Radiant Nights #1
Touching Bodies
Fri 15 Oct 2021 - Sun 17 Oct 2021
Radiant Nights offers an exciting insight into tomorrow’s arts landscape.
Four times a year, Radiant Nights is a space for creation and experimentation, free from conventions. For two whole days, artists take over a part of the building. Radiant Nights offers an insight into the arts landscape of today and tomorrow and features both large and small-scale work, ranging from the obscure, to the fragile, to the experimental. At its core are versatile artists who seek out the in-between space beyond binary thinking. The spaces in between different disciplines, themes, genres and bodies. Their work is diverse, radical, exciting and surprising. Radiant.
During Radiant Nights #1, the body itself takes centre stage. Covid-19, Black Lives Matter and #metoo teach us that bodies are the ultimate object in which the political manifests itself. In her recent book Everybody: A Book About Freedom, Olivia Laing writes that our bodies are powerful entities in which this power manifests itself not in spite of, but thanks to our vulnerabilities.
In this first edition, we are offered different perspectives on the body: a queer approach from Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, a critical view of our attitude to ‘weight’ from Brandy Butler, the relationship between body and care via Jija Sohn, and the relationship of the body to technology in the work of Rory Pilgrim. We will round off with a party. Bodies that touch and (perhaps) brush against other bodies.
In my life politics don’t disappear but take place in my body.
– Kathy Acker (Blood and Guts in High School)
* The different performances on one evening can be combined with each other.
visuals: @f_abrikoos
During Radiant Nights #1, the body itself takes centre stage. Covid-19, Black Lives Matter and #metoo teach us that bodies are the ultimate object in which the political manifests itself. In her recent book Everybody: A Book About Freedom, Olivia Laing writes that our bodies are powerful entities in which this power manifests itself not in spite of, but thanks to our vulnerabilities.
In this first edition, we are offered different perspectives on the body: a queer approach from Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, a critical view of our attitude to ‘weight’ from Brandy Butler, the relationship between body and care via Jija Sohn, and the relationship of the body to technology in the work of Rory Pilgrim. We will round off with a party. Bodies that touch and (perhaps) brush against other bodies.
In my life politics don’t disappear but take place in my body.
– Kathy Acker (Blood and Guts in High School)
* The different performances on one evening can be combined with each other.
visuals: @f_abrikoos