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Performances

POWERPLANT - MENTAL MICKEY AND THE DESERT OF DOOM

The two miniature film sets serve as the backdrop for the performance MENTAL MICKEY AND THE DESERT OF DOOM.

In a desert with a Dubai-like oasis, two characters try to survive a post-nuclear desert where the survival of the fittest counts, on willpower. By then, Mickey Mouse has been the icon of the entertainment industry for several decades, and this has demanded its toll. Euro-Disney has become a large mental institution. Mickey Mouse will try to entertain his audience for the very last time.

Powerplant, made up from the Berlin based Krista Burger (NL 1973) and Nina Thibo (NL 1972), work with performances, films and installations that respond to the western consumption society. In their ‘expanded media’ series live films are made with scenes that take place in miniature and scale models, which form installations in their own right. Powerplant’s homemade karaoke machine invites the audience to participate in singing songs of combat to familiar tunes.

Amicitia, Nieuweweg 1a, Leeuwarden

20 september 2007 : 18.30h

Powerplant: Krista Burger & Nina Thibo

Powerplant, made up from the Berlin based Krista Burger (NL 1973) and Nina Thibo (NL 1972), work with performances, films and installations that respond to the western consumption society. In their ‘expanded media’ series live films are made with scenes that take place in miniature and scale models, which form installations in their own right. Powerplant’s homemade karaoke machine invites the audience to participate in singing songs of combat to familiar tunes.

20 september 2007 : 17.30h

Meri Nikula - In The Flesh I Reside

A solo performance for voice, body, video and flesh. “Hug and fight the flesh, whilst I question her reality. Experience the friction between flesh and thought”.

Meri Nikula (1997 Finland) studied at the Interfaculty for Image and Sound in The Hague. She works with the concept of ‘vocal music’. For this, she made voice collages from existing, live and pre-recorded vocal techniques. Voice and body form an integral part of her installations. Nikula’s visual work consists of sound art, traditional Scandinavian songs and improvisations, sometimes combined with percussion and the Kantele, and old Finnish stringed instrument.