What You See Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary! We mark the occasion with this festival and poignant opening program.
Poet Radna Fabias is back at the festival and reads a poem written especially for us. Then, there will be no less than two performances. Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud share part of their intimate We Are (nothing) Everything and choreographer Cheroney Pelupessey presents some scenes from the energetic Keturunan. We conclude the evening in the multimedia exhibition of The Other Bulgarian Women. The pop-up works by students of the HKU are also present, so there is plenty to see and experience.
We Are (nothing) Everything
Makisig Akin and Anya Cloud re-imagine the story of creation, making our queer ancestors’ wildest dreams come true. Desire, guilt, pleasure and grief intersect to reveal the multiple ways in which love can manifest – a queer Noah’s arc that pays tribute to the power of binomials through performance.
Keturunan (nakomeling)
Urban dance and traditional Balinese dance merge in this performance about pride, shame, suffering, honor and confusion. Indonesian and Moluccan des-cendants reflect on their roots, their ancestors' journey to the Netherlands and its impact on their relationship with the country.
Questioning, disrupting and disturbing bodies. Bodies that take the streets, chain themselves to trees, and throw their fists in the air. Bodies that embrace, love strangers and bravely dismantle resistance. MY BODY, MY PROTEST is the motto through which artists use their bodies to reclaim space and open up new possible worlds for themselves and their audiences. Positively activist, inviting and connecting. Welcome!
