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KIP

︎︎︎︎︎- VOLKSKRANT

“AN ABSURD AND GENIUS CONCEPT” - THEATERKRANT

Concept: Anne Hofstra

Created with:
Willem Wits
Doke Pauwels

Coproduced by:
Mediamatic
Fringe Festival Amsterdam

Press:

NRC
Volkskrant
Vice
NPO Radio 1
Radio Veronica
EditieNL
Theaterkrant
NH-Nieuws
AT5

We don’t know what it is like to be a chicken.

We sort of know what makes a chicken healthy and calm.

We know that a chicken has complex emotions, we know that a chicken has the cognitive ability to feel, show and recognize empathy.

We know that a chicken is smart.

But whether a chicken can wonder or enjoy art, we don't know.

Making man the center of the universe has not done much good for the planet and its non-human inhabitants - and is proving to be a bad idea for man himself as well. Clearly, we need to change our perspective and see not humans but the entire eco-system as the centerpiece. But such a perspective change is difficult.

Kip is my first try to start this perspective change. Can I create something that is for one different species? What happens when I try?

_{Research for the play was conducted at a six week residency at Buitenplaats Doornburgh}

In KIP, we make an attempt to approach something human like a theater performance in an ecocentric way. The performance is not for humans, but for chickens. Can we learn in to look beyond humans?

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TIME
TRAVELS

In progress

What if universal languages are less universal than we think?

Our time-based reailty is shaped by many factors, like our age, our estimated time of living and the speed in which we can process information and react on our surroundings.

Can we bridge the gap between our reality and those of other species?

Using music as a universal language I try to write and play a piece of piano music in the time-reality of plants.

I will be researching reaction times of plants, living speed and finding perspective on what age looks like in plants.

^{Magnesium traveling through the plant in order to react to their surroundings.}

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_{Mediamatic / Natlab / Baltan /
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KIP