Festival at Felix Meritis
Nov 24th 2022
presented by
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
and Bureau Broedplaatsen
Wander through the Felix Meritis on the 24th of November. Fifteen young, talented artists will present their artistic research with fruitful results. The artists represent a great diversity of nationalities and art disciplines. Each talent shows a unique production. You will walk in a cabaret show, watch new documentaries on queer identity, experience bio art, and join dance and music performances. This is your chance to meet outstanding young talents.
The free festival is part of the 3Package Deal, a program for international artistic talent. The program is curated by Bogomir Doringer and produced by Rafael Kozdron. Deputy mayor and alderman of arts and culture and nightlife Touria Meliani will open the event.
Film: Daniel Donato / Fashion: Irene Ha / Theater: Cherella Gessel / Music: Anne Lieke Heusinkveld / Visual art I: Monica Mays / Visual art II: Ghita Skali / Publishing performance: Frédérique Gagnon / Public Realm: Pankaj Tiwari / Dance: Gianine Strang / Engaged Art: Tasha Arlova / Autodidact: Doris Wennekers / Cabaret: Lisa Ostermann / Social Design: Yara Said / Interhistoricity: Ima-Abasi Okon / Bio Art and Design: Philipp Kolmann
Festival at Felix Meritis
Nov 24th 2022
presented by
the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
and Bureau Broedplaatsen
Wander through the Felix Meritis on the 24th of November. Fifteen young, talented artists will present their artistic research with fruitful results. The artists represent a great diversity of nationalities and art disciplines. Each talent shows a unique production. You will walk in a cabaret show, watch new documentaries on queer identity, experience bio art, and join dance and music performances. This is your chance to meet outstanding young talents.
The free festival is part of the 3Package Deal, a program for international artistic talent. The program is curated by Bogomir Doringer and produced by Rafael Kozdron. Deputy mayor and alderman of arts and culture and nightlife Touria Meliani will open the event.
Film: Daniel Donato / Fashion: Irene Ha / Theater: Cherella Gessel / Music: Anne Lieke Heusinkveld / Visual art I: Monica Mays / Visual art II: Ghita Skali / Publishing performance: Frédérique Gagnon / Public Realm: Pankaj Tiwari / Dance: Gianine Strang / Engaged Art: Tasha Arlova / Autodidact: Doris Wennekers / Cabaret: Lisa Ostermann / Social Design: Yara Said / Interhistoricity: Ima-Abasi Okon
Doris Wennekers
Netherlands/AUTODIDACT/
As a participant in the Likeminds Factory, Doris showed herself last year as a strong physical performer with a great need to expose social themes. For example, she made her first solo performance about the bio-industry: 'At the Table'. She puts down her frustrations, insecurities, and research with her grammar.
She is developing into an idiosyncratic maker with a particularly bizarre visual signature. Doris belongs to the new generation of young makers who look at the world from a different perspective. The generation that does not take over everything blindly but questions itself and others about small and more significant issues that play out in the world, but also in their own internal world and in the city.
PRESENTING
Doris presents process documentation of "Reclaim", a physical performance in which the freezing response to sexual trauma is defrosting. In Reclaim, the effects of sexual trauma are reconstructed and experienced, and human identity is reclaimed. From a girl on the street to a human in a female body. In a scraping solo inspired by the visual element of EMDR therapy, the victim and the perpetrator are brought to light.
In videos, Doris will talk about the making of and the outcome. Under the guidance of Charles Pas and Likeminds, she researched how she could place a story in space with her own body.
Stimulating and facilitating top talent with affordable living and working space, a budget and a network – that is the goal of the 3Package Deal. This successful program of the Amsterdam Fund of the Arts (AFK) and Bureau Broedplaatsen in collaboration with renowned Amsterdam institutions is now regarded as the best practice in the field of talent development.
The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) invests in the arts which enrich the experience of life in the city of Amsterdam. The AFK encourages the quality, dynamism and diversity of the arts in Amsterdam, and contributes to the city's strong and richly varied cultural climate. The fund is available to all disciplines within the cultural sector, for cultural organizations and artists. The AFK supports both experimentation and proven quality, established organizations and those that are relatively new, the professional arts and amateur arts - from every district of the city. As a metropolitan cultural fund, the AFK offers support to high-quality cultural activities, it functions as a booster for the arts within the city and is an investor in a sustainable future for the cultural sector.
Bureau Broedplaatsen is part of the municipality of Amsterdam. Its task is to realize more affordable studios and (residential) workspaces for artists and incubator groups. Bureau Broedplaatsen does this in collaboration with target group organisations, city districts, central services, corporations, real estate agents, developers, and banks.
We thank our partners, the renowned Amsterdam cultural institutions listed below who take part in the 15 coalitions that select the participating artists and provide them with guidance and a supportive network. They are of vital importance to the program.
Film: Filmacademie / IDFA / EYE / Fashion: HTNK / Rolien Zonneveld / OSCAM / AMFI / Visual Art I: FOAM / Rietveld Acadamie / De Appel Arts Centre / Visual Art II: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Kunstverein / Rijksacademie / Engaged Art: Veem House of Performance / De Balie / De Ateliers / Public Realm: NDSM-Werf / Over het IJ Festival / Das Arts (AHK) / Theater: Academie voor Theater en Dans / Amerpodia / Theater Bellevue / Dance: ICK Artist Space / Frascati Theater / AHK / SNDO (AHK Dans) / Music: Conservatorium Amsterdam / Muziekgebouw aan het IJ / Melkweg / Cabaret: Academie voor Theater en Dans / De Kleine Komedie / Amsterdams Kleinkunst Festival / Interhistoricity: Oude Kerk / Museum van Loon / H401 / Reinwardt Academie / Performance: Werkplaats Typografie (ArtEz) / If I Can’t Dance / Sandberg Instituut – Critical Studies / Social Design: Waag / Hackers&Designers / Framer Framed / Autodidact: Likeminds / Theater Bellevue / Theater De Meervaart / Bio Art and Design: Waag / Mediamatic / VU Amsterdam
Event credits:
Curated by Bogomir Doringer.Event production by Rafael Kozdron.
Felix Meritis production by Rivka van der Berg.
Project leaders: Johanna Brils (AFK) and Naïma Bouchtaoui (Bureau Broedplaatsen).
Press contact: Emma Heinhuis (AFK)