Come Closer: Come Closer: Performance DNK Ensemble and Geometrical Performance Waèl el Allouche


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On 20 March, the programme consisted of two different performances; Waèl El Allouche in the Holy Sepulchre and Dnk Ensemble in the South Side aisle.

The DNK Ensemble's performance 'Snake and Ladders' addressed, among other things, how Germaine Kruip and Will Holder played Robert Ashley's composition The Entrance. The organ was played through a stack of coins skipping the black keys of the organ. The DNK Ensemble made both VOC al and visual references to various works in the exhibition, using actions, sound, ladders, pebbles and anecdotes by Seamus Cater, Koen Nutters, Stein Bråten and Will Holder. El Allouche is interested in how abstractions such as data and algorithms shape reality and vice versa. At the Oude Kerk, he responded to the ornaments in the so-called Holy Sepulcher with a projection of parts of Zumurrud Khatun's famous 13th-century tomb in Baghdad. Together with other performers, El Allouche also recited poems by medieval Persian scholar Omar Khayyam (1048-1131). In doing so, he showed what ideas about impermanence and immortality are expressed in different religions, using similar visual symbols and scientific means - such as the circle (movement) that puts us in touch with a higher power.

Come Closer was a series of educational performance programs in the Oude Kerk, developed in and around the specific artistic interventions inhabiting the space at the. Artists, musicians, researchers and visitors together explore an underexposed past, alternative versions of the present and possible futures. Curated by Radna Rumping, the Come Closers took the form of intimate evenings, where visitors and artists explore the sonic space of the Oude Kerk with dance, performance and deep listening exercises.

Performer DNK Ensemble  Waèl El Allouche 
Curator Rumping, Radna  Iersel, Michiel van  
Period 20-02-2016
Location Noorderzijbeuk
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Come Closer: Come Closer: Performance DNK Ensemble and Geometrical Performance Waèl el Allouche

On 20 March, the programme consisted of two different performances; Waèl El Allouche in the Holy Sepulchre and Dnk Ensemble in the South Side aisle.

The DNK Ensemble's performance 'Snake and Ladders' addressed, among other things, how Germaine Kruip and Will Holder played Robert Ashley's composition The Entrance. The organ was played through a stack of coins skipping the black keys of the organ. The DNK Ensemble made both VOC al and visual references to various works in the exhibition, using actions, sound, ladders, pebbles and anecdotes by Seamus Cater, Koen Nutters, Stein Bråten and Will Holder. El Allouche is interested in how abstractions such as data and algorithms shape reality and vice versa. At the Oude Kerk, he responded to the ornaments in the so-called Holy Sepulcher with a projection of parts of Zumurrud Khatun's famous 13th-century tomb in Baghdad. Together with other performers, El Allouche also recited poems by medieval Persian scholar Omar Khayyam (1048-1131). In doing so, he showed what ideas about impermanence and immortality are expressed in different religions, using similar visual symbols and scientific means - such as the circle (movement) that puts us in touch with a higher power.

Come Closer was a series of educational performance programs in the Oude Kerk, developed in and around the specific artistic interventions inhabiting the space at the. Artists, musicians, researchers and visitors together explore an underexposed past, alternative versions of the present and possible futures. Curated by Radna Rumping, the Come Closers took the form of intimate evenings, where visitors and artists explore the sonic space of the Oude Kerk with dance, performance and deep listening exercises.

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