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FLAM 2012

Original was uploaded on 2013-01-06

FLAM is a platform for diverse performance practices and approaches. FLAM focuses on the live gesture as defining an extended territory of performance art that goes beyond the body, and exposes it to a variety of different media and environments: sound, text, image, digital media, sculpture, painting and the city as a scene of action. The ambition is to define a space that differs from the black cube of theatre and its traditional cut between passive audience and performers. The focus is on the event of live performance, the emergence and the dissolution of an ephemeral form within the performative situation and its defining conditions. The body is understood as a site of unexpected knowledge and experience, which unfolds in the simultaneity of enacting or producing the work and the act of viewing. FLAM is a platform for exploration of a variety of questions, from duration and temporality, repetition and difference, to ways of situating performance as a comment on every-day life situations. FLAM is initiated by Rose Akras and Dirk Jan Jager.

Participating artists: Dirk Jan Jager and JiHyun Youn, Dora Longo Bahia, Esmee Geerken, Fernando Belfiore, Guilherme Peters, Ieke Trinks, Marco Paulo Rolla, Maria Lalou, Maurício Ianês, Moritz Ebinger, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Néle Azevedo, Rose Akras, round table discussion, Super Bowl, Veridiana Zurita, Vincent Riebeek and Florentina Holzinger.

This video captures a series of experimental art performances and abstract visuals. It features close-ups of melting ice textures, audience gatherings in low-light venues, and nighttime city light trails. Artists collaborate on a large canvas with bold black drawings and golden particles, while performers in tight colorful outfits interact with orbs and hoops in a stark studio setting.