6 August 2023
Feminist School: Acoustic Encounters
Sounding Bodies/ Jacqueline Hamelink |
In a world filled with visual stimuli, we sometimes forget what listening can do. What happens when we connect listening and feeling? In this workshop, we explore research and training methods that underlie the development of Sounding Bodies.
Location
Zuiderpark/Het Uitzicht
Running time
120 min.
Genre
In het festivalhart, Ook voor de kleine beurs
This workshop is part of the creation process surrounding the research question: How can we make contact with our audience and let them experience new soundscapes by combining sound and touch?
As a performance artist, Jacqueline Hamelink, artistic director of Sounding Bodies, stands for the touch in the core of the artistic practice. Her work focuses on the creation of encounters that are characterised by attention and presence. As a classical musician, she searches for ways to narrow the distance between the audience and performer, which creates another experience and exposes an new dimension of music and sound. Hamelink teaches us a loving lesson in touch and show that consent is the centre of everything that happens.
The contribution and experience of the visitors is essential for the creation process of Acoustic Encounters that will be performed at Theaterfestival Boulevard in 2024.
This project is part of the European programme apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, in the frame of Feminist Futures Festival. A project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
This workshop of Acoustic Encounters is a project research of Sounding Bodies.
Concept and director Jacqueline Hamelink
Instruments and composition adviser Aart Strootman
Performance crew
Claire Adams, violin/vocals
Eilidth Martin, cello
Els Mondelaers, vocals
Judith Clijsters and Rosana Pinheiro, physical contact specialists.
