Fluidical is a vibrating slime installation performance
Sophia van der Putten
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- GENRE: Dance
- THEME: Changing the Norm, IdentiWho?, Queer Stories
- LANGUAGE: Language No Problem
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
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The human body is not hard and solid, but soft and fluid. A body that doesn’t move, dies. Yet we keep trying to define our bodies as definite and fixed, because that which we cannot define frightens us.
Fluidical is oddly satisfying and deeply frightening. In a slimy world a fluid creature search for their place and wonders in which form their existence is allowed. Between disgust and attraction, can we see this creature for who they are?
Maker Sophia van der Putten (they/them) identifies as genderfluid. The experience of their gender and gender expression are changeable.
With this performance they research how the undefinable and changeable body can be frightening and intriguing at the same time.
credits
Maker: Sophia van der Putten
Performer: Flore Muuse
Dramaturg: Maarten Bos
Scenographer: Stef Heijnen-Bakker of Studio HB Staging
Sound: Sophia van der Putten and Rowan van der Putten
Technician: Saskia de Vries / Lux Nautilus
Video: Christina Mastori
With support of Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and Voordekunst