Freaky Dancing and Theater Kikker join forces in creating a club experience in Theater Kikker.
Freaky Dancing is an Utrecht based collective creating new club experiences where live acts, dj’s, performances and art clash, fuse and transform each other.
We invited Marijn Brussaard to create a performance and audiovisual installation for this night and to do a DJ-set as his alter-ego Universal Ryan. Also joining us to get us moving are Gamma Intel and Minka.
Amsterdam-based artist Marijn Brussaard works with performance, music, video and installation. In his conceptually and musically driven practice, he researches and reflects on the theatrics of modern-day phenomena and finds that the tension and drama often lie in the inconsistencies and paradoxes of these subjects. His work can be described as form-experiments that are often poetic, humorous or absurd by nature.
Brussaard’s performance/installation ‘I Want More’ will be the centerpiece of the night, a choreography for pyrotechnics, smoke and lighting effects. The piece reflects on the aesthetics of Danger, Destruction and Darkness in pop culture and mass media. Is it possible to reclaim symbols of destruction? The horror, the annihilation, the erotic charge of domination?
Under the moniker Universal Ryan, multi-disciplinary artist Marijn Brussaard creates dream-like sonic textures. Informed by both mass media and internet micro-scenes, Brussaard - who is also one half of genre benders Know V.A. - interweaves elements of esoteric ambient, bedroom pop and futuristic synthwave in audio-visual live sets. The goal? Reaching states of ecstasy, escapism and transcendence.
If you don’t like surprises, you might want to look away when Gamma Intel takes to the stage. The restless DJ and producer from Rotterdam is always searching for the elusive sweet spot between the weird and the wonderful, and for unfamiliar nuances in familiar worlds. Sure, Gamma Intel wants to make you dance, just not to what you might expect. A beatless piece might appear in the middle of a set to grab the attention before a distorted bass line blows up the club. Ranging from wonky electro to off-pitch acid house and glitched-up techno, Gamma Intel’s sets are perhaps best compared to wormholes in which nobody knows where it will all end up. Not even Gamma Intel himself.
While they probably work fine in summer as well, we suspect Minka’s sets are best suited for the colder period of the year. From brooding triphop to psychedelic IDM and from halftime drum & bass to experimental techno, versatility is key here. That may sound like a serious affair, but Minka’s sets are dynamic and playful as well, an experience that perhaps feels closest to wandering through a three-dimensional version of an abstract painting by Pollock or Rothko. Impossible to pin down, Minka’s sets are proof that a question mark is always more exciting than an exclamation point.
