A recap of our performance (sub)text, last month. Thank you for joining us on these two very special gloomy evenings in February. Grateful for the turnout <3
More coming soon!
sound by @un_mateo_
img by @seb_____vc
support by @afk020
additional thanks to @garnalenkerk2025@hugnymarie@mettekrah and @pietwoudt
Our current work-in residents, writers & performance artists Fio de Lange and Brechje Krah, cordially invite you to the second installment of ‘(sub)text’, a performance in three acts, taking place this Friday evening, April 24, from 19.00-20.30.
Drawing on poststructuralist thought, ‘(sub)text’ explores language, meaning and affect through the lens of performativity. Language and its effects are never singular or self-contained; they emerge through repetition across countless contexts: iterations, according to Jacques Derrida.
As language cannot be fully controlled by intention, it inevitably produces both desire and friction. Though the other remains obscure and misunderstandings can be painful, our attempts to coincide with one another point to something hopeful at the core of being human.
Over three acts and 45 minutes, two performers engage in an emotional confrontation through dialogue, monologue and canonical vocal experiments that gradually become more abstract. Together, they explore how words, repetition and silence simultaneously create and distort meaning.
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Friday, April 24
doors open: 18.45
performance (45 mins) & artist talk: 19.00-20.30
free entrance & no registration needed
(sub)text –– February 21 + 22, walk in from 6PM
Garnalenkerk Amsterdam, Willemsstraat 63
RSVP in bio
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Fio de Lange & Brechje Krah invite you to (sub)text, a performance in three acts.
Language and our lives that flow from it are not singular or self-contained, but made up of countless iterations. Our intentionality can never fully govern the workings of language, a fact that mediates both desire and friction. Though the other remains obscure and misunderstandings painful, our attempts to coincide with one another reveal being human as a hopeful cause.
(sub)text is a performative exploration of language, meaning, and affect.
* Music by our talented @un_mateo_
* Rsvp’s are not mandatory, but much appreciated. Limited seating available.
This projects is kindly supported by @afk020
A Place in the Middle was conceived at a morning concert at the Oude Kerk. While watching people we’d only seen on nights out before, sprawled on the floor, listening to experimental noise at 8am.
We got talking about how impossible this would have been a decade or two ago, about how living bodies can negotiate what is, quite literally, set in stone.
Then what happens when monuments are no longer untouchable? A Place in the Middle circles around this question. The result is a short documentary on 16mm, finally complete and entering the festival circuit very soon.
I am infinitely grateful to all the insanely talented people who made this film possible, to @afk020 for their support, and to Dr. Dorita Hannah for her generous mentorship.
Directed by Delfin Lev @delfinlev
& Fio de Lange @fioseptember
Cinematography: Elf Godefroy @11godefroy
Editor: Pedro Gossler @pedrogossler
Sound recordist, Sound Design and incidental music: Andreas Tegnander @andreas.tegnander
Color Grade: Barry Clarke @eyeniinthesky
Sound recordist Thomaskerk: Abi Meekel @abimeekel & Claire Meekel @claire_meekel
Exhibition documentation of ‘Translating Nature I. Baduhenna’
Co-curated with @fioseptember at @projectspace.38.40
This exhibition could not have happened without the beautiful works of: @annabellebinnerts@cristaldelacruzc@fioseptember@finnvantol@jurashust@offshore________@hugnymarie
Translating Nature I: Baduhenna brings together eight artists who explore languages, myths, and natures. If words are the fossils of thought, then each etymological root, each legend, each symbol carries the imprint of our relation to the living world.
In the exhibition space, the stories respond as one ecosystem, and through artistic practice, another kind of ecological language becomes possible, one that is more embodied, more sensitive, and more rooted in memory.
In “a wood called Baduhenna”, we step softly, we follow traces, we lose our way…
Documentation: @gertjanvanrooij
Supported by @afk020
Production assistance: @rosannehattaya
We are excited to announce our upcoming exhibition ‘Translating Nature I. Baduhenna’ curated by Marie Hugny @hugnymarie and Fio de Lange @fioseptember at Project Space 38/40, Amsterdam @projectspace.38.40
Opening: Thursday 10.07.2025, 5PM
10 — 13.07.2025
Artists: Annabelle Binnerts @annabellebinnerts , Jura Shust @jurashust , Finn van Tol @finnvantol , Offshore @offshore________ , Cristal de la Cruz @cristaldelacruzc , Fio de Lange @fioseptember , Marie Hugny @hugnymarie .
Translating Nature I: Baduhenna brings together eight artists who explore languages, myths, and natures. If words are the fossils of thought, then each etymological root, each legend, each symbol carries the imprint of our relation to the living world.
In the exhibition space, the stories respond as one ecosystem, and through artistic practice, another kind of ecological language becomes possible, one that is more embodied, more sensitive, and more rooted in memory.
In “a wood called Baduhenna”, we step softly, we follow traces, we lose our way…
Hope to see you all there!
Poster design by Johanna Gratzer @johannagratzerr
Supported by @afk020
We are delighted to be part of In Search of… at the @dutchdesignweek , at @albertvanabbehuis , a group show curated by Pyeori Jung @work.prj
We are showing our latest ongoing research titled Unknown Dendronym which explores the deep connection between language, culture, and nature by reviving the significance of sacred forests in ancient Germanic societies. Accompanied by a sound piece by composer @fabienalea
Opening on October 19th at Albert van Abbehuis 18:00-22:00
On view 19th - 27th October
11:00 - 18:00
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Ptyx Studio
@ptyx.studio
Graphic Design: @johannagratzerr
