PAWS - Performance Art Workshop Sessions

18 of July in Amsterdam

Open to everyone who feels triggered to experience performance in process!

Artists Kamilla Wolszczak, ieke Trinks, and Nina Boas will each give short workshop sessions on the 18th of July, 2019, in Amsterdam.

The workshops are sharings on how each of the artists work with objects in performance, resulting in two evenings with a diverse mix of performance art approaches. This workshop is open to anyone who wants to get acquainted with performance art in general, but also for those who are experienced it is an opportunity to explore different methods.

How to sign up: send an email to info@performanceartevent.nl, or go to the eventbrite link. For more info and questions send an email to info@performanceartevent.nl

€15,- starting price for each session. After the sessions we will ask you to consider making a donation.

Location: H.J.E. Wenckebachweg 144

Time: 19:00 - 22:00

Website: performanceartevent.nl

Kamila Wolszczak

Workshop title: Space recording

Theme: Awareness and senses of object

Duration: 30 min

Workshop statement:

The workshop focuses on transforming objects by the movements and tempo of the body. The main material to work with are sticky tapes and their sticky surface and sounds, and the way to record the present. We are going to experience space without watching.

Kamila Elżbieta Wolszczak de Loo, born in unique eastern part of Poland in 1988, currently is based in Amsterdam. She is a performance artist with a visual arts background, an art mediator, and initiator of artistic grassroots projects. She has a BFA degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, and an MFA degree in Art Mediation from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław.

Wolszczak creates projects about relations between a viewer, artist and space using performance art, installations, painting, and drawing. The main topics of her projects are time recording, motion, relations, sound, and process of transformation.

Since 2014 Wolszczak forms with Katarzyna Dominika Borkowska the artistic duo PARAperformance that focuses on sisterhood relations and audience participation in performance.

https://www.facebook.com/paraperformancepara/

https://issuu.com/kamilaelbieta/docs/portfolio_paraperformance_2018

Nina Boas

Workshop title: The extended body (suggestion)

Theme: The object as collaborator (suggestion)

Duration: 30 min

Workshop statement:

Boas is interested in the performativity of objects, and what abilities material objects have on their own, but also how they are, or become, our ‘collaborators’. Boas is fascinated by the extended body through the use of objects and how they transform the human shape and our movement. In her recent work Boas has been working on the idea of the veil. She’s been thinking about the different kinds of materials that can function as veils and for a performer to be used such as to manipulate it.

Boas (1980 Saumur, France) lives and works in Amsterdam. She graduated in 2003 from the art academy AKI (ArtEZ) in Enschede, and recently in 2016 received a master’s degree from the DAStheater (formally known as DasArts). She has a visual arts background and developed a practice in performance art and gradually came into the theater circuit. In 2012 she made an object theater production for the Feikeshuis. Boas is co-founder and co-director of PAE (Performance art event) and forms with ieke Trinks, Nathalie Smoor, Barbara Ellison, and Marielle Verdijk the performance ensemble TRICKSTER.

www.ninaboas.com

ieke Trinks

Workshop title: Speaking objects

Theme: Understanding objects

Duration: 30 min

Workshop statement:

Objects invite us to act. Objects are task related. Objects tell us what to do. Objects can be read as if we read a score, like a set of written instructions. During the workshop we are going to explore what impulses objects give to us. How does it activate our bodies. How do we react to them? What do they tell us?

ieke Trinks (1977, NL), is a visual artist working and living in Rotterdam, and who has performed at venues in Europe, South America, the USA, and Canada. Her live art is made manifest in different ways. As a solo performer, she has run through a large stack of copy paper and tossing it into the air. In another performance she used her breath to blow dry a piece of tissue paper. For Trinks performance art sometimes shares characteristics with the musical score. In other live actions she has solicited audience involvement. She once emptied the bag of an audience member by placing the items carefully onto the floor of a gallery space in Brazil. Trinks co-organizes PAE (Performance Art Event) and works in collaboration with the performance troupe, TRICKSTER.

ieketrinks.nl