Zone2Source participates in 24hr Zuid

During 24hr Zuid, there is plenty to experience via Zone2Source. For example, we will be testing an audio tour by Petra Ardai/SPACE in which you can experience what it is like to be the last human being. There is also news from the exhibition “to admit a subtle thread” with a lecture by curator Camila Gueneau de Mussy and a performance & workshop by Oli D’Cruz. You are most welcome to join us.

PROGRAMME

1:00 p.m. Lecture by Camila Gueneau de Mussy: curator of the current exhibition to admit a subtle thread, who will introduce the performance and give a guided tour of the works.

1:30 p.m. Performance Intertidal Maladies by puppeteer Oli D’Cruz

13:45 Puppet workshop with Oli D’Cruz

15:00 Short conversation with Petra Ardai (The audio walk is still in the testing phase; it is an individual experience and the tour is available between 15:00 and 18:00.)

[Don’t forget to bring your own smartphone and headphones.
Ages 12 and up]

More background information about the programming:

INTERTIDAL MALADIES by Oli D’Cruz

For 24 hours South and as part of the exhibition “to admit a subtle thread”, we invite artist Oli D’Cruz to take us on a journey through puppetry. Together, we explore how we can talk about extractivism. How can we deal with the history and voices that are present in our area?

Oli works with puppets as a means of dealing with strange encounters between landscape, humans and animals. She creates complex characters that interweave areas with their voices and ecocidal conflicts. In this performance, we invite the audience to join us and the puppets on a journey through stories about areas affected by extractivism, to delve into the complexity of their relationships, the many characters that remain invisible to us, and the possibility of exploring other encounters with the land together.

THE LAST HUMAN – Talk with Petra Ardai & sneak peak audiotour

Come and test the audio tour of The Last Human – an immersive audio walk in development through Amstelpark. The audio tour is still under development and will premiere later.

Imagine: you are the last human on earth. Armed with nothing more than your phone or tablet, you wander through the park while voices of plants, animals and machines watch your every move. Are you a memory from the past, a clone, or the last of your kind?

This teaser invites you to catch a glimpse of a world in which social norms, power structures and obligations have disappeared and where new space is created for change, for mutual connectedness and inclusivity. In this fragile future, your steps and imagination determine the story. What makes you human?

For 24Zuid, theatre maker Petra Ardai / SPACE will introduce the work at 3 p.m. and provide context before or after your participation in this visionary fictional experience; the audio teaser will be available throughout the day.

Team: Petra Ardai (concept, text, voice), David van der Heijden (sound and music), Marta Pisco (audience engagement), Sophie Leferink (strategy)

With support of AFK, Stichting DOEN and Lira Fonds.

ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Oli D’Cruz works with video, animation, sculpture and puppetry to create fictional and possible worlds. Through these worlds, they question the disproportionate effects of extraction systems on bodies and land. They are interested in the relationships that these systems make possible or impossible.

Over the past two years, Oli has focused on developing a practice of puppetry. They have learned about its historical use to playfully subvert the state, a skill that has become increasingly valuable under current regimes of surveillance and censorship. In addition to this practice, they develop workshops for children that encourage engagement with local ecologies, with an emphasis on playfulness.

Petra Ardai is a pioneering artist, theatre maker, and scenario writer specializing in immersive and interdisciplinary storytelling across various media, including live/serious games, interactive performances, multimedia installations, and living heritage experiences. She is the artistic director of the art initiative SPACE, explorers of the continuous present, rooted in Amsterdam and Budapest.
With a background in documentary theatre, Petra’s docu-fiction narratives balance fiction and reality, making complex issues such as polarization, inequality, migration, unprocessed historical past, and climate change intimately relatable through the politics of the personal. The projects construct imaginary worlds around the fundamental question: “Who owns the Future?”