The Artists Are Present - Dag 1 route B

Day 1 route B

The Artists Are Present works with two different routes per evening. This way, you can visit two shows per evening and enjoy the pop-up performances in between. Via route 1B you'll first see 11 3 8 7, and afterwards visit Ultra. After 11 3 8 7 there is a lecture talk by Bogomir Doringer. The evening is hosted by Robin Nimanong. In between performances you can enjoy Robin's drag pop-up and scenes from FUNK by Christan Gueramatchi. 

11 3 8 7 - TREVOGA

An unsettling reality TV show, an estranged dream after cheap melatonin, or just a spilled toy box on a middle-class floor. 

“We found ourselves caught up in an amusing contradiction -- stretched between media’s glamorous promises pouring into our champagne escapism and a grim lack of agency that comes with being reduced to production units in abstracted assembly lines. From targeted ads to tailored content to newsreels, vlogs, and streaming subscriptions, we saw ourselves hectically jumping through screen-sized portals.

Isolated spectators enclosed in our disaffected productive specializations, we sip on images of better lifestyles in search of a momentary escape from the drag of every day. Like a dog chasing its own tail. A feedback loop that gets more delirious with each iteration. The more jaded we become, the more we feast our eyes in hope of liberation.”

About TREVOGA

Trevoga is a newly-formed dance collective by Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK)-alumni Neda Ruzheva (BG/1999), Antonina Pushkareva (RU, 2000), and Erikas Žilaitis (LT, 1999). All three members had different backgrounds in dance before entering the AHK to follow the School for New Dance Development, Modern Theatre Dance, and Expanded Contemporary Dance departments.

They found each other in their shared desire to turn the choreographic process inside out. Growing up in the nebulous socio-political context of post-Soviet countries' "re-construction,'' between the violently enforced moral imperatives of a Soviet ghost and the stupefying hedonism of a newborn capitalist dream, they grow up quite fond of the overlaps between repression and seduction.

This same ambivalence is imprinted in most of Trevoga's work, where flashy tropes from popular media and high culture go hand in hand with a mundane sense of unease. Through this aesthetic juxtaposition, Trevoga gnaws at the mental onslaught of the fast-paced city they inhabit, viewing their bodies as symptoms of its numerous addictions and the stage as means to disentangle its many dissonant processes and conflicting forces. TREVOGA was the winner of the Best of Fringe award 2023. 

Lecture talk with Bogomir Doringer

In this lecture talk, ICK’s Associate Artist Bogomir Doringer will speak on his project I Dance Alone. The project observes dance floors from a bird's eye view, or what used to be called the divine perspective. Crowds are analyzed as microscopic samples. Zooming in to dancing gestures and anonymous dancing bodies has provided extensive knowledge and insight into club culture and its transformation in times of socio-political changes. As if dancing crowds are like clouds announcing changing weather conditions or sensing may be times of shifts and urgencies that are about to come. 

In Doringer’s work, he travels between looking at dancing crowds, a form of political protest, to tracing empowering powers that dance holds for everyone who dares to move. The curation of symposiums and exhibitions became an active methodology in his work. It awarded him with the term "dance of urgency", a dance that rises in times of personal and collective crises, and such a dance aims to empower individuals and groups. The presentation will be supported by various video archived material and visual examples. The most important part of dance and fascination with it is not knowing but moving within or towards it. 

About Bogomir Doringer

Bogomir Doringer is a Serbian/Dutch artist, researcher and curator. He is doing an Artistic Research PhD at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with the ongoing research project "I Dance Alone," which observes clubbing from a birds-eye-view as a reaction to social and political changes. Investigating collective and individual dynamics of the dance floor and different functions that dance that is performed has.

Bogomir is curator and head of education and research at Nxt Museum in Amsterdam. He is speaking and teaching internationally. He has been co-curator of Envisiong Free Spaces-the public day of the Stadt Nach Acht conference since 2014. He contributes to various international music festivals, club programs, and institutions throughout his work and research.