Ferengi (Stranger) Dienke Groenhout with the Maakfabriek: Workshop
@ Compound Yellow
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Friday, May 3rd, from 4PM - 6PM
Join us Friday May 3rd to welcome visiting artists Dienke Groenhout with the Maakfabriek form the Netherlands!
4pm to 6pm
Ferengi (Stranger)
Dienke Groenhout with the Maakfabriek
A mobile performance in which you participate.
A workshop about moving the body in the symbolic time and space that we create as a society. We will disconnect ourselves by wearing all covering costumes. This performance is free to the public, donations to artists welcome!
***Note: while this workshop is open to all ages, the inflatable suits are adult size, bring the kids so they can play with you!
Or more humorous:
“People think they are fantastic!
But what happens when we encounter strange figures who are much more fantastic than us? What shall we do with those strangers? Vaccinate? Isolate? Capture?
But what do we do when they can do everything so much better than us that they see through us in a split second? Is that actually bad? Put on your safety suit and let yourself be taken into this incorporation ritual of the Ferengis.”
About the Artist
Dienke creates interactive installations that invite the public to enter, to operate the work or to join in some sort of way. This turns the public into an active part of the installation and,
without being aware of it, into the performer of the work. Her works cross-fade the lines between visual arts, theatre, and performance.
Dienke Groenhout (NL 1973) received the title of interdisciplinary artist at the Academy of Fine Arts, Minerva, Groningen, The
Netherlands in 1998 and her Masters title in 2017 at ArtEZ on a research how artists create free space by offering an alternative perspective on the organized society.
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