Body in Revolt

BODY IN REVOLT
Curated by: Bogomir Doringer and Arad Inbar (ICK)

“The body is a curious and revelatory body, and above all a social body that is sensitive to changes in society”
Emio Greco | Pieter C.Scholten

Why do we dance? What do you dance for? What is your dance about?
This 1st edition of Body in Revolt is focused on club culture as an initiator of changes, as a form of activism, as an artistic expression where dancing is seen as an urgency in times of socio-political crisis. With a diverse panel of guest-speakers, we gather to address such urgency through the moving and inspiring narratives of Jazar Krew from Palestine, MAMBA NEGRA and LYZZA from Brazil/Netherlands, Tijana T Tijana Todorovic from Serbia, White Noise Movement თეთ ი ხმაუ ის მოძ აობა and BASSIANI from Georgia.

Club Culture has always been a source of artistic inspiration, therefore, we invited international performance artists who use the body as a medium with works that resonate with the topics of the day. Rodrigo Sobarzo, Federica Dauri, Kiril Bikov and Julian Weber invite the viewers, through their performances, to engage and experience the occupied body, the social body, the body in crisis: the Body in Revolt.

Arad Inbar, a dancer at ICK ensemble, invited artist and curator Bogomir Doringer to co-curate a program sourced in the experience of clubbing and rave culture. The event is inspired by the concept Body in Revolt of Emio Greco and Pieter C.Scholten, ICK founders and artistic directors, and by Bogomir’s I Dance Alone, ongoing PhD research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Body in Revolt is a special event organised in collective force with Playground ADE, ICK Amsterdam and Deep Focus. The program will be hosted in the dynamic space of Mediamatic specially adjusted by artist Nikola Knežević. To embody the day experience, a queer-techno after party will follow in collaboration with SPIELRAUM x BASSIANI: Body in Revolt ▽ ADE at club RADION Amsterdam. The main stage will be hosted by Dagny Polly F and specially feature Héctor Oaks, Zitto, Ndrx from BASSIANI. Our guest speaker Cashu from MAMBA NEGRA and KI/KI will burn De Bovenkamer down.

Join us for a collective dance!

Delicious food and drinks will be available during the event.
#BODYINREVOLT
#WEDANCETOGETHER


PROGRAM:
TALKS
-Introduction and welcoming by Jesse Vanhoeck, Arad Inbar and Bogomir Doringer

Creation Under Occupation:

In July this year, Boiler Room was going live from Ramallah in Palestine. It reached one of highest rankings from all the episodes of the Boiler Room. The whole world could witness for the first time the youth of Palestine empowering itself through dance and music. This is precisely goal of Jazar Crew movement whose founders will be our guests.
Speakers:
Ayed Fadel and Rojeh Khleif(Jazar Crew)
Moderated by Bogomir Doringer

If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution:

Restrictive political systems and social hypocrisy are giving birth to new parties, concepts and groups. The new youth is organizing itself from a dance floor, in demand of recognition and free spaces in which the curatorial agenda addresses political urgencies. We will hear perspectives from Brazil, Netherlands and Serbia.
Speakers:
Cashu and Laura Diaz (MAMBA NEGRA)
LYZZA
Tijana T
Moderated by Lucia Fernandez-Santoro

We Dance Together:

In May 2018, several thousand of ravers gathered in the heart of Tbilisi to protest the police raid on two of the city’s most popular clubs, Gallery and famous Bassiani. The protest consisted of dancing for two days in front of the parliament. It was led by the White Noise Movement and it quickly gained the support of communities worldwide. We Dance Together, We Fight Together became the slogan of this rave-o-lution.
Speakers:
Introduction by Mirik Milan, founder of Night Mayor Movement
Paata Sabelashvili@i (White Noise Movement)
Naja Orashvilii (BASSIANI)
Giorgi Kikonishvili (BASSIANI)
Moderated by Bogomir Doringer


PERFORMANCES:

Federica Dauri (IT/DE) and Kiril Bikov(BG/DE)
Corpus mobile
50 razor-sharp knives hanging above a laying body: how do you move? How do you breathe? The oppressed body finds alternatives to its limitations.

Rodrigo Sobarzo AuTismo Incorporado (CL/NL)
esTuarino & mUseo de AguA
Through a solo and a group piece, Rodrigo’s work explores the power of individual and collective power. The bodie(s) synchronize with their spatial context and surrounding bodies.
Audience will be taken by collective repetitive movement leading to a state of trance and empowerment.

Julian Weber
Performed by: Antonia Steffens (DE/NL)
The Opening
In this performative installation, makeup wounds are painted on a naked body. This accumulation of wounds over a long period of time creates a shifting scenery between explicit violence, abstraction, naivety and terrifying beauty.
For some, this bruised body is artificial or mainly present in the media, while for others, it is a reality and result of a social and political struggle. Through the visual modification of the skin, the traditional nude figure is deconstructed and new openings into the body are proposed.

DEEP FOCUS presents FILMS:
AYED- PALESTINIAN UNDERGROUND- Jan Beddegenoodts

MOVING TEHRAN- Shoresh Kalantari

RAVING TBILISI- Jan Beddegenoodts

MUSIC:
DJ set by Jazar Krew

Credits:

Curators:
Bogomir Doringer
Arad Inbar


Production:
Lucia Fernandez-Santoro
Sanne Liebregts

Communication/PR:
Ruben Theunissen

Video and visual communication by:
Rafael Kozdron

Music in the video:
Goodbye Now by Ghosts

Photography:
Alwin Poiana

Dancer in the video:
Sedrig Verwoert@

Spielraum team:
Sven Bijma
Diego Meijers
Thomas Vandewalle

Special thanks to: Josine Neyman, Maritska Witte, Jos de Putter, Maaike Hommes, Willem Velthoven, Jans Possel, Sofia Milman

Supported/sponsored by: ICK, ADE Playground, Stichting Mediamatic, Deep Focus, ADE Green 2018