Melting Eyes
@ DAS Graduate School Amsterdam, 2022
@ KUVA/Tila Galery Helsinki, Finland 2023


                                                                                                               

Melting Eyes is a multimedia performance that explores the binaries of nature & culture, body & technologies, human & material, natural & artificial, emotionality & frigidity.
Inspired by more-than-human nature and in dialogue with different materialities such as clay, jelly and sand, anassemblage of movement, moving image, technology (screens) and sound form a landscape in which the body oscillates between theatricality, literality and abstraction. The performance creates a particular landscape by performative actions and movements, eg. the screens will bemoved and placed in a certain score based logic, sculpture as well as sand will be revealed and composed in the space.
Melting Eyes was made as sequel of my graduation work reverberation, by developing further compositional and material strategies I have applied in reverberation. Both of my works are installations of potential performative situations which are created by staging actions and materials that imply certain activation. Both works leave a landscape of leftovers, past sound and vibration, broken drum sticks, geology of sand and soil, misplaced television screens.

Research, Performance, Choreography: Simone Gisela Weber | Sound Design: Henri Nikkilä | Outside Eye/Performer: Vilja Mihalovsky | Mentor: Jee-Ae Lim | Artistic Support and Advice: My DAS peers, Alejandro Salas Strus, Konstantina Georgelou, Alice Chauchat, Jeroen Fabius, Velvet Leigh, Tiana Hemlock, Emmy and Elioa Steffen | Technical Support: Harco Haagsma, Udo Akemann

Thanks to Young Art Support Amsterdam (NL), DAS Choreography AHK (NL), Fonds Darstellende Künste (GER) and thanks to all the DAS staff.