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Orange Rest/Sacrifice

Orange Rest

The Orange Rest/Sacrifice” offers a Vitamin Boost and the possibility to rest and rejuvenate. Facilitated as a simple station to take a break from hectic life, oranges get prepared to be juiced by a curious visitor, resting on them. The Oranges may choose amongst themselves which one will be sacrificed ( the ones that crack open). Accompanied by softly performed whistling, a present guide imitates bird sound to help the oranges to move about, as in many cultures the bird is a psychopomp helping to overcome thresholds, from life into death. Meanwhile the rest, a juice will be prepared for the visitor.

“The Orange Rest/Sacrifice” is a former form, originally designed by Toni Steffens and Sigrid Stigsdatter for their work “Spinner”. Reflecting on the economy and after lives of performance materials, former forms acts as a recycling and reanimation method for practices, thoughts, such as concrete materials and staged scenes.

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Booking info:

The installation is ongoing and interactive, suitable for indoors and outdoors. It is accessible to people with limited movability with the support of a caretaker. The oranges have to be organised on location.

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Credits:

Concept development: Toni Steffens and Sigrid Stigsdatter

Performance development: Toni Steffens

Production and Support: Picnic Pavillon Venice, QRU Amsterdam, Fraslab Frascati Amsterdam, Dansmakers Amsterdam, 2019, Pact Zollverein Ateliers 2022

     

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Silvia Susanna, 2019 Venice, Picnic Pavillon

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Rosella Damiani, 2019 Venice, Picnic Pavillon
Silvia Susanna, 2019 Venice, Picnic Pavillon

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Comflictidy 
A Comflictidy may be a residing, state or thing at the intersection of commodity, conflict and comfort. Stimulated by the need to generate a space to escape, comflictidies typically produce a reflectional echo, recalling the conflicts they partially stem from. Confronted by that echo, usually presented in temporary, mental blockages of the user, a sort of  psychic and somatic dead-end sensation occurs, similar to a foggy wall, both dazing the user’s perspective and at the same time, hinting at the pre-conditional root discomfort or conflicts. On an advantageous note, most Comflictidies potentially operate both as an experienced limitation, and at the same time offer a place to rest, hesitate or contemplate. Comflictidies are not particularly enjoyable places, but function as a provisory shelter from live challenges too big to understand or too dynamic to move along with. Comflictidies can occur within artistic practices, in spatial design, in escapism, therapy sessions and in the finalising moments of procrastination. Comflictidies have been referred to as a double sided sword bending in retrovers, where the user is not just holding but simultaneously balancing on it, like on a thin line, unable to find proper quiet or precise insight of how to move on ( Metaphor).

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Weaving Passages for the momentous

An Attendee

Orange Rest/Sacrifice

Spinner

Metamotion for 270degrees

Hope, Test

Night Flying Project

Movement

delineations

Unfamiliarities

DATES/ NEWS

2-3/09/2023: "Line,lo0sing line", Research Presentation at Oldenaller, commissioned by Fransien van der Putt, working with the archive of painter Claartje Berger
3-5/07/2023: Research residency at Oldenaller, commissioned by Fransien van der Putt, working with the archive of painter Claartje Berger
23/06/2023: "THE FATE CAST / IN THE SEARCH / OF FOUR PETALS", during " Even in the dark I know I am sleeping with myself" at Perdu Amsterdam, Collaboration with Mercedes Azpilicueta
24/05/2023: "SPRING WOUNDS" as part of the warp, a shared evening at KUNSTKAPEL, AMSTERDAM
14/04/2023: "ORANGE REST/ SACRIFICE", ATELIERS PACT ZOLLVEREIN, ESSEN
30/03/2023: "WEAVING PASSAGES FOR THE MOMENTOUS", Extra Intra Reader #2 :A SLIGHT BREATH, editors HARRIET FOYSTER, ROSIE HAWARD, NELL SCHWAN, editorial board for  intercurricular Programmes, GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMY, SAN SERIFFE, AMSTERDAM 2023
10/11/2022:  "HOPE,TEST- A STRATEGY OF PERFORMATIVE MEMORIES", PUBLISHER: 4BID GALLERY AMSTERDAM
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: "SPINAL CATASTROPHE" RESEARCH PROJECT, SUPPORTED BY NEUSTART KULTUR, #TAKE HEART, PACT ZOLLVEREIN, BERLIN/AMSTERDAM, RESEARCH
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2022: DRAMATURGY FOR ELVAN TEKIN, TANZFABRIK BERLIN
08/07/2022: "THE FATE CAST / IN THE SEARCH / OF FOUR PETALS", DURING "CHANGE FEELING" , COLLABORATION WITH MERCEDES AZPILICUETA, VANABBE MUSEUM EINDHOVEN  
02+03/07/2022: "ON J0YFUL MILITANCY", PERFORMING FOR MERCEDES AZPILICUETA, ROZENSTRAAT, AMSTERDAM
19/05/2022: "SPINNER" PREMIER AT FLAM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM
08/05/2022: "AN ATTENDEE" MANDALA FESTIVAL, WROCLAV
14/03-04/04: RESIDENCY AT WORKSPACE BRUSSELS

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Salomes dress is so transparent that she doesn’t understand anymore where her dress ends and her skin starts. It seems almost she is wearing a double skin protecting the irritated and itchy surface of her thies and belly. Salome has scabies. (...)