STEDELIJK MUSEUM X SNDO

Today, the ability to construct our own image in online and offline realms often produces stress and exhaustion, brought on by the myths of fixed subjectivity and enhanced visibility and recognition. In processed flesh selling slippery fantasies to the plain plane sighted, Trier and Saleh consider the potential of hiding in plain sight in off- and online environments. Drawing inspiration from works by Hito Steyerl (“The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation” and “Digital Debris”) and Tavi Meraud (“Iridescence, Intimacies”)—each of whom have engaged with the creative potential of visibility and deflection in their work—this performance speculates on how camouflaging in virtual environments affects our offline presence, and vice versa. Through an exploration of movement and material, the performers test the efficacy of camouflaging as a strategy for hybridizing exposure and evasion. 

Over the span of five hours, the performers will immerse themselves in a unique spatial environment installed in the Teijin Auditorium. Although recorded on site, the performance will be available only as a livestream across multiple digital platforms for an entirely virtual audience. The stream’s multiple points of access will add to the amount of “spam” through which the performers navigate. This “spam” will afford viewers increased access to—and distraction from—the performance.

DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES

The multiple livestreams show the performers from different angles. If you wish to watch from other angles you can visit:

• Stedelijk website
• SNDO website
• Vimeo 1
• Vimeo 2
• SNDO Facebook
• Stedelijk YouTube
• Instagram

RAONI MUZHO SALEH AND CHARLIE LABAN TRIER

Raoni Muzho Saleh (NL/AFG, 1991) is a choreographer and performer based in Amsterdam. He obtained a BA in Choreography from SNDO in 2019. His recent works are materializations of the seduction of the backspace, forming both his conceptual brewing around strange relationality and his movement practice of “becoming other.” Through the backspace he aims to provoke a dance towards a state of transformational multiplicity that aspires to freedom from deeply ingrained algorithmic oppressions of solid subjectivity. 

Charlie Laban Trier (DK, 1987) is a performer and choreographer. He graduated from SNDO in 2018, and has in the past years worked for and with a variety of artists. He is a part of the artist collective Jacuzzi. One of the focuses of his work is embodying and learning from methods of existing performance practices that play with inverting the gaze and aim to enhance space for bodies corrupted by different oppressive structures.

MORE ABOUT SNDO (School for New Dance Development)

SNDO, the School for New Dance Development, was founded in 1975 and is known today as a fulltime 4-year professional education course that leads to the diploma Bachelor of Dance – Choreography. SNDO trains students to become choreographers/dance makers, enabling them to contribute to the development of dance as an art form.

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and SNDO have previously collaborated in the presentation of performances by choreographers such as Mårten Spångberg (2016) and Michele Rizzo (2019).

CREDITS
processed flesh selling slippery fantasies to the plain plane sighted is created by Raoni Muzho Saleh and Charlie Laban Trier and performed by SNDO 3rd year students: Sofia Castro, Devika Chotoe, tim/Gala Faraus, Antonella Fittipaldi, Rūta Junevičiūtė, Valeryia Le, Parisa Madani, Nazar Rakhmanov, and Peter Scherrebeck Hansen.
Technical producer: Fred Rodrigues
Commissioned by the School for New Dance Development in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.