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Who Goes There?: A Procession for Sonic Imaginaries

with Mila Narjollet, Julia Visser, Sieve Bonaiuti (Artistic Research, UvA)

The Artistic Research Department of the University of Amsterdam organises a processional walk to collectively reshape and expand the imaginaries of public presence in The Hague. Julia Visser, Mila Narjollet, and Sieve Bonaiuti string together a combination of vocal experiments, storytelling, and song into an iteration of processional theatre. 

Artist Mila Narjollet vocally intervenes to present their research on the acoustic architecture of The Hague, its sociopolitical implications and on possibilities for sonic interruptions. Playwright Sieve explores the stories surrounding the green parakeets living in The Hague's treetops, challenging anti-immigrant rhetoric and opening up reflections on who has the power to define inside and outside, local and foreign. Also working with spatial transformation in their curatorial practice, Julia Visser (Red Light Heritage) proposes a dialogue between their research into post-pornographic score writing and the format of the walk, centring breath and vocal cords as alternatives to sexual representations in the public space. Who Goes There? references an old English request for one to stop and identify themselves. Through this performance the artists grapple with the infrastructure of this question.

The procession takes place in between the day and evening opening programs, as the group will walk you from West Den Haag to Amare.