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♲ Line,losing line ♲

"Line, losing line" is a performative Audio Walk in the attempt to respond to a series of sketches by the late Clara Berger. Considering strategies to perform an archive, I am approaching the line as an architecture of memories, containing lived experiences and perspectives, materialised both in the immense body of work Clara left behind, such as within the immaterial, yet concrete after effect when encountering her work in her absence. Clara, who suffered dementia made me consider wether memory may (strive) to extend beyond the limited lifetime spent on earth, or if, perhaps it can be approached as a tissue, interfering within encounters of past, present or future, co inhabiting spaces, after having permanently moved out from who or what is considered "alive". In this context I look at ideas of auto consumption and auto creation as an integral aspect of life, death and art ♲ artist.

As initiation point for this research I selected drawings of bog bodies, made by Clara in the 80s and playground for this performative experiment is the sourounding landscape of Oldenaller, Claras home and atelier.

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Endless Gratitude to Wim and Clara and Fransien.

Dedicated to my beloved Sophia.

video stills by Ester Eva Damen

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DRAWINGS Clara Berger

PERFORMANCE,CONCEPT, DEVELOPMENT Toni Steffens

SOUND COMPOSITION Toni Steffens

SOUND SOURCES "enough", Brian Eno&Fred...again, Buchla concerts,Suzanne Ciani,

Free sound archive, artists in order of appearance: Hitrison, VKProduction, MATRIXXX_, Michaelvelo, fractanimal, lukabea

TEXTS Toni Steffens

DOCUMENTATION Eva Esther Damen

PRODUCTION AND COMISSION : Fransien van der Putt, Wim Berger

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Quadrupedalism 
‍Quadrupedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where a tetrapod animal uses all four limbs to bear weight, walk, and run. (google) 
Human beings practicing Quadrupedalism engage in an initiative to remember their planetary pasts, with a physical condition of moving with the face closer to the ground and the back exposed to the sky and sun. The proximity to the legs, feet, sexual and internal organs and intestines, combined with the amplified sensation of the function of the lungs creates a naif, intimate “self-folding”, that has been compared with the activity of navel-staring. Arguably bypassing a state of self indulgence through imitation of animal reality, the intimacy with themselves is generated precisely, through a process of species estrangement and the resulting amplified experience of the bearing of one’s own body. Quadrupedalism has been interpreted as a process of hopeful re-situating through strategic disorientation. As the human body’s dominant navigation faculties, the eyes, are actively restraint from perspective and overview, human beings, practicing quadrupedalism, usually seek for a physical experience of the re-negotiation of domestic hierarchies. Practitioners have been further expressed feelings of relief and nostalgic dwelling, describing the achieved state within exercising as moments to remember, where the species could have evolved to otherwise. The intrinsic potential of this “otherwise” has become particular desirable for practitioners to sense, in the face of human made crisis and devastation.

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UNder armour

♲ Line,losing line ♲

Weaving Passages for the momentous

An Attendee

Orange Rest/Sacrifice

Spinner

Hope, Test

Metamotion for 270degrees

Night Flying Project

Movement

delineations

Unfamiliarities

PAST-Present-future

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JUNE 11-14 : PLANETARY POETICS / SANDBERG GRADUATION SHOW AT FRAMER FRAMED AMSTERDAM, HEART BREAK RADIO, 12TH OF JUNE, 5PM, 13TH OF JUNE 1;30PM, PERFORMANCE UNDER ARMOUR, 13TH OF JUNE 6PM, 14 OF JUNE 4PM
SEPTEMBER 14: In collaboration with TONI BRELL at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Performance at 4:15pm, Finissage Toen de dieren nog spraken
SEPTEMBER 20: BROKEN HEART DANCES, WORKSHOP DURING RE-NATURE FESTIVAL/ GRIEF SPACES, 2PM, FULL INFO: https://re-nature.org/
September + October 2025 : teaching movement research at the university for applied sciences, Osnabrück, BA theatre pedagogy
NOVEMBER 2025 : TEACHING MOVEMENT RESEARCH AT SNDO AMSTERDAM, BA CHOREOGRAPHY
11 DECEMBER 2025 : D.R.E.D.G.E. - in collaboration with ELISA ZUPPINI, Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure ( Music composition) and 2nd and 3rd year students of SNDO, Jakoozi, Amsterdam
15 DECEMBER 2025 : D.R.E.D.G.E. - in collaboration with ELISA ZUPPINI, Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure ( Music composition) and 2nd and 3rd year students of SNDO, W139, Amsterdam January 2026 : "UNDER ARMOUR", JAKOOZI AMSTERDAM, DATE TBA, LIMITED CAPACITY
06 FEBRUARY 2026 : COLLABORATION WITH TONI BRELL, BORING FESTIVAL, HAARLEM

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