Hands Made
Performance by Begüm Erciyas
Hands Made
Performance by Begüm Erciyas
We touch the world with our hands. Our touch creates relationships of closeness and intimacy and simultaneously makes us aware of our separation from the world. Now, our touch is increasingly mediated by technologies that are changing the ways we experience ourselves and others.
The performance “Hands Made” by choreographer Begüm Erciyas, presented at Radialsystem as a Berlin premiere and as part of the series “Conjunctions – Acts of being in relation”, invites us to rethink our relationship with our hands, to imagine how it has changed throughout history and what their role might be in a future society.
In the performance “Hands Made”, the audience’s hands are at the centre of the show. Viewers are asked to watch their own hands and those of their neighbours, creating an effect of both intimacy and alienation. Separated from the rest of the body, our hands become the focal point of a reflection on craftsmanship, tactile perception, and touch. What have these hands been engaged in? Who or what will they touch in the future?
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In co-production with DE SIN-GEL/Antwerp, Tangente St. Pölten Festival für Gegenwartskunst, PACT Zollverein, Kunstenfestivaldes-arts/Brussels, SPRING Performing Arts Festival/Utrecht. With the support of Flanders State of the Art and the Tanzpraxis grant from the Senate Department for Culture.
Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung and tip Berlin.
In English language
There will be one German-language run per performance day:
Sat 8.30 pm
Sun 7.00 pm
With Conjunctions - Acts of being in relation, a new programme series dedicated to the poetry of “being in relation” launches at Radialsystem in July 2024. Audiences are invited to experience choreographic and musical practices as embodied strategies of knowledge production and transmission over four acts, each with a different thematic emphasis. The separation between body and mind, the dualism of thought and action, and the notion of a universality of knowledge are contrasted with a variety of possibilities of knowledge production that arise with and from the reality of differently situated bodies.
Reflections on how embodied practices can create temporary communities are centred, as well as which power relations become visible in this process, and which new imaginative sphere and emancipatory strategies result from embodied relationships. In addition to immersive performances, concerts and choreographic works, our exchange format Embodied Practices continues parallel to the new series, and collectively explores forms of preserving and transmitting corporeal practices from different cultural contexts.
Radialsystem
Holzmarktstraße 3310243 Berlin
16 Euro ermäßigt 12 Euro
Dauer ca. 45 min