What does it mean to be human today? To explore that question, director Susanne Kennedy and multimedia artist Markus Selg take one woman's life as their starting point for ANGELA (a strange loop).
YouTube influencer Angela is followed from her birth to her death and beyond. The journey takes her, together with her close relations, through everyday situations: illness and recovery, waking and sleeping, being born and giving birth, aging and death.
With a multimedia approach Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg explore the new balance of power that exists between bodies, technical objects and machines. ANGELA (a strange loop) takes us on a deep dive into the question of identity and consciousness. Because all the dialogues have been pre-recorded, a subtle gap is created between what’s true and what’s true and false. And where is Angela, in her bedroom, or rather in a tv-studio? The hypothesis is that she is made up of millions of experiences and that some of those were not even her own. Angela might ultimately be just a strange loop, an endless sequence.
‘I like to flirt with the aesthetics of science-fiction, where one place can contain several layers of meaning. We shift from reality to the supernatural, we live in a world, then in another. Dream? Reality? Parallel worlds where one event can be experienced by different people, and thus played by different actors. I’m fascinated by this kind of sensory confusion, which challenges our conception of reality…’
- Susanne Kennedy
"What is still real, what is fake? Those who step into the dreamlike logic will discover a radical and visionary work that is nothing like anything you have ever seen before."
- The Standard ★★★★
Note!
This performance uses stroboscopic lighting.
The performance begins with a small intervention by 'elder' Ernestine Comvalius.
dates
Wed June 7 2023 8:00 PM
Thu June 8 2023 8:00 PM
Fri June 9 2023 8:00 PM
prices
- default from € 31
- CJP/student/scholar € 12
information
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English surtitles: Dutch
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1 hour 40 minutes (zonder pauze)
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© Julian Röder
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© Julian Röder
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© Julian Röder
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© Julian Röder
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Susanne Kennedy, director Markus Selg, stage design
© Bea Borgers
