Housewarming: Caer Ascendiendo by Francisca Khamis Giacoman and TRANS(IN) MOAN(IN) by Raoni/Muzho Saleh met Abel Kroon
17:30–21:00
Image: Caer Ascendiendo by Francisca Khamis Giacoman. Picture by Van den Bussche Vanden Bossche
Image: Hair as store by Raoni/Muzho Saleh. Picture by Dina Mimi
Image: Caer Ascendiendo by Francisca Khamis Giacoman. Picture by Van den Bussche Vanden Bossche
Image: Hair as store by Raoni/Muzho Saleh. Picture by Dina Mimi
Schedule:
18:00 - 18:30
Caer Ascendiendo [Fall Ascending]
Performance by Francisca Khamis Giacoman with performers Sancha Meca Castro and Nara Gonçalves
19:00
TRANS(IN) MOAN(IN)
Performance by choreographer Raoni/Muzho Saleh in collaboration with composer Abel Kroon
Caer Ascendiendo [Fall Ascending], 2022
Performance by Francisca Khamis Giacoman with performers Sancha Meca Castro and Nara Gonçalves
Two performers unfold an object in response to a set of instructions. Embedded within these instructions is the unfolding of a story—the narrative of the artists’ family migration from Palestine to Chile, highlighting its connection to the textile industry, specifically through the creation of a parachute. The parachute was crafted by the artists’ father and brother and sent as a package to her.
The parachute remains at de Appel during the span of the Housewarming programme.
TRANS(IN) MOAN(IN), 2023
Performance by choreographer Raoni/Muzho Saleh in collaboration with composer Abel Kroon
How do we learn to become intimate with one another by way of sounding together, through the difference of our dispossessions without separating? This performance serves as a way to be made and unmade by the sound of the transmoan, a wayward sound that combines the raw emotion of the analog moan with the driving force of the techno beat. "Waywardness" is a term coined by Saidiya Hartman who speaks of “waywardness as the social poësis that sustains the dispossessed”. By practisingpracticing the transmoan you can exercise spilling over into one another, leaking into the cracks of our presumed solid subjectivity and inserting with a wild groan the tale of the errant pathways. You can use the transmoan as an artistic framework through which you converse with one another’s ghosts and explore with our sounding relationalities beyond the impossible.
Francisca Khamis Giacoman (Chile, 1988) is an artist based in Amsterdam. In performances and installations, she recollects stories of migration and unfolds them at the boundaries of fiction and materiality. Her video and sound works use family archives to focus on the solidification of in-between identities. Khamis Giacoman has exhibited her works at various places including Biblioteka in London, ExtraCiy in Antwerp, Rozenstraat in Amsterdam, Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Kunstverein in Amsterdam, PuntWG in Amsterdam, Stroom in Den Haag and Gold+Beton, Cologne. She was recently an artist in residence at BAU in Amsterdam.
Raoni/Muzho Saleh (1991 AFG/NL) is an artist with a bachelor degree in Literary and Cultural Analysis (UvA) and a bachelor degree in Choreography (SNDO). His work is influenced by fugitivity, a revolutionary movement that shapes his artistic vision. By dancing through the gender spectrum, Raoni has developed a unique movement practice that emphasises becoming “other” and choreographing a continuous state of incompleteness. Through the use of materials such as fabrics, textile, dough, voice and text, Raoni invites a serious kind of play into the space where both spectators and performers can become immersed in otherworldly narratives. His intimate relationship with the materiality of artistic practice allows for an ongoing negotiation of a wayward becoming.
