FIBER hosts two events on the 75th anniversary of Holland Festival
One of The Netherlands’ largest performing arts festivals takes place in June in various locations in Amsterdam. We are happy to share the news that FIBER will also contribute to Holland Festivals’s extensive programme, by hosting a workshop and a panel. Both programmes are focusing on water bodies; how can we amplify their voices, how can humans listen to them and ultimately, how do we intertwine ourselves with them?
Workshop: The All Rivers and Species Act
The workshop ‘The All Rivers And Species Act’ is a fresh project by artist Jemma Woolmore, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Nayeli Vega, Jenny Handley and Lily Mccraith. It was born during FIBER’s worldbuilding lab Weaving With Worlds, which took place during the lockdown summer of 2021. For the Holland Festival, a special collaboration within the workshop has been developed with HF resident artist Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha.
Participants are given the opportunity to experience being-with and making-with the local bodies of water in Amsterdam. Working artistically and sometimes speculatively to create stories, rights and water spirits for rivers. This workshop explores, through artistic methods - from sound recordings to rethinking regulations - the possibility of amplifying and empowering non-human voices.
Can we develop new, collective ways of listening to, or sensing rivers? Are there legal personhood rights to be given to non-human life? Join this full day of (un)learning, listening, and exploring.
June 15 or June 16 (one-day workshop given twice) – 10:00 till 19:00
Standard ticket €10,00
Ticket incl. lunch €25,00
Panel: Watery Voices, Feminist Perspectives
On Saturday 18 June, the The All Rivers and Species Act Group and Gabriela Carneiro will return to Holland Festival to join the discussion on the final day of ‘Manifesto for the living in a time of extinction’, an multi-day programme on climate change. Also joining this panel is artist Sissel Marie Tonn. Together, they shed light on voices of water bodies, their inhabitants and hydro-feminism.
Through artistic research, feminist knowledge and the application of digital technology, this group of artists and researchers works on alternative worlds in which the interweaving of humans, water and other non-human entities are central. With their work, they give space to speculative dialogues on the voices and rights of the non-humans.
June 18 – from 13:30
Free (registration required)
About Holland Festival
Holland Festival is the largest international performing arts festival of the Netherlands and one of the oldest festivals of Europe. The festival was established in 1947 and will celebrate its 75-year anniversary in 2022. It takes place every year, In June, in and around Amsterdam, at various locations, both indoors and outdoors, both large-scale and intimate, both online and offline.
Still from Becoming A Sentinel Species (2020) by Sissel Marie Tonn