Diane Mahin, GASP © Peteris Viksna
GASP
GASP is a physical and vocal performance that starts from the simplest premise: inhalation. Five figures take a breath in order to speak. Normally, an exhalation follows: a word, a sentence, a scream, an action. In GASP, the exhalation that should follow does not come out. Breath remains suspended and swallows unfinished impulses. Sharp air fills their lungs as they choke on a burning question. Hands tense up, eyes glaze over, saliva runs from wide-open mouths. While failing to speak in a collapsing society, the five figures keep searching relentlessly for movement within the dark, suffocating muck we inhabit.
Diane Mahín (b. 1993) is a Dutch-Iranian performance maker and sociologist. She makes performances in which sound and physicality are the driving forces. Her works focus on bodysounds (guts, growls, cries, breaths) which she uses to create performative codes that dissect the learned behaviors of an unbearable society. Her work physically submerges the audience into the collective unease and dark absurdity of our current reality, seeking a state of movement within doom. She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts, and Sandberg Institute, and her works have been shown in visual arts, performance, and new music contexts.
Credits
creation Diane Mahín performance and artistic collaboration Salya Berraf, Ahmed El Gendy, Toni Steffens, Rebecca Lillich Krüger, Oliver Artur dramaturgy Lili A. Blum light design Paulina Prokop costume design Nikki Vekemans sound design Josefina Gilardi, Diane Mahín technician Josefina Gilardi production coordination Fivos Petropoulos choreography and dramaturgy advice Bruno Listopad, Marijn de Langen, Esther Snelder composition advice Ezequiel Menalled audio technology advice Dieter Vandoren breath technique advice Maribeth Diggle special thanks:Ezequiel Menalled, Jasper van den Berg, Marije Baalman, Matteo Marangoni, Rachel Feuchtwang, John de Weerd, Monique Rutten performance and artistic collaboration research phase Koko Yeji Boanyah photography Peteris Viksna commissioned, produced, and distributed by instrument inventors initiative co-produced by Het Nationale Theater, Playground (STUK & M, Leuven) residency and support BAU Amsterdam, The Grey Space in the Middle supported by Performing Arts Fund NL, Het Cultuurfonds
- Fri 20 Nov
- 21:00 - 21:55
- Sat 21 Nov
- 21:00 - 21:55
Location
Price
€16 / €11 / €8
Additional info
Duration: ca 55'
Not a language as we know it