Lavinia Xausa

ENT pre­sen­teert “Off-Sho­re”, een con­cept al­bum, ge­re­gis­see­rd door La­vi­nia Xau­sa in sa­men­wer­king met de Rot­ter­dam­se spo­ken-word kun­ste­naars en mu­zi­kan­ten Neu­sa Gomes, Kiki Luit­wie­ler, Ke­vin Jo­si­as, Ad­eiye Tjon, Rik Zut­phen, Ken­ny Gomes, Shi­va Wil­lem, Jephan Es­se­boom, en Is­mael Lo.

And something extra, on two of the eight weeks DjJJJ present Dance Dictatorship: a guided collective physical experience displayed online that takes the format of a virtual and performative DJ set with related audiovisual stimulus. During the DJ set, life-mixed electronic music, life-voice, and audiovisuals are melted to guide the listeners in the experience of their own body and digital and virtual space around.

Listening session of the concept album Off-Shore produced in collaboration with the participants of Further than Hip Hop. The songs are written in response to their conversations about the super-diverse character of Rotterdam, Dutch colonial history, and how it continues to this day in Rotterdam.

In three solo presentations, Joined Narratives shows work by the young filmmakers Katarina Jazbec, Lavinia Xausa and Heidi Vogels, created in close collaboration with the protagonists. The narrative film works brought together by curator Mariska van den Berg question how experiences of exclusion, uprooting and loss – which are hidden from view – can be visualized and put into words, and made tangible and discussable. The emotional world, memory, desire and imagination are key.

As part of the HCA 2020 program, resident artist Lavinia Xausa organises and hosts a series of events that allows both her audience and the artist to dive deeper into her practice. Spanning an ongoing research trajectory into the relationships between notions of cults and populism, the goal of this project is to further engage with these topics in both theoretical and practical sense.

During this event, Lavinia and fellow visual artist Mihai Gui will lead a conversation about national populism, cults and right-wing speeches. Digging up the oddest corners of the Internet, they will share with the audience their fascinations, references, and personal works. While Mihai is particularly fascinated in spotting similarities between right-wing politician’s agendas and speeches, Lavinia aims to investigate the religiousness of these political structures.

‘With Open Arms’ springs from the urge of the Hamburger Community artists to deal with the current challenges of making and presenting art, and to question what being part of an artist-in-residency program can contribute to face these challenges as a whole. As every day now poses new realities, we have to continuously look for new ways of relating, living, and being together.

GENERATION Z, the 27th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, is about the youngest generation of world citizens, born after 1995. What is their place in society, how do they see their future, what are their ambitions? By tapping into the hopes and fears of Generation Z, Noorderlicht aims to provide insight into their young adult world. A sharp selection has been made for the festival, that shows a generation focusing on fundamental emancipation processes.

In this exhibition, the fragility of life is unfurled through the eyes of art. This frailty reveals itself on many levels, such as health and the security of work and income, but also the delicate world order, with its rising tensions both within and between countries. We are living in the Anthropocene, an age shaped by humankind, and yet nowadays we feel more like pinballs. The six Rotterdam-based artists use their work to reflect upon these inauspicious time.

The Hamburger Community of Art presents ‘Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda’, the first group exhibition with the new residents of Roodkapje’s year long development trajectory for young and emerging artists, Daniëlle Hoogendoorn, Rafiq Abbasov, Iriée Zamblé, Lavina Xausa, and Gill Baldwin.

What is Time Window, the community-in-residence from Rotterdam, going to do at the Fringe Festival in Amsterdam, you might ask? Well… A residency of a community of residents residing in amsterdam of course! We’re moving everything but our fridge to De Brakke Grond. Artists from various disciplines move their work practices to Amsterdam for 11 days, and leave the doors open to the public.

Speciaal voor het festival stelt Rotterdams Open Doek een thematische selectie samen van de beste korte films van het moment. Regisseurs van de films zijn bij de voorstelling aanwezig voor een Q&A.

The passive engagement of the audience and contemporary image culture are co-dependent.
Our vision is inclined to introject the educational background, cultural values and societal codes and to establish them as shared norms for understanding and interpreting the entanglements of what happens around us. An interference, a friction in the scheme, can lead the viewer to a profound reflection of what we actually see, by analysing how we look at it.

Breure en Van Hulzen leverden het vertrekpunt voor het EYE-project door het thema “There is something about my family” te verbinden met het scenario van Scènes uit een huwelijk van Ingmar Bergman.

Aan de hand van een fragment uit de eerste veertig pagina”s van het script, bestaande uit drie lange dialoogscènes, maakt iedere student een nieuw werk. Alles is mogelijk: fotografie, performance, tekst, film, found footage etc. Filmmaker en docent Noud Heerkens begeleidt het research-lab.

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