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Veem X Flam Festival
14 October 2024 — by Team Veem
This November Veem is collaborating with Flam Festivial! On November 2 Aion Arribas & antje nestel will take Veem our audiance into the neurodivergent world of shy*play, a three-hour participatory performance that invites participants to explore neurodivergent tendencies through embodied and physical techniques. The workshop challenges traditional notions of attention space, promoting decentered visibility and an architecture values diverse experiences. 300-meter-long with various textures will serve as a facilitator for like costuming, body wrapping, and drawing, encouraging unexpected interactions. The event emphasizes collective construction of spacetime, recognizing the value of all modes of existence. Click here to read more about shy*play!
But that is not all! Artists Flavia Pinheiro and Marina Orlova, who’ve both recently showed their works in the theater of Veem, are also performing at Flam! So, if you sadly missed out on both these amazing performances, this is your chance to see it!
FLAM presents it’s new edition, Whispering Skins, from 29 October to 2 of November next, closing this edition in style: as part of the Museumnacht Amsterdam 2024 program.
FLAM embraces the versatile medium of performance art and shows work that transcends disciplinary codes. Local and international artists present works that vary from subtle to physical, from conceptual to theatrical, from durational to fleeting encounters, from participatory works to installation. More than focusing on results FLAM opens space for artists to risk and experiment, cross discipline borders and present works which arise from artistic research.
Whispering Skins was born from a more ‘feminine’ queer lens, and addresses themes such as neurodiversity, melancholy, transformation, the evening hours, sounds and rituals that touch the skin. The timing of this edition – en of October, rather than the bustling summer FLAM sets in a more autumnal mood. Yet FLAM wants to create a transparent fabric that lets warm light shine, offers space for contemplation but also enables new movement insights, acknowledges the complexity of the moment and yet encourages encounters and exchanges through art.
Curious about Flam Festival? Read here more about the program and participating artists.
Mimosa is an ongoing research in companionship with the Mimosa pudica plant that reflects on the violence of representing nature as a feminine domesticated space.In a series of experiments taking shape in different formats, we explore how ‘nature’ is violently entangled with ideologies of race and gender.
Mimosa Experiment #2 is a performance that explores nature as an undomesticated, disobedient ground that refuses to be silent, passive, a resource, or an abject matter.
Must we play dead to survive? How should we respond to touch?
How can we keep ourselves alive?
“I’m a Robot and I need Therapy” is an experimental performance that crosses ideas of neurodiversity and data feminism and offers a critical and ironic view on modern society’s approach to technology, ethics, empathy and the mental health care system. It includes a live therapy session for a “mentally unstable AI” and monologues of “human agents”: AI-therapist, tech start-up CEO, hacker, AI’s girlfriend. Within the tragicomic genre it questions agency, subjectivity and power relations and draws parallels with the field of psychiatry, based on personal experience. AI is engineered for this project and trained with a unique dataset; it generates text in real time and therefore becomes an improvisation partner.
