The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns VI: Here Again, Ten Years After: Fall Back to the Womb

The Warp presents Audio Visual Spatial performances

The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns VI: Here Again, Ten Years After: Fall Back to the Womb

December 12, 2022, Monday, 8 pm

at the Kunstkapel, Prinses Irenetraat 19

The Fall Back: Eternal Returns program comes to an end of this date which represents ten years since the very first event connected with the CLOUD endeavour happened at the Kunstkapel (12-12-12). One of the first impressions of the space with its built-in architectural “soft”cloth walls (courtesy of former tenants Atelier 21) was that of a womb. We now imagine the ultimate Fall Back: Eternal Return imaginable would be that of the return to the womb which immediately called these reflections of motherhood both dark and light into a distinct order.

▷ Iza Pacewicz Wysocka performs 𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙎𝙖𝙮 𝙄𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙨𝙨

Iza Pacewicz Wysocka, a new mother herself, performs a reflection on lost mothers and deep connections with the help of a phonograph and a copy of the white album.

▷▷ Samm Lewis performs 𝙏𝙝𝙚 3 𝙁𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨, 𝙀𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 3

Samm Lewis offers the sequel to her piece on the previous day performed on the knitting machine, reflecting on memories of her mother.

▷▷▷ Iza Pacewicz Wysocka and Estee Makampo performs 𝙇𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖 𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡

Levanna is the roman goddess of child care and specifically as a force which picks up and lifts the child into the air… an action which combines attraction with terror, ultimate care with huge risk. With this piece the duet of dance and music, body and violin, attempt to create a gospel spiritual on this motif combining the efforts of a new first time mother and an active healer to create a unique and authentic dialogue in the realm of the spirit.

▷▷▷▷ Barbara Philip performs 𝙈𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙣: 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙

An elderly woman talks to her daughter on the phone. However, one never hears the daughter answering, but only follows the mother’s minute-long monologue. The mother is represented by a ventriloquist doll who talks the whole time and reveals her omnipresence as a dominant, desperate and bitter character. The artist says “Capturing my feeling of being mutterseelenallein ( all alone in the world) in relationship to my mother figure allowed me to liberate the missing voice.”

▷▷▷▷▷ The Shadow Seminary School perform 𝙋𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡/𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙨–𝙎𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙩 𝙈𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨 5.1

(Performed by Simone Goslinga, Stefania Petroula, Iza Pacewicz Wysocka, and Elizaveta Kozyakova)

The Shadow Seminary School was formed in 2018 to ruminate on the actual space of the Kunstkapel, its history and its direct link to the catholic church particularly as a seminary rehearsal space designed by an architect who is singularly known as a Catholic futurist. The project grew out of Thomas de Quincey’s Three Mothers of Sorrow which we conceive as the dark absence in the edifice of the Church. This trio conjoins original members of the group with a phantasmal reunion of these three dark mothers which will serve as a prelude to the fifth part of the work which reflects on the future of the Kunstkapel one thousand years from now as a different sort of spiritual edifice.

Tickets: €10 at the door, €5 for students

FallBack: Eternal Returns V: Fall Back to the Loom: Recurring Figures in a Weaveworld

Our Dilating Arcana: The Realm of Crossed Destinies

– The Warp presents –

Julia Kiryanova and The Alternation Project perform

Our Dilating Arcana: The Realm of Crossed Destinies

An exhibition of visual art, film, sound and performance

December 9 and 10, Friday and Saturday, 8 pm

At the Kunstkapel, Prinses Irenestraat 19

The Alternation Project collective includes Julia Kiryanova (Paintings, tapestry, body designs and concept) , Lee Ellickson (mise en scene and concept), Elizaveta Kuzyakova (sound score and performance), Reon Cordova (film compilation), Simone Goslinga (dramaturgy), and performers Antti Uimonen, Lisa Hofmann, Laura Klinkenberg, Tinka Charmant, Eva van der Zand and Mova BoRee Aske

The exhibition can be viewed from December 8 thru 10, from 2 pm to 5 pm, as well as before and after the performances at 8 pm, and from 9.15pm to 11 pm.

Over the last two years our image of our world and our place in it has undergone radical change. Never before have we confronted our own lives from such a state of remove and with as dramatic an overview. Between Climate Change, Covid fear and World conflict, we now confront a transformed idea about destiny: for ourselves and the planet. Yet, the world has always tried to grapple with its destiny and one of the most resilient methods for this was found in a deck of cards known as the Tarot…

This project is an exhibition with performance which it seems might only be possible in the unique 360 degree round architectural space which the Warp occupies.

This exhibition will comprise large scale drawings/paintings, short films, soundtracks and a large circular floor painted/drawn work of ten meters in diameter which will become a stage space for an evolving series of movement performances by  performers whose bodies are uniquely painted to coincide with the character of specific cards. 

The exhibition is based on a highly personal reimagining by the artist of the now familiar Tarot deck which is a 78 card pack traditionally used for divination and readings which can answer specific questions or foretell the future. The Tarot deck has both a major and a minor arcana of identifiable picture cards. The highly symbolic and numbered 22 card Major Arcana is the most identifiable aspect of the Tarot deck. These cards are highly associative and suggestive of narrative lines but soon enough these narrative lines will blur and allow entry into a widening or dilating space of realization of an ever bigger picture… 

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The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns Workshop III – Eigengrau

The Warp Audio Visual Spatial Performances

The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns Workshop III

December 3, Saturday 10 pm,

December 4, Sunday 4 pm—12 midnight

at the Kunstkapel Prinses Irenestraat 19

 

▷ Zalan Szakacs presents Eigengrau (A Contemporary Phantasmagoria) ◁

Eigengrau, meaning ‘dark light’, is an immersive cinematic experience, a ritual in total darkness that solely uses light, haze, sound, smell, and movement. A light cylinder, a reference to the magic circle, takes the audience through a narrative of various mental states. The installation is inspired by phantasmagorias, which were originally built upon mythological stories, political, sociological, and religious propaganda as reflections of the zeitgeist. Eigengrau frames the negative space, creating a perceptual illusion and a temporary escape in a contemporary setting.

Eigengrau is a project by Zalán Szakács in collaboration with Sébastien Robert (sound design), Marta Wörner (choreography), Renske van Vroonhoven/Attic Lab (smell design), Rein Reitsma (product design), Daan Jonkers/RAITO (production design), Martijn van Boven (mentor), and Riccardo de Vecchi (architecture/photography/videography).

 

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FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS  October 21—December 12, 2022

The Autumn program of Audio Visual Spatial performances

For the Autumn program The Warp provides the counter balance for the Spring Ahead: The Afterlife program presented earlier this year with Fall Back: Eternal Returns. Just as we are prompted to remember to set the clocks forward by the command to Spring Ahead in the Autumn we know we must always fall back and set the clocks accordingly. For the Warp however, Fall Back means an attempt to return to an apparent new normalcy after the demise of the plans to transform the Kunstkapel into the Conservatory of Amsterdam but also as a reflection of the attempt to readjust after the extended Covid period that began in Spring 2020. With Fall Back: Eternal Returns we explore the recurring aspects that have characterized the work made in the Kunstkapel over the last ten year period.

The concept of the Eternal Return has been with us since Greek Antiquity when the stoics postulated that history was doomed to repeat itself infinitely since the universe and its concomitant energy is recurring. Nietzsche later transforms this into a thought experiment which questions what we would do faced with the information that we could be doomed to repeat ourselves. Nietzsche later had Zarathustra proclaim:

All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if you ever wanted one thing twice, if you ever said, ‘You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!’ then you wanted all back … For all joy wants—eternity.

The actual physical reality of the Kunstkapel which we have treated alternately as an instrument, a vessel, a container, a space station, a space of contemplation, a place of madness and at last a place of recovery, is the site of eternal returns and its circular immersive quality provides the perfect object correlative for this proposition. The Autumn program will consist of the regular Audio Visual Spatial spectrum programs that usually combine three performances in a single evening, several ongoing workshops which will produce individual evenings for stand alone performances as well as club nights that create a different context to present a dynamic environment for more impromptu or informal performances.

 

FallBack: Eternal Returns IV: Fall Back into the Mist

 

The Warp presents Audio Visual Spatial Performances

The Warp FallBack: Eternal Returns IV: Fall Back into the Mist

December 3, Saturday, 8 pm

at the Kunstkapel Prinses Irenestraat 19

Tickets are 10 euro at the door, students 5 euro.

As the Fallback program continues on its sojourn, the backwards motions make for grander leaps into the misty uncertainties of not so much the past but the very ability to anymore claim a great deal of certainty regarding anything… While things have changed we may seek to fall back into former understandings but we may have to surrender to the ineffable.

▷ Kacpar Ziemianin performs Light Seq Returns

Kacper Ziemianin a.k.a. ‘Ctrl Freq’ has background in classical music and a lot of adventures in modern sound and music. Sound designer, circuit bender, vagabond, improviser, producer, audio-hacker, instrument designer, nomad, radio presenter, workshop leader, squatter, soon-to-be a published writer. His audio installations and sounds have been shown/played in many places around Europe. ‚LSe‘ aka LightSeq is a DIY instrument and performance system for live electronic music. It allows users to program sequences of lights which are then translated into sounds. This combination opens up a lot of possibilities for controlling, structuring and interacting with sound. This instrument tries to address an issue of ‘liveness’ of electronic music performance. In the case of ‘LSe’ every sound is created and manipulated by various light sources. This creates a direct link between the visual and sonic realm.

▷▷ Francisco Garrido and Xico Ribas Tur perform Alexithymia

Venezuelan Guitarist Francisco Garrido unites with Spanish keyboardist Xico Ribas Tur to create immersive soundscapes that take the listener into an unexpected train of thought. Thought provoking sounds in a great dynamic range, from loud and in your face to timid and soft.” “Everyone has experienced how hard it can be to put one’s feelings into words from time to time. After the years that we spent together with Covid being a harsh reality, most people’s mental health has been a bit affected. And now with how suddenly it appears that we’ve moved on and completely forgot about it, it feels as if we didn’t have enough time to process it. To put all the feelings that we went through on the table and deal with them, to get closure.”

▷▷▷The Pitfall Ensemble performs Figural Vertical Hallucinationscores

As a counteraction to the previous project presented several times in the context of the Shadow Floriade as well as the Fallback season this year which was about the horizontality of the ground and the horizon, the attention now turns to the verticality that is the basic nature of the warp in the process of weaving. While Pitfall explores dynamic and unusual scoring processes here it goes one step further into retinal burn and visual spectra to establish its vertical score. Performers include Gareth Davis, Dario Calderone and Salvoandrea Lucifora.

▷▷▷▷An Overt Enclave performs Atsivata

One of the first projects ever developed at The Warp in terms of the kind of extended production workshops that are now a regular part of each year’s programming in 2013 was created by an interdisciplinary ensemble that determined to perform entirely in a thick fog bank which created an intense immersiveness and unpredictability. The piece was entitled Atavista playing on the very idea that “when the fog clears one will find one’s self at a vista.” For this performance, An Overt Enclave will not exactly recreate this performance but create an entirely contrary one still within a thick fog bank. Thus the title has been reversed to Atsivata.

The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns III – Taxing Returns: Back to the Drawing Borders

The Warp presents Audio Visual Spatial Performances

The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns III – Taxing Returns: Back to the Drawing Borders

November 26, Saturday, 8pm

At the Kunstkapel, Prinses Irenestraat 19

The third Fallback outing concentrates on works which witness the fracturing borderland between deeply internal experiences and an estranging outer world… the small crevices that open between these realms can suggest a mad repetition cycle in which every connection is simultaneously a disconnect… Where do we find the way through the apparent chasm?

▷ The Blacklightmen perform Waking Up Inside My Skull

Jaap Pieters’ considers his Waking Up Inside my Skull, as a work in progress. It is composed of analogue slides simultaneously viewed in the round with six projectors. The work is largely composed of ‘Light & Dust’; shifting ‘Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise’ through the same spaces over & over again, thus setting Light (& Fire) to the endless new details, slowly gathered over the years. Pieters also incorporates the work of Bart Prinsen & Marnix Carpentier Alting with their dreamlike ‘Walks through the Nights’ of Antwerp, Budapest & Dublin. Pieters means to show these Night walks inside Jaap’s Skull. before the sunlight fades those dreams away…. The soundtrack is made up on field recordings made on the visualized site…

▷▷ Antti Uimonen performs Better Person (a) ?

This solo multimedia performance uses movement, text, video, and sound that communicate social phenomena around personal development and the self-help industry. The work presents characterizations and perspectives revolving around notions of an existential urgency to be better, more successful, prettier, and more handsome. It seeks to invite collective imagination and challenges audiences to their relationship with self-worth and the self-help industry. The work aims to consider the mechanisms of self-worth to evoke collective action without guilt or blame by framing the content within prescribed conditions. The sound design in collaboration with Dj TuhoJuho

▷▷▷ The Approximate Consort performs Adridged 4,0

Musicians Ada Rave and Alan Purves are featured in this dramatic comedy of domestic showdown with instruments and objects which continues the ongoing sequence of episodes developing incidental narrativity through the channel of Frank Bridge’s early composition Idylls for String Quartet which in turn inspired Benjamin Britten’s masterwork Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge. This project will continue with new sections in 2023.

Tickets: 10 euros CASH at the door, student discount – 5 euro.

 

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FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS  October 21—December 12, 2022

The Autumn program of Audio Visual Spatial performances

For the Autumn program The Warp provides the counter balance for the Spring Ahead: The Afterlife program presented earlier this year with Fall Back: Eternal Returns. Just as we are prompted to remember to set the clocks forward by the command to Spring Ahead in the Autumn we know we must always fall back and set the clocks accordingly. For the Warp however, Fall Back means an attempt to return to an apparent new normalcy after the demise of the plans to transform the Kunstkapel into the Conservatory of Amsterdam but also as a reflection of the attempt to readjust after the extended Covid period that began in Spring 2020. With Fall Back: Eternal Returns we explore the recurring aspects that have characterized the work made in the Kunstkapel over the last ten year period.

The concept of the Eternal Return has been with us since Greek Antiquity when the stoics postulated that history was doomed to repeat itself infinitely since the universe and its concomitant energy is recurring. Nietzsche later transforms this into a thought experiment which questions what we would do faced with the information that we could be doomed to repeat ourselves. Nietzsche later had Zarathustra proclaim:

All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if you ever wanted one thing twice, if you ever said, ‘You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!’ then you wanted all back … For all joy wants—eternity.

The actual physical reality of the Kunstkapel which we have treated alternately as an instrument, a vessel, a container, a space station, a space of contemplation, a place of madness and at last a place of recovery, is the site of eternal returns and its circular immersive quality provides the perfect object correlative for this proposition. The Autumn program will consist of the regular Audio Visual Spatial spectrum programs that usually combine three performances in a single evening, several ongoing workshops which will produce individual evenings for stand alone performances as well as club nights that create a different context to present a dynamic environment for more impromptu or informal performances.

 

Fall Back: Eternal Returns II: Returns to Sender: Addresses Unknown

The Warp presents Audio Visual Spatial Performances

Fall Back: Eternal Returns II: Returns to Sender: Addresses Unknown

November 18, Friday, 8 pm

At the Kunstkapel, Prinses Irenestraat 19

Tickets are €10 Cash at the door

▷ Antrianna Moutoula performs You Can’t Trace The Same Stream Twice

Re working: A woman traces her thoughts through language. A stream which is nonstop, circumstantial and is not being more edited than it already is. An overload of words, thoughts, lyrics, theories, and memories that seek their own linearity. You Can’t Trace The Same Stream Twice is the articulation of the present in an ephemeral encounter between performer and spectator. Antrianna Moutoula has been concentrating on the performance of non stop languaging within the context of contemporary autotheory and she can often be heard on weekly online radio performances.

▷▷ The Approximate Consort (in trio formation) performs Abridged 3,0

Alan Purves (percussion), Lucija Gregov (cello) and Alkistis Misouli (viola) perform the third section of an ongoing project made in response to the distinctive musical relationship between composer Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge. Using musical material drawn from Bridge’s Idylls for String Quartet and Britten’s Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge, this group presses the ideas of the idyll and of variations toward paroxysm While the performance is sparked by great reverence to its musical forebears it will just as quickly be noted for an particular and pointed irreverence.

▷▷▷ Eyal Talmor performs Untitled

Eyal Talmor is an experimental musician from Lisbon, Portugal. His works are dealing with the extremities of sound produced by unconventional approaches of music technology, researching stress conditions, chaos and the physical presentation of sound and its influence on the individual and society, along with the goal of uncovering and exploring new territories by experimentation and performance. He Says “My performance is centered around a dysfunctional Access Virus synth that is operating beyond the machine’s capabilities, generating corrupted MIDI data and transmitted to several other machines. This method allows me to create sounds that otherwise would be impossible to reach and have unexpected results every time due to the chaotic nature of the process.”

 

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FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS  October 21—December 12, 2022

The Autumn program of Audio Visual Spatial performances

For the Autumn program The Warp provides the counter balance for the Spring Ahead: The Afterlife program presented earlier this year with Fall Back: Eternal Returns. Just as we are prompted to remember to set the clocks forward by the command to Spring Ahead in the Autumn we know we must always fall back and set the clocks accordingly. For the Warp however, Fall Back means an attempt to return to an apparent new normalcy after the demise of the plans to transform the Kunstkapel into the Conservatory of Amsterdam but also as a reflection of the attempt to readjust after the extended Covid period that began in Spring 2020. With Fall Back: Eternal Returns we explore the recurring aspects that have characterized the work made in the Kunstkapel over the last ten year period.

The concept of the Eternal Return has been with us since Greek Antiquity when the stoics postulated that history was doomed to repeat itself infinitely since the universe and its concomitant energy is recurring. Nietzsche later transforms this into a thought experiment which questions what we would do faced with the information that we could be doomed to repeat ourselves. Nietzsche later had Zarathustra proclaim:

All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if you ever wanted one thing twice, if you ever said, ‘You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!’ then you wanted all back … For all joy wants—eternity.

The actual physical reality of the Kunstkapel which we have treated alternately as an instrument, a vessel, a container, a space station, a space of contemplation, a place of madness and at last a place of recovery, is the site of eternal returns and its circular immersive quality provides the perfect object correlative for this proposition. The Autumn program will consist of the regular Audio Visual Spatial spectrum programs that usually combine three performances in a single evening, several ongoing workshops which will produce individual evenings for stand alone performances as well as club nights that create a different context to present a dynamic environment for more impromptu or informal performances.

 

Fallback (Eternal Returns) Underbelly: an Event in the Sour Dough Bakery

The Warp Fallback (Eternal Returns) Underbelly presents an Event in the Sour Dough Bakery

November 12, Saturday, 8:30 pm, beneath the Kunstkapel

 

 

▷ Katie Duck, Erik van de Wijdeven, Maria Mavridou perform Brazen Delinquents

Brazen Delinquents are three fractured (un)female deities who scavenge the ethereal debris of a world at war with itself. A visceral lyrical exploration of the fictional space between wounds. A sublime transfiguration of ferociously fumbling entities that long to be enlightened in the nearness of the other. Brazen Delinquents is a text driven performance where the players execute the lighting, sound and movement in real time.

(The Sour Dough Bakery entrance is via the Klooster, on the left of Kunstkapel, Prinses Irenestraat 19)

Tickets: €10 Cash at door,  €5 for students

 

FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS – Production Workshops

 

FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS

Production Workshops

• October 21-22, Friday and Saturday, The Kunstkapel

The Transparent Enterprise as The Transpiring Conservatory performs KHORA (Instrumentalizing the Void)

 

 

The Transpiring Conservatory was introduced for the Spring program to establish a different ideal  for a conservatory in order to counter what was thought at the time to be the all but inevitable destruction and transformation of the Kunskapel into the highly institutionalized conservatory.

With the Khora project The Transpiring Conservatory makes a challenging advance toward developing the Kunstkapel itself as an actual instrument that can be both demanding and disarming to actually play. Like the Eternal Return, the term Khora is an idea descended from ancient greece. For Plato the Khora defined a formless interval that gives space but also has maternal overtones (the womb, the matrix). Heidigger refers to Khora as the space where being takes place while Kristeva felt that Khora could only be understood as thinking time and space together. It was Derrida who brought our contemporary attention to Khora while he suggested it defied all attempts at naming or either/or logic.  Armed with this legacy participants in The Transpiring Conservatory from the Spring are coming together to activate this concept within the very conserved space of the Kunstkapel and produce resonant performable examples which will be presented throughout the fall season. 

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• October 23-24, Sunday and Monday, The Kunstkapel

The Distraught Foundation performs Recovery Operations

 

This workshop is also in essence the flip side of the Listings in the Day Room project in the Spring… thus appropriately falling back after springing ahead. The Day Room was the characterization of the Kunstkapel space as the shared common space in an institution where inmates suffering from the disparate conditions seek ways of interaction or withdrawal. Recovery Operations suggests the return to the life stream but more frequently it suggests the mechanisms in place to confront crisis. Lo and behold, we establish the creative space of the Kunstkapel as a locus for catastrophe and perpetual recovery. Perhaps this is a not so inappropriate premise for a space based in experiment and resolve.

Recovery Operations are based on the training of different strategies for urgent care. Therefore the space has shifted from the removal of the institutional dayroom to its flip side: a rehearsal work space for the spirit of disaster that has become a dominant idea with regard to our conception of a world : “out there”… Thus participants from the Listings in the Day Room project now return into a reversed proposition: new heightened rehearsals for the disaster and trauma that might have established the retreat into the institution in the first place… and like its predecessor this project will cull together disparate contributions for participants that will, through their interposition, establish shifting contexts: through discussion, creation of scenarios and the creation of performative responses. This point should be stressed as it is the point of the workshop: recovery operations can only be conceived through recourse to the idea of performance in its widest and immersive sense. With this mind, the workshop is expected to produce a variety of recovery operations…

 

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FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS  October 21—December 12, 2022

The Autumn program of Audio Visual Spatial performances

For the Autumn program The Warp provides the counter balance for the Spring Ahead: The Afterlife program presented earlier this year with Fall Back: Eternal Returns. Just as we are prompted to remember to set the clocks forward by the command to Spring Ahead in the Autumn we know we must always fall back and set the clocks accordingly. For the Warp however, Fall Back means an attempt to return to an apparent new normalcy after the demise of the plans to transform the Kunstkapel into the Conservatory of Amsterdam but also as a reflection of the attempt to readjust after the extended Covid period that began in Spring 2020. With Fall Back: Eternal Returns we explore the recurring aspects that have characterized the work made in the Kunstkapel over the last ten year period.

The concept of the Eternal Return has been with us since Greek Antiquity when the stoics postulated that history was doomed to repeat itself infinitely since the universe and its concomitant energy is recurring. Nietzsche later transforms this into a thought experiment which questions what we would do faced with the information that we could be doomed to repeat ourselves. Nietzsche later had Zarathustra proclaim:

All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if you ever wanted one thing twice, if you ever said, ‘You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!’ then you wanted all back … For all joy wants—eternity.

The actual physical reality of the Kunstkapel which we have treated alternately as an instrument, a vessel, a container, a space station, a space of contemplation, a place of madness and at last a place of recovery, is the site of eternal returns and its circular immersive quality provides the perfect object correlative for this proposition. The Autumn program will consist of the regular Audio Visual Spatial spectrum programs that usually combine three performances in a single evening, several ongoing workshops which will produce individual evenings for stand alone performances as well as club nights that create a different context to present a dynamic environment for more impromptu or informal performances.

 

FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS I: Look here… Where did all of the time go?

 

FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS I: Look here… Where did all of the time go?

Oct 29, 2022, Saturday, 8 pm, the Kunstkapel

 

 

The first program of the Fall Back season begins with a question that ponders the space between what was and what is and our new difficulties in coming to terms with the strange feeling that nothing can be as it was.

The Transpiring Conservatory performs The Seven Minutes

Performed by the Pitfall Ensemble: Pau Sola Masafrets, Gareth Davis, Alkistis Misouli and Jan Willem van der Ham

Connected with the Spring Transpiring Conservatory workshop performances of Aus Den Sieben Tagen by Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Autumn sees the compressed twitterizer version for the future in which seven days is compacted into seven minutes. In this case a series of seven minute solos which in turn take up the new challenge for the conservatory: to create duos with the Khora space of the room itself as an essential instrument.

 

Reinier van Houdt & Thomas Mohr: Dealing with Time

Through the months of the lockdowns video artist Thomas Mohr and composer/musician Reinier van Houdt explored the relation between moving image and music. Since then they have established different dynamics over three projects with the growing awareness that they were establishing different aspects of time. These multi-layered compositions can begin with the end describing the process from perception to experience, from specific situations to general characteristics, from rough to subtle. Three works now become three movements in an overall arc: Stripes 1988, Habitat 2 and Turning Point. The arc of this piece covers a period of 34 years.

 

The Pitfall Ensemble performs Writhing, Still 2.0

 

Performers include: Pau Sola Masafrets, Gareth Davis, Alkistis Misouli and Jan Willem van der Ham

Four performers interpret a score of writhings, connected to previous works performed in the Beatrixpark in connection with the Shadow Floriade. Writhings, Still are a series of scores that attempt to reflect life sentences made up of brain waves, breathing patterns, sleep motion studies… the return to bodily awareness seen against the line of the landscape. These scores mean to capture the return to another sense of time and space and our bodily restlessness within this equation.

 

 

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FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS  October 21—December 12, 2022

The Autumn program of Audio Visual Spatial performances

For the Autumn program The Warp provides the counter balance for the Spring Ahead: The Afterlife program presented earlier this year with Fall Back: Eternal Returns. Just as we are prompted to remember to set the clocks forward by the command to Spring Ahead in the Autumn we know we must always fall back and set the clocks accordingly. For the Warp however, Fall Back means an attempt to return to an apparent new normalcy after the demise of the plans to transform the Kunstkapel into the Conservatory of Amsterdam but also as a reflection of the attempt to readjust after the extended Covid period that began in Spring 2020. With Fall Back: Eternal Returns we explore the recurring aspects that have characterized the work made in the Kunstkapel over the last ten year period.

The concept of the Eternal Return has been with us since Greek Antiquity when the stoics postulated that history was doomed to repeat itself infinitely since the universe and its concomitant energy is recurring. Nietzsche later transforms this into a thought experiment which questions what we would do faced with the information that we could be doomed to repeat ourselves. Nietzsche later had Zarathustra proclaim:

All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if you ever wanted one thing twice, if you ever said, ‘You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!’ then you wanted all back … For all joy wants—eternity.

The actual physical reality of the Kunstkapel which we have treated alternately as an instrument, a vessel, a container, a space station, a space of contemplation, a place of madness and at last a place of recovery, is the site of eternal returns and its circular immersive quality provides the perfect object correlative for this proposition. The Autumn program will consist of the regular Audio Visual Spatial spectrum programs that usually combine three performances in a single evening, several ongoing workshops which will produce individual evenings for stand alone performances as well as club nights that create a different context to present a dynamic environment for more impromptu or informal performances.