Performance: Erik Tlaseca - Eclipse
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Performance: Erik Tlaseca - Eclipse
On the final evening of our ADE performance programme, we show Eclipse by Erik Tlaseca. In the performance, we encounter two characters: a child and a vampire. These apparent opposites both long for connection, understanding and care. The vampire becomes a figure for the desire for those fleeting moments of pleasure and intimacy that remind us that we are alive, precisely in a world where certain bodies and lives risk becoming invisible.
The eclipse is the starting point for the work. In colonial Mexico, the phenomenon was represented by Indigenous artists as the moment when the sun closes its eyes; the sun did not disappear, but rather we disappeared from its sight. From this perspective, Tlaseca asks to what extent our memories remain present, and whether we can return to them.
Eclipse grew out of a series of letters that Tlaseca wrote from a deep longing for connection. At the same time, the work reflects on loss and desire, and on the ways in which we might reinvent ourselves when there is no way back to our origins. As Tlaseca writes: “When darkness falls completely, there’s a different kind of light.”
The performance is a collaboration with Dagmar Bosma and Dmytro Tentiuk.
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ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose is a presentation space for contemporary visual art, with a particular focus on performance and video art. As one of the last independent spaces for contemporary art in the rapidly changing centre of Amsterdam, ROZENSTRAAT aims to be a lively place for reflection and encounter.
We are artist-driven: artists are central to what we do, and we make every effort to support them and their work and career. We encourage artists with an already defined art practice to make new strides and bring forgotten pioneers back into the spotlight. For each exhibition we commission new work, actively contributing to their artistic development. Through solo exhibitions, long-term research projects, and a dynamic public programme with reading groups, salons and performances, we introduce our audience to the artists’ ideas and inspirations.
ROZENSTRAAT – a rose is a rose is a rose is a presentation space for contemporary visual art, with a particular focus on performance and video art. As one of the last independent spaces for contemporary art in the rapidly changing centre of Amsterdam, ROZENSTRAAT aims to be a lively place for reflection and encounter.
We are artist-driven: artists are central to what we do, and we make every effort to support them and their work and career. We encourage artists with an already defined art practice to make new strides and bring forgotten pioneers back into the spotlight. For each exhibition we commission new work, actively contributing to their artistic development. Through solo exhibitions, long-term research projects, and a dynamic public programme with reading groups, salons and performances, we introduce our audience to the artists’ ideas and inspirations.
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