Forum of Live Art Amsterdam 2017
May 30, 31, June 1 from 7:30 Pm
June 2, 3 from 8 PM
Arti et Amicitiae (Rokin, 112) and Frascati Theater (Nes, 71)
From May 30 to June 3, 2017 FLAM presents a week of ongoing experimental Live Art presentations, featuring a program of cross-disciplinary and radically experimental work by more than twenty local and international artists.
For its seventh iteration, FLAM explores questions around self-presentation, self-transformation and a heightened state of alterity (otherness) in the digital age. With a particular focus on the performativity of ‘the self’, the artists respond to different states of alterity by, for example, subverting the specific roles and social codes of today’s social media platforms. The possibilities to create, manipulate and perform different selves through selfies and constant status updates, have given rise to a variety of questions about performance and performativity. FLAM 2017 aims to provoke reflection and debate about the ways in which states of alterity, performativity and otherness are embodied and manifested in daily presentations of the self. Next to Live Art, this year’s program includes a residency, workshops and a panel discussion about alterity.
Curated by Rose Akras in collaboration with Titus Nouwens, Alice Pons en Olivia Reschofsky
Participating artists: Alondra Castellanos Arreola, Anthony Nestel, Bea McMahon, Beati Niesyta Jolanda, Black Circus, Cathrine Andresen, Clara Saito, David Bloom, Eva Susova, Fernando Belfiore, Geo Wyeth, HellFun (Josefin Arnell & Max Göran) , Jean-Lorin Sterian, Joaquin Wall, Julian Weber, Maciej Sado, Mariana Lanari & Adriana Macul, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Peter Baren, Samira Elagoz, Simon Asencio, Vincent Riebeek, Zuzanna Ratajczyk
For more information and the programme go to www.basisforliveart.com
PR & Communication: Katayoun Arian, Graphic Design & Social Media: Bea Correa, Production: Rob Visser, Technique: Ivy van de Veer
Cover Image D3US/X\M4CHIN4, Fernando Belfiore, photo by Paul McGee