Everyday Priorities, Performances by Joy Mariama Smith and Flis Holland
Zaterdag 1. november om 19:00 - 22:00
Metro54, Amsterdam
On November 1st, Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations, returns with an evening of two new performative works by artists Flis Holland and Joy Mariama Smith that stretch the limits of communication, access, and perception. Together, the performances invite questions of connection, collectivity, and liberation – whether through an interstellar signal or the refusal of dominant sensory hierarchies. Join us in Amsterdam at Metro 54, for the next iteration of our ongoing collaboration with M-Cult (Helsinki).
Everyday Priorities–Art, Technology and Accommodations is a series of gatherings and new artistic commissions that explore, experiment with, and put into action alternative ways of commissioning, producing, and presenting artistic work, media art as well as dialogic and performative practices. As a collective (un)learning process, the project enhances the critical and speculative use of new technologies, different forms of hospitality, and access toolkits.
Joy Mariama Smith (US/NL) is a performance/installation/movement artist, activist, facilitator, and curator whose work examines the interplay between the body and its physical environment. Image credits: Maarten Nauw.
Untitled [Scents Sense] a(n) (performance) installation
Multi-lingual
Untitled [Scents Sense] is a performative intervention that uses access intimacy and seemingly supportive technologies to consider the implications of Anosmia (aka ‘smell blindness’) in relation to colonial histories, diasporic identities and the hierarchy of the senses. In this intervention, assistive technologies in conjunction with audio and video, accompany selected smells in which the viewer is invited to consider, borders, boundaries, access, power, policing, stigmatization as well as collectivity, liberation, intimacy, care, migration, and resistance through the lens of the olfactory.
Flis Holland (UK/FI) sets up audio tours and video projections to track the interplay of neurodivergent, trans and celestial bodies. Image credit, courtesy of the Artist.
8 suspended at the bottom (Lecture performance)
In English
A trial for smart city innovations offers residents an extra hour per day via an abdominal implant— the pinnacle of personal efficiency. But the device misfires in users with already-slippery relationships to the clock such as the neurodivergent and the chronically ill. Swells and eddies of excess time spill into collective rifts, stabilising as temporal boltholes. In a live audio performance, parts of this soon-to-be-released public sound work are spoken back to, fretted into, and held fast in their excess.
Title source: alt text for James Webb Space Telescope images by STScI Space Telescope Science Institute. Image credit: Flis Holland
Commissions are produced within Everyday Priorities – Art, Technology and Accommodations, a project by M-Cult (Helsinki) and Metro54 (Amsterdam) in collaboration with the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. The premieres at Baltic Circle are the result of a partnership between M-Cult and Baltic Circle.
Supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland and the Mondriaan Fonds, Netherlands.
Metro54 • Westerdoksdijk 597, 1013 BX Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
