Night Flying Project

How can an image ever be understood if it is what calls us to imagine? 

(George Didi Huberman ‘Confronting images’)


The project is to project.

In a 3D canvas images perform for (not only) a human gaze that imagines itself as an audience. The materiality of these images shapes, looks out, elaborates and confuses itself until something unfolds in front of our all eyes.

 ‘Night Flying Project’ can be understood as a staged research where moving bodies try to understand themselves as images, that are both object and subject of a constant observation. Dealing with the condition of being already discovered, they become never trusting, always desiring, longing bodies, the ones that are producing, waiting, waiting and still producing at the same time, as much as they are already produced under the external gaze. Can these images see beyond what we assume to see in them and can they give us a glimpse of what this might be?

We demand the audience to participate: participatory watching, observing, seeing as an activity, a meeting with an individual but also with a material.

Credits

Choreography: Toni Steffens

Performance:  Ana van Tendeloo, Timon de Ridder, Pilvi Kuronen

Advice: Michele Rizzo, Ivan Mijacevic

Music: New Order, Depeche Mode, Real life, A-ha

Set desing: Toni Steffens

Light advice: Wout Panis, Martin Kiffarnik

Thanks to: Lisa Skwirblies, Bruno Listopad, SNDO3, Haraldur Prastarson, Igor Dobricic

Photo credit: Nellie de Boer

( Pilvi Kuronen, Ana van Tendeloo)

(Timon de Ridder)

( Timon de Ridder,Ana van Tendeloo, Pilvi Kuronen)

Attending/attendees
Attending describes the process and attempt of overcoming binary modes of experiencing, typically when subobjects, strangers, “formerly known (entities) as x” cross paths, while they are also in complicated, transitional states. Not only linked to subobjective realties, the process can further be observed within ecosystems, that appear to deal with a temporal or lasting tension, like the state of reconfiguration of crisis, healing, imbalance and chaos, Often times, those localities deal with strong emotionally charged confusion or hopelessness and are at the verge of “giving up”. Attending operates mostly as a mobiliser of a potential 3rd space, challenging the binary process of identity-making. It aspires to dissolve the phallic crisis by materialising agents beyond their self-proclaimed defined boundaries and deliberately attune to the procedures of space from “within between” the present entities. Colloquial called “attendees”, these spaces operate as mediators, that allow for cross-interference,-information and mutual regulation. Attending offers ways to operate within disquiet but leave entities, subobjects and localities usually permanently altered.

Weaving Passages for the momentous

An Attendee

Orange Rest/Sacrifice

Spinner

Metamotion for 270degrees

Hope, Test

Night Flying Project

Movement

delineations

Unfamiliarities

DATES/ NEWS

2-3/09/2023: "Line,lo0sing line", Research Presentation at Oldenaller, commissioned by Fransien van der Putt, working with the archive of painter Claartje Berger
3-5/07/2023: Research residency at Oldenaller, commissioned by Fransien van der Putt, working with the archive of painter Claartje Berger
23/06/2023: "THE FATE CAST / IN THE SEARCH / OF FOUR PETALS", during " Even in the dark I know I am sleeping with myself" at Perdu Amsterdam, Collaboration with Mercedes Azpilicueta
24/05/2023: "SPRING WOUNDS" as part of the warp, a shared evening at KUNSTKAPEL, AMSTERDAM
14/04/2023: "ORANGE REST/ SACRIFICE", ATELIERS PACT ZOLLVEREIN, ESSEN
30/03/2023: "WEAVING PASSAGES FOR THE MOMENTOUS", Extra Intra Reader #2 :A SLIGHT BREATH, editors HARRIET FOYSTER, ROSIE HAWARD, NELL SCHWAN, editorial board for  intercurricular Programmes, GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMY, SAN SERIFFE, AMSTERDAM 2023
10/11/2022:  "HOPE,TEST- A STRATEGY OF PERFORMATIVE MEMORIES", PUBLISHER: 4BID GALLERY AMSTERDAM
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: "SPINAL CATASTROPHE" RESEARCH PROJECT, SUPPORTED BY NEUSTART KULTUR, #TAKE HEART, PACT ZOLLVEREIN, BERLIN/AMSTERDAM, RESEARCH
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: DRAMATURGY FOR ELVAN TEKIN, TANZFABRIK BERLIN
08/07/2022: "THE FATE CAST / IN THE SEARCH / OF FOUR PETALS", DURING "CHANGE FEELING" , COLLABORATION WITH MERCEDES AZPILICUETA, VANABBE MUSEUM EINDHOVEN  
02+03/07/2022: "ON J0YFUL MILITANCY", PERFORMING FOR MERCEDES AZPILICUETA, ROZENSTRAAT, AMSTERDAM
19/05/2022: "SPINNER" PREMIER AT FLAM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM
08/05/2022: "AN ATTENDEE" MANDALA FESTIVAL, WROCLAV
14/03-04/04: RESIDENCY AT WORKSPACE BRUSSELS