Mat(t)er
performance
2022
In search for a cyclical and maternal experience of time
A mother and child are cave archeologists, excavating each other's memories and fantasies of care. Weisstub will focus mainly on exploring the physicality of grasping and releasing re-enacted memories of care with the performers. Grasping a memory and grasping another body. Releasing as awakening from a fantasy; releasing as letting go of grip or letting go of dependency.The presentation lasts about an hour.
After the public sharing you can stay for a drink at our BAU minibar.
Work by: Tchelet Pearl WeisstubCollaborating artists Performance: Danielle van Vree, Loki Noordegraaf, Claire Philippart, Edward Lloyd Light and Kinetic sculptures: Oded Rimon Music: Haian Arshied Photographey: Peter Franken Video editing: Yitzhak Mizrahi Produced and shared at BAU AIR Amsterdam.
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Work by: Tchelet Pearl WeisstubCollaborating artists Performance: Danielle van Vree, Loki Noordegraaf, Claire Philippart, Edward Lloyd Light and Kinetic sculptures: Oded Rimon Music: Haian Arshied Photographey: Peter Franken Video editing: Yitzhak Mizrahi Produced and shared at BAU AIR Amsterdam.
HAWAII - Escaping the Inevitable -SEOUL
Performance ,
video installation
2022
| “Hawaii” is a metaphor for a fantasy vacation and the artist issues the topic of the elderly’s vacation. In the work, vacation is revealed 1. As a commodification of free time, 2. As a commodification of the experience of being in nature, 3. As the achievement prize of being a hard worker in a predominant financial structure, 4. As a space of fantasy, 5. As a collection of memorie. By linking this point with the “restriction of the body” that occurs in the process of aging, the artist constitutes an experience in which young and the elderly share their worries and thoughts, communicate and care for each other. Going through a pandemic period in which social relationships were inevitably more segregated, Weisstub once again realized the importance of intergenerational exchanges while witnessing various manifestations of “vulnerability.” In Hawaii - Inevitable Escape - Seoul, she creates hybrids between young and old, the past and the future, forcing them to inhabit the same space “together.” By incorporating the structure of meeting, communication, and caring for the elderly and young in her work, she confronted the audience with their future selves and provides an opportunity to think about blindspots that we have not experienced. With this work, everyone, including the audience, could discuss “our future” together. Credits Director·Choreographer: Tchelet Pearl Weisstub Live Music & Soundscape Composer: bela Performers: Kang Min Kim·Sang Dong Kim·Min Kyoung Kwon·Su Kyung Yoo Kinetic Machines: Stan Wannet Curator: Sun A Moon Production Team: Sun A Moon·Mijoo Park Hosted & Organized & Produced by Space AfroAsia Supported by Arts Council Korea·International Partnership in Support of Arts Creation·DutchCulture Centre for International Cooperation Cooperated with Post Territory Ujeongguk Graphic Designer: Dokho Shin Coordinator·Translator: E Joung Seo Cinematographers: CHE Onejoon & Yitzhak Mizrahi http://spaceafroasia.com/tpw.html |
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SALOME
Performance 2021‘How red those petals are! They are like blood stains on the cloth. That does not matter. It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. It were better to say that stains of blood are as lovely as rose petals.’ (Oscar Wilde, 1891 Salom)
Salome is an accompanying 25 minute durational performance to Silent Gallop which reinterprets the story of Salome through looped actions. Featuring the accumulating destruction of plaster cast heads of John the Baptist by three performers, with a live original musical accompaniment by Haian Arshid.
The performance reflects on our collective cultural memory of barbarism.
Performers : William Dashwood, Fried Mertens, Luc Van Esch, Haian Arshied
Music : Haian Arshied
Construction : Oded Rimon , Stephan Kuderna, and Otakar Zwartjes
Prop Making : Chaja Hertog
Electronics : Kees Reedj
Print: Yitzhak Mizrahi
Special thank you to Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, and the head of the Library and Collection Marietta Dirker.
Veem Theater , Unverifiable reality events, Amsterdam NL.
Salome is an accompanying 25 minute durational performance to Silent Gallop which reinterprets the story of Salome through looped actions. Featuring the accumulating destruction of plaster cast heads of John the Baptist by three performers, with a live original musical accompaniment by Haian Arshid.
The performance reflects on our collective cultural memory of barbarism.
Performers : William Dashwood, Fried Mertens, Luc Van Esch, Haian Arshied
Music : Haian Arshied
Construction : Oded Rimon , Stephan Kuderna, and Otakar Zwartjes
Prop Making : Chaja Hertog
Electronics : Kees Reedj
Print: Yitzhak Mizrahi
Special thank you to Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, and the head of the Library and Collection Marietta Dirker.
Veem Theater , Unverifiable reality events, Amsterdam NL.
HAWAII - Escaping the Inevitable
Site-specific experience
2014
After coming back from a two week vacation in St. Jacob home for the elderly. We created "Hawaii" = a three-stage site-specific experience. First part was in Dokzall: A performance based on our interpretations of the time we spend at St. Jacob, Second was a walk with the audience to the third part where we entered a concert that had already started in St. Jacob home for the elderly Amsterdam. For “HAWAII” I created mechanical apparatuses that imitate the constraints that elderly bodies endure. Two young body’s : one was wearing motors that we’re shaking, and the other was wearing wire springs shortening the muscles and pulling the body towards the ground. The young body’s wearing the constraints of elderly bodies, exemplified how in the Inevitable process of aging our efficiency deteriorates. Thus the work revolted against social values that are defined by productivity and speed.
29 : "what is your ultimate vacation?"
95 : "To fall asleep and not wake up"
Hoping to hear a more hopeful answer, 29 asked again: "Where would you like to go on a vacation?"
95 replied: "My life is a Constant vacation, I don’t work anymore."
29 : "All expenses paid, It doesn't have to be realistic, you can go with whoever to where ever. Where would you go?"
95 : "Why should I imagine something I cannot do?" and “A vacation is about sharing time with a loved one and all my friends have died”.
On stage; Maja Engelsman, Jan Reints, Gertjan Franciscus future and myself.
Partner in crime, Advisor, stage design: Miguel Angel Melgares,
Partner in crime spiritual guide: Gertjan FranciscusAdvisor,
Music Composer: Yamila Ríos,
Organ playing and Arrangement: yuval reuben Machines,
Stan Wannet, Machines advice: Itamar mendes Flohr,
Advisor: Siegmar Zacharias,
Production: Lisa Reinheimer,
Stage construction: Cedric Daoud,
Technical advice: Rein Hartog.
First part was in Dokzall Amsterdam, Second part at St. Jacob Home for the elderly Amsterdam, created in Das-Arts Amsterdam.
29 : "what is your ultimate vacation?"
95 : "To fall asleep and not wake up"
Hoping to hear a more hopeful answer, 29 asked again: "Where would you like to go on a vacation?"
95 replied: "My life is a Constant vacation, I don’t work anymore."
29 : "All expenses paid, It doesn't have to be realistic, you can go with whoever to where ever. Where would you go?"
95 : "Why should I imagine something I cannot do?" and “A vacation is about sharing time with a loved one and all my friends have died”.
On stage; Maja Engelsman, Jan Reints, Gertjan Franciscus future and myself.
Partner in crime, Advisor, stage design: Miguel Angel Melgares,
Partner in crime spiritual guide: Gertjan FranciscusAdvisor,
Music Composer: Yamila Ríos,
Organ playing and Arrangement: yuval reuben Machines,
Stan Wannet, Machines advice: Itamar mendes Flohr,
Advisor: Siegmar Zacharias,
Production: Lisa Reinheimer,
Stage construction: Cedric Daoud,
Technical advice: Rein Hartog.
First part was in Dokzall Amsterdam, Second part at St. Jacob Home for the elderly Amsterdam, created in Das-Arts Amsterdam.
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AFTER HOPE סימן חיים
إ شارة حياة
Mocumentory sci-fi theatrical installation.
2015
In the year 2015 Aliens come to Jerusalem to interview teenagers about the future. The aliens attempt to evoke a new kind of hope, by creating a meeting point /confrontation between teenagers that ordinarily don't meet because of Jerusalem segregated school system.
A hope that addresses the unhopeful view of the teenagers in the show.
Suggesting that perhaps : "When we stop believing in a better future, we open up towards a paradigm shift".
Interdisciplinary collaboration:
Dermatology : Vered Abutbul,
Stage and light : Yonatan Ward and Gil Adam,
Video : Izek Mizrahi,
Music: Sachi Piro,
Assistant Director : Smadar Tsook,
Onstage: Lina Bder, Sachi Piro 7 Jerusalem teens and myself.
Production of PAA - performance art arena Jerusalem. Artistic director: Guy Biran..
A hope that addresses the unhopeful view of the teenagers in the show.
Suggesting that perhaps : "When we stop believing in a better future, we open up towards a paradigm shift".
Interdisciplinary collaboration:
Dermatology : Vered Abutbul,
Stage and light : Yonatan Ward and Gil Adam,
Video : Izek Mizrahi,
Music: Sachi Piro,
Assistant Director : Smadar Tsook,
Onstage: Lina Bder, Sachi Piro 7 Jerusalem teens and myself.
Production of PAA - performance art arena Jerusalem. Artistic director: Guy Biran..
