FASHIONCLASH Festival is known for the thrilling cross-overs with theatre and dance.
Fashion My Religion! presents 14 performances by promising theatre, dance and scenography artists. Next to professionals young theatremakers, several talented students from Maastricht Academy of the Performing Arts will present their performances during the festival. Most performances will take part in The Route and are accessible for free (full-is-full!). Several perforances will take place during The Show program on June 16.
This year the Show venue, SAM-Decorfabriek will be transformed to a ‘performing space’ in which designers can not only present their work, but also, more than ever, are challenged to present their work to the audience in a performative manner. Inspired by the theme, Studio AKATAK will create a concept for the space and scenography.
photo by Lonneke van der Palen
1. Research presentation of the project:
“Dialogue between Fashion and Death: Redesigning the Fashion Narrative”
By Nina Willems
Mosae Forum
Address: Mosae Forum 163
– Saturday, June 16, 15:15-16:00
– Sunday, June 17, 15:15-16:00
Free entrance, full-is-full!
Fashion helps us to express ourselves, it is a way of sharing our identity. However, in the age of “fast fashion”, it tells another story as well. A story of exploitation, pollution and corruption. How do we relate to that part of the story, and to the fact that we wear it on our skin daily? If Fashion could speak, how would she relate to it? What is her view on the world and on us?
In this edition of FASHIONCLASH, theatre performer Nina Willems presents her first research for the project “Dialogue between Fashion and Death”, in the form of a short performance. An attempt to trace and change the “fast fashion” mindset.
Concept and performance: Nina Willems
Text: Giacomo Leopardi
Design: Marlou Breuls
Director: Eva Line de Boer
Photography: Lonneke van der Palen
Special thanks to: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
Nina Willems
Web: ninawillems.com
Instagram: ninahannahwillems
2. HUNTING
Nora Ramakers & Timo Tembuyser
LAB-Gebouw
Address: Lage Frontweg 2C
– Sunday, June 17, 16:30-17:15
Free entrance, full-is-full!
there is a woman and a man
liquid nimf, singing soldier
from shadows they came
or light, whatever
her name starts with a v
but she is not venus
though the resemblance is striking
and she speaks:
“i’ll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;
feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale;
graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry,
stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie”
and he fights a lingual battle
and thinks and sings
he breaks his head on love
and tears his heart to melt
the sad in him and in her
and he roars:
“if all the sagas, all the primal forces of history
cover our actions as mellow veils
that make the view cloudy
the hands fluid
and the hearts hungry
– then what?”
HUNTING is an alternative story of creation, that takes place in a modernized Eden. In a garden that is not a garden. In a conceptualized space. This is where they meet. They are V and A. They struggle with the question how to become fleshy again, in a world full of symbols and fixed characters. Their longing to merge seems an impossible attempt. But that doesn’t stop them from trying.
Concept, text & performance: Nora Ramakers & Timo Tembuyser
Coaching: Joost Horward
Sound design: Pjotr Lasschuit
Costume design: Karlijn Krijger
Image: Merel Dames
Special thanks to: Marc Zwietink, Branko Popovic, Toneelacademie Maastricht
HUNTING is a co-production with FASHIONCLASH & ViaZuid
Nora Ramakers & Timo Tembuyser
3. MISSA HOMO SACER
Op. 35 Confiteor Deo
By Timo Tembuyser
LAB-Gebouw
Address: Lage Frontweg 2C
Sunday, June 17, 17:45-18:15
Free entrance, full-is-full!
first i asked you
if you don’t mind
i’ll lick the thorns out of your eyes
i’ll palm the pulp out of your hair
and warm my hands to your inside
then i did it
MISSA HOMO SACER builds a spatial and musical landscape for a Man, roaming around, endlessly walking alone. He looks for connection and unity, prays for salvation and ecstasy, and devoutly wishes to find a sense of Self, a ray of Sun, a slice of Truth. Above all, he longs to be freed from the shadows of the Original Sin and the fleshly desire it has sown within mankind. But a Man he is, and a Man he will always remain, eternally succumbing to the deeply human desire to melt into the Other and to disappear.
In MISSA HOMO SACER, a women’s choir and a violoncello player accompany a Man’s way to confession and repentance, as he steps into the Light and falls back into Darkness. At the same time, they blur the lines as he tries to find the right words to describe his sins, luring him back into a world of destructive erotic rituals as he asks forgiveness for his repeatedly failing attempts to live.
Concept, text, composition, set design: Timo Tembuyser
Costume design: Karlijn Krijger
Performance: Lena Stallinga (voice), Hélène Vrijdag (voice), Gerty Van de Perre (voice), Petra Ball (voice), Charlotte Dommershausen (voice), Job Greuter (violoncello), Timo Tembuyser
Thanks to: Romy Moons, Nelleke Kuipers, Lisse Knaapen, Bart Wolvekamp, FASHIONCLASH, Toneelacademie Maastricht
Photo: Pierre Hansen
4. I AM SAD
By Margreet Sweerts / Festival of Sadness
Lumière Cinema
Address: Bassin 88
– Friday, June 15, 21:50-22:10
Free entrance, full-is-full!
People aren’t crying because of weakness. They cry because they’ve been strong for too long.
A divers group of designers and performers is developing a space for sadness, as an antidote for the present societal pressure to be happy and UP, fueled by the need to be part of the fake digital thumbs up world. What do people need when they are sad and together in a public space? Does one feel like hiding or being noticed? Can your clothing comfort you? How do we wear sorrow?
The performance ‘I AM SAD’ is a preview of the Festival of Sadness (Verdrietfestival, Festival der Traurigkeit) that will take place autumn 2018 in the Euregio Maastricht/Aken from Sept 19th – Oct 7th.
This preview connects sadness with the theme of FASHIONCLASH Festival 2018 by giving The mater dolorosa (the sad mother Maria) a make-over.
‘the space of sadness’ will be a work in progress during opening hours of Lumière
Performance: Christina Fischer (vocals), Michael Ramisch (keys) Anthony van Gog (host)
Visuals: Saskia van Drimmelen (fashion designer), Desiree Hammen (visual artist) Tim Prins (architect) and Margreet Sweerts (director), Photo Pierre Hansen
Festival of Sadness is generously supported by Provincie Limburg, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Bankgiro Loterij Fonds
festivalofsadness.com
5. In our fountain
By Koen Verheijden, Kimberly Afua Agyarko & Roann Postma
Mosae Forum
Address: Mosae Forum 163
– Friday, June 15, 16:30-17:00
– Sunday, June 17, 13:00-13:30
Free entrance, full-is-full!
“I know a place
I know a place
I know a place
where we, we, we, we
and even you
Miss with the pretty lips
want to be, be, be, be”
———————————-
A performance about a place where there is room for much more.
Made and played by: Koen Verheijden, Kimberly Afua Agyarko en Roann Postma
Costumes: Julina Vanille Bezold
6. The Joker
By Anthony van Gog
The Student Hotel (Skybar)
Address: Sphinxcour 9A
– Saturday, June 16, 11:00-11:45
Free entrance, full-is-full!
“I’m just a joker telling you the laugh is extinct.” A joker is sad because he is no longer necessary in his kingdom. No one laughs about his jokes anymore. The only thing left for him to do is crying. Sad Joker!
A lament about desolation, isolation and alienation. A soundful performance in which the cry/the weep is deconstructed and packed in aesthetic forms and theatrical poses.
Thanks to Peter Missotten, Marc Zwietink, Naomi Steijger, Anna Luka da Silva, Maarten Heijnens and Luca Meisters.
Instagram: anthonyvangog
7. A First Vision Of Dying
By Anthony van Gog
The Student Hotel (Skybar)
Address: Sphinxcour 9A
– Saturday, June 16, 16:45
Free entrance, full-is-full!
A theatrical installation in which you walk into an interspace between living and dying. The installation results from a dream. A dream in which I died. This made me think about dreaming and dying and their connection. It’s a conversation between hope and desire; living and dying; the outside world and I; you and that point in which you will no longer be around anymore. Come and let ourselves dive into this limbo, this realm of nothingness, this space of reflection, this throat grabbing silence. I will be there in total stillness, waiting for you.
Thanks to Anna Luyten for the review on the texts and Peter Missotten for his helpful words.
8. THIS IS “and that is. And a bit of this and al lot of that “
By Luca Tichelman
Huis achter de Komedie
Address: Achter de komedie 1
– Friday, June 15, 15:00-15:15 | 15:45-16:00
– Saturday, June 16, 16:45-17:00 | 17:30-17:45
– Sunday, June 17, 12:35-12:50
Free entrance, full-is-full!
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” Patrick Rothfuss
‘THIS IS’ is a performance that plays with the beliefs concerning ‘identity’, a research into the intriguing differences of ‘being’ and its essence.
In association with Chiara Tichelman
Sound: Dikkie Baan
Web: lucatichelman.nl
Instagram: lucatichelman
9. Aan de andere kant
By Evalinde Lammers & Kimberley Agyarko
Centre Céramique
Address: Avenue Ceramique 50
– Saturday, June 16, 13:00-13:25
Free entrance, full-is-full!
Can I ask you something?
Can you see these clouds?
Two girls standing by a lake believing different things (or nothing?)
Trying to understand each other.
Trying to believe each other.
Trying to stand while everything is turning.
We’ve been living the same life in a different way.
We’ve been wondering about the other way.
Can I ask you something?
Can you see this reflection?
Instagram: kimberleyagyarko | evalindelammers
Mail: Kimbelyagyarko@gmail.com | Evajetses@hotmail.com
10. ORACLES
By Anna Luka Da Silva and Erik van de Wijdeven
LAB-Gebouw
Address: Lage Frontweg 2C
– Sunday, June 17, 12:30-13:30
Free entrance, full-is-full!
Anna Luka and Erik befriended each other at the Performance department of the theatre academy in Maastricht. Together they have created ‘ORACLES’:
A visual and physical performance about self-realization and spiritual escapism. A seemingly soapy one-man dialogue is situated precisely in an intricate light installation in an effort to sketch a surreal universe of banal absurdism and supernatural overtones.
Their mutual starting point is the body as a source of experience and knowledge, and cultures, traditions and belief-systems that ascribe it exceptional meanings.
A theatrical self-portrait as a lyrical homage to the (im)possibilities of personal growth, and the exotic means for it which are continually gaining popularity within our society.
An incarnated caricature of two highly sensitive hipsters.
Concept & text: Anna Luka da Silva & Erik van de Wijdeven
Performed by: Erik van de Wijdeven
Directed by: Anna Luka da Silva
Scenography: Erik van de Wijdeven
Many thanks to: United-C Eindhoven, De school van Gaasbeek, Hugo de Greef, Anna Luyten, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Maxime Dreessen, Anthony van Gogh and Timo Tembuyser.
Web: erikvandewijdeven.com | facebook.com/luka.dasilva.75
11. Day Dream Space
By Audrey Apers and Tim Scheffer
Centre Céramique
Address: Avenue Ceramique 50
– Friday, June 15th – Sunday, June 17, during opening hours of Centre Céramique
Free entrance, full-is-full!
“We love things we cannot fully grasp. We believe in our human desire for fantasy as a temporary retreat from reality.” This statement is used as a base in the creation of Day Dream Space, a project by Audrey Apers and Tim Scheffer. They are curious about the human activity of “daydreaming” and are translating this theme into an experience. The installation performance will evolve during a continuous creative research. Audrey Apers, as a performer and maker, and Tim Scheffer, as an installation designer will collaborate during this process and be in constant dialogue with each other in order to create. FASHIONCLASH will be an event in which they will use a prototype space to submerge visitors into their creation, which will help to develop the eventual space and performance. They are exploring the border between indoor and outdoor, and meeting people in a closed but porous space, inhabited by the performer.
Web: timscheffer.com
Instagram: day_dream_space
Day Dream Space is supported by ViaZuid
10. LUX
SALLY Dansgezelschap Maastricht / Martin Harriague & Mieke Kockelkorn
De Brandweerkantine
Address: Capucijnenstraat 21
– Friday, June 15, 16:00-16:30
– Saturday, June 16, 12:30-13:00
– Sunday, June 17, 13:30-14:00 + 15:30-16:00 + 18:45-19:15
Free entrance, full-is-full!
SALLY Dansgezelschap Maastricht presents LUX, a choreography by Martin Harriague in collaboration with Maastricht based fashion designer Mieke Kockelkorn. LUX, illuminance, draws its inspiration from the written word within religion. Nowadays in our individualistic society everyone chooses their own personal collection of words and symbols to represent who they are. They reflect their essential values for life, which surpass the boundaries of a religion. But do they illuminate who we really are?
LUX combines solos, duos and ensembles in an instinctive, abstract but meaningful dance, that is both sensual and exciting.
Choreography: Martin Harriague | Costumes: Mieke Kockelkorn | Performed by: Patrizio Bucci, Luis R. Pedraza Cedrón, Lea Giamattei, Pedro Ricardo Henry and Amy Greene | Production: SALLY Dansgezelschap Maastricht
Web: sallydansgezelschapmaastricht.nl
Instagram: sallydansgezelschapmaastricht
Design New Religion Project #1
June 16, SAM-Decorfabriek
Address: Meerssenerweg 215
– Saturday, June 16, 19:00-02:30
Design New Religion is a project, specially initiated for FASHIONCLASH Festival Two theatre makers are each connected to a fashion designer. Both duo’s have met for the very first time. They have been invited to talk about their fascinations, ideas and visions on the theme of Fashion My Religion!.
Photo: Jonas Löllmann
13. Noumenon
By Mami Izumi and Jivika Biervliet
‘Noumenon’ is the first collaboration between Fashion designer Jivika Biervliet and Dancer Mami Izumi. We have faced the theme of the festival as the life research.
The word ‘religion’ brought the idea of believe in understanding the way of life.
Life is an endless transformation and the search within.
And what we feel is our reality and what brings you happiness is very personal.
What we see in reality is what we believe in, the believing comes from your inner self; knowing your truth, standing for it and living that.
Turn inside. Recognize and express that which is exciting, standing for it and living that.
This performance will be a translation of the search within, The search for a meaning of life as a journey that is never staying in the same form.
Jivika Biervliet & Mami Izumi
Web: jivikabiervliet.com | www.mamiizumi.com
Instagram: jivikabiervliet | mami8383
Photos: Jonas Löllmann
Design New Religion Project #2
June 16, SAM-Decorfabriek
FASHIONCLASH 2017
14. RELIC
By Nora Ramakers and Johanna Hehemeyer-Cürten
OTHERNESS
Google describes otherness as the quality or fact of being different. For me otherness is about celebrating this quality and through this difference reflect on one’s own, or self. Fashion plays a big role in expressing and shaping otherness, both consciously as subconsciously. The way we look at each other and the way we see our self is greatly influenced by our surroundings and the gaze of the other.
Three outfits become one outfit. The multiplicity and the differences amongst this
multiplicity leads to a unity in which all of the qualities of the multiplicity shimmer through.