
Depois do silêncio
Christiane Jatahy
David Hup
The 2024 edition of the festival saw a great many Brazilian artists come to Amsterdam in the wake of associate artist Christiane Jatahy, including Arthur Verocai in a sold-out Concertgebouw and Clayton Nascimento in a dazzling political solo about racism. Jatahy herself presented four productions, including Crossings, made especially for the Holland Festival. Particularly notable were the durational performances: Georgina Verbaan played the same break-up scene for 24 consecutive hours in The Second Woman by Australia’s Anna Brecken and Nat Randall. Victor Pilon shovelled sand for 12 days straight in his performance Sisyphe, which emphasised life’s absurdity, but also its beauty. And outright spectacular was Georg Friedrich Haas’ 11.000 Saiten in which 50 pianos each with slightly different tunings filled the Gashouder with a deluge of sound.
From the festival:
Interviews
Click here to read interviews with different artists from the festival:
- Christiane Jatahy - associate artist
- Naomi Velissariou - HARDKOOR
- Brigitta Muntendorf - Melencolia
- Tim Etchells - Signal to Noise
- Clayton Nascimento - Macacos
- Victor Pilon - Sisyphe
- Ruben van Leer - The Bird of a Thousand Voices
- Flavia Pinheiro - The Unborn
- Anna Breckon & Nat Randall - The Second Woman
- Janaina Leite - Stabat Mater