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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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Comflictidy 
A Comflictidy may be a residing, state or thing at the intersection of commodity, conflict and comfort. Stimulated by the need to generate a space to escape, comflictidies typically produce a reflectional echo, recalling the conflicts they partially stem from. Confronted by that echo, usually presented in temporary, mental blockages of the user, a sort of  psychic and somatic dead-end sensation occurs, similar to a foggy wall, both dazing the user’s perspective and at the same time, hinting at the pre-conditional root discomfort or conflicts. On an advantageous note, most Comflictidies potentially operate both as an experienced limitation, and at the same time offer a place to rest, hesitate or contemplate. Comflictidies are not particularly enjoyable places, but function as a provisory shelter from live challenges too big to understand or too dynamic to move along with. Comflictidies can occur within artistic practices, in spatial design, in escapism, therapy sessions and in the finalising moments of procrastination. Comflictidies have been referred to as a double sided sword bending in retrovers, where the user is not just holding but simultaneously balancing on it, like on a thin line, unable to find proper quiet or precise insight of how to move on ( Metaphor).

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♲ 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

February + March: teaching Movement Research, BA choreography, SNDO, Amsterdam
16th of March: performing at the Finissage, the seeds of Memory by Mercedes Azpilicueta, together with Toni Brell and Antonella Fittipaldi, Fries Musem, Leeuwaarden
April: teaching Movement Research, BA and MA of choreography, ISAC Brussels
18 +19 of May: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, PS1, MOMA, New York City
March-June : teaching Movement Research, BA theater pedagogy,  at Technical University Osnabrück
26 of July: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, VAC Vilnius
September/ October: teaching Movement research, BA choreography, SNDO, Amsterdam
28th of September: Higher Xtnd, by Michele Rizzo, Porto ( tbc )
5th of October: sketch presentation after working with Pauline de Groots archive, founder of SNDO, together with Elisa Zuppini and Fransien van der Putt, Nederlandse Dansdagen, theater aan het Vrijthof Maastricht
15+16 of November: performing the Archive,presentation after working with Pauline de Groots archive, founder of SNDO, together with Elisa Zuppini and Fransien van der Putt, Plein theater, Amsterdam
end of November : workshop on drawing x movement, Crèche Amsterdam (more details to be announced)
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Salomes dress is so transparent that she doesn’t understand anymore where her dress ends and her skin starts. It seems almost she is wearing a double skin protecting the irritated and itchy surface of her thies and belly. Salome has scabies. (...)