The Warp presents Silent Spring: Audiovisualspatial performances
With its regular headquarters in the beatrixpark in renovation, The Warp presents its Silent Spring season in fugitive locations nearby.
The Warp now transforms the CC Amstel into its characteristic circular space.
The Alternation performs
Our Grimoire: Unearthly Repossessions
May 23-25, Friday to Sunday
23rd and 24th, Friday and Saturday: 8 pm Installation viewing, 9 pm performance
25th, Sunday: 7pm Installation viewing , 8 pm performance
The Alternation Project Collective are Julia Kiryanova (painting. tapestry, visual plan–body designs and concept), Lee Ellickson (mise en scene and concept), Sasa Hara (sound score), Andreas Tegnander (live sound intervention), Niki Christoforidou, Ines Fertuzinhos, Simone Goslinga, Amit Palgi, Boree Rijzinga and Antti Uimonen (performing ensemble).
Produced and presented by The Warp through the auspices of Stichting C L O U D. This performance is made possible by the generous support of the Gemeente Stadsdeel Zuid, The Amsterdam Fonds vooor de kunst, Mondriaan Fonds and the Cultuurfonds.
Tickets available via the CC Amstel website or box office:
Regular €15
CJP/Stadspas/Student/65+: € 10.
The Warp is pleased to present the sequel to a work presented in 2022 which created a provocative performance inside of an immersive installation. Shifting from the highly inspiring device of the Major Arcana of the Tarot Deck for her last project with the Alternation performance project, artist Julia Kiryanova has returned with another related but provocative premise that maintains the rather occult theme but which also provides a strong and critical metaphor for the state of our highly mediated lives.
This is the tradition of the grimoire, or book of spells, which is a collection of powerful visual tropes developed by a witch or wizard which produce uncanny effects. A grimoire is like a recipe book for powerful effects and transformations through the casting of spells. While this is a familiar idea now given the prevalence for witchcraft and wizardry in our pop culture perhaps taking off from the impact of the Harry Potter books, we see a more interesting application to be made based on the relation of the visual arts and media to daily life and the primary issue of how we are possessed or dispossessed of our own bodies. This is in fact one of the most curious problems of our time given our overall immersion in media, the rise of all and the way in which our lives are being reorganized before our eyes, not entirely with our full consent or even understanding. We are living a spellbound life and we strive to become lucid about the nature of the spells in which we find ourselves cast or in which more chillingly we willfully cast ourselves.
Therefore, Our Grimoire is not in essence occult, that is to say concealing, but rather Our particular Grimoire is meant to shock a kind of lucidity about the relationship of bodies to the spells in which they are so intensely bound. Rather than maintain the powerful secrecy of the occult wizard, Our Grimoire is based on the social and ceremonial exchanges that occur between individuals, the spells cast between them and the lucid revelation of their implication within the extended “spelling” of our mediated culture.
For Our Grimoire the five performers are entirely painted by the artist and they perform on a circular eight meter diameter painted stage space and are surrounded by a diarama which combines drawn, painted and felted surfaces. The space is further punctuated by vertical outgrowths of mixed media that sprout from or hang above the painted surface. The audience sits within this enclosure while closely encircling the ring of the performance space. A music score is reinterpreted by a live musician to alter it spontaneously for each performance. An hour before the performance will commence the audience will be able to view the installation as an exhibition.