BetweenTwoHands

Oceanus

A new ritual

Rituals resemble stones; they are imperturbable, unalterable and self-contained. Rituals are the exact opposite of human indefiniteness. Rituals release the participants from their daily questions and insecurities. Rituals can tame emotions without suppressing them. Rituals clasp the individual in the firm grip of the group. Rituals communicate that which nobody is able to express or understand. Rituals assuage the desire for meaning through their perfect form. Rituals give the person something to hold on to as compensation for his/her lack of ‘completeness’.

Walter Weyns

PAPERWORK

A theatrical paper installation inspired by Franz Kafka

The phone is ringing non-stop. Letters are piling up. Files are untraceable... How can you achieve something if you don't know what the purpose is? In Paperwork BetweenTwoHands builds a paper refuge for Franz Kafka: the office clerk who wrote masterpieces to escape his oppressing reality at night. Kafka’s world of thoughts between court letter and fantastic masterpiece are transformed in paper objects. With one single fold, a world can appear, or disappear.

Concept, design and performance: Erin Tjin A Ton

Concept, design and performance: Gosia Kaczmarek

Theatre director: Anna Verduin

Animations and shadow puppets: Klaske Oenema

Sound design: Marcel de Rooij

Cameraman and editor: Ruben Pest

Fotographer: Nick van Tiem

Fotographer at Over het IJ Festival: Tudor Bratu

Graphic design: Mariusz Kaczmarek

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Paperwork is sponsored by the

DUODENUM

A miniature laboratory

A miniature object theatre in which poetic experiments are conducted. Duodenum is about the diversity of the feasibility of society. It explores the interaction between how people make things and hybrids on the one hand and how these things and hybrids affect people on the other hand. The viewer is witness of a series of strange experiments conducted by a doll in a laboratory.

Design and performance: Erin Tjin A Ton & Gosia Kaczmarek

Theatre director: Anna Verduin

Sound design: René Thie and  Kaveh Vares