WORDS FAIL ME

WORDS FAIL ME
performance program

Friday July 20th at 7pm
Het Wilde Weten

Robert Fruinstraat 35
3021XB Rotterdam

Performances by:

Neva Lukić (poetry/prose reading)
Cathleen Owens
Katerina Sidorova
Masaaki Oyamada (performed by Judith Moss)

Words fail me endeavors to explore „the word“ and „the symbol“ throughout different media and various artistic expressions. This performance event is structured around three points which create the podium where the language exists, metamorphosing and disappearing by means of various artistic qualities and sensibilities. These points are the philosophical writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, short stories and poems by Neva Lukić and performance pieces by Cathleen Owens, Katerina Sidorova and Masaaki Oyamada (performed by Judith Moss).

Neva Lukić

„So, allow me to build you the place where I find myself:

House House House House House House

House House House House House House

House House House House House House

House House House House House House

Just like this. Not a gram more. Here, the words “House” and “A building that has walls and blah blah blah…” are in perfect balance on the seesaw.“ (excerpt from the short story Universe)

Cathleen Owens

How am I coming across here? How can I manipulate you to see me the way I want to be seen? Can I exist in a world of my own? How can I take my revenge? Is this too dark? I’m sorry.

“Wordvomiting” of everyday life, private or social media communication; grasping something in the moment only to have it become an abstract sound another moment… In any case, words eternally disintegrate before the eyes.

Katerina Sidorova

Over the course of the performance the space is slowly filled with NO’s, which add up, merge and overlap, just like single voices in a crowd, until we can no longer hear what is said, just sense the overall refusal of the state things are in.

Masaaki Oyamada (performed by Judith Moss)

When language is transformed into something else, we allow ourselves to communicate other source of dimension. When language becomes a pigment, drawing becomes a listing or conversation.

The Words Fail me was realized as an outcome of Neva Lukić residency in Het Wilde Weten.

Neva Lukić is a writer and curator living in Croatia and the Netherlands. She has had experience in museum curatorship, as a freelance curator and as an art critic. She has published five books (poetry, short stories and a picture book) and has collaborated with the artists from other art fields with the aim to create interdisciplinary artworks like short films, visual poetry and literary performances.
All artists in Words Fail me are the members of See Lab art initiative in Den Haag. The aim of Lukić residency was also to establish the dialogue and exchange between the prominent art initiative like Het Wilde Weten and the new initiative like See Lab, and therefore to bring the Hague artist initiative climate to Rotterdam.

Special thanks goes to Anke van den Berg for the booklet design.
This program was realized with a kind support of See Lab and Mountain.

At 21:30 pm we will end the evening with a concert by Medium!