K&A

CHANGE THE GAME - Site Specific Performance
2021-09-07 20:30 - 21:30 UTC | s’Hertogenbosch, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
During Site Specific Interventions the characters of CHANGE THE GAME walk the streets of the city encountering the reality of our society.
CHANGE THE GAME by K&A, tells the story of a pawn who discovers and diffuses a classified tape of a high positioned politician-tower. It tells the story of a newly arrived piece from another board game that tries to find her way to adapt to the new game rules. It tells the story of a tower who rises to power, taking advantage of anyone and anything. It tells the story of the bishops who try to escape determinism and reinsert randomness into the game and their lives. Welcome to New Ebony; the city where chess rules.
CHANGE THE GAME is an edgy multidisciplinary physical performance that underlines the political and poetical frames of our society: determinism, social class, migration and citizenship. This performance is based on the successful comic Un monde en pièces from Gaspard & Ulysse Gry.
“What if our society was a gigantic chessboard, with a king, rebellious pawns, and “Checkers”, migrating from another board game, threatened with expulsion? Between manipulation, corruption, fear of migrants and the rise of totalitarianism, this political thriller sketches the current events of a society caught up in the spiral of a destructive game.” Gaspard & Ulysse Gry

K&A plays with music, text binaural recording, chess-masks, IT design and collaborates with nine international performers in order to transform this 2D reading experience into a “total-experience” on stage. The audience follows speeches, meetings and dialogues via headphones – even the hidden inner thoughts of the characters. They receive messages on their phones through a tailor made application and can follow the characters behind the scenes through security cameras. With this daring staging the audience is dropped in the middle of New Ebony.

Credits:
Direction & adaptation: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
after the comic Un monde en pièce from Gaspard & Ulysse Gry
Translation: Martin de Haan
Binaural recording, research & mix: David Poissonnier
Music composition & execution: Alexandra Bellon
Rap (text & voice): Gerindo Kartadinata
Graphic design: Gaspard & Ulysse Gry
Masker design & costume advise: Sofya Samareva
Research & development digital platform: Clever Net Systems, Antoine Hordez.
Performers:
Alkis Barbas, Alexandra Bellon, Gillis Biesheuvel, Emilie Blaser, Onno Dirker, Karla Isidorou, Gerindo Kartadinata, Gina-Alina Patilea, Hanne Struyf, Fenna Schoren.
Voices:
Annelie Koning, Chris Kijne, Gerindo Kartadinata, Gillis Biesheuvel, Hanne Struyf, Ioana Tudor, Jibbe Willems, Justin Samgar, Joshua Albano, Kees van Leeuwen, Lard Adrian, Laurien van Rijswijk, Leon Kribbeler, Marjan van Giel, Onno Dirker, Sophie Derkzen.
Production support: Monique in het Veld
Co-production: Theater Ins Blau
Special thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen & Stéphanie Kersbergen
CHAME THE GAME is a co-production of K&A & Theater Ins Blau and is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, Fonds21, Performing Arts Fund NL, Lira Fonds, Vfonds, Stichting Dioraphte, Nicati-de Luze.

AM I A ROBOT?*
2021-09-07 20:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-06 20:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-05 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Student Hotel Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
‘Tonight, we would like to hear a loud and enthusiastic applause for our very special guest Sophia.’ ‘Sophia, how are you tonight?’
Funny, uncomfortable, provoking, sometimes with a delay, Sophia answers questions. Inspired by a true story, “AM I A ROBOT?*” invites you to encounter SOPHIA. She is a social humanoid robot that was activated on February 14, 2016 and is the first robot to receive citizenship of any country. AM I A ROBOT?* is a documentary show on the edge: an inappropriate circus demonstration to question our capability for empathy and explore our repetitive failure to recognise the rights of what is perceived as otherness.

“Talk show, AI, post-human, racism, robotics, ethics, starification. We miss one word.. Empathy. How did we forget to be human?” K&A

Credits:
Concept & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Scenography & costumes: K&A
Special thanks to: SOPHIA

CHANGE THE GAME
2021-09-03 20:30 - 21:30 UTC | Theater ins Blau
CHANGE THE GAME is an edgy multidisciplinary physical performance that underlines the political and poetical frames of our society: determinism, social class, migration and citizenship. This performance is based on the successful comic Un monde en pièces from Gaspard & Ulysse Gry.

CHANGE THE GAME - introduction
2021-09-03 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Theater ins Blau
Introduction CHANGE THE GAME
Roundtable: Plastic &
Moderation: K&A, Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon
Guests: Hanne Struyf (Hirngespinst), Sofya Samareva, Dansblok

CHANGE THE GAME
2021-09-02 20:30 - 21:30 UTC | Theater ins Blau
CHANGE THE GAME by K&A, tells the story of a pawn who discovers and diffuses a classified tape of a high positioned politician-tower. It tells the story of a newly arrived piece from another board game that tries to find her way to adapt to the new game rules. It tells the story of a tower who rises to power, taking advantage of anyone and anything. It tells the story of the bishops who try to escape determinism and reinsert randomness into the game and their lives. Welcome to New Ebony; the city where chess rules.
CHANGE THE GAME is an edgy multidisciplinary physical performance that underlines the political and poetical frames of our society: determinism, social class, migration and citizenship. This performance is based on the successful comic Un monde en pièces from Gaspard & Ulysse Gry.

“What if our society was a gigantic chessboard, with a king, rebellious pawns, and “Checkers”, migrating from another board game, threatened with expulsion? Between manipulation, corruption, fear of migrants and the rise of totalitarianism, this political thriller sketches the current events of a society caught up in the spiral of a destructive game.” Gaspard & Ulysse Gry

K&A plays with music, text binaural recording, chess-masks, IT design and collaborates with nine international performers in order to transform this 2D reading experience into a “total-experience” on stage. The audience follows speeches, meetings and dialogues via headphones – even the hidden inner thoughts of the characters. They receive messages on their phones through a tailor made application and can follow the characters behind the scenes through security cameras. With this daring staging the audience is dropped in the middle of New Ebony.

Credits:
Direction & adaptation: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
after the comic Un monde en pièce from Gaspard & Ulysse Gry
Translation: Martin de Haan
Binaural recording, research & mix: David Poissonnier
Music composition & execution: Alexandra Bellon
Rap (text & voice): Gerindo Kartadinata
Graphic design: Gaspard & Ulysse Gry
Masker design & costume advise: Sofya Samareva
Research & development digital platform: Clever Net Systems, Antoine Hordez.
Performers:
Alkis Barbas, Alexandra Bellon, Gillis Biesheuvel, Emilie Blaser, Onno Dirker, Karla Isidorou, Gerindo Kartadinata, Gina-Alina Patilea, Hanne Struyf, Fenna Schoren.
Voices:
Annelie Koning, Chris Kijne, Gerindo Kartadinata, Gillis Biesheuvel, Hanne Struyf, Ioana Tudor, Jibbe Willems, Justin Samgar, Joshua Albano, Kees van Leeuwen, Lard Adrian, Laurien van Rijswijk, Leon Kribbeler, Marjan van Giel, Onno Dirker, Sophie Derkzen.
Production support: Monique in het Veld
Co-production: Theater Ins Blau
Special thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen & Stéphanie Kersbergen
CHAME THE GAME is a co-production of K&A & Theater Ins Blau and is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, Fonds21, Performing Arts Fund NL, Lira Fonds, Vfonds, Stichting Dioraphte, Nicati-de Luze.

JUNGLE THE CITY
2020-12-20 - 2022-08-13 | OPAF Online Performance Art Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
a serie of pop-up performances that questions human habits in the heart of an ongoing machine: your city.

Cast & Credits

Concept, choreography & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Music composition & realization: Alexandra Bellon & Viva Sanchez Reinoso
Recording: Leo Marin, Bridge Studio Music
Sound mix: Alessandro Mazzieri
Maskers & Costumes: our ready made society
Filming: K&A Edit
Trailer: Karla Isidorou
Co-production: K&A, Theater Ins Blau, Amalthea
Special Thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen, the whole team of Theater Ins Blau

NIAGA DNA
2020-08-19 - 2020-08-22 | Festival d’Aurillac In Selection, Aurillac, France
NIAGA DNA/ or if you read upside down AGAIN AND
a 6,5 days collective jumping choreography for la place du village
“As a musician / question mark, day after day, during years, i was repeating again & niaga the same patterns, I was developing the key to open all doors simultaneously: falling / flying into the immense abyss of trance, mixed with power and ultra-concentration. It is what the people call sometimes Niagara.”
K&A invite the ones who pass-by “La place du village’’, the meeting point of the city, to join a smiling collective effort. K&A developed for NIAGA DNA an application, that is using geolocation to immerse the architecture of the square into a jumping board game. The app. contains the DNA of the city, build on the story of 47 lives that crossed the square.
“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.” H. Hesse
The story, translated into binary code (chain of 0 & 1) is made to be able to be jumped: Right is 0 / Left is 1. In the performance, the public uses this app. to become and the performer, and the viewer, and the scenography, and the past, and the present, and the future. At the end, each one becomes the guardian of a small part of NIAGA DNA’s collective memory, by getting the translation of the specific part that was jumped. K&A invite the whole city to connect to each other.
In the border of dance, literature, technology and endurance, remembering the magnet of the feet -that for centuries carry ancient rituals- NIAGA DNA expands its roots on the square to include all in one.
Created for the city, in the city, by the citizens: AGAIN AND.

These event was cancelled due to COVID-19 measures

8102 - podcast
2020-06-02 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Artez Studium Generale, Arnhem, Netherlands
Four numbers, to form a single question: 8 1 0 2? K&A proposed a mirror, a window: 8102. Challenging the mind to mirror the year 2018 to 8102, the audience is asked to imagine a world in over 6000 years. The radiophonic piece of 8102 integrates a notebook library lying bright open on a table, with the voices of Karla Isidorou and Alexandra Bellon as a guide through the continuously transforming coordinates of over 70 notebooks. K&A created a performance made by collective research with a growing community, but also invite the audience to join them. The audience will leave with their own 8102 notebook, an invitation for a long term collaboration towards the future. This project challenges the audience to displace their imagination and minds altogether towards an unknown territory. We strongly believe in the transformative power of an idea… is an idea not just a seed of displacement?

Creative Team:
8102, is a growing project & community initiated by the artist duo K&A, formed by Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon. Mixing their different backgrounds and their complex cultural roots they spread poetical & political concepts. In their work the single signature is killed, they work within an equal collective atmosphere. By de-sponging & de-stealing the world K&A extract the matiére premiére that will be distilled again. Out of continuous distillations wor(l)ds arise to invite/invade the public. Part of 8102 is a growing community of humans with different ages, cultures, professions and conceptions of the world. Each one of them works on their notebook to create a world in more than 6000 years: 8102. A few of them: Jade (2006/FR), Hildegard (1942/NL), Giorgos (1975/GR), Christian (1955/CH) etc.
This podcast is basedon an open call on 8102 and is featuring messages from: Alkis Barbas, Cecile Lassonde, Manolis Ladas, Christianne van Leest, Jibbe Willems, Lenn Cox, Loan Lobo de Miranda, Louise Knobil, Olívia Campelo, Simona Piras and Sophie Kern.
This episode is edited by K&A, Dennis Gaens and Joke Alkema.

Podcast:
https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/podcast/voice+messages+from+8102/

8102 - radio emission
2020-04-22 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Radio Vostok, Geneve, Switzerland
Four numbers, to form a single question: 8 1 0 2? K&A proposed a mirror, a window: 8102. Challenging the mind to mirror the year 2018 to 8102, the audience is asked to imagine a world in over 6000 years. The radiophonic piece of 8102 integrates a notebook library lying bright open on a table, with the voices of Karla Isidorou and Alexandra Bellon as a guide through the continuously transforming coordinates of over 70 notebooks. K&A created a performance made by collective research with a growing community, but also invite the audience to join them. The audience will leave with their own 8102 notebook, an invitation for a long term collaboration towards the future. This project challenges the audience to displace their imagination and minds altogether towards an unknown territory. We strongly believe in the transformative power of an idea… is an idea not just a seed of displacement?

Creative Team:
8102, is a growing project & community initiated by the artist duo K&A, formed by Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon. Mixing their different backgrounds and their complex cultural roots they spread poetical & political concepts. In their work the single signature is killed, they work within an equal collective atmosphere. By de-sponging & de-stealing the world K&A extract the matiére premiére that will be distilled again. Out of continuous distillations wor(l)ds arise to invite/invade the public. Part of 8102 is a growing community of humans with different ages, cultures, professions and conceptions of the world. Each one of them works on their notebook to create a world in more than 6000 years: 8102. A few of them: Jade (2006/FR), Hildegard (1942/NL), Giorgos (1975/GR), Christian (1955/CH) etc.

Podcast:
#Culturevirale – Quartier Libre – 8102 de K&A

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR
2020-04-04 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Fumetto Festival, Luzern, Switzerland
APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR is an experimental documentary that zooms into the future 8102: a year in which the language is invaded by a virus. A live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room, the sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. Through the cursor, the live voice over and the circular sound the audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
A live film, an immersive performance as an ode/death sentence to the letters of 8102.
The question is not what happens before. The question is not what will be after.
The core is the transformation itself – as if typing into the eye of the cyclone. Letters swirling and dissolving into the air.
You lose your letters?
Time goes on.
How long will you still be able to pass on the message?

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR, exposes the timeline of the expansion of a virus, that grabs the common communication system: our language. An experimental documentary that zooms into 8102, a year without letters.
A taste of..
The live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room.The sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. The old machine becomes a music and filming installation. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. K&A control a black screen on which white letters, words and sentences tell the story of a virus in the language.
Appearance / Disappearance.
Through the cursor, the audience is being moved between enters, shifts, capital letters and corrected wor(l)ds. Mistakes reign on a black screen intruded by voids. The words are scarred, glitched, reversed, articulated, damaged, bugged. The audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
“I try to type you a letter. I try to type you for later. From 8102 to now.”

Credits:
Concept, text & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Music composition & realization: Alexandra Bellon
IT Design: Antoine Hordez

Event cancelled due to COVID
Online release of interview about the project: https://vimeo.com/404238610

8102 - video podcast
2020-04-04 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Zurich) | ICAF, International Community Arts Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Four numbers, to form a single question: 8 1 0 2? K&A proposed a mirror, a window: 8102. Challenging the mind to mirror the year 2018 to 8102, the audience is asked to imagine a world in over 6000 years. The radiophonic piece of 8102 integrates a notebook library lying bright open on a table, with the voices of Karla Isidorou and Alexandra Bellon as a guide through the continuously transforming coordinates of over 70 notebooks. K&A created a performance made by collective research with a growing community, but also invite the audience to join them. The audience will leave with their own 8102 notebook, an invitation for a long term collaboration towards the future. This project challenges the audience to displace their imagination and minds altogether towards an unknown territory. We strongly believe in the transformative power of an idea… is an idea not just a seed of displacement?

Creative Team:
8102, is a growing project & community initiated by the artist duo K&A, formed by Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon. Mixing their different backgrounds and their complex cultural roots they spread poetical & political concepts. In their work the single signature is killed, they work within an equal collective atmosphere. By de-sponging & de-stealing the world K&A extract the matiére premiére that will be distilled again. Out of continuous distillations wor(l)ds arise to invite/invade the public. Part of 8102 is a growing community of humans with different ages, cultures, professions and conceptions of the world. Each one of them works on their notebook to create a world in more than 6000 years: 8102. A few of them: Jade (2006/FR), Hildegard (1942/NL), Giorgos (1975/GR), Christian (1955/CH) etc.

This event was cancelled due to COVID-19 restriction.
An online interview was given instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLudQIXpHLg

(G)loves for (G)ants - exposition
2020-03-30 - 2020-04-05 | Bibliotheque Cité, Geneva, Switzerland
Sketching 2111, where there are only 26 jobs leftover for the hands of the humans. The (g)love, the most privileged object, invades the spatial-temporal reality: the only one capable of exploring the unknown wor(l)ds of bodies. Infected by the hygienic law, humanity shares the fascination for and dependency to the object that controls & protects their porous skin from the outside: Les (g)ants = the (g)loves in English. (G)ants intrude the skin to transform the gestures of the future jobs. 26 gloves: Aimant (g)loves, BOBO (g)loves, Cornichon (g)loves, D, E,( …) Z

26 images
26 gloves
26 miniature performances
26 binaural 3D recordings
“A (G)love for your hands. A (G)ant for your skin. A (G)ang for your life.” K&A

With (G)loves for (G)ants K&A sketch a futuristic neoritual that explores a society of (G)loves.

Cast & Credits

Concept, Artistic direction & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Binaural recording, research & mix: David Poissonnier
Music composition & execution: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Graphic Design: Mathilde Wingering
IT Design: Antoine Hordez
IT Graphic Design slotmachine: Antony Margole
Special thanks to: The team of Sitting Shotgun (Brooklyn, NYC), Accueil Studio l’ADC (Geneve, CH)
This event was cancelled due to the restrictions of COVID-19

(G)loves for (G)ants - workshop
2020-03-30 - 2020-04-05 | Festival Archipel, Geneva, Switzerland
A performative exploration of the dialogue between sound and visual elements based on the project (G)loves for (G)ants
The workshop allows us to broaden our listening of the world around us through a «sound magnifying glass»: the binaural / 3D recording. Participants sketch gestures
and movements that make the gloves vibrate, ring and move, like a ballet of hands, a giant instrument. The listening keys are constructed in relation to an empirical experience and theoretical knowledge is acquired through the playful interaction with music and scenographic elements.

About (G)loves for (G)ants

Sketching 2111, where there are only 26 jobs leftover for the hands of the humans. The (g)love, the most privileged object, invades the spatial-temporal reality: the only one capable of exploring the unknown wor(l)ds of bodies. Infected by the hygienic law, humanity shares the fascination for and dependency to the object that controls & protects their porous skin from the outside: Les (g)ants = the (g)loves in English. (G)ants intrude the skin to transform the gestures of the future jobs. 26 gloves: Aimant (g)loves, BOBO (g)loves, Cornichon (g)loves, D, E,( …) Z

26 gloves
26 miniature performances
26 binaural 3D recordings
“A (G)love for your hands. A (G)ant for your skin. A (G)ang for your life.” K&A

With (G)loves for (G)ants K&A sketch a futuristic neoritual that explores a society of (G)loves. The performance (G)loves for (G)ants has a duration of 208 min. It consists of 26 performances each with a duration of 8 minutes. The audience can enter and exit each 8 minutes.

Cast & Credits

Concept, Artistic direction & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Binaural recording, research & mix: David Poissonnier
Music composition & execution: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Graphic Design: Mathilde Wingering
IT Design: Antoine Hordez
IT Graphic Design slotmachine: Antony Margole
Special thanks to: The team of Sitting Shotgun (Brooklyn, NYC), Accueil Studio l’ADC (Geneve, CH)

This event was cancelled due to the restrictions of COVID-19

MINUS 9
2019-09-20 16:00 - 22:00 UTC | Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Venice, Italy
MINUS 9 is an anatomic sound installation,
a one on one performance of 14 min for an ear, to hear, here.
It is an invitation to dive into the sonographic scenography of your own body.
From the outside all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. In MINUS 9, the boundaries between musician and audience, between music and ritual, silence and sound, drumming and dreaming are broken down.
‘With MINUS 9 we tease the equilibrium in the hierarchy of the senses. Can the “ear, hear, here” become the touching vestibule of a new order? We challenge the distance in between. When do we allow ourselves to be touched, metaphorically or literally? We invite the audience to re-question and rethink how we relate to each other. In our society a few roles trespass our comfort zone to touch our skin: doctors, caretakers, dance & sport coaches. They touch you but are you really touched? Music touches us emotionally, but what if it would literally touch your flesh?’ K&A
K&A within their performative constellations transform/translocate/transhape the relationship between the performer and the spectator to make it fluid.
In any theater the audience carries a predetermined role. Within the work of K&A the expectation to be silent, to sit in the dark, to stay immobile, to watch the stage is being shifted. The latitude of the performer correlates with the longitude of the audience and is being redefined. In MINUS 9 the ear of the audience becomes the music instrument on which the composition is made on and the soundsystem through which it is perceived. MINUS 9 crosses the inner ear sound barrier, exposes the noise, the music that is hidden inside our own machine. This performance is a sonographer, an ultrasound guide into the auditors unknown zones. It is an ode to the simplicity that carries the multiplicity. A performance for an ear: to hear/here.

4 Time Slots available – private event

MINUS 9
2019-09-15 16:00 - 22:00, 2019-09-14 16:00 - 22:00, 2019-09-13 16:00 - 22:00, 2019-09-12 16:00 - 22:00 UTC | A LAB, Overhoeksplein 2, Amsterdam, 1031KS, Netherlands
MINUS 9 is an anatomic sound installation,
a one on one performance of 14 min for an ear, to hear, here.
It is an invitation to dive into the sonographic scenography of your own body.
From the outside all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. In MINUS 9, the boundaries between musician and audience, between music and ritual, silence and sound, drumming and dreaming are broken down.
‘With MINUS 9 we tease the equilibrium in the hierarchy of the senses. Can the “ear, hear, here” become the touching vestibule of a new order? We challenge the distance in between. When do we allow ourselves to be touched, metaphorically or literally? We invite the audience to re-question and rethink how we relate to each other. In our society a few roles trespass our comfort zone to touch our skin: doctors, caretakers, dance & sport coaches. They touch you but are you really touched? Music touches us emotionally, but what if it would literally touch your flesh?’ K&A
K&A within their performative constellations transform/translocate/transhape the relationship between the performer and the spectator to make it fluid.
In any theater the audience carries a predetermined role. Within the work of K&A the expectation to be silent, to sit in the dark, to stay immobile, to watch the stage is being shifted. The latitude of the performer correlates with the longitude of the audience and is being redefined. In MINUS 9 the ear of the audience becomes the music instrument on which the composition is made on and the soundsystem through which it is perceived. MINUS 9 crosses the inner ear sound barrier, exposes the noise, the music that is hidden inside our own machine. This performance is a sonographer, an ultrasound guide into the auditors unknown zones. It is an ode to the simplicity that carries the multiplicity. A performance for an ear: to hear/here.

14 Time Slots available

NIAGA DNA
2019-06-06 - 2019-06-13 | PQ2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space, Prague, Czech Republic
NIAGA DNA/ or if you read upside down AGAIN AND
a 6,5 days collective jumping choreography for la place du village
“As a musician / question mark, day after day, during years, i was repeating again & niaga the same patterns, I was developing the key to open all doors simultaneously: falling / flying into the immense abyss of trance, mixed with power and ultra-concentration. It is what the people call sometimes Niagara.”
K&A invite the ones who pass-by “La place du village’’, the meeting point of the city, to join a smiling collective effort. K&A developed for NIAGA DNA an application, that is using geolocation to immerse the architecture of the square into a jumping board game. The app. contains the DNA of the city, build on the story of 47 lives that crossed the square.
“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.” H. Hesse
The story, translated into binary code (chain of 0 & 1) is made to be able to be jumped: Right is 0 / Left is 1. In the performance, the public uses this app. to become and the performer, and the viewer, and the scenography, and the past, and the present, and the future. At the end, each one becomes the guardian of a small part of NIAGA DNA’s collective memory, by getting the translation of the specific part that was jumped. K&A invite the whole city to connect to each other.
In the border of dance, literature, technology and endurance, remembering the magnet of the feet -that for centuries carry ancient rituals- NIAGA DNA expands its roots on the square to include all in one.
Created for the city, in the city, by the citizens: AGAIN AND.

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR
2019-06-05 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Zurich) | PQ2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space, Prague, Czech Republic
APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR is an experimental documentary that zooms into the future 8102: a year in which the language is invaded by a virus. A live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room, the sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. Through the cursor, the live voice over and the circular sound the audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
A live film, an immersive performance as an ode/death sentence to the letters of 8102.
The question is not what happens before. The question is not what will be after.
The core is the transformation itself – as if typing into the eye of the cyclone. Letters swirling and dissolving into the air.
You lose your letters?
Time goes on.
How long will you still be able to pass on the message?

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR, exposes the timeline of the expansion of a virus, that grabs the common communication system: our language. An experimental documentary that zooms into 8102, a year without letters.
A taste of..
The live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room.The sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. The old machine becomes a music and filming installation. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. K&A control a black screen on which white letters, words and sentences tell the story of a virus in the language.
Appearance / Disappearance.
Through the cursor, the audience is being moved between enters, shifts, capital letters and corrected wor(l)ds. Mistakes reign on a black screen intruded by voids. The words are scarred, glitched, reversed, articulated, damaged, bugged. The audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
“I try to type you a letter. I try to type you for later. From 8102 to now.”

Credits:
Concept, text & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Music composition & realization: Alexandra Bellon
IT Design: Antoine Hordez

Part of the Opening Ceremony of the Swiss participation to PQ2019

(G)loves for (G)ants
2019-02-15 20:30 - 23:30 (Europe/Zurich) | Sitting Shotgun, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Sketching 2111, where there are only 26 jobs leftover for the hands of the humans. The (g)love, the most privileged object, invades the spatial-temporal reality: the only one capable of exploring the unknown wor(l)ds of bodies. Infected by the hygienic law, humanity shares the fascination for and dependency to the object that controls & protects their porous skin from the outside: Les (g)ants = the (g)loves in English. (G)ants intrude the skin to transform the gestures of the future jobs. 26 gloves: Aimant (g)loves, BOBO (g)loves, Cornichon (g)loves, D, E,( …) Z

26 gloves
26 miniature performances
26 binaural 3D recordings
“A (G)love for your hands. A (G)ant for your skin. A (G)ang for your life.” K&A

With (G)loves for (G)ants K&A sketch a futuristic neoritual that explores a society of (G)loves. The performance (G)loves for (G)ants has a duration of 208 min. It consists of 26 performances each with a duration of 8 minutes. The audience can enter and exit each 8 minutes.

Cast & Credits

Concept, Artistic direction & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Binaural recording, research & mix: David Poissonnier
Music composition & execution: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Graphic Design: Mathilde Wingering
IT Design: Antoine Hordez
IT Graphic Design slotmachine: Antony Margole
Special thanks to: The team of Sitting Shotgun (Brooklyn, NYC), Accueil Studio l’ADC (Geneve, CH)

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR
2019-01-25 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Focus Filmtheater, Arnhem, Netherlands
APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR is an experimental documentary that zooms into the future 8102: a year in which the language is invaded by a virus. A live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room, the sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. Through the cursor, the live voice over and the circular sound the audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
A live film, an immersive performance as an ode/death sentence to the letters of 8102.
The question is not what happens before. The question is not what will be after.
The core is the transformation itself – as if typing into the eye of the cyclone. Letters swirling and dissolving into the air.
You lose your letters?
Time goes on.
How long will you still be able to pass on the message?

APOCALYPSE MON AMOUR, exposes the timeline of the expansion of a virus, that grabs the common communication system: our language. An experimental documentary that zooms into 8102, a year without letters.
A taste of..
The live typed text is being engraved on the screen of the room.The sounds of the amplified typewriter intrude the surrounding sound system of the cinema. The old machine becomes a music and filming installation. Subtitles, are not any more the sub, but the protagonists. They become the encoded images of the film. K&A control a black screen on which white letters, words and sentences tell the story of a virus in the language.
Appearance / Disappearance.
Through the cursor, the audience is being moved between enters, shifts, capital letters and corrected wor(l)ds. Mistakes reign on a black screen intruded by voids. The words are scarred, glitched, reversed, articulated, damaged, bugged. The audience is blend into a looping apocalyptic world.
“I try to type you a letter. I try to type you for later. From 8102 to now.”

Credits:
Concept, text & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Music composition & realization: Alexandra Bellon
IT Design: Antoine Hordez
