| Maker | iii |
| Duration | 75 min |
| Part of | Language no problem |
A mosaique of interlocking performances
Intricate Interplays creates an operatic experience in which the participating artists explore the idea of weather through performativity and audiovisual means.
During the evening, these selected works will be presented for the first time together, forming an intricate interplay and blurring the lines between individual and collective work. The works are woven and bound together into a new experience by overlapping and recombining to create a new dramaturgy in which they can coexist—creating a polyphonic experience between the human, technology, and the senses. The evening will be brought to life through the works of Mihalis Shammas, Marije Baalman, Dieter Vandoren, Mariska de Groot, and Ludmila Rodrigues.
iii is an artist-run, community platform supporting new interdisciplinary practices linking performance, technology and the human senses. Arising from the ArtScience tradition of The Hague, iii strives to balance technological innovation, theoretical reflection and human experience. iii contributes to international developments in the field of Art, Science & Technology, functioning both as a cultural incubator supporting research and creation and as an agency connecting creators to a broad audience via a wide (inter)national partner network.
Marije Baalman is an artist and researcher/developer working in the field of interactive sound and light art, based in Amsterdam. She makes music and music-theatre performances, worked with dancers and has made several installations.
Topics that she addresses with her work are the nature of interaction between and entanglement of humans and technology, the influence of algorithms on society and the human experience, and environmental change.
In her artistic work she is interested in the realtime components of the work, composing processes, behaviours and interaction modalities. This means that the sonic or visual output depends on realtime interactions of the systems she builds with the performer, the audience, or the environment.
Mihalis Shammas is a sound artist and designer from Cyprus, based in The Hague (NL). His work is driven by an urge to create narrative objects and tools for musical expression. It spans over instrument making, performance, sound sculpture and installation work. In all these areas, he explores intricacies in motion and sound by animating simple materials, manifesting tensions between mechanical and chaotic systems. His artifacts carry the imaginary dimension of the useless machine, their technical precision clouded by poetic flaws.
Dieter Vandoren (°1981, Belgium) is an artist, performer and creative tech developer. His work draws from diverse backgrounds in music, IT and experimental architecture and revolves around the creation and play of spatial audiovisual instruments and environments with a focus on embodiment, immersion and primary sensory experiences. Dieter has a masters degree from the ArtScience Interfaculty (Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatoire The Hague) and a bachelor in Digital Communication (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht).
Intrigued by the phenomena and history of optical sound, Mariska de Groot (1982, NL) makes, performs and composes for comprehensive analog light-to-sound instruments and installations which explore this principle in new ways. Her work often has a reference to media inventions from the past, with which she aims to excite a multi-sensorial and phenomenological experience in light, sound, movement and space.
Mariska obtained her BA in graphic design in Arnhem (2000-2005) and received her masters diploma at the ArtScience interfaculty in 2012.
Ludmila Rodrigues creates dialogues for bodies. She is an artist, spatial designer, teacher and occasional performer bridging architecture, perception, and ritual. Between commission-based works and self-initiated projects, she investigates the entanglement of human interactions with the material and the sensory. She is dedicated to enhancing human communication and exploring ways of knowing through the body. Her choreographic objects and haptic spaces activate the senses and conjure relations of trust, vulnerability and agency. Her works function as laboratories where visitors can use their bodies differently. By centering the audience's body and staging open-ended situations, the artist defies the notion of the artwork as a unique object, revealing more about the visitors, their gestures, desires and conditionings.
Korzo Zaal