Bodyscan 223 by Robin Nimanong,
Winner of the Next Best Fringe Award 2020: ICK Artist in Residence
“By offering a hyper-artificial mashup, we scan big questions about true ownership for society’s misfits and gender-benders. Bodyscan 223 is discussing radical freedom through a provocative yet vulnerable process. Scanning Queer Bodies, continuously evolving and transforming.”
Bodyscan 223 is a media dance event, scanning our conflicted ideas about technology, accessibility and queer identity. The dancers present their queer bodies as testimonies against errored structures of society. The audience scans their own experience through the non-conforming performers. Together they will enter a futuristic cyberpunk experience. Artificial Intelligence and big data are increasing inequality and threatening democracy. What if algorithms will control your lifepath? Will credits control our emotions?
There has been more and more online safe queer spaces popping up online. But when are they real? The dancers will discover the current reality in this queer hybrid research.
TWO TWO THREE or 2-2-3 explains how we are moving from male and female (2) to more options (3). Technology explains the norm. But there is a new fluid area to discover, which goes in between and beyond, discussing paradigms and stereotypes, feeling disidentified and misidentification, trying to overcome a succession of errors from the normative and delusional. Together we go into unfamiliar and hopefully new effective attitudes, with an effort to understand one another.
A Misfit Cyberpunk Act.
Next Best Fringe Award
After the conclusion of Amsterdam Fringe Festival 2020, Nimanong won the 'Next Best Fringe Award': a residency trajectory with Suzy Blok. As a result, they was offered coaching and studio space to further develop the artistic experiment they started at Fringe. They was also guaranteed a place on the programm of Amsterdam Fringe Festival in September 2021, where they will present the renewed version of his performance to the public: Bodyscan 223.
During Fringe 2020 he presented the 'LGBTQ+ dance film' APHRODISIAC II in a sold out LAB111. Under the guidance of ICK Dans Artist Space, guided by Suzy Blok, Amsterdam, they wants to further develop himself as a young dancer and increase his understanding of the cultural-educational layer of his work, with the aim of strengthening the representation of the queer community in performance. Bodyscan 223 can be seen during the next Amsterdam Fringe Festival on 10, 11 and 12 September 2021
CREDITS
Media Artist, VJ/DJ: Irene Cassarini /AKA/ GUENTER RÅLER
Dance Artists: Joley Rammon Groeizaam & Jeroen Janssen
Dramaturgy: Lara van lookeren
Production: Athina Liakopoulou
Scenography: RFX_propmaking & Creative Coding Utrecht
Special thanks to ICK Amsterdam, het Huis Utrecht, Vrijburcht theatre and Janivo
Supported by: Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunsten & Cultuurfonds