Opening ENTER/PUBLIC/SPACE – exhibition and performance festival

We warmly invite you to the opening of Enter/Public/Space and Enter/Public/Stage, a group exhibition and four-day performance festival curated by Sanneke Huisman and belit sağ.

With this project, ROZENSTRAAT continues its engagement with performance in public space and video art in general.

Taking Esther Polak’s AmsterdamREALTIME (2002) as its starting point, the exhibition and performance festival bring together videos, performances, readings, tours, and workshops that consider public space as both stage and subject. The participating artists explore the performativity of the body, presence in public spaces, and the political dimensions of urban design and technology.

18.00 Opening speech by Sanneke Huisman, belit sağ and Esther Polak

19.00–19.30 Performance Human.VPN by Marina Orlova

19.30 Artist talk with Marina Orlova, moderated by curators Sanneke Huisman and belit sağ

20.00 End

We look forward to seeing you there!

About Human.VPN by Marina Orlova:

Human.VPN explores the distinction between a person’s emotional and physical location, offering a critical examination of the politics of digital mapping. Two dancers, Marina Orlova and Asya Deinekina, interact with a projected digital map of the world, tracing physical and digital paths through it as if moving through a comic strip. Described as a ‘collective geography self-study’, the piece suggests that shared geopolitical disorientation — and not-knowing — can become a source of togetherness.

Choreographer, performer: Marina Orlova

Performer, collaborator: Valeryia Le

Dramaturgical advisor, performer: Asya Deinekina

Sound designer, performer: Arieh Chrem

Advisor, collaborator: Maria Mavridou

Research collaborator: Xdzunúm Danae Trejo Boles