A five-hour happening where bodies lose shape. You wander, dissolve into the crowd and re-emerge somewhere unfamiliar. There are no fixed seats. Follow the heat or sink into a corner and watch everything unfold.
HOLOBIONT is a subversive playground: part collective ritual, part anarchic dance floor. A gathering of performers, clitty wigs, smeared makeup and glitter that will mysteriously reappear in unexpected places. Here, bodies, labels and expectations collapse. In the chaos, something new emerges: a temporary community where bodies, genders and identities are free.
An immersive landscape of queer performers claiming fluidity. Bodies transform in real time: tucked live in the open, breasts bound and reshaped, waists cinched tight, faces wiped off and rebuilt again. Performance, video, text, music, dance and drag melt into one continuous field of transformation. An invitation to meet the unknown in yourself and others. And dance together.
TRIGGER WARNING: may contain loud music, nudity, explicit language and spontaneous gender euphoria.
PLEASE READ THE INFO BELOW:
A ticket guarantees entry at the time slot you selected. Once you’re inside, you can stay at the venue for as long as you like. The time slots are simply a way for us to manage a walk-in style of event and avoid overcrowding.
Concept / Artistic direction: Jef Van Gestel, Suzan Boogaerdt, Bianca van der Schoot
Performers: Rita Bifulco, Suzan Boogaerdt, Sjaid Foncé, Ayrton Fraenk, Jef Van Gestel, Barnaby Savage, Mara Snip, Isadora Tomasi
Local Guest Performers: t.b.a.
Scenography advisor: Wikke en Marloes
Video design: Daan Hazendonk
Light design: Julian Maiwald
Coproducers: Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot, Stichting Jef Van Gestel, Holland Festival
Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot introduce the audience to the rules of the night. Audience members are free to come and go during the event. A bar will operate in the space during the performance.
Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot (Suzan Boogaerdt and Bianca van der Schoot) and Jef Van Gestel create work at the intersection of theater, performance, and visual art, where imagination, intuition, and associative experience converge in an exploration of human fluidity.
from a feminist and gender-conscious perspective, Boogaerdt/VanderSchoot investigates how virtual and dream worlds shape human experience. Their installations and performances rarely follow a linear story, instead inviting the audience to wander through layers of movement, image, and sound as a living, immersive artwork. Their work has been presented internationally, from Berlin to Tokyo, and from the Venice Biennale to the Holland Festival. bvds.nl
Jef Van gestel (he/him/they/them) creates work as a mental playground: physical, visual, playful, and sensitive, imbued with absurdist humor and poetry. In portraits, creatures, and landscapes, he explores vulnerability, conflicting emotions, and the human drive for freedom. His work has been awarded the Ton Lutz Prize, the VSCD Mime Prize, and was selected for the Flanders TheaterFestival. jefvangestel.com