger
Rebecca Lillich // Krüger is an American performance artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her work is invested in the power of transformation through theatricality and the body, with an emphasis on text work, high physicality and aesthetic surrealism. In 2021 she cofounded Stichting Triplets and her work has been presented at Frascati, If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Stedelijk Museum, Oerol and Van Gogh Museum to name a selection.
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Sound Body
Sound Body is a multimedia performance in “sono-archeology” that explores the idea of the body as a sound archive. What happens when we unearth the sounds that live in us? What possibilities for action emerge when we voice the sounds we need to hear but never heard?
Working with remembered and collected sounds on the spectrum of soothing to traumatizing, the artist explores our relationship to sound as a gateway to our identities and lived experiences. Based on an archive of sounds ranging from the 2020 Beirut blast, the sound of Israeli drones constantly occupying the Lebanese airspace, and gibberish poems composed by loved ones, Sound Body is a live excavation of buried sounds experienced from afar through looped voice compositions and movement. The performance invites us to reflect on our individual and collective paths in relation to heritage, belonging, and memory.
Kim Baraka
Kim Baraka is a Lebanese-born dance artist and scientist based in Amsterdam. His artistic practice centers improvisation as a non-verbal language to connect to the current circumstance. He has recently been interested in exploring the frontier between dance and voice composition. Previously, he was a member of the Beirut Dance Company (Lebanon) and the Pillow Projects Company (Pittsburgh, USA). As a freelancer, he collaborated with artists and researchers in dance, theater, fashion design, photography, film, and philosophy. In 2024, he starred in short film Cobalt, which was awarded Best European Experimental Short and shown in several cultural and academic venues. He is also the founder of Impromptu Amsterdam, a platform dedicated to sharing cross-disciplinary improvisational knowledge to and from the community (www.kimbaraka.com/impromptu).
