Fuck healing (?) - The Insomniac Dreamers

Ventilator Cinema // 10:00 // € 0 Fuck healing (?) - The Insomniac Dreamers Genre: Summer program Line up: Dr. Rick Dolphijn, Rocco Enzo Ter Haar Open: 10:00 - 22:00 hrs Tickets: € 0 Summer program of theory, creation and pleasure Program: 10.00 – 13.00 @ Ventilator cinema - OT301 Lecture - How to Endure the Pain? On The Wounded Life Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University and Sandberg Instituut) 15.00 – 18.00 @ Ventilator cinema - OT301 Workshops 20.00 – late @ Amsterdam canals Conceptual canal boat tour - Gut Feeling Rocco Enzo Ter Haar, Ege Yılmaztürk, Eric Peter, Bethany Crawford and Bogna Bochniska Program details: 10.00 – 13.00 How to Endure the Pain? On The Wounded Life Lecture Dr. Rick Dolphijn (Utrecht University and Sandberg Instituut) Both at the beginning of his career and at its end, Deleuze refers to the work of the poet Joe Bousquet. Starting from his phrase “my wound was there before me, I was born to embody it”, Dolphijn explores the ‘woundedness’ these authors are struggling with, and the relation this has to art and life. How to live life on the wound, and, how to live these lives beautifully? With examples from surrealists (from the 20th and the 21st centuries), we aim to explore what it means to endure the pain creatively, affirmatively. 15.00 – 18.00 Theatre of Drag: Healing, Action and Telenovela Clara Saito (Jacuzzi) The workshop invites people to participate in exploring themes such as dissociation, transformation, multiplicity of being/ characters and being a body and spirit in constant flexibility, which I believe is also a political way to experience the world.  It is also an exploration of how we can bring together theory and practice, thought and action, the body and mind, and use performance and theater as a transformative and political way of expressing and acting upon struggles, but all of it in drag. The project is informed by the Theatre of the Oppressed, a community-based technique developed by Augusto Boal, which uses improvisation exercises to help oppressed communities in Brazil find solutions to internal problems through active participation. The workshop includes creating characters, writing scripts, gathering social media content, performing for each other, and having discussions about the struggles the participants face in everyday life. The plan is to mix different tools and collect footage from the creation process and sketches to use in a final screening and live performance exhibition. 20.00 – late Gut Feeling Conceptual canal boat tour Rocco Enzo Ter Haar, Ege Yılmaztürk, Eric Peter, Bethany Crawford and Bogna Bochniska From the bowels of Amsterdam, four separate boat tours expand on collective storytelling. With each tour an own performer from a specific narrative stream, they sail via stories through the city's canals. These canals become the places of excretion and disposal of hegemonic histories, purging the way for new realities and futurities to be conceived of from the collective imaginary. From a being in rather than a look upon, the performers and participating public exchange stories and thoughts woven from the immediate surroundings and relationality with one another. The boat functions as a vessel for reimagined futures, whereas the canals are the pathways of an anarchist world wherein the unvoiced become forefront and echoed. Narratively guided and skippered with the Amsterdam based artists Rocco Enzo Ter Haar, Ege Yılmaztürk, Eric Peter, Bethany Crawford and Bogna Bochinska. More info on the Fuck Healing (?) website (https://www.fuckhealing.nl/home/the-insomniac-dreamers-2023/program) -- (Text and image) https://www.ot301.nl/agenda/13745