A fragile tether between present and absent teeters on the edge of delusion
Elsemarijn Hijweege x Fiona Giazzi x Ayomide Tejuoso
Location: Zandkasteel
Dates:
- GENRE: Multimedia performance, Performance Art, Spoken word / Poetry
- THEME: Collective work, Connection, Voicing the Unvoiced
- LANGUAGE: English
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
duration of the performance: 40 min
If I confirm who I’ve been, I’ll lose the world that once made sense to me; I do not know if I can begin again. The world that was me has shriveled in fatigue – too dry, on the cusp of ignition. I lost the serene irony that exempted me, that former aptitude for living.
Exhausted and unheeded, at the edge of themselves, bodies succumb to a tension. The urge to flay their own gauntness drives them into a rapid, intricate collapse of humanized life.
Left where no place remains untouched, reaching out –
to inhale life through what is broken;
a brittle hope tending toward an elsewhere becoming.
I am frightened that I will merely be able to accept that I no longer possess myself if I imagine someone holding me.
An erotic, straining rumination, intertwining sound, movement, text, installation.
Biography
‘Can you come please’ is a continuation of the collaborative practice of Elsemarijn Hijweege, Ayomide Tejuoso, Fiona Giazzi.
Elsemarijn Hijweege (eliso)(former part of collective ILYA) is a Dutch anti-disciplinary artist who seeks perspectives that disrupt and displace the world from itself, revealing its fissures. Through dialogically decompos(t)ing what it means to be a body of knowledge, they hope to allow the body to rediscover itself through the (im)materiality of its own alienation, showing its cracks as openings for transfiguration.
Ayomide Tejuoso (Plantation) is a Nigerian British artist working across text, photography, video, and installation. Her practice illuminates the black disposition by crafting worlds rooted in diasporic experience. She records black conditions and salvations, reimagining them through multi-formed experimentations within Nigerian and broader diasporic dialects. Across all mediums, her writing is a linguistic revolution.
Fiona Giazzi (EFFE) is a Swiss multidisciplinary artist specialising in clothing and the meaning of its use. They research the relationship between the textile surface, the code-ification of clothing and its dialogue with the body. Their practice slips between garment and gesture – gender ghosted, haunting, kitsch —unraveling the codes that bind identity and inviting the body to speak in textures both familiar and uncanny.
