For the work 'Oude Kerk Untitled' (2015), Germaine Kruip removed all electric light sources in the church, causing the building to undergo a visible transformation into darkness at the end of the day. This moment of twilight, as well as Kruip's interest in geometry, mathematical patterns, abstract forms in religion and the perception of space and time, formed the basis for the scenography for four editions of Come Closer . Each month, the programme started exactly half an hour before sunset, giving each edition of this series a different starting time.
From the start of the programme, performance artist Luca Hillen and three to five co-performers walked large circles throughout the church, inviting visitors to join them - without saying so literally, but through movement. These continuous one-hour walks, in which many visitors participated and others preferred to watch, were an embodied experience in which the speed and manner of walking was determined by the dynamics of the group, like a flock of birds. Through repetition, a pattern emerged, giving space to look at the interior of the church again and again, as the surroundings gradually darkened. In the same hour, two other short interventions (performances or short readings) took place each time in different places in the church, mostly in the side rooms.
On 26 March, the programme consisted of a sound performance by artist Mehraneh Atashi in a small side space of the Oude Kerk, the Holy Sepulchre. Here, Atashi's synthesiser and VOC als by opera singer Shadi Fallah, humming a Kurdish lullaby, added a new layer to the continuous drone sounds of Germaine Kruip's The Entrance. The evening ended with a short and poetic reflection by philosopher and writer Patrick Healy in the High Choir.
| Artist | Mehraneh Atashi |
| Artist | Healy, Patrick |
| Curator | Rumping, Radna Iersel, Michiel van |
| Period | 26-03-2015 |
| Location | Noorderzijbeuk |
For the work 'Oude Kerk Untitled' (2015), Germaine Kruip removed all electric light sources in the church, causing the building to undergo a visible transformation into darkness at the end of the day. This moment of twilight, as well as Kruip's interest in geometry, mathematical patterns, abstract forms in religion and the perception of space and time, formed the basis for the scenography for four editions of Come Closer . Each month, the programme started exactly half an hour before sunset, giving each edition of this series a different starting time.
From the start of the programme, performance artist Luca Hillen and three to five co-performers walked large circles throughout the church, inviting visitors to join them - without saying so literally, but through movement. These continuous one-hour walks, in which many visitors participated and others preferred to watch, were an embodied experience in which the speed and manner of walking was determined by the dynamics of the group, like a flock of birds. Through repetition, a pattern emerged, giving space to look at the interior of the church again and again, as the surroundings gradually darkened. In the same hour, two other short interventions (performances or short readings) took place each time in different places in the church, mostly in the side rooms.
On 26 March, the programme consisted of a sound performance by artist Mehraneh Atashi in a small side space of the Oude Kerk, the Holy Sepulchre. Here, Atashi's synthesiser and VOC als by opera singer Shadi Fallah, humming a Kurdish lullaby, added a new layer to the continuous drone sounds of Germaine Kruip's The Entrance. The evening ended with a short and poetic reflection by philosopher and writer Patrick Healy in the High Choir.
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