Waterfalls & Sparring Scars 
2021


Waterfalls and Sparring Scars is a performance and workshop space that transforms stories of migrational narratives into a quilted or sewn network. Each session is held one-on-one with the artist to produce an expression of the participant's personal history with migration. These expressions are created through dyes, ornaments and textiles.


These pieces are placed together to imagine a landscape connected and sewn together by the experiences, memories and intersecting relations of Southeast Asian diasporic individuals.




These workshops are supported by the PPR funding from CBK. 

















Uuahib! Series #3 
2022


In November 2022, a four-week intensive workshop was facilitated at Worm and focused on researching experimental composition-making, based on awakening a new language, structuring it and finding different ways to present it. This work is an extension of the Uuahib series. An OPEN CALL was initiated for participants interested in working with performance art.


In week 1 a composition was created with Bintang Manira Manik and Jessye Carmi, musicians from different fields and approaches to music. The process began with interpreting 4 rows of sprouted beans (est. 10 per row) into a musical score. In the next three weeks, the work group changed into 7 performers from different fields of study, we aimed to collectively breathe movements into the musical composition, and tell the story of the beans.


This process-oriented project is a continuation of earlier experiments of UUAHIB. The fabric was first performed at a public schoolyard in Rotterdam in 2021 and the form of composition-making was first tried and performed in 2020, also in UBIK Theatre. The research that disperses from UUAHIB encircles various questions surrounding collective cultural production, being: How can we make the field of performance art accessible to all? How can we shape our negotiating devices when composing language or composing communication? The continuation of these workshops will keep exploring these questions and finding different formats for presentation.


Composition co-created with Jessye Carmi Pele and Bintang Manira Manirk
Performers: Inge Kengen, Rijn Luyt, Naomi van Kleef, Ella Wang Olsson, Lieuwe Zelle, Taisiya Brundukova




Link to composition




















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