jan
26
zo
2025
Oxygen Debt
Visitors gather in groups of 26 for a philosophical spinning class. Through his work, writer and theater maker Bart van de Woestijne creates spaces to think and experience in which he, together with the audience, attempts to grapple with life’s big questions.
Each participant receives a heart-rate monitor that is connected to a speaker, so everyone’s heartbeat can be heard loud and clear. And then you start pedaling, led by the seemingly tireless fitness instructor Luit Bakker. As the heartbeats predictably accelerate, and everyone approaches their physical limits, you inevitably find yourself contemplating deeper matters: movement and stillness, strength and vulnerability, the finite and the infinite. Can you accept that your body is uncontrollable? That it might not even be yours at all?”
Regie & concept: Bart van de Woestijne, spel: Luit Bakker, dramaturgie: Maarten Bos, sounddesign: Tjalling Schrik, productie: Nikita Oldert, Joanne van de Woestijne, artistieke begeleiding: Alexandra Broeder, technisch ontwerp: Casper Wortmann, co-productie:Over het IJ & Festival CEMENT, foto: Nikki Sluiter, Afke van Ast
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31
vr
2025
A disconnected machine sits in a small, cold garage in the centre of Berlin.
Waiting. Alone.
Until light finds its metal skin. Eyes, an audience. No script, no one asking anything of it.
And yet, it begins to move.
What drives a machine to create? Where does autonomy begin—and where does it break down?
In Drawn, an industrial object slowly becomes something else—
something that searches, hesitates, fails,
feels?
A performance about art, mechanics, and the fragile boundary between the human and the artificial.
Until it can no longer continue.
Perhaps it is your presence that allows it to begin again.
Abonneer